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A bird checks out the Mobile Launcher One at Kennedy Space Center
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Vice President Johnson Was Assigned the Task of Unifying the U.S. Satellite Programs
June 24, 1961
NASA's Mercury Program made rapid progress in meeting its second goal by sending its first manned missions into space in its first year, 1961. By the summer of 1969, Americans walked on the moon.On June 24, 1983, exactly 22 years after Kennedy assigned Johnson to oversee the satellite program, the first American woman, Sally Ride, traveled into space aboard the space shuttle Challenger. Perhaps, someday, space travel will become a common form of transportation for many Americans. Where in space would you like to go?
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