JFK’s speech at Rice University Stadium in Houston, Texas is famed for the road “We prefer to attend the Moon, and do the opposite things, not because they’re easy, but because they’re hard.”
Speech at Rice University Stadium in Houston, Texas, President John F Kennedy standing at the lectern. Delivered, “Address at Rice University on the Nation’s Space Effort” – a speech famed for the road “We prefer to attend the Moon, and do the opposite things, not because they’re easy, but because they’re hard.”)
On today (1 July) in 1962, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center was inaugurated. On July 1, 1962, NASA officially activated the Launch Operations Center at the seaside spaceport.
Then US president John F. Kennedy’s 1961 goal of a crewed lunar landing by 1970 required an expansion of launch operations. it had been on today in 1962 that the Launch Operations Directorate was separated from the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). KSC then became the Launch Operations Center (LOC).
the old site – was inadequate to host the new launch facility design required for the mammoth Saturn V rocket, which might be assembled vertically during a large hangar and transported on a mobile platform to at least one of several launch pads. Therefore, the choice was made to create a replacement LOC site located adjacent to Cape Canaveral on Merritt Island NASA website says, on May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced before a special joint session of Congress the dramatic and impressive goal of sending an American safely to the Moon before the top of the last decade .
His speech at Rice University Stadium in Houston, Texas is famed for the road “We prefer to attend the Moon, and do the opposite things, not because they’re easy, but because they’re hard.”