Nearly fifty years ago, President John F. Kennedy spoke to a large college audience and asked them to join him on a grand challenge, one that was chosen not for its simplicity, but for its audacity, because the challenge at hand would “serve to measure and organize the best of our energies and skills.” In the following seven years, those college students, and thousands of young professionals from around the nation, responded to the President’s call. They built rockets that towered 36 stories, engines that are still the most powerful ever made, and sent heroes on a journey farther than any human had taken before or has taken since. By fusing the imagination of their generation into the technologies necessary for an entire species to take “one giant leap,” they created and defined what we now call rocket science.
- Dr. Robert Braun in this e-mail
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