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ad been opposed to the manned space program. The Apollo program was conceived early in 1960, during the Eisenhower administration, as a follow-up to America's Mercury program.[186] While NASA went ahead with planning for Apollo, funding for the program was far from certain given Eisenhower's ambivalent attitude to manned spaceflight.[187] Early in his presidency, Kennedy was considering plans to dismantle the Apollo program due to its cost,[188] but postponed any decision out of deference to his vice president whom he had appointed chairman of the U.S. Space Council[189] and who strongly supported NASA due to its new Manned Spacecraft Center in Texas.[190] In his January 1961 State of the Union address, Kennedy had suggested international cooperation in space. Sergei Khrushchev said Kennedy approached his father, Nikita, twice about a "joint venture" in space exploration—in June 1961 and autumn 1963. On the first occasion, the Soviet Union was ahead of America in many aspects of sp
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