Moscow / Dallas / Columbus / Indianapolis / Washington / Orlando / /
Company
UPI / Space Task Group / Undaunted / Apollo Liaison Group / /
Continent
America / /
Country
Tunisia / United States / Soviet Union / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Employment Change / Person Communication and Meetings / /
Facility
Washington’s Lafayette Square / Brooks Air Force Base / At NASA headquarters / Massachusetts Institute of Technology Instrumentation Lab / NASA headquarters / Rice University / /
Rice University / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Senate / Navy / Task Force / Central Intelligence Agency / Space Task Force / Air Force / NASA White House Historical Association / National Aeronautics Space Council / Eisenhower administration / White House Historical Association / Committee on Space / Congress / White House / Manhattan Project / Gagarin’s mission / Goett Committee / Aerospace Medical Health Center / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Massachusetts Institute of Technology Instrumentation Lab / dissolving the National Aeronautics Space Council / picked up after completing the first American suborbital manned mission / /
Person
James E. Webb / Lenin / Keith Glennan / Yuri Gagarin / John Glenn / Hugh Dryden / Nikita Khrushchev / Nixon / Harry Goett / Robert Gilruth / Habib Bourguiba / JOHN F. KENNEDY / Max Faget / Jerome Weisner / Neil Armstrong / Wernher von Braun / Elect Lyndon Johnson / Hugh Sidey / Alan Shepard / Dwight D. Eisenhower / /
Position
writer / Frank O’Connor / chief administrator / President / Vice President / chairman / senior engineer / special assistant for science and technology / head / engineer / Soviet premier / professor / Congressman / administrator / cosmonaut / space advisors / newly elected president / young senator / astronaut / space advisor / premier / brilliant rocket scientist / brilliant spacecraft designer / Senator / leader / chairman / president of the United States / chair / Columnist / reporter / judge / deputy / brilliant spacecraft designer for the Space Task Group / Kennedy’s space advisor / /
CLASSROOM | 9-12 Lessons : JOHN F. KENNEDY AND THE SPACE RACE The Soviet Union’s Sputnik satellite. NASA