Address at Rice University on the Space Effort
Delivered at Rice University Stadium in Houston, Texas, on September 12, 1962, inspiring the nation to commit to landing a man on the moon before the decade was out.
Full Transcript
We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people.
Space medicine, space science, space technology—all these are vital for the advancement of our civilization.
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.
Defining Key Excerpts
"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."
"That challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win."
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