A thousand years to come, both "Peace Corps" or "Alliance for Progress" and the events of "Bay of Pigs" will not be remembered. So did Kennedy's political action in the field of taxation and statutory civil rights. John F. Kennedy listed the book list is only for one reason only: he was the person responsible for the establishment of "Space Program, Apollo." Even if humans did not utter a small object on the sidelines of the ever-busy time, we can be sure that even 5000 years from now our journey to the moon is still considered an extraordinary event, an important event in the history of humanity.
I would perbincangkan importance to the moon program further. First, allow me to connect this issue with a question, is it true John F. Kennedy was one of the most major role in this journey to the moon. Whether or not Neil Armstrong Edwin Aldrin, the first person to actually set foot on the moon? If we put the names of people in this book list on the basis of his fame in the long run, perhaps it should be so, because I suspect more like Neil Armstrong will be remembered the coming year 5000 compared to John F. Kennedy. But from the point of influence, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin completely unimportant. If by reason of this or that because the two of them died two months before the launch of Apollo 11, there will be a dozen astronauts are well trained and highly skilled who are ready to replace it slid to the moon.
Or should we give awards to Wernher von Braun's engineers or other scientists or others who have given donations of mind and power that allows the exploration of space is it? No doubt Wernher von Braun had a larger share in terms of advancing the excavation of the mysteries of outer space (as do its predecessors like Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert Goddard and Hermann Oberth H.). However, once the political decision has been taken for the implementation of the Apollo project, not a single scientist - was also the group consisting of topnotch experts - being able to break through this complex problem. Break-hassle trip to the moon was not merely a scientific advancement, but a political decision. Politics that yellow lights and provide 24 billion dollars for this project.
Dated July 20, 1969 Apollo 11 astronauts left the trail foot on the lunar surface, fulfilling the promise Kennedy in May 1961 to land a spacecraft on the moon bermanusia "before the end of this decade"
Well, how about that political decisions? Whether sooner or later the decision will come too even without John F. Kennedy? I guess hard - although this has not so sure - at some point a government decision to finance the trip will take humans to the moon. Of course, John F. Kennedy did not impose this program when people objected.
On the other hand, there is no pressure and urging people to the implementation of the project cost, not abysmal amount of grass. If in 1959 or in 1960, Congress passed the United States Apollo program and provide funds for it, and if the law had been vetoed by President Eisenhower, bisalah say that Kennedy was just carried away by the currents of public opinion. However, the fact suggests the opposite: many Americans want a space program, but there was no fuss in the community who objected to a massive program. Even after the successful Apollo 11, there is no significant public gossip on the issue of whether the program was beneficial to the cost of it. Since 1969, of course, NASA's budget declined profusely once.
Because it is so obvious, is that the leadership of John F. Kennedy, who led the Apollo program was able to walk. Kennedylah that on May 1, 1961 promised that the United States would land a spacecraft of charged man on the moon "before the end of this decade." Was Kennedy who got funding from Congress, and under Kennedy's program was designed. People can be confident that the program to the moon will occur sooner or later (something that is not really sure), but it was clear that Kennedy was the one who did it.
Some people, of course, still feel that the Apollo project is merely quasi-quasi-an only and have no significance. As long as this does not seem signs commemorating the July 20, 1969 as a historic day, for example, the national day. Conversely, we do not know though Columbus day is celebrated in the 16th century, he is celebrated today as a sign of a new era dawn.
In fact, if the Apollo project was never passed, yet still continue to be remembered as the greatest works in perpacuan highest human achievement. But, I guess, the Apollo program will be continued and the journey into space will play a greater role in the future than ever before. If so, our grandchildren will feel that the journey of Apollo 11, as well as Columbus' journey across the Atlantic Ocean, is the starting point of the whole new era in human history.
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