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On the recordMay 24, 1961
this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Kennedy urged commitment to landing a man on the Moon by the end of the 1960s.

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