Space Race
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Prior to the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project there were several attempts by the United States to engage the Soviets in a joint space effort. President John F. Kennedy was the first to propose a combining of U.S and Soviet resources. Kennedy’s core focus was defusing tensions between the U.S. and the Soviets by working together on a moon landing. His message to Nikita Khrushchev initially laid out specifics on what cooperation 
would entail. Khrushchev had initially responded positively, but then added that “cooperation without disarmament” as a precursor would severely limit the extent to which joint sharing of information or joint missions could take place.
Through the Looking-Glass: The other side of the Space Race
As I promised before, I'd like to share with You some ofthe historical press articles, focusing on the Space Race in the back in 1968. They all come from Polish newspapers - thus my rather silly attempt to name it in an interesting way, but I hope You will find them worthy of looking at. I'd like to apologise for my rather crude translation - I imagine not many of You can read in my language (in fact I'm pretty sure none of You can ;)), but I will include scans of orginal text as well. I also hope this will show on the page as I planned - first post in this blogging system that I'm not used to. Hope You'll understand ;)
Well, here we go.
Postponed launch of "Apollo" capsule
"Space Race" Kaput?
I agree that sadly today the general public knows very little about NASA. When I was a kid in the 1960s there was much more interest for many reasons. First of all, President John F. Kennedy said we would land a man on the moon before 1970 and that was exciting to all. (He had no idea how of course), and although his life was cut short, the COLD WAR was very much alive. Let's not forget that we were also involved in a war in Vietnam and yet we did land two men on the moon before 1970.
The Art of Imitating Life
This past weekend I ventured down to the Kennedy Space Center to catch the annual airshow on the grounds of the space center complex. While there I took the time to catch the 3D IMAX film “Magnificent Desolation”.
A Dangerous “Trek” to Tranquility Base
Astrobotics has announced an exciting and ambitious effort to land a robotic rover on the lunar surface at the site of the Apollo 11 landing as part of the Google LunarX Prize competition.
