The moon 'We choose to go to the moon...' again: NASA marks 60th anniversary of JFK speech News By Robert Z. Pearlman last updated September 13, 2022 'Seven famous words ... carried across this stadium and across the country: We choose to go to the moon.' When you purchase throu...
In the speech, the president utters one of his most famous quotes, "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." UN Speech on Working Together in the Conquest of Space September 20, 1963 In a historic g...
JFK's 'Moon Speech' Still Resonates 50 Years Later Editor's note: This story originally stated that NASA identified Mars as its long-term human-spaceflight destination in 1959. That's not right; the moon was the target. The story has been corrected. Mike Wall's book about the search for...
JFK is noted as saying,"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and to do other things, not because they are easy - but because they are hard."Leadership was personified in JFK as he chose to
a vision that included going to the moon before the end of the decade, and a call for all Americans to work together for the best interest of the country. The United States is still looking for a leader like him, and we may never see it again. Comparisons have been drawn over the ye...
The first Freedom Ride left Washington DC on May 4th: freedom riders challenged the southern states' non-enforcement of the Supreme Court's ruling that segregation on buses was unconstitutional. And on May 25, 1961,JFK gave his "Man on the Moon" speech, setting a new course of discovery fo...
moon with astronauts wearing them — a claim made in the upper portion of the ad in the small print beneath the Omega logo: “The first and only watch worn on the moon. 20 July 1969.” This ad isn’t using astronauts, however, but rather a famous president whose name and image in ...
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing with a new app that helps users relive the 1969 launch of the Apollo 11 mission.
When JFK was slaughtered, Russia’s Khrushchev was literally crying, fearing nuclear war. Cuba’s Castro feared a US invasion and gave an impressive speech the next day deconstructing the CIA’s deception provocation for war. Meanwhile at Clint Murchison’s home, the family maid May Newman descr...
He sent a man to the moon, fought for civil rights, and navigated the Cuban Missile Crisis peacefully. Most of all, he inspired a new generation to ask what they could do for our country.” Schlossberg then drew a parallel to the current Democratic nominee. “Tonight, JFK’s call to ...