JFK's 'Moon Speech' (sep 12, 1962 – sep 12, 1962)

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President John F. Kennedy gained support for NASA's fledgling Apollo program. The "moon speech," was delivered at Rice University in Houston, laid out why the president believed sending astronauts to Earth's nearest neighbor by the end of the 1960s was so important. Kennedy had first aired that ambitious goal in May 1961, just six weeks after the Soviet Union's Yuri Gagarin became the first human to reach space.

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