he said there was a missile gap a space gap remembrance so did lyndon johnson. in fact, lbj helped create nasty in 1958. our whole creation of nasa was in response to sputnik. everything became nik. that he put dog out and called it pooch nik. sputnik kind of motivated jack kennedy. so by 1960 and the debates with richard nixon, kennedy charged nixon that if you're president, i see a soviet flag on the moon. if you elect me president, there will be an american flag on the moon. >> doug, this calls for a judgment, but you're a historian after all. how would lbj and jfk take the news that in this very day, if we want to get our astronauts up to the international space station, our ride is the russians. we don't have a spacecraft ready for the task. where did we lose it along the
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