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Scope and Contents The phonodisk, which is narrated by Walter Cronkite of the Columbia Broadcasting System, begins with President John Fitzgerald Kennedy's May 25, 1961, address to Congress concerning the space program of the United States. The first side of the phonodisk then describes the lift-off from the Kennedy Space Center on July 16, 1969, of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Apollo 11 spacecraft carrying Edwin ("Buzz") Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins on the...