John F. Kennedy Quotes About Space Exploration

• First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.

  John F. Kennedy

  Believe, Moon, Men

  Special message to joint session of Congress on urgent national needs, 25 May 1961

• 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.

  John F. Kennedy

  Moon, Challenges, Chill

  Address at Rice University on nation's space effort, Houston, Tex., 12 Sept. 1962

• 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.

  John F. Kennedy

  Winning, Moon, Skills

  Address at Rice University on nation's space effort, Houston, Tex., 12 Sept. 1962

• ... the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward, and so will space.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Space, United States

  Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Program, delivered 12 September 1962, Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas

• We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Space, Apollo

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

• Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth.

  John F. Kennedy

  Keys, Space, Achievement

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

• But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

  John F. Kennedy

  Moon, Texas, Years

  Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Program, delivered 12 September 1962, Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas

• We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them.

  John F. Kennedy

  Believe, Men, Differences

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.151, Best Books on

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