JFK Questioned Space Program's Purpose Play 03:35. Close ×. Copy the code below to ... President John F. Kennedy speaks to a joint session of Congress in Washington, May 25, 1961.

At the beginning of 1966, at least 420,000 people were working directly or indirectly for NASA. More than 18,000 of those employees worked at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

It's been 60 years since President John F. Kennedy spoke to a crowd of more than 30,000 about America's race to the moon. His "We Choose the Moon" speech became a pivotal moment in the space ...

As the Minotaur 1 rocket launched from Virginia and Maryland’s spaceport Tuesday night, it provided a subtle reminder of President John F. Kennedy’s legacy. It was his commitment to getting a ...

Space Travel and the Immigrant Experience. From NASA’s very beginnings, immigrant engineers, scientists, and technicians lent their talent, labor, and technical skills to the space program.

President John F. Kennedy gave a speech Sept. 12, 1962, at Rice University in Texas to proclaim a goal of sending men to the moon. Many of you that are reading this column may not have been born ...

President John F. Kennedy made one of his most famous speeches 60 years ago at Rice University, ... part of a four-city tour of key centers of the nation’s space program.

John F. Kennedy won election by preying on fears of nuclear war, some have argued. ... The space program. Would there be people on Mars by now if Kennedy had lived beyond 1963?

September 12, 2022; Houston, Texas: Opening remarks from David Alexander, director of the Space Institute at Rice University speaks during the 60th anniversary commemoration of JFK's moon speech ...