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In 1963, President John F. Kennedy announced--to the surprise of his staff--that the U.S. was going to "put a man on the moon by the end of the decade."   Impossible, many thought, and it would have been except that the tried and true Futures Research Process was followed--create an Image of the Future, determine the Future Facts that must be developed to achieve the Image, and then apply the necessary Resources to assure Success.  In this case, the best scientists in the world (including some imported from Germany) were put to work in laboratories to find fuels capable of propelling a rocket to the moon and back, develop spacesuits that could protect astronauts in cold, gravity-free space, engineer heat shields that would keep the spacecraft from burning to a cinder on reentry, and many more "impossible" tasks--"future facts."  And one July evening in 1969 the whole world watched as Americans became the first to step foot on the moon.  All great accomplishments begin with "an image of the future"!

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