Lyndon Baines Johnson, „LBJ” (27.08.1908-22.01.1973)Nie sposób przecenić jego wpływu na program kosmiczny USA
https://twitter.com/LBJLibrary/status/1619373502804688896https://twitter.com/LBJLibrary/status/1618270846191108101Lyndon B. Johnson, James Webb, and Space ExplorationAbout Johnson Space CenterThe Johnson Space Center was established in 1961 as the Manned Spacecraft Center, the home and Mission Control Center for the U.S. human space flight program. In 1973, it was renamed in honor of the late President, and Texas native, Lyndon B. Johnson.
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/about/index.htmlA look at Lyndon B. Johnson's space legacy, 50 years after his deathJanuary 22, 2023 — Ask the average person, let alone a space enthusiast, to name the U.S. politician who earned the title "Mr. Space," and Lyndon B. Johnson is not likely to be their first reply. (...)
Lyndon Johnson, I think, was deeply committed to NASA from the beginning. It bears mentioning that I'm not sure that we would have reached the moon by the end of the decade but for the Apollo 1 fire that happened in 1967, killing three astronauts. LBJ's presidency shows, particularly as it relates to civil rights, that he let no good crisis go to waste. And I think with the Apollo 1 fire, he saw that the projects had been mismanaged, shortcuts have been taken to meet deadlines and work was unintentionally compromised. It was an opportunity to reevaluate the program when the fire occurred and to make NASA better.
So without that, as soon as the Apollo 1 fire came in the wake of the Gemini missions, I'm not sure we would have achieved our goal of sending a man to the moon by the end of the decade.(...)
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