肯尼迪政府时期美国的外层空间政策

Cold War and American Outer Space Policy in Kennedy Administration

在经历艾森豪威尔时期太空时代带给美国的政治冲击后,即任的肯尼迪总统在冷战国际形势的制约下,重新制定了美国外层空间政策的目标与原则,并确立了具有强烈冷战色彩的“阿波罗计划”。肯尼迪政府时期美苏在外层空间领域进行的一系列威信与军备竞赛,都深刻反映了这样一种冷战本质:即冷战是美苏两国在积极的军事准备的基础上,围绕国家威信度和制度号召力展开的政治和心理战争。

After the impact on Eisenhower administration from space age, under the cold war international situation, president Kennedy renewed the goal and principle of American outer space policy, and established the project Apollo. In the field of outer space, America and Soviet played a series of races for prestige and arms force during Kennedy administration. These races reflected profoundly the essence of the cold war, that is, the cold war was a kind of political and psychological warfare for national prestige and institutional superiority, which was based on both sides＇ positive military preparation.