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US President John F. Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University.
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John F. Kennedy
President of the United States from 1961 to 1963
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the first Roman Catholic and youngest person elected president at 43 years. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
We choose to go to the Moon
1962 speech by U.S. President John F. Kennedy
Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort, commonly known by the sentence in the middle of the speech "We choose to go to the Moon", was a speech on September 12, 1962, by John F. Kennedy, the President of the United States. The aim was to bolster public support…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)