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Mr. Kerner
04/17/13
Space Exploration
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President John F. Kennedy delivered a speech to Congress on May 25, 1961 proposing that the United States commit to achieving the goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the decade and returning him safely to Earth. Kennedy argued that this ambitious goal would be the most impressive demonstration of achievement to mankind and would require a major national commitment of resources and effort. However, Kennedy stated that the risks of failure in attempting this challenge were less than the risks of not attempting it and ceding leadership in space to other nations. Kennedy asked Congress to provide the necessary funding and for the nation to accept the commitment of achieving this goal.
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Essay about Space Exploration
Aaron McNamara
Mr. Kerner
04/17/13
Space Exploration
The space age began as a race for security and prestige between two superpowers. The opportunities were boundless, and the decades that followed have seen a radical transformation in the way we live our daily lives, in large part due to our use of space. Space systems have taken us to other celestial bodies and extended humankind s horizons back in time to the very first moments of the universe and out to the galaxies at its far reaches. Satellites contribute to increased transparency and stability among nations and provide a vital communications path for avoiding potential conflicts. Space systems increase our knowledge in many scientific fields, and life on Earth is far...show more content...For example: Decades of space activity have littered Earth s orbit with debris; and as the world s space faring nations continue to increase activities in space, the chance for a collision increases correspondingly. As the leading space faring nation, the United States is committed to addressing these challenges. But this cannot be the responsibility of the United States alone. All nations have the right to use and explore space, but with this right also come responsibility. The United States, therefore, calls on all nations to work together to adopt approaches for responsible activity in space to preserve this right for the benefit of future generations. From the outset of humanity s ascent into space, this Nation declared its commitment to enhance the welfare of humankind by cooperating with others to maintain the freedom of space. The United States hereby renews its pledge of cooperation in the belief that w
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1. On a very hot late summer's day in 1962, President Kennedy visited Rice University in
Houston, Texas, and gave this speech outdoors in the football stadium. The President
spoke in philosophical terms about the need to solve the mysteries of space, reaffirmed
America's commitment to landing a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s and
also defended the enormous expense of the space program. Along the way, the President
made humorous mentions of the Rice-Texas football rivalry and the blazingly hot
weather.
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President Pitzer, Mr. Vice President, Governor, Congressman Thomas, Senator
Wiley, and Congressman Miller, Mr. Webb, Mr. Bell, scientists, distinguished
guests, and ladies and gentlemen:
I appreciate your president having made me an honorary visiting professor, and I
will assure you that my first lecture will be very brief.
I am delighted to be here and I'm particularly delighted to be here on this
occasion.
We meet at a college noted for knowledge, in a city noted for progress, in a state
noted for strength, and we stand in need of all three, for we meet in an hour of
change and challenge, in a decade of hope and fear, in an age of both knowledge
and ignorance. The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance
unfolds.
(Aprecio a su presidente que me hace a un profesor que visita honorario, y le
aseguraré que mi primera conferencia será muy breve. Me encantan para estar
aquí y me encantan particularmente para estar aquí en esta ocasión. Satisfacemos
en una universidad conocida para el conocimiento, en una ciudad conocida para el
progreso, en un estado conocido para la fuerza, y estamos parados necesitando los
tres, porque satisfacemos sobre una hora del cambio y del desafío, en una década
de la esperanza y del miedo, en una edad del conocimiento y de la ignorancia.
Cuanto mayor nuestro conocimiento aumenta, mayor nuestra ignorancia revela.)
Despite the striking fact that most of the scientists that the world has ever known
are alive and working today, despite the fact that this Nation's own scientific
manpower is doubling every 12 years in a rate of growth more than three times
that of our population as a whole, despite that, the vast stretches of the unknown
and the unanswered and the unfinished still far outstrip our collective
comprehension.
2. (A pesar de el hecho llamativo de que la mayor parte de los científicos a que el
mundo ha conocido siempre son vivos y de trabajos hoy, a pesar de que propia
mano de obra científica de esta nación está doblando cada 12 años en un índice de
crecimiento más de tres por el de nuestra población en su totalidad, a pesar de eso,
los estiramientos extensos del desconocido y el alambique por contestar e
inacabado outstrip lejos nuestra comprensión colectiva.)
