#TBT: JFK's Speech About Going to the Moon

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"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." JFK's rousing speech at Rice University changed what many saw as possible then and is just as inspirational 50 years after the Apollo 11 mission.

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00:00But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask, why climb

00:08the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? We

00:16choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in

00:29this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

00:36Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills.

00:43Because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to

00:48postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others too.

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