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On September 12, 1962, President John F. Kennedy told 40,000 people in Rice University’s football stadium that by the end of the decade, the United States would land astronauts on the moon.
“But why, some say, the moon?” he posed to the crowd. “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.”