This day in history September 12
John F. Kennedy delivered his iconic “moon speech”
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - Today we remember the day a president looked to the stars on this day in history.
We’re going back to September 12, 1962.
It’s the day president John F. Kennedy delivered his iconic “moon speech” at rice university in Houston, Texas.
It was officially titled “address at Rice University on the nation’s space effort.”
The speech was a rallying call for America to reach new heights.
Kennedy laid out a bold plan to land a man on the moon before the decade’s end.
His most famous line? “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.”
Seven years later-- that vision became reality.
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