On May 25, 1961, John F. Kennedy stood before a joint session of Congress and delivered nine words that would rewrite human destiny—"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth"—but what history often forgets is that just weeks earlier, on April 12th, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had orbited Earth first, leaving America's space program reeling and JFK privately devastated, ye

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