Class Year
2023
Document Type
Student Research Paper
Date of Creation
Fall 2019
Department 1
First Year Seminar
Abstract
Mankind’s quest to reach the moon consisted of many people in leadership positions. In the US, however, many of the decisions behind the space race, especially funding for it, were made by four men: Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Richard Nixon. While some presidents (namely Kennedy) receive more credit than others for their work on bringing man to the moon, each of them passed influential policy that was vital in the development of Apollo: Eisenhower founded NASA and began research on the Saturn V, Kennedy gave vision and urgency to the program, Johnson gave massive funding to it, and Nixon oversaw the program and decided what would come next.
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Recommended Citation
Carmi, Ziv R., "Presidential Leadership in the Space Age" (2019). Student Publications. 753.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship/753
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Air and Space Law Commons, American Politics Commons, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons, Science and Technology Policy Commons
Comments
Written for FYS 101-4: From the Earth to the Moon.