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US East Coast 2018: Space - The Next Frontier

"For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace." When US President John F. Kennedy first launched the space programme decades ago, humankind had completely  next-to-nothing understanding of space exploration. The year was 1961, just a couple of years after the Soviets had launched the satellite Sputnik into space. It was an extension of the Cold War beyond the reaches of the planet; it was the beginnings of the Space Race. Yet before the end of the 1960s' the Americans had won the race to the moon by sending the first men there, a feat unparalleled in human history. This was a most interesting aspect of scientific advancement that I had never personally encountered; that was until I stepped into  Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and personally came face to face with the milestones of US space hist...