Event REsources

• JFK’s Address Before a Joint Session of Congress, 25 May 1961 [Video and Transcript]

• JFK’s “We choose to go to the Moon” Speech at Rice University, 12 September 1962 [Video and Transcript]

• JFK’s Speech Before the 18th General Assembly of the United Nations, 20 September 1963 [Audio]

  • See Also: Video and Transcript

• Frank White’s The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution and
  The New Camelot: The Quest for the Overview Effect

• Ten Enduring Myths About the U.S. Space Program

• Exploding the Myth of Popular Support for Project Apollo

• The Forgotten JFK Proposal: A Joint U.S.-Soviet Moon Landing [Video]

• Star Trek: A Phenomenon and Social Statement on the 1960s

• Star Trek and the Kiss that Changed TV

• Liberals in Space: The 1960s Politics of Stark Trek

• Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations: Star Trek, the Sixties & the American Left

• Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols on Uhura's Radical Impact

• The Secret is in the Space Suit [Video]

• Building the Future Space Suit

• This Space Suit for Exploring Mars is a Form-Fitting Math Problem

• Fashion on the Final Frontier: The Story of the Space Suit

• "A Century in Flight" Bonus Material - Interview with Michael Neufeld

• He Aimed at the Stars But Hit London - New York Times Book Review

• Looking Out: Nazis On The Harbor

  • Just after World War II ended, U.S. soldiers smuggled the Third Reich’s top scientists and engineers to a Harbor Island fort — just a few miles from downtown Boston — to find out what they knew and what they could do for America in the Cold War.

• Wernher von Braun, the SS, and Concentration Camp Labor: Questions of Moral, Political, and Criminal Responsibility

• Apogeo Spatial Mission:

  • Space System for Sustainable Development

• Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)

• Earthrise Alliance

• European Space Agency:

  • The Clean Space Blog

  • Space Debris

  • Minigallery: Protecting Our Planet - Space Safety & Security at ESA

• NASA:

  • Sustainability Index

  • Sustainability 101

• PBS NewsHour

• Secure World Foundation:

  • Space Sustainability 101

  • Summit for Space Sustainability (June 25-26, 2019)

• Space Enabled Research Group:

  • Dr. Danielle Wood’s TED Talk: “6 space technologies we can use to improve life on Earth”

• Space Safety and Sustainability (SSS) Project Group

• United Nations:

  • Sustainable Development Goals

  • Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS)

  • Long-term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities

• World Economic Forum:

  • Global Future Council on Space Technologies

  • Space Sustainability Rating Project