NASA, Rice University Mark 60th Anniversary of Kennedy’s Moon Speech

NASA, Rice Uni­ver­si­ty Mark 60th Anniver­sary of Kennedy’s Moon Speech

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Join lead­ers from NASA and Rice Uni­ver­si­ty as we com­mem­o­rate Pres­i­dent John F. Kennedy’s his­toric “We choose to go to the Moon…” speech. That address, before a crowd of 35,000 on Sept. 12, 1962, set NASA and our coun­try on the path to explore worlds beyond our own.

Par­tic­i­pants will include:

NASA Admin­is­tra­tor Bill Nelson
NASA Asso­ciate Admin­is­tra­tor Bob Cabana
NASA’s John­son Space Cen­ter Direc­tor Vanes­sa Wyche
NASA astro­naut Shan­non Walker
Rice Uni­ver­si­ty Pres­i­dent Reg­gie DesRoches
Rice Space Insti­tute Direc­tor Dr. David Alexan­der, Rice Space Insti­tute (mas­ter of ceremonies)
Retired ESA (Euro­pean Space Agency) astro­naut Jean-Loup Chrétien
Aval­on Hogans, Houston’s youth poet laureate

Read an excerpt from the 1962 speech at 

Cred­it: NASA

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