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Kennedy Pushes Moon Program After Bay of Pigs
The article traces Kennedy’s 1961 push to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade. It notes Johnson’s space surveys and Shepard’s spaceflight as part of a rapid sequence guiding the decision, after the Bay of Pigs and Soviet space advances.
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