Sep 122013
September 12, 1962, President Kennedy gave a speech at Rice University that is remember for a grand total of one thing: some of the most uplifting words ever about the importance and value of space exploration. Here is the whole thing:
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Here’s the important bits:
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Kennedy, of course, didn’t give a damn about spaceflight, the conquest of the universe, any of that stuff. His goal was purely strategic and propagandistic: beat the Soviets. But even so, his words were, and remain, uplifting and important