But the past, and JFK's appearance in it, in particular, serves to remind us all, as to why it is so important to preserve ordered liberty -- and not quietly succumb to lawless rule by would be cheap penny-ante despots.
In any event, we as Americans, should be proud of the game of "catch-up" President Kennedy started, and we completed -- pulling out a come from behind win. . . to reach the moon first. . . and secure a half century of undisputed leadership in space exploration. Now, including. . . Mars. Here's a bit from the NASA commemoration page, as of this morning:
. . .In February 1962, the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union was in full swing. Both nations had developed spacecraft to send humans into space and selected a group of pilots to fly those spacecraft. The Soviets leaped ahead by placing the first man, Yuri A. Gagarin, in space on April 12, 1961, on a one-orbit flight around the Earth aboard his Vostok spaceship. The United States responded with two suborbital piloted Mercury missions, launched atop Redstone rockets. The Soviets next kept a cosmonaut in space for a full day.
On Feb. 20, 1962, astronaut John H. Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth during the three-orbit Mercury-Atlas 6 mission, aboard the spacecraft he named Friendship 7. . . .
Onward, smiling -- ever smiling. We are immensely proud of Commander Glenn, Kathryn Johnson, Jim Lovell, Mae Jemison and all the others ("hidden figures", or not so) who made NASA the jaw-slacking success it is.
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