Washington: On September 12, 1962, John F. Kennedy, the president of the United States at the time, announced his intention to send a person to the moon by the end of the decade.
At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union had just launched the first satellite and placed the first man in orbit, and America needed a significant win to show that it was superior in space.
Kennedy told 40,000 spectators at Rice University, “We choose to travel to the Moon because that task is one we are willing to embrace, one we are reluctant to postpone, and one which we expect to win.
