Remembering: JFK's Joint US Soviet Moon Proposal

On September 20, 1963 President John F. Kennedy shocked the world when he proposed a joint moon mission with the Soviet Union.

Hostilities were at one of the lowest points between the two countries and the interest in going to the moon was fading, as the price tag kept growing.

Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko met the proposal with gladness, but never committed to it.

In Washington the idea was met with hostility, the space race was one of the fore points of American policy.

The world would never find out what could have happened if the two powers had joined for the moon mission, as two months later, on November 22, JFK was assassinated.

His successor, Lyndon B Johnson would immediately scrap the idea, ensuring that the US went to the moon alone.