1st Influence!

"One Small Step For Man, One Giant Step For Mankind." These are the famous words spoken by the first American to lay foot on the moon, Neil Armstrong. But who truly inspired these words. You guessed it! John F. Kennedy! May 25th, 1961, the acronym N.A.S.A (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) first entered America's vocabulary. Kennedy announced to congress that he wanted to safely send an American to the moon before the end of the decade. (SAFELY being the key word there!) Sean Wilents says that Kennedy felt the pressure to "catch up to and over take" the Soviet Reunion in the "Space Race." The first American in space was Alan Shepard on May 5th, (My Birthday.) ;D So turns out, the whole NASA company was all inspired by JFK. If he's not the greatest American then I'd like to see who is!