I have chosen John F Kennedy because he had instituted the Apollo Space programme which lead Neil Armstrong to go to the moon in 1969. John F Kennedy was born in Brooklyn, Masshashuttes in 1917,and was the son of Josepth Keneddy, who was a multi-millionaire and was famous to the American public during the 1920's. He sucessfully graduated in law from the University of Harvard , and as a youngman he travelled to Western Europe in 1939. When the United States entered WWII in December 1941, Keneddy volunteered for the American navy, and fought in the Pacific, but his elder brother Josepth Jnr, was killed in action. After the war, he entered politics, and joined the Demorcratic Party, and in 1946 he was elected to the House of Representatives. In 1952, he was elected senator of Boston, Masshashuttes and in the following year he married Jaquilinne Bouvier, with whom he had two children. He unsucessfully challenged for the Demorcratic presidential nomination in 1956, and won the nomination in 1960. He was elected President of the United States in 1960, and his other policies other than the foundation of the Apollo Space project, is less importance in this list, and his legislative policiy concerning civil rights, would have been introduced had he not lived, and as a matter of fact, it wasn't introduced by him, but by his sucessor Lyndon B Johnson, and his foreign policy including the failed Bay of Pigs invasion,and the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba will have less effect in the world in the long-term, and wasn't at all sucessful of ending the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, and the consprisasy's surrounding the life of John F Keneddy is less relevence in this list, and is at all no historical data, and hasn't at all changed the course of history. He was assinated in Dallas, Texas in 1963. On July 20th 1969, the worlds oldest dream was achieved, when Neil Armstrong became the first man to land in the moon, followed by Buzz Aldrin. This flight was known as Apollo 11. The entire Apollo Space project cost $24bn, and it is one of the greatest achievement in the history of the human race. It still remains our landmark, and it was our first step to visit another celestrial object of Space. But I must confess there will be more fascinated Space exploration in the future, and the science of spacewill be more sucessful in the future than it was in the past. The Moon landing is a bit like Columbus voyage to the Americas, which was a new begining in history, and similar can be said about the Apollo project to the moon. Why have I instead put John F Kennedy instead of Neil Armstrong in my list. And the reason being that had Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin died on there way to the moon, there were always other professional astronauts who wouldn't have achieved this dream. A thousand years from now, neither the Peace corps,nor the Alliance for Progress, nor the Bay of Pigs is unlikely to be remembered. Neither would his policies concerning taxes or civil rights legislation are unlikely to be remembered. Providing Human civillization survives in the intervening times from the Nuclear destruction, 5000years from now, our trip to the moon will surely be seen as a momentus event, and one of the greatest achievements of the Human race.And I rather suspect, 5000years from now Neil Armstrong is more likely to be remembered than John F Kennedy is. But shouldn't I give the credit to people like Wernher von Braun or other great scientists such as Konstanstin Tsiokovsky, Robert H Goddard and Herman Oberth, who made the way for space travel. Of course many would suggest that it wasn't Kennedy idea to build the Apollo space project, simply because he was following public opinion. The entire Apollo project to the Moon cost $24bn. The American space programme was established in 1958 by President Eisenhower, and many predict that had the moon landing never occured, then it would have surely been achieved sooner or later, and I am not to sure about that. Since 1969, of course , the NASA budget has fallen drastically. The Apollo 11 flight, surely gave Human confidence in travelling to other parts of space. Some people feel that the Apollo project was just a gigantic boondoggle and not really important. The date July 20th hasn't been made a National holiday yet, but we musn't forget that Columbus Day wasn't celebrated in the Sixteenth century, it was celebrated today as a new era in history. Even if the Apollo project is never followed up, it is surely one of the greatest achievement in the history of the human race. And our descendants will probably see the Apollo 11 flight similar to Columbus voyage across the Atlantic, as a new era in human history.