With speech 46 minutes ago Congress over 60 years ago, former President John F. Kennedy opened the way to bring the US to the Moon.

Within 5 months after taking office president, Kennedy had to inspire two political blows, when on April 12, the Soviet Union took the first to the universe before the US with a tour of Yuri Gagarin's astronaut,

In this situation, the Kennedy government needs a victory.

I believe that the country should commit to achieve the goal of bringing people on the moon then bringing him back to the earth safely before the decade ended, he said.

One month earlier, in a memorandum of Kennedy sent to Vice President Lyndon Johnson on April 20, the President asked Johnson that they had the opportunity to defeat the Soviet Union by bringing a laboratory into space,

Does any other space program promise to bring impressive results so that we can win ?, Kennedy wrote.

President John F. Kennedy spoke to the US National Assembly on May 25, 1961.

He needs to do something impressive, Fredrik Logevall, professor of historian at Harvard University, said, adding that President Kennedy and his team decided that impression was a landing on the moon.

Sorensen is an advisor and a very close speech writer of President Kennedy, making them one of the greatest political partners in the 20th century, Logevall said.

But not only Sorensen and other speech writers, Logevall said President Kennedy also contributed more effort for speeches than people.

You can see his handwriting on the sidelines of the text, Logevall said.

However, speech on May 25, 1961 was not assessed as John F. Kennedy's best speech.

Speech at Rice University is rich and inspiring, Logevall said.

Despite the lack of heroic speeches like Rice University later, it has brought value to the National Assembly, at the time he faced failures and needed to try to regain the motivation, Logevall said.

Kennedy's statement was evaluated as a major gamble for the US aerospace industry, when NASA was only established three years earlier.

For this aerospace agency, it has become very important.

The US government is committed to funding nearly $ 25 billion for the program, equivalent to nearly 100 billion USD today.

Only the construction of the Panama canal in Binh Binh and the Manhattan project to build an atomic bomb in the wartime period is comparable to scale with Apollo, NASA Historical Department.

Eight years after Kennedy's speech before the National Assembly, the efforts and US budgets were rewarded.

NASA then continued to implement five missions on the moon and the last time it was Apollo 17, landed in December 1972.

With the achievements of the universe afterwards, the 46-minute speech of President Kennedy was chosen as a marker to start the US moon conquest.

The Apollo project, published by President Kennedy on May 25, 1961, has become a great thing in this non-country history, but the whole century world, Logevall said.