NSPC: The Eagle Has Landed

In 1957, after the Soviets launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, into Earth orbit the United States and the Soviet Union became engaged in a Space Race, which was a key aspect of the Cold War to showcase their technological superiority in spaceflight. President John F. Kennedy set the goal to land a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s and to win the Space Race. Librarian and historian Jim Ward will recount the successes as well as the setbacks that eventually led to astronaut Neil Armstrong becoming the first man to set foot on the surface of the Moon on July 20, 1969.