Blank cheque for moon race
President John F. Kennedy has asked the American people, through their representatives in Congress, to sign a blank cheque to cover whatever the price may be to race the Russians to the moon.
According to White House bookkeeping, the bill is estimated to be as high as $29,000,000,000 by the end of the decade. The guessing ends with the year 1970 because the president expects an American to land on and return safely from the moon before that date.
In making his already historic statement – “I believe we should go to…
