Why Did The Space Gain Seen

In the year 1969 many things happened, but nothing was more exciting than the United States spacecraft Apollo 11 landing on the moon. Prior to the United States success, they were head to head with the Soviet Union, each country trying to gain superiority over the other. During this time both countries were involved in the cold war which undoubtedly fueled both countries want to be superior. This particular event would eventually be called the Space Race. This race would start in 1957 and conclude in 1969 when Apollo 11 successfully landed on the moon.
Soviet Space Gain Seen was published in The New York Times on January 1st, 1961. This article quotes British man, Sir Arthur Charles Bernard Lowell. This article covers the opinion that Lowell
Kennedy’s message to congress about the space race. In this message Kennedy emphasized that space exploration was not happening merely because the Russians were trying to beat us there, but because of “Our unquenchable thirst for exploration of the unknown…”. Kennedy also mentions how he didn’t want to pour billions of dollars into the program before things could be done properly. Not to say that he didn’t expect to put billions into the program, but he simply wanted things done right the first time.
This article is only somewhat valuable as it quotes the president and it also has the estimated budgets for the five years following 1961. These estimated budgets were that for the year 1961 the program would cost $531 million dollars and if they went slow like Kennedy wanted it was expected to cost $7-9 billion more over five years.
This article is to the point as it provides more commentary from the president than from the writer. This article allowed the public to read information they otherwise wouldn’t get to know unless it was put out there by the president himself. Being that this article is more informational than anything else the only bias is that it’s in favor of everything the president said, which isn’t a bad