"We choose to go to the Moon" - John F. Kennedy's speech of 1962

Subtitled video with the most important parts of the speech delivered by John F. Kennedy (17 minutes approximately) at the Rice Stadium of Houston (Texas) on September 12 of 1962. The text and video of Kennedy's speech are in the PUBLIC DOMAIN, subtitles were put by the author of the Astronomy Radar Blog. This is the speech where Kennedy said: "We choose to go to the moon. 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, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."

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