JFK proposes a joint US-Soviet voyage to the moon
"We Choose to Go to the Moon," officially titled the Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort, is a speech given by US President John F. Kennedy on September 12, 1962, to further inform the public about his plan to land a man on the Moon before 1970. Kennedy delivered the speech to a large crowd at Rice University Stadium in Houston, Texas, which was largely written by presidential advisor and speechwriter Ted Sorensen.
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