Politico Revisits Kennedy's Famous "We choose to go to the Moon" Speech

          By Henry Stewart

On the anniversary of president John F. Kennedy's famous "Moon Speech" at Rice University on September 12th, 1962, a new generation of explorers, politicians and adventurers sat down in Washington, DC with the Arlington based Politico News Service to revisit many of the same questions which fascinated Kennedy.

The complete eighty-one minute discussion is available by clicking on the graphic above. Graphic Politico.

The September 12th, 2017 public presentation, sponsored by Colorado based geo-spatial content provider DigitalGlobe (currently being acquired by Richmond, BC based MacDonald Dettwiler), focused on Kennedy's legacy and how to move forward from it.

Featured speakers at this event included:

• John Logsdon, the founding director and professor emeritus of the Space Policy Institute, at George Washington University.

• Alex MacDonald, the senior economic adviser at NASA.

• Teasel Muir-Harmony, the curator of the space history department, at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

• Bob Richards, the founder and CEO of the Silicon Valley, CA based Moon Express.

• Secretary Heather Wilson, the principal space adviser at the US Department of Defense.

• Eric Stallmer, the president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation.

• Jamie Morin, the vice president and executive director of the Center for Space Policy and Strategy, the Aerospace Corporation.

The complete discussion, moderated by Politico defence editor Bryan Bender is available online by clicking on the graphic above. It's well worth a look.

And for those of us who'd like to compare the original, in all its glory, to what we say about it today, here's Kennedy's seventeen minute "Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort" from 1962.

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Henry Stewart is the pseudonym of a Toronto based aerospace writer.