Six weeks after Gagarin’s space flight, President John Kennedy proclaimed: 'I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth.' That proclamation has earned Kennedy praise as a space visionary, though in private Kennedy confessed that he was 'not very interested in space'. 

Prof DeGroot explores how and why the reluctant space policies of the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations were replaced by a new space paradigm which measured the virility of a nation by its ability to land a man on the moon. 

Prof Gerard DeGroot presented his paper to the RAeS Space Group Conference, Yuri Gagarin’s legacy, 50 years on: securing the vision for the next half century. The event was held on 16 March 2011, the session was chaired by Pat Norris FRAeS and the podcast was edited by Eur Ing Mike Stanberry FRAeS.

Rewind: I'm not that interested in space! How Gagarin took John Kennedy where he did not want to go

Sixty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, today’s world leaders can apply lessons learned to potential future nuclear crises. Former Obama Administration Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, Executive Director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University Alexandra Vacroux, and former Pulitzer-prize winning reporter and author Jonathan Kaufman discuss potential crises ahead and how the Cuban Missile Crisis’s legacy remains relevant.

Atomic Gambit: The Challenges Ahead

Are the Russians repeating a new Berlin. A new (mental) wall is rising down through Europe as a consequence of the war. Why ? Inspired by the war in Ukraine and David Bowies monster hit "Heroes". The song written in and about Berlin. Trying to catch a part of the same feeling. Waving. Guitars flying. Waves in the sea.

Highlights from John F. Kennedys speech in Berlin 1963 - Ich Bin ein Berliner. 

Instrumental version without John F. Kennedy Speech:
https://soundcloud.com/modvaegt/walk-on-clouds-instrumental

Track from the Instrumental Rock Album 2023 from MODVÆGT:
No Music No Life: https://soundcloud.com/modvaegt/sets/nomusicnolife

V. 1.0
Released January 2023

Ich Bin Ein Berliner (Instrumental with Kennedy Speech)

Soundtrack for the exhibition ‘Le Plus Beau Jour’ by Fouad Elkoury commissioned by la Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, 2014

Sound Design Shirin Abu Shaqra
Mixing Geoffrey Durcak
Original Piano Compositions Cynthia Zaven
Scenography Thomas Duquet 
https://vimeo.com/99936278 
http://www.fouadelkoury.com/install.php?id=26 

CREDITS By order 
219673__harrietniamh__footsteps-on-concrete (CC)
http://www.freesound.org/people/harrietniamh/sounds/219673/

inflexible authority, William Burroughs
See full text https://archive.org/stream/W.s.Burroughs-PdfCollection/NovaExpress-WilliamS.Burroughs_djvu.txt 

String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80 - II. Allegro assai
Musopen String Quartet https://musopen.org/music/1595/felix-mendelssohn/string-quartet-no-6-in-fm-op-80/ (CC)

Jamal Abdel Nasser discours Tana77i

220303__nebulousflynn__pouring-glass-of-wine-from-bottle http://www.freesound.org/people/nebulousflynn/sounds/220303/ (CC)

Some of these days Sophie Tucker and Ted Lewis (1926) https://archive.org/details/somotday1926 (CC)

Etel Adnan To be in Time of War City Lights Publications Sans Francisco 2005 

صباح فخري قصيدة بيضاء لا كدر (مجهول)


Fidel Castro 1979 UN speech 
(full speech http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/1979/esp/f121079e.html)

Atahualpa Yupanqui - Basta Ya 

يا مسافر وحدك كلمات والحان محمد عبدالوهاب

220186__felix-blume__thunderstorm-on-the-top-of-the-chacaltaya-mountain-at-5300m-in-bolivia (CC)
http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/220186/ 

Saul Alinsky in an interview by Studs Terkel 

lluis llach - l'estaca

Speech JFK Presidential 
Inauguration Speech.

انا في انتظارك كلمات محمود بيرم التونسي الحان زكريا احمد

Geeshie Wiley - The last kind words 
https://archive.org/details/Words 
 220712__11linda__heavy-breathing-and-texting 
http://www.freesound.org/people/11linda/sounds/220712/

Vivaldi - Four Concerti Grossi, Op.8 - II. L'estate - Allegro, Adagio, Presto
https://musopen.org/music/2195/antonio-vivaldi/the-four-seasons/ 
 
Image " The Shop" London 1975 © Fouad Elkoury

Le Plus Beau Jour

The JFK Library holds thousands of primary source treasures that bring history to life. In this episode, JFK Library Foundation Executive Director Rachel Flor takes us behind the scenes to explore the original records showing how Jacqueline Kennedy reimagined the White House as the People’s House. We’ll also hear the voice of one of President Kennedy’s closest friends, preserved in an intimate oral history.

