{"id":84132,"date":"2016-07-17T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T02:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/blog\/the-international-space-university-2\/"},"modified":"2016-07-17T05:00:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T02:00:44","slug":"the-international-space-university-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/the-international-space-university-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The International Space University"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"items-row cols-1 row-\">\n<div class=\"column-1\">\n<article class=\"itemView\">\n<div class=\"itemBlock\">\n<header>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and the American Space Program<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"itemBody\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><i class=\"fa fa-calendar\"><\/i><strong>Sunday 17 July, 2016 \u00a0<i class=\"fa fa-clock-o\"><\/i>7.30pm to 9pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <i class=\"fa fa-arrow-circle-right\"><\/i>Churchill Auditorium<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <i class=\"fa fa-bullhorn\"><\/i>Open to public\u00a0upon registration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Distinguished Lecture by: John Logsdon (George Washington University)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The 1961 decision by U.S. President John Kennedy to send astronauts to the moon \u201cbefore this decade is out\u201d remains the most dramatic choice in space history, and on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took \u2018one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.\u2019 The success of the Apollo 11 mission satisfied the goal that had been set by the US president, but also raised the question \u2018What do you do next, after landing on the Moon?\u2019 It fell to President Richard M. Nixon to answer this question, and his response has changed the course of the US space program ever since.\u00a0 ISU faculty member John Logsdon, author of the 2010 book \u201cJohn F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon\u201d and the 2015 book \u201cAfter Apollo?: Richard Nixon and the American Space Program\u201d will discuss the reasons for Kennedy\u2019s decision and the steps the young president took to turn the decision into a successful Apollo program, and will discuss the deliberations by President Richard Nixon to end the Apollo program and put the US space program on a different course.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/ssp16-event-john-kennedy-richard-nixon-and-the-american-space-program-tickets-26094791223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Register with EventBrite<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>ISU Live Channel : <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/5DaJzK\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/5DaJzK<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and the American Space Program Sunday 17 July, 2016 \u00a07.30pm to 9pm Churchill Auditorium Open to public\u00a0upon registration Distinguished Lecture by: John Logsdon (George Washington University) The 1961 decision by U.S. President John Kennedy to send astronauts to the moon \u201cbefore this decade is out\u201d remains the most dramatic choice in&hellip; 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