No man can fully grasp how far and how fast we have come, but condense, if you
will, the 50,000 years of man's recorded history in a time span of but a half-
century. Stated in these terms, we know very little about the first 40 years, except
at the end of them advanced man had learned to use the skins of animals to cover
them. Then about 10 years ago, under this standard, man emerged from his caves
to construct other kinds of shelter. Only five years ago man learned to write and
use a cart with wheels. Christianity began less than two years ago. The printing
press came this year, and then less than two months ago, during this whole 50-year
span of human history, the steam engine provided a new source of power. Newton
explored the meaning of gravity. Last month electric lights and telephones and
automobiles and airplanes became available. Only last week did we develop
penicillin and television and nuclear power, and now if America's new spacecraft
succeeds in reaching Venus, we will have literally reached the stars before
midnight tonight.
(Ningún hombre puede agarrar completamente hasta dónde y cómo rápidamente
hemos venido, sino condensar, si usted, los 50.000 años de la historia registrada del
hombre en una duración de pero un mitad-siglo. Indicado en estos términos,
sabemos muy poco sobre los primeros 40 años, a menos que en el final de ellos
avanzara a hombre hubiera aprendido utilizar las pieles de animales para
cubrirlos. Entonces hace aproximadamente 10 años, bajo este estándar, hombre
emergió de sus cuevas para construir otras clases de abrigo. Hace solamente cinco
años de hombre aprendió escribir y utilizar un carro con las ruedas. El
cristianismo comenzó hace menos de dos años. La prensa vino este año, y entonces
hace menos de dos meses, durante este palmo entero de 50 años de la historia
humana, el motor de vapor proporcionó una nueva fuente de la energía. El
neutonio exploró el significado de la gravedad. Las luces eléctricas del mes pasado
y los teléfonos y los automóviles y los aeroplanos llegaron a estar disponibles.
Solamente la semana pasada desarrollamos la penicilina y televisión y energía
atómica, y ahora si la nave espacial nueva de América tiene éxito en alcanzar a
Venus, habremos alcanzado literalmente las estrellas antes de medianoche esta
noche.)
This is a breathtaking pace, and such a pace cannot help but create new ills as it
dispels old, new ignorance, new problems, new dangers. Surely the opening vistas
of space promise high costs and hardships, as well as high reward.
So it is not surprising that some would have us stay where we are a little longer to
rest, to wait. But this city of Houston, this state of Texas, this country of the United
States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind
them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward--and so will
space.
3. (Esto es un paso impresionante, y tal paso no puede dejar crear las nuevas
enfermedades como disipa vieja, nueva ignorancia, nuevos problemas, nuevos
peligros. Los vistas de la abertura del espacio prometen seguramente altos costes y
dificultades, así como alta recompensa. No está sorprendiendo tan que algo hizo
que permaneciéramos donde estamos poco más largos a reclinarse, para esperar.
Pero esta ciudad de Houston, este estado de Tejas, este país de los Estados Unidos
no fue construida por las que esperaron y se reclinaron y deseaban mirar detrás de
ellos. Este país fue conquistado por los que se movieron adelante--y espaciará tan.)
William Bradford, speaking in 1630 of the founding of the Plymouth Bay Colony,
said that all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties,
and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.
If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his
quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred. The
exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the
great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other
nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space.
(Guillermo Bradford, hablando en 1630 de la fundación de la colonia de la bahía
de Plymouth, dijo que todas las acciones grandes y honorables están acompañadas
con grandes dificultades, y ambas deben ser enterprised y superan con valor
respondible. Si esta historia de la cápsula de nuestro progreso nos enseña
cualquier cosa, es que determinan y no puede ser disuadido al hombre, en su
búsqueda para el conocimiento y el progreso. La exploración del espacio irá a
continuación, si ensamblamos en ella o no, y es una de las grandes aventuras de
toda la hora, y ninguna nación que espera ser el líder de otras naciones puede
esperar permanecer detrás en esta raza para el espacio.)
Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of
the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention, and the first wave of
nuclear power, and this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of
the coming age of space. We mean to be a part of it--we mean to lead it. For the
eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and
we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but
by a banner of freedom and peace. We have vowed that we shall not see space
filled with weapons of mass destruction, but with instruments of knowledge and
understanding.
Yet the vows of this Nation can only be fulfilled if we in this Nation are first, and,
therefore, we intend to be first. In short, our leadership in science and industry,
our hopes for peace and security, our obligations to ourselves as well as others, all
require us to make this effort, to solve these mysteries, to solve them for the good
of all men, and to become the world's leading space-faring nation.
We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new
rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For
space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own.
Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the
United States occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether this
4. new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war. I do not say
that we should or will go unprotected against the hostile misuse of space any more
than we go unprotected against the hostile use of land or sea, but I do say that
space can be explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without
repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe
of ours.
There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its
hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its
opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say,
the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the
highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do
the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that
goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because
that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to
postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
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 and
most complex exploration in man's history. We have felt the ground shake and 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 with 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, and as long as two lengths of this field.
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 and they were far more
sophisticated and 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 and 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 and storms, and will do the
same for forest fires and icebergs.
We have had our failures, but so have others, even if they do not admit them. And
they may be less public.
5. To be sure, we are behind, and will be behind for some time in manned flight. But
we do not intend to stay behind, and in this decade, we shall make up and move
ahead.
The growth of our science and education will be enriched by new knowledge of our
universe and environment, by new techniques of learning and mapping and
observation, by new tools and 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, and tens of thousands of new jobs. Space and
related industries are generating new demands in investment and skilled
personnel, and this city and this state, and 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 and space. Houston, your city of
Houston, with its Manned Spacecraft Center, will become the heart of a large
scientific and engineering community. During the next 5 years the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration expects to double the number of scientists
and engineers in this area, to increase its outlays for salaries and expenses to $60
million a year; to invest some $200 million in plant and laboratory facilities; and to
direct or contract for new space efforts over $1 billion from this center in this city.
To be sure, all this costs us all a good deal of money. This year's space budget is
three times what it was in January 1961, and it is greater than the space budget of
the previous eight years combined. That budget now stands at $5,400 million a
year--a staggering sum, though somewhat less than we pay for cigarettes and
cigars every year. Space expenditures will soon rise some more, from 40 cents per
person per week to more than 50 cents a week for every man, woman and child in
the United States, for we have given this program a high national priority--even
though I realize that this is in some measure an act of faith and vision, for we do
not now know what benefits await us. But if I were to say, my fellow citizens, that
we shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away from the control station in Houston,
a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall, the length of this football field, made of new
metal alloys, some of which have not yet been invented, capable of standing heat
and stresses several times more than have ever been experienced, fitted together
with a precision better than the finest watch, carrying all the equipment needed for
propulsion, guidance, control, communications, food and survival, on an untried
mission, to an unknown celestial body, and then return it safely to earth, re-
entering the atmosphere at speeds of over 25,000 miles per hour, causing heat
about half that of the temperature of the sun--almost as hot as it is here today--and
do all this, and do it right, and do it first before this decade is out--then we must be
bold.
I'm the one who is doing all the work, so we just want you to stay cool for a minute.
[laughter]
However, I think we're going to do it, and I think that we must pay what needs to
be paid. I don't think we ought to waste any money, but I think we ought to do the
job. And this will be done in the decade of the Sixties. It may be done while some of
6. you are still here at school at this college and university. It will be done during the
terms of office of some of the people who sit here on this platform. But it will be
done. And it will be done before the end of this decade.
And I am delighted that this university is playing a part in putting a man on the
moon as part of a great national effort of the United States of America.
Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on
Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, "Because it is
there."
Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are
there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set
sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest
adventure on which man has ever embarked.
Thank you.
President John F. Kennedy - September 12, 1962