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The Untold Story with Martha McAllum, exclusive interviews with top newsmakers who share their inspiring

stories of perseverance, positivity, and more. Now, here's Martha McCallum. John F. Kennedy once said,

we choose to go to the moon in this decade, not because it is easy, but because it is hard. One of his most enduring legacies was his

inspiring push for American dominance in space. The U.S. was losing the space race against the

Soviets until Kennedy delivered that famous moonshot speech in 1962, where he challenged

Americans to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.

Seven years later, more than half a billion people around the world watched live as Neil Armstrong made history.

And now, ahead of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, has a new book, American Moonshot, John F. Kennedy, and the Great Space Race. And he joins me now with his untold story. Doug, great to see you again. Thank you for having me. Thank you so much for being here. You know, one of the things that strikes me, been doing a lot of research on World War II recently for the 75th anniversary. And this post-war period was a period, I think, when Americans felt like they could do anything.

It was a very inspired period, but that was, you know, that was gone.

And now we were in the 60s. So talk to me about that moment with regard to that.

You know, when John F. Kennedy made the Moon Pledge, and I started writing this book, I thought it was all about kind of the modern technology. The computer chip got invented in the late 1950s and we had radar.

So the idea I thought of NASA gave birth to the modern technological movement, which

then erupted in Silicon Valley and beyond.

There's some truth to that, all of that.

But in addition, it's the last act of the Second World War.

It took 400,000 people to work rocket engineers, technicians, aviation experts, to get us to the

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