JFK and The Great Space Race

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy began a dramatic expansion of the U.S. space program and committed the nation to the ambitious goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Historian, scholar and author Douglas Brinkley will speak for the first time on his soon-to-be-published book, American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race, that revisits this important chapter in America’s history.