"Now it is time to take longer strides--time for a great new American enterprise--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."

"I believe that this 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 the Earth."

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Audio of Historic speech made by John Fitzgerald Kennedy before a specially convened joint session of Congress - May 25, 1961.