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_Published 2011-05-25. On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced to a special session of Congress the goal of sending a man to the moon and back_


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## Transcript

Space is open to us now. And our eagerness to share it's meaning is not governed by the efforts of others. We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share. [ SOUND ] I therefore ask the Congress above and beyond the increases I have earlier requested for space activities, to provide the funds which are needed to meet the following national goals. First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind or more important for the long range exploration of space, and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.

We proposed to accelerate the development of the appropriate lunar space craft. We propose to develop alternate liquid and solid fuel boosters, much larger than any now being developed until certain which is superior. We propose additional funds for other engine development and for unmanned exploration. Explorations which are particularly important. For one purpose which this nation will never overlook. The survival of the man who first makes this daring flight. But in a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon. We make this judgment affirmatively. It will be an entire nation.

For all of us must work to put him there.

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