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JFK: "We choose to go to the Moon"

I bring here a great political speech, delivered by J.F. Kennedy at Rice University in Houston, Texas, on september 12, 1962.

As Kennedy points out at the beginning, he comes to this place as an “honorary visiting professor”, to give the first lecture of the course.

And he makes use of this opportunity, to justify the exploration of the space (and, implicitly, the giant cost that comes along with it), in a very intelligent way.

The video is a bit long (though the speech itself, given the importance of the matter treated, can be considered as a short one). The essential of the speech can be found inside the 5 minutes time ranging from 4:00 to 9:20.

"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. Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills…"