Shepherding The Space Program

JFK And Liftoff

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  • Daniel Rulli National Archives and Records Administration

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33043/TH.30.2.91-94

Abstract

On May 5, 1961, President John F. Kennedy, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, McGeorge Bundy, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Arthur Schlesinger, Admiral Arleigh Burke, and Jackie Kennedy watched the television broadcast of Alan B. Shepard's flight into space from the office of the President's secretary. Shepard was launched on a suborbital flight that carried him to an altitude of 116.5 miles, for 15 minutes, at 5,134 miles per hour, pulling 11 g, to a landing point 303 miles downrange in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Published

2005-09-01

How to Cite

Rulli, Daniel. 2005. “Shepherding The Space Program: JFK And Liftoff”. Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 30 (2):91-94. https://doi.org/10.33043/TH.30.2.91-94.

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Vol. 30 No. 2 (2005)

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Copyright (c) 2005 Daniel F. Rulli

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