Richard Nixon
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Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) was President of the United States when the first man landed on the moon, serving between January 1969 and August 1974. Early in his presidency, Nixon appointed a Space Task Group under the direction of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew to assess the future of spaceflight in the nation. Its report recommended a vigorous post-Apollo exploration program culminating in a human expedition to Mars. Nixon did not approve this plan, but did decide in favor of building one element of it, the Space Shuttle, which was approved on January 5, 1972. See Roger D. Launius, "NASA and the Decision to Build the Space Shuttle, 1969-72," The Historian 57 (Autumn 1994): 17-34.
In: Biographies of Aerospace Officials and Policymakers (NASA History)
In: Biographies of Aerospace Officials and Policymakers (NASA History)
