When President Kennedy announced we would be entering the space race, the entire nation was more excited than ever before about the potential of America’s greatest scientists. The problem was that those scientists found out at the same time as the rest of the American Population that we had chosen to go to the Moon. This committee will focus on a group of NASA Scientists, Board Members, and Politicians involved in the Cold War Era “Space-Race” as they try to not only maintain a scientific and military higher ground with the USSR, but to also create national pride and raise public morale. The committee begins in 1960 and will follow NASA through an abridged 1960s timeline, starting at the beginning of manned space flight. Delegates have to work with a limited budget, develop technology, and of course, defeat the Communists in the propaganda war. We will focus largely on the politics of scientific research as the committee works within their boundaries, while still trying to accomplish the goals set by the public and their financial supporters. There is plenty of room to move in whatever direction delegates take the committee, whether more scientific or political (although ideally would feature aspects of both), and hopefully we can make for a unique specialized experience.