 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy - Nuclear propulsion - 1961 - 334 pages
...or managed our resources and our time so as to insure their fulfillment. Recognizing the head start obtained by the Soviets with their large rocket engines,...guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last. We take an additional risk by making it in full view of the world — but as shown by... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy - Nuclear propulsion - 1961 - 328 pages
...during this decade. He emphasized the importance of the timing of the mission when he said that — while we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be...guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last. Many approaches are possible to the conduct of this manned lunar mission ; solid propellent... | |
 | United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Astronautics - 1961 - 206 pages
...Time for this nation to take a clearly leading roll in space achievement." And he went on to say : "For while we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to share this effort will make us last." He said, "But this is not merely a race, space is open to us... | |
 | United States. President (1961-1963 : Kennedy) - Presidents - 1962 - 982 pages
...or managed our resources and our time so as to insure their fulfillment. Recognizing the head start obtained by the Soviets with their large rocket engines,...guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last. We take an additional risk by making it in full view of the world, but as shown by the... | |
 | United States Department of State. Historical Office - Astronautics - 1963 - 428 pages
...fulfillment. 1 Public Papers of the President!: John F. Kennedy, 1961, pp. 403-405. Recognizing the head start obtained by the Soviets with their large rocket engines,...guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last. We take an additional risk by making it in full view of the world, but as shown by the... | |
 | Loyd S. Swenson, James M. Grimwood, Charles C. Alexander - Astronautics - 1966 - 714 pages
...fulfillment. Recognizing the head start obtained by the Soviets with their large rocket engines . . . and recognizing the likelihood that they will exploit...guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last. We take an additional risk by making it in full view of the world, but as shown by the... | |
 | Aeronautics - 1971 - 896 pages
..."space effort." In .1960 President John F. Kennedy issued a challenge to the ; space community: ". . . For while we cannot guarantee that we" shall one day...guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last . . . I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences - 1972 - 570 pages
...leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on earth. . . . While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be...guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last." President Johnson in 1967 : ". . . that man will make space his domain is inevitable.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations - United States - 1972 - 962 pages
...clear!;. leading role In space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on earth. .. .While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be...guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us laat." President Johnson in 1967: "...that man will make space his domain la inevitable. Whether... | |
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Recognizing the head start obtained by the Soviets with their large rocket engines, which gives them many months of lead-time, and recognizing the likelihood that they will exploit this lead for some time to come in still more impressive successes, we... 
