 | United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Aeronautics - 1968 - 1030 pages
...Mercury capsule. Duration — 15 minutes. * * May — President John F. Kennedy proposed a National goal of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth before this decade is out. Congress endorsed the President's proposal. * * July — The second successful... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy - Nuclear propulsion - 1961 - 328 pages
...guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last. We take an additional risk by making it in...landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics - 1961 - 154 pages
...space achievement. I believe that the Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before the decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth. I may say that in none of the original submissions from NASA had we submitted estimates involving a... | |
 | United States. President (1961-1963 : Kennedy) - Presidents - 1962 - 982 pages
...guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last. We take an additional risk by making it in...landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important... | |
 | Ivan D. Ertel - Government publications - 1969 - 294 pages
...leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on earth. ... I believe that this nation should commit itself to...landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important... | |
 | Helen T. Wells, Susan H. Whiteley, Carrie E. Karegeannes - Aeronautics - 1976 - 256 pages
...F. Kennedy 25 May 1961: ... I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goals, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the...No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be... | |
 | William David Compton - Science - 1989 - 436 pages
...the Academy created a Space Science Board to advise the government on the space science program. "/ believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving...landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. ..." President John F. Kennedy issues the challenge of Apollo, May 25, 1961. Behind him,... | |
 | Edgar M. Cortright - Science - 1975 - 342 pages
...favorable response to President Kennedy's special address to Congress in which he stated: "I believe this Nation should commit itself to achieving the...man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth." But as we were to learn in carrying out this objective, sustaining the resources meant renewing the... | |
 | Loyd S. Swenson, James M. Grimwood, Charles C. Alexander - Astronautics - 1966 - 712 pages
...feat of Astronaut Shepard, this very risk enhances our stature when we are successful. . . . I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the...landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important... | |
 | Artificial satellites - 1962 - 304 pages
...that time he stated, "I believe that the Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth." Before I give a report on the current status of Project Apollo, let me briefly outline the specific... | |
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I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important... 
