 | United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William David Compton - 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...on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. ..." President John F. Kennedy issues the challenge of Apollo, May 25, 1961. Behind him, Vice-president... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics - 1962 - 226 pages
...citation. Page 890 of the House hearings ; testimony of Mr. Wyatt. Mr. FULTON. The President says : First. I believe that this Nation should commit itself to...landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth. No single space project in this period will be more exciting, or more impressive to mankind,... | |
 | Roger E. Bilstein - 1996 - 544 pages
...more than $500 million/Kennedy left no doubt as to NASA's objective or its schedule for realization. "This nation should commit itself to achieving the...a man on the Moon, and returning him safely to the Earth."69 SUMMARY Haltingly, a national space program coalesced around a new entity, the National Aeronautics... | |
 | Edgar M. Cortright - 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...landing a 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... | |
 | Helen T. Wells, Susan H. Whiteley, Carrie E. Karegeannes - 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 moon and returning him safely to earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important... | |
 | 1962 - 876 pages
...achievement. . . .1 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 earth. "f With this statement the President launched a very bold and vigorous program for this decade.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Edwin Phelps Hartman - 1970 - 590 pages
...and he thereupon set as a national goal, to be accomplished before the end of the decade, the task of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth. A similar task was indeed already on NASA's tentative agenda but scheduled for some indefinite... | |
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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 earth. 
