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President Kennedy's Speech at Rice University

NASA Video

From captions18:15EN
But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal?
And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain?
Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic?
Why does Rice play Texas?
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 we intend to win, and the others, too.
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President Kennedy's Speech at Rice University, 1962. Public domain, from NASA's YouTube upload.

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President Kennedy speaking at a podium at Rice University stadium, 196218:15
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZyRbnpGyzQCopied
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rice-speech.vttSubtitles
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00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:06.000
We choose to go to the moon.

00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:18.000
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things,

00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:22.000
not because they are easy, but because they are hard,
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Summary

President Kennedy speaks at Rice University to justify the U.S. space program, framing space exploration as the next frontier in human progress. He announces the goal of reaching the moon before the decade ends, not because it is easy but because it is hard.

Key points

  • He condenses 50,000 years of human history into a half-century to show how fast progress has accelerated.
  • Space exploration will go ahead whether America joins or not, and no leading nation can stay behind.
  • We choose to go to the moon in this decade not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
  • Houston will become the heart of a large scientific community; he defends the space budget.
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