Galaxy Wire » Kennedy http://galaxywire.net The Space News Aggregator Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:30:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Kennedy’s telegram to Khrushchev on first manned space flight http://galaxywire.net/2009/05/27/kennedys-telegram-to-khrushchev-on-first-manned-space-flight/ http://galaxywire.net/2009/05/27/kennedys-telegram-to-khrushchev-on-first-manned-space-flight/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 11:57:37 +0000 http://galaxywire.net/?p=897 kennedys-telegram-to-khrushchev-on-first-manned-space-flight

President Kennedy’s telegram to Premier Khrushchev congratulating the Soviet Union on the first manned space flight.

April 12, 1961

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May 5, 1961 President Kennedy watches the flight of the first American in space on TV.  Alan Shepard’s flight lasted 15 minutes, 28 seconds.

(Left to Right) Attorney General Kennedy, McGeorge Bundy, Vice President Johnson, Arthur Schlesinger, Admiral Arleigh Burke, President Kennedy, Mrs. Kennedy.

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