05-June-2002, 02:58 PM
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On 2002-06-05 01:27, Peter B wrote:
And finally, did Kennedy EVER say that Apollo was, as Dave quoted, "for the people"? I know Lincoln used the phrase in his Gettysburg speech, but the words of Kennedy that I associate with Apollo are these (from memory; someone tell me how close I am): [cue Boston accent] "We choose to go to the Moon - we choose to go to the Moon and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard."
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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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The growth of our science and education will be enriched by new knowledge of our universe and environment, by new techniques of learning and mapping and observation, by new tools and computers for industry, medicine, the home as well as the school. Technical institutions, such as Rice, will reap the harvest of these gains.
And finally, the space effort itself, while still in its infancy, has already created a great number of new companies, and tens of thousands of new jobs. Space and related industries arc generating new demands in investment and skilled personnel, and this city and this State, and this region, will share greatly in this growth. What was once the furthest outpost on the old frontier of the West will be the furthest outpost on the new frontier of science and space. Houston, your City of Houston, with its Manned Spacecraft Center, will become the heart of a large scientific and engineering community. During the next 5 years the National Aeronautics and Space Administration expects to double the number of scientists and engineers in this area, to increase its outlays for salaries and expenses to $60 million a year; to invest some $200 million in plant and laboratory facilities; and to direct or contract for new space efforts over $1 billion from this Center in this City.
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- from Kennedy's speech at Rice University, September 12, 1962.
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