President John F. Kennedy and NASA
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of President John F. Kennedy. Though NASA was formed by Dwight Eisenhower, President Kennedy gave the infant agency its early focus with his famous challenge to land astronauts on the moon by the end of the decade. Kennedy’s interest in NASA was broader, though, as noted in these excerpts from space policy expert John M. Logsdon’s contribution to “NASA and Ten Presidents” from NASA’s 50th Anniversary Magazine