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President Kennedy understood the need to restore America's confidence and intended not merely to match the Soviets, but surpass them. On May 25, 1961, he stood before Congress to deliver a special message on "urgent national needs." He asked for an additional $7 billion to $9 billion over the next five years for the space program, proclaiming that "this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth." President Kennedy settled upon this dramatic goal as a means of focusing and mobilizing the nation's lagging space efforts.
Skeptics questioned the ability of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to meet the president's timetable. Within a year, however, Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom became the first two Americans to travel into space.
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Constantine's "New Rome" was established at the site of ancient Byzantium which became Constantinople. The city of Constantinople when conquered by the Ottoman's took its modern name of Istanbul in 1923.
<span>Shah Abbas was able to take the Safavid Empire into its golden age, created an empire that took the best out of all neighboring cultures including Ottomans and Persians, and reformed military and civilian life within the empire.</span>