JFK AT RICE UNIVERSITY
“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this
decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but
because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize
and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge
is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone,
and one which we intend to win…I realize that this is, in some
measure, an act of faith and vision, for we do not know
what benets await us. But if I were to say, my fellow citizens,
that we shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away from the control
station in Houston, a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall, the length of
this football %eld, made of new metal alloys, some of which have not yet
been invented, capable of standing heat and stresses several times
more than have ever been experienced, %tted together with a precision
better than that of the %nest watch, carrying all the equipment needed
for propulsion, guidance, control, communications, food and survival, on
an untried mission, to an unknown celestial body, and then returned it
safely to earth, re-entering atmosphere at speeds of over 25,000 miles
per hour, causing heat about half that of the temperature of the sun and
do all this, and do it right, and do it %rst before this decade is out, then
we must be bold.”
- President John F. Kennedy
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