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For while we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.

Recognizing the head start obtained by the Soviets with their large rocket engines, which gives them many months of lead-time, and recognizing the likelihood that they will exploit this lead for some time to come in still more impressive successes, we nevertheless are required to make new efforts on our own. We have never specified long-range goals on an urgent time schedule, or managed our resources and our time so as to insure their fulfillment. But the facts of the matter are that we have never made the national decisions or marshaled the national resources required for such leadership. I believe we possess all the resources and talents necessary. 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. With the advice of the Vice President, who is Chairman of the National Space Council, we have examined where we are strong and where we are not, where we may succeed and where we may not. Since early in my term, our efforts in space have been under review. …įinally, if we are to win the battle that is now going on around the world between freedom and tyranny, the dramatic achievements in space which occurred in recent weeks should have made clear to us all, as did the Sputnik in 1957, the impact of this adventure on the minds of men everywhere, who are attempting to make a determination of which road they should take. I am here to promote the freedom doctrine. Nor am I here to present a new military doctrine, bearing any one name or aimed at any one area. We are not against any man-or any nation-or any system-except as it is hostile to freedom. No friend, no neutral and no adversary should think otherwise. That is our conviction for ourselves-that is our only commitment to others. No role in history could be more difficult or more important. Our strength as well as our convictions have imposed upon this nation the role of leader in freedom’s cause. The Constitution imposes upon me the obligation to “from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union.” While this has traditionally been interpreted as an annual affair, this tradition has been broken in extraordinary times. Vice President, my co-partners in Government, gentlemen and ladies: SPECIAL MESSAGE TO THE CONGRESS ON URGENT NATIONAL NEEDS President Kennedy Speech “Man on the moon” No lunar missions were launched in this decade.Speaking Articles, Speeches, Famous Speeches, Space Successful studied Moon while en route to Mercury Successful longest-lived rover on the Moon, drove 24 miles (39 kilometers) Successful delivered Lunokhod 2 rover to the surface of the Moon Successful first scientist on the Moon and final Apollo mission Partial Success orbit decayed prematurely Successful deployed in lunar orbit by Apollo 15 crew Successful first robotic rover to explore the surface of a world beyond Earth Successful delivered Lunokhod 1 rover to the surface of the Moon Successful first robotic sample return from beyond Earth. Unsuccessful crew returned safely to Earth. Successful rendezvous with Surveyor 3 on the surface of the moon.Īpollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 collects lunar rake samples at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. Successful first humans to land on the Moon Partial success orbiter successful, sample return crashed on the Moon Partial success animal cargo lost on landing. Successful f irst living creatures to fly past the Moon Successful visited on the Moon by Apollo 12 crew. Successful first lunar soft landing and first picture from the lunar surface examines the robotic Surveyor 3 spacecraft during his second extravehicular activity (EVA) on the Moon on 20 November 1969.

Successful first pictures of the lunar farside.Īpollo 12 commander Charles Conrad Jr. Successful first spacecraft to impact the Moon's surface James Van Allen inspect components of the Pioneer IV spacecraft on March 1, 1959.