Staff Picks: Papers that Shaped a Legacy

youtu.be/watch?v=CfzNWVuDx2c
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On January 14, 1964, less than two months after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Jacqueline Kennedy made her first public appearance and thanked the American people for the nearly 800,000 cards, messages and letters of condolence she received following the death of her husband.
With the late President's brothers, Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Senator Edward Kennedy, at her side, Mrs. Kennedy said, 
"Each and every letter will be treasured, and be placed along with President Kennedy's papers, in the Kennedy Library" which was to be built in Boston, Massachusets.
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy (1929-1994) was a woman of great depth and intelligence, she led the nation in mourning, and planned the state funeral.
At her death, she was one of the country's most popular and beloved First Ladies.

Thanks the Nation0

John F. Kennedy - Moon Speech ( Gerly Remix)

On the afternoon of June 14, 1956, Senator John F. Kennedy addressed the Harvard Alumni Association in Harvard Yard.

John F. Kennedy, 1956 - Harvard Voices

"The President Has Been Shot!": The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

Written by James L. Swanson
Narrated by Will Patton
Book published by Scholastic Inc.
Audiobook published by Scholastic Audio

A breathtaking and dramatic account of the  JFK assassination by the New York Times bestselling author. Swanson transports listeners back to one of the most shocking, sad, and terrifying events in American history. As he did in his bestselling Chasing Lincoln's Killer, he deploys his signature "you are there" style to tell the story of the JFK assassination as it has never been told before.

Digital Download Retail ISBN: 978-0-545-60036-1
Digital Download Library ISBN: 978-1-338-24096-2

"Text Copyright © 2013 by James L. Swanson. Audio (P) 2013 by Scholastic Inc. All rights reserved.
SCHOLASTIC, SCHOLASTIC AUDIOBOOKS, and associated logos are trademarks
and/or registered trademarks of Scholastic Inc."

THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN SHOT! by James L. Swanson - Audiobook Excerpt

"The President and the Press" American Newspaper Publishers Association. Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, NY.

John F. Kennedy Speech, April 27, 1961 "secret societies"

After working for a decade as a researcher in human sciences I transitioned into the world of visual arts and filmmaking. 
In storytelling, I use History for it’s collective memory, music for it’s Dionysian effect, and animation for it’s distanced wit; all in the aim of breaking the boundaries between high & popular culture, northern and southern geographies, and conceptual and figurative aesthetics. Thematically, exile and disembodiment are omnipresent elements, love and kinship a constant concern.



Harvard University's SoundCloud channel shares audio content about life and learning that takes place here on campus and around the world.

Harvard is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders in many disciplines who make a difference globally. The University has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Based in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, Harvard has an enrollment of over 20,000 degree candidates, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Harvard has more than 370,000 alumni around the world.

All content copyrighted 2018 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

Kennedy Library Forums are a series of public affairs programs offered by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum to foster public discussion on a diverse range of historical, political and cultural topics reflecting the legacy of President and Mrs. Kennedy's White House years.

The Royal Aeronautical Society is the world's only professional body dedicated to the entire aerospace community. Established in 1866 to further the art, science and engineering of aeronautics, the Society has been at the forefront of developments in aerospace ever since.

Just Rock Music - No Music No Life :-)

Discography
2025 Groovy Metal (Compilation album)
2025 Poodle Man (Single feat. Nils)
2024 ResisT (Album Instrumental & vocal)
2024 Bryd nu ud!! (Single f. Mortens Motivation)
2024 Fuck Kreativitet (Single f. Mortens M)
2024 CopperHead (Single feat. This is Treason)
2023 On The Other Side (Single feat. Tjews)
2023 No Music No Life (Album Instrumental)
2022 National Folkesygdom (Single f. Mortens M)
2022 Efterladt (Single feat. Stilou)
2022 The World is Burning (Album Instrumental)
2021 A New Life (Album Instrumental)
2021 Myrde Andre for Selv at Gro (Album f. Ken)
2020 Early Stuff

It’s all here:
https://soundcloud.com/modvaegt/albums

Get these albums on vinyl:

Groovy Metal (Compilation Album 2025)
https://elasticstage.com/soundcloud/releases/groovy-metal-album

ResisT (Album 2024)
https://elasticstage.com/soundcloud/releases/modvaegt-resist-album

No Music No Life (Album 2023)
https://elasticstage.com/soundcloud/releases/no-music-no-life-album

The World is Burning (Album 2022)
https://elasticstage.com/soundcloud/releases/modvaegt-the-world-is-burning-album

A New Life  (Album 2021 - New Mix 2025)
https://elasticstage.com/soundcloud/releases/modvaegt-a-new-life-album

Compilation album: Do You Believe In Life After Work
https://elasticstage.com/soundcloud/releases/modvaegt-do-you-believe-in-life-after-work-for-friends-family-album

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