Cosmic Calling
as US president, John F Kennedy presented the nation with a literal moonshot challenge: to put a man on the moon. And with that, the space race for technological superiority went into full swing. This was also fuelled by the successful launch of the world’s first man-made satellite, by the Soviet Union—a Cold War enemy of the US—four years earlier in 1957. The American dream was later realised when Neil Armstrong became the first person to step on to the surface of the moon in 1969.
