1969 (21 images)

The White House has announced that President Bush plans a major speech next week saying that NASA will be sending Americans back to the moon and ultimately to Mars. This file image is from the July 20, 1969 moon walk of Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., taken by Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong. (UPI Photo via NASA)

The White House has announced that President Bush plans a major speech next week saying that NASA will be sending Americans back to the moon and ultimately to Mars. This file image is from the July 20, 1969 moon walk of Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. and Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong and shows the Earth rising above the Moon's horizon from the Apollo 11 spacecraft. .(UPI Photo via NASA)

President George W. Bush is said to be on the verge of announcing a new space program to send American Astronauts back to the moon. In this photo from 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin Aldrin stands facing the U.S. flag on the Moon. (UPI Photo/NASA)

A large crowd gathered in the Capitol Plaza to attend the swearing in of Richard M. Nixon as the 37th President of the United States on Inauguration Day, and listen to his inaugural address after the swearing-in ceremony on January 20, 1969. (UPI Photo/Files)