Apollo 11 Quotes

“Apollo program. There are a number of ways to look at Johnson’s support for the civilian role in the space program, some of which take the line that the Soviet’s successes with early space launchers demanded a counter by a ‘free, democratic people.’[15] A militarized space program did not”
― Charles River Editors, Apollo 11: The History and Legacy of the First Moon Landing

“with future American disasters on the island nation, first at the Bay of Pigs, then the Cuban Missile Crisis, that Kennedy stepped out of the shadow of the military leaders in the Pentagon and decided that the Space”
― Charles River Editors, Apollo 11: The History and Legacy of the First Moon Landing