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Loc: America's Story: Johnson's Task, Unify Space Program ArticleLoc: America's Story: Johnson's Task, Unify Space Program Article
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Library of Congress
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Loc: America's Story: Johnson's Task, Unify Space Program

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Russia was ahead in the "space race" in 1961. In this article, the Library of Congress discusses how President Kennedy assigned Lyndon Johnson the task of uniting the different parts of the U.S. space program into NASA.

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satellites, space exploration, telecommunications, nasa, sputnik

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space age, space stations, america's library, cape canaveral, challenger, early bird, explorer i, johnson space center, kennedy space center, loc, library of congress, mercury program, national aeronautics and space administration, national space council, sally ride, u.s. space program, astronaut, space program, unmanned satellites

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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