肯尼迪登月计划演说

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We choose to go to the Moon! We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things,
not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize
and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing
to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too.
It is for these reasons that I regard the decision last year to shift our efforts in space from
low to high gear as among the most important decisions that will be made during my incumbency
in the office of the Presidency.
In the last 24 hours we have seen facilities now being created for the greatest and most complex
exploration in man's history. We have felt the ground shake and the air shattered by the testing
of a Saturn C-1 booster rocket, many times as powerful as the Atlas which launched John Glenn,
generating power equivalent to 10 thousand automobiles with their accelerators on the floor.
We have seen the site where five F-1 rocket engines, each one as powerful as all eight engines
of the Saturn combined, will be clustered together to make the advanced Saturn
missile, assembled in a new building to be built at Cape Canaveral as tall as a 48 story
structure, as wide as a city block, and as long as two lengths of this field.
Within these last 19 months at least 45 satellites have circled the earth. Some 40 of
them were made in the United States of America and they were far more sophisticated and
supplied far more knowledge to the people of the world than those of the Soviet Union.
The Mariner spacecraft... (interrupted by applause) the Mariner spacecraft now on its
way to Venus is the most intricate instrument in the history of space science. The accuracy
of that shot is comparable to firing a missile from Cape Canaveral and dropping it in this
stadium between the 40-yard lines.
Transit satellites are helping our ships at sea to steer a safer course. Tiros satellites
have given us unprecedented warnings of hurricanes and storms, and will do the same for
forest fires and icebergs.
We have had our failures, but so have others, even if they do not admit them. And they
may be less public.
To be sure,... (interrupted by applause) to be sure, we are behind, and will be behind
for some time in manned flight. But we do not intend to stay behind, and in this decade,
we shall make up and move ahead.
The growth of our science and education will be enriched by new knowledge of our universe
and environment, by new techniques of learning and mapping and observation, by new tools
and computers for industry, medicine, the home as well as the school. Technical institutions,
such as Rice, will reap the harvest of these gains.
And finally, the space effort itself, while still in its infancy, has already created a great
number of new companies, and tens of thousands of new jobs. Space and related industries are
generating new demands in investment and skilled personnel, and this city and this state, and
this region, will share greatly in this growth. What was once the furthest outpost on the old
frontier of the West will be the furthest outpost on the new frontier of science and space.
Houston, (interrupted by applause) your city of Houston, with its Manned Spacecraft Center,
will become the heart of a large scientific and engineering community. During the next 5
years the National Aeronautics and Space Administration expects to double the number of
scientists and engineers in this area, to increase its outlays for salaries and expenses
to 60 million dollars a year; to invest some 200 million dollars in plant and laboratory
facilities; and to direct or contract for new space efforts over 1 billion dollars from this
center in this city.
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