50th Anniversary of 'Moon Speech' Rice University, 12 September
1962 Video of the National Aeronautic Space Administration's
(NASA) coverage of President John F. Kennedy's address at Rice
University, Houston, Texas, concerning the nation's efforts in
space exploration. In his speech the President discusses the
necessity for the United States to become an international
leader in space exploration and famously states, "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." Kennedy Tour:
Calls for U.S. Lead in Space, 1962 JFK begins space bases tour
at Huntsville, meets von Braun, sees Mercury capsule, then to
Cape Canaveral, then to Houston and stadium at Rice Univ for
speech, then to Manned Spacecraft Center, sees Gemini capsule,
then to McDonald plant in St. Louis where capsules built.