The Moonwalkers, with Tom Hanks (TRIH ep 438)
1969 · Resource
“We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…” In his speech at Rice University, Texas, in September 1962, President John F. Kennedy reaffirmed America's commitment to an extraordinary, startling project: landing a man on the Moon by the end of the decade. Facing fierce competition from the U.S.S.R., it would take 11 missions of unimaginable danger to reach this goal, with Neil Armstrong...
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Around 1969
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- The Beatles (1960)