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This advertisement appeals to potential Beckman Instruments employees by building on the popularity of NASA's early manned spaceflight programs. In 1961 -- the year of this advertisement -- NASA conducted its first manned spaceflight (Freedom 7), and quickly afterwards President John F. Kennedy initiated the Apollo program, with the goal of putting a human on the moon. Although that goal was not achieved until Apollo 11 in 1969, in the intervening years Beckman Instruments contributed the Gemini project (1961-1966). Beckman's instruments were used to develop some of the technology that made spaceflight possible, but also the company also created instruments that would monitor astronauts' health and respiration.</div>
1961<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1961-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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