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. Delivered in person before a joint session of Congress May 25, 1961įinally, 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.
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