Pres. Kennedy Speech, Rice University Stadium re Science & Space Pt. 3 of 3
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 & most complex exploration in man's history. We have felt the ground shake & 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 10,000 automobiles w/ 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, & as long as two lengths of this field.
15:03:33 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 & they were far more sophisticated & supplied far more knowledge to the people of the world than those of the Soviet Union. 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 & 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 & storms, & will do the same for forest fires & 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, we are behind, & will be behind for some time in manned flight. But we do not intend to stay behind, & in this decade we shall make up & move ahead.
15:05:06 The growth of our science & education will be enriched by new knowledge of our universe & environment, by new techniques of learning & mapping & observation, by new tools & 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, & tens of thousands of new jobs. Space & related industries are generating new demands in investment & skilled personnel, & this city & this State, & 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 & space. Houston... Continued...
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Pres. Kennedy Speech, Rice University Stadium re Science & Space Pt. 3 of 3 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 & most complex exploration in man's history. We have felt the ground shake & 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 10,000 automobiles w/ 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, & as long as two lengths of this field. 15:03:33 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 & they were far more sophisticated & supplied far more knowledge to the people of the world than those of the Soviet Union. 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 & 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 & storms, & will do the same for forest fires & 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, we are behind, & will be behind for some time in manned flight. But we do not intend to stay behind, & in this decade we shall make up & move ahead. 15:05:06 The growth of our science & education will be enriched by new knowledge of our universe & environment, by new techniques of learning & mapping & observation, by new tools & 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, & tens of thousands of new jobs. Space & related industries are generating new demands in investment & skilled personnel, & this city & this State, & 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 & space. Houston... Continued... Space Research; Space Race; Exploration; Presidential Speech; Cold War;