Yes, he was instrumental in the space race, but as the article says, JFK slowly reduced LBJ's role...not wanting to share credit. In the excellent Tom Wolfe novel "The Right Stuff" told of an incident,included in the subsequent movie, where they showed Johnson having a temper tantrum when the painfully shy Annie Glenn (wife of astronaut John Glenn) refused to have a photo op and press event with him.

On a related note, even though he was a Texan, revered by many Democrats - and some history ignorant Republicans - in this state, he was an adulterer, a crude, profane boor, a vile man who would get nose-to-nose with anyone who dared cross him, try to intimidate them with his size. (he makes Trump look like a piker in that regard) If that didn't work, he'd often pull out his "well endowment" and want to compare it with that of his opponent. He rigged elections and while I'm no conspiracy nut, there is enough suspicion on him towards his participation in the JFK assassination. Kennedy, for all his faults, was having second thoughts about our growing involvement in the Vietnam War but LBJ escalated it and the deaths of over 50,000 Americans and the pain and illnesses of a hundred thousand more who suffered after coming home can be laid directly at his chickenhawk feet.

Even his wife was as crooked as a dog's hind leg, pulling every string and using any influence she had, political or monetarily, to advance the business of her personally owned freight company, plus that of her media interests. But, she helped plant bluebonnets all across Texas, so there's that! <snicker>

@ Mike.   I only knew about half of that and before knowing any I didn't like him, didn't trust him and he made me shudder in disgust. Because of his arrogance of escalating the war too many of my generation died, came back gravely ill and died or spirits broken. Egomaniac is his legacy.