Touring NASA Space Program sites – childhood dream

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard (…)

These words are probably the most quoted of Kennedy´s historical speech at the Rice University Campus on September 12th 1962, following his address to Congress one year earlier, which in turn came after his decission to go to the Moon. It was so inspiring I posted about the letter exchange that led to that decission in this post.

So, when this year I planned a trip to the US to visit my sister Beatriz, I took the opportunity to plan kind of a tour tracking the history of the american space flight programs. The route across the US more or less followed the chronological evolution of this fabulous quest into the space. In addition, I had recently read Failure is not an option, from NASA…