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president Tippets vice president

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governor

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Congressman Thomas

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Ed Weiland Congressman Miller

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Sinus thing which gas at ladies and gentlemen,

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I appreciate you your president having made me an honorary

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visiting professor and I will assure you that my first like

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you will be a very brief.

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I am delighted to be here and I'm particularly delighted

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to be here on this occasion.

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We meet at a college.

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noted for knowledge

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in a city noted for progress in a state notice the strength

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and we stand in need of all three.

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Are we meet in an hour of change and Challenge in a decade

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of Hope and fear and ignorance the greater the greater our ignorance

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unfolds?

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Despite the Striking fact that most of the sign that the world

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has ever known are alive and working today.

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despite the fact that this nation Zone scientific Manpower

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is doubling every 12 years in a rate of growth more than three

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times the population of despite that

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The best stretches of the unknown and the unfinished still

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far outstrip a collective comprehension.

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No, man can fully grasp.

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How far and how fast we have come.

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But can dance if you will the 50,000 years of man's recorded

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history in a time span of about a half a century.

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We know very little about the first 40 years except at the end of

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them Advance man had learned to use the skins of animals

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that cover them.

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Then about 10 years ago under this standard man emerged from

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his cave to construct other kinds of Sheldon.

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Only 5 years ago man, learn to write and use a cart with wheels.

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Christianity began less than two years ago.

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The printing press came this year and then less than two months

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ago during this the steam engine provided a new source of Power

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Newton explore the meaning of gravity electric lights and telephones

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and Automobiles and airplanes became available only last week

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that we developed penicillin and television and nuclear power.

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And now it's America's new spacecraft.

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We will have literally reach the Stars before midnight tonight.

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This is a breathtaking pace and such a pace cannot help but create

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new. Well as it dispels old New England's new problem new dangers

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Shirley the opening distance of space promise high cost and hardships

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as well as high reward.

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So surprising that someone the rest to wait on this date of this

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country of the United States was not built and rested and wish

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to look behind them.

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By those who move forward and so will space.

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William Bradford

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speaking in 1630 of the founding of the Plymouth Bay Colony

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and they're all great and honorable actions are accompanied

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with great difficulty and both must be Enterprise and overcome

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with answerable courage if this capsule history of our progress

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teaches us everything it is that man in his quest for knowledge

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is determined and cannot be deterred the exploration

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of space where the We join in it or not.

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And it is one of the Great Adventures of all time and no Nation.

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When she expects to be the leader of other nations can expect

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to stay behind in this race for space in the first wave of the

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Industrial Revolution the first waves of modern invention

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and the first wave of nuclear power the founder in the backwash

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of the coming age of space.

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We mean to be a part of it.

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We mean to lead it.

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all the eyes of the world

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I'll look into space to the moon and the planets Beyond and we

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have vowed that we shall not see it coming but him and see we

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have all that we shall not see space filled with weapons

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of mass destruction, but with instruments of knowledge

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and understanding and therefore we intend to be first.

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Leadership in Science and Industry our hopes for peace and security

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are obligation to ourselves as well.

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As others will require us to make this effort to solve these

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Mysteries the song and to become the world's leading.

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We set sail on this new because there is new knowledge

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to be gained and new rights to be one and they must be one

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and used for the progress of all people for space science

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like nuclear science and technology has no conscience

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of its own.

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It will become a Force for good or ill depends on man and only

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if the United States occupies a position of preeminent.

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Can we help the Thai?

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Whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying

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theater of war.

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I do not say that we should or we'll go unprotected against

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the hostel make use of space anymore than we go and protected

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against the hostile or see but I do say that space can be explained

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and master without feeding the fires of War without repeating

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the mistakes that region extending his rent around this love

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of ours. There is no stripe.

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No Prejudice. No National conflict in outer space as yet.

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It has it's a hostile to us all its Conquest deserves the best

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of all mankind and it's opportunity but peaceful cooperation

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may never come again.

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But why some say the moon why choose this as I'll go up and

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they may well ask why climb the highest mountain by 35 years

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ago fly the Atlantic.

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Why does Rice play, Texas?

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Are energy dense killed because that's willing to accept and

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the wind and the other two.

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It is for these reasons that I regard the decision last year

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to shift our efforts and state from low to high gear as among

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the most important decisions that will be made during my incumbency

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in the office of the presidency in the last 24 hours.

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We have seen facilities now being created for the greatest

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and most complex duration in man's history.

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We have felt the ground shake and the are cited by the testing

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of a Saturn SC1 booster rocket many times as tall as the atlas

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which John glamour generating power equivalent to 10000 automobiles

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with their accelerator on the floor.

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We have seen the site where F-1 rocket engine will be together

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to make the advanced Saturn missile to be as tall as a 48 story

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structure as wide as a city block of this field Within These

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last night at least 45 satellite have circled some 40 of them

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were made in the United States of America and they were fine

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and supply.

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Is the most intricate instrument in the history of Space Science

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the accuracy of a missile from Cape Canaveral and dropping

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it in this Stadium between the 40-yard line?

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Transit satellites are helping our ships at Sea to steer a safer

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car tire satellite of hurricane and storm and we'll do the forest

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fire and ice burn.

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You'll be sure we are behind and we'll be behind for some time

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in man's life and move ahead.

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The Grove will be enriched by new knowledge of our universe

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and environment by new techniques of learning and mapping

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an observation buy new computers for Industrial Medicine

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the whole as well as the school technical institution

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such as rice will reap the Harvest of these games and space

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itself while still in its infancy has already created a great

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number of new companies and tens of thousands of new jobs space

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and we are generating new demand and investment and skilled

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personnel and this city and this state and this region

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What was once the farthest outpost on the old Frontier of the

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West will be the farthest outpost on the New Frontier of Science

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and Space?

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Will it snow will become the heart of a large scientific

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the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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expects to double the number of Science and engineers in this

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area the 60 million dollars a year and laboratory facilities

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and to direct our contract over $1000000 from this data in this

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city to be a good deal of money in January 1961.

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Greater than the state budget of the previous eight years combined

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budget know someone less than we pay for cigarettes and cigars

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every year space expenditures.

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From $0.40 per person per week to more than $0.50 a week for

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every man woman and child in the United States call.

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We have given this program a high National priority.

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Even though I realize that this is in some measure and active

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faith and vision for we do not know what benefits are way up.

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But if I were to say my fellow citizens,

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we shall send you the moon 240,000 miles away from the control

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station in Houston more than three hundred feet tall length

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of this football field made of new metal alloy some of which

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are in stress has several times more than I've ever been experienced

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tearing all the equipment needed for propulsion control Communications

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and survival on an untried mission.

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Do an unknown Celestial body and then return it safely to wear

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re-entering the atmosphere temperature of the Sun.

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I'm the one who's doing all the work.

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So well stay cool permit it.

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However, I think we're going to do it and I think that we must

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pay what needs to be paid.

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I don't think we ought to waste any money,

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but I think we ought to do the job and this will be done

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and it may be done while some of you were still here at school

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at this College University.

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It will be done during the terms of office.

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The Great British Explorer George Mallory on Mount Everest

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was asked. Why did he want to climb it?

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He said because it is there a space is there and we're going

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to climate and the moon and the planets today and new hopes

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for knowledge and piece of there and their far as we ask God's blessing

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on the most hazardous and dangerous and Greatest

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Adventure on which man has ever inbox like you