shuttle program: "No nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space." - 02/25/11 07:13 AM
Lenn Harley wrote a post about the final launch of the American shuttle program which inspired me to go back and look at how America became the leader in space, and ultimately, the leading economic and military power in the world.
We sort of backed into it, and, if it hadn't been for the intransigence and insolence of Nikita Kruschev, we might not have been first to the moon, or even had a pen that writes upside down. Our space program was years behind the Russian program. Prior to his presidency, John F. Kennedy was not a proponent of the American … (6 comments)