Lunar Landing
Sir, —In his article “Space Progress," Dr. Keay states that President Kennedy “set the first manned lunar landing as a national goal—even before the United States had achieved any kind of manned space flight.” In fact, Commander Alan B. Shepard achieved America’s first sub-orbital space flight on May 5, 1961, and it was almost three weeks later, on May 25, that President Kennedy announced the United States’ intention of landing on the moon by 1970. —Yours, etc., J. G. FREEMAN, July 12, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31112, 15 July 1966, Page 12
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