In July 2019, the country marked the 50th anniversary of two historic events.

On July 16, 1969, a Saturn V rocket blasted off from a launch pad at Cape Canaveral, bound to fulfill President John F. Kennedy’s goal of safely landing astronauts on the moon and returning them to Earth before the decade was out. Three days after the launch, the late president’s brother, Sen. Ted Kennedy, drove his car off a bridge in Chappaquiddick, Massachusetts, leading to the death of 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne.