It's so strange to hear a US President talking so passionately about the importance of human space travel. It feels like I'm looking at an alternate universe.
+Thanos of Titan Too bad it took us this long to do it. Hopefully things will some day turn up in NASA's future. We need another president like Kennedy at some point. Whether you liked him as president or not, he had some pretty inspirational goals and things to say. Sad that no one will ever see what would have happened with the U.S. given that he definitely would have won a second term.
+Thanos of Titan You are right sir. Sadly the lack of interest the world had the last 30 years would have sadden him alot. He said it himself " Because that challenge is one we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone and one we intend to win".
I wonder what he is trying to say out of this..I mean it does seem like this quote came out from his experience. So it does seem like he is saying he wants to make use of other people's idea and thoughts and works. If he is talking about patents, I think this should be made straight in our world. I personally think, we can't just say thank you! and use anybody else's invention without any regulations. (like kenedy is kind of saying here) If this happens, evil people will use other people's inventions and make huge money in no time and the world will become enslaved by these kinds of people. Just like in north korea. Patents form pretty much everything of our society, so I think it should be dealt with very heavily.
I love watching about 15:50 onwards, when he makes the joke about how hot it is. He's riffing, going off-script - even his body language changes - and sticks the landing. The gold standard in modern presidential speeches.
+Connor MacLeod The CIA had a hand in the event & cover-up but I don't think they were the sponsors of the event. I think it was more likely carried out by CIA or 'Black Ops' types at the behest of the military / industrial complex. Many who were loyal to the Cuban freedom-fighters (many of whom died at the Bay Of Pigs) were CIA connected and hated Kennedy. Kennedy's joint chiefs of staff were known to have disliked him and didn't like his inaction in Cuba and then Vietnam. In their eyes the US should have invaded Cuba and taken it back from Castro. Similarly, Vietnam was to be a shining example of US power against communism (and make money for the war-mongers) and JFK wisely wanted no part of that. I believe these are the main reasons for why JFK had to be removed . . . although LBJ's mistress claims Texas oil was after him from 1960 onward. It was just a matter of time.
As a British aerospace engineer the gravitas of this speech is hard to take in, it’s overwhelming. In my field and my life it’s one of the best speeches ever made and sent humans to the sky and beyond. In my opinion JFK stood for everything that was good and great, I continually struggle to work out how much the world actually lost when John Kennedy was murdered. Oh, perfect video by the way!
8:24 "..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."
Marcus Henness Mars One is not happening right now. Their prospective timetable is going to be pushed back indefinietly, because right now all they have is a planned timeline, which they cannot put into action without the necessary funding. So everytime they miss their deadlines, they are pushed back atleast 2 years, and right now there is no certainty as to when they can even do their first robotic mission to Mars. It will happen one day, just not in the 2020's. More like the late 2030's, or 2040's, *after* a NASA/International mission does it first. Private Industry never take the lead when it comes to space exploration. They're only now just finally doing something, & that is only cargo runs to the ISS. After the Governments do it, then private industry will follow.
One time some years back when a student, I remember feeling down, going into the library and read a book on Kennedy, and came out feeling ten feet tall. Hail to the Chief
I returned to this speech (which I heard in my childhood) after I heard Biden's cynical remarks about Musk's adventures into space. Kennedy and Musk--they have ideas about the future, about where we could go as a species, about the adventure we could live. To choose the difficult over the easy, the unknown over the known--this is the important thing.
This was a dangerous time, the red heat of the cold war, terrible racial segregation and injustice. And yet, Kennedy, a man of true vision gave hope to millions because there was a vision. Because there was a feeling of true progress. Because he led with courage and honour. May he rest in peace for all time. My hero.
We invented NASA and landed on the moon in a decade, amazing what the USA is capable of in the realms of furthering humanity, and how little we have done for it since then.
sek929 We have lost ambitious leaders. Everyone in politics now a days are focused more on getting re-elected rather than bettering and helping mankind. America has taken a drastic turn for the worse after his death. I see very little hope for out country.
+sek929 I'm not an American myself (I'm Irish), but, sadly, I completely agree with you. Reportedly, the U.S. military have been keeping a plethora of beneficial, advanced technologies hidden solely for their own use for decades. Anyway, those of you in the USA who are good, honest people (numbering millions, no doubt) should try not to beat yourselves up for the destruction caused by a sinister, cold-hearted minority of power-hungry parasites. In any case, it's the ordinary people of America and your collective unity, courage and optimism that make your nation great - not the obscenely expensive space programs initiated in your name... The rest of the world is observing your increasingly unsettling plight as it unfolds further (the introduction of The Patriot Act, Homeland Security and Martial Law are worrying - and they'll probably ban civilian gun ownership soon). Governmental persecution of people who have collected rainwater on their own property for their own personal/domestic use has really shocked me as well. Your government and its federal agencies (especially), such as the CIA and NSA, have completely (and knowingly) desecrated and defied the egalitarian tenets outlined in your original Declaration of Independence. It's disgraceful. Unfortunately, your country is on the frontline of what we're all up against now, or sooner or later. I'm always hoping that good will prevail over bad, and that some benevolent force will intervene from outside the U.S. to turn things around for you - but it seems that all the nations worldwide are one and the same, pursuing the same agenda of human enslavement (financially and otherwise, via limits to and/or elimination of different freedoms). We're all standing together on this critical precipice in time where our primary concern is now reduced to trying to further humanity in the most literal sense - to prevent humanity's complete demise. I'm not a religious person, but we could really use the help of a miracle or some kind of divine intervention right now!
+sek929 As +SallyTheSeahorse said, I find it quite sad that USA is choosing the "fear option". For a country that made mankind step on the Moon, building a wall and increase furthermore the budget of the army is completely offside. I am not an American (Swiss) but I feel like ending the nostalgic hate between Roscosmos and NASA should be the best option.
When college/ university gets difficult, I come back to this video and it always brings tears to my eyes and reignites that passion for mastering my craft and accomplishing my goal ❤
LOL- yeah, and he would take credit for it too. Of course with his and the recent and current GOP "leadership" we probably wouldn't be able to have that space program because of the dumb tax cuts they give the rich & corporations , thus causing huge Deficits (their specialty too since Reagan) . So under today's Republicans and tRump we would have never made it to orbiting the earth , let alone the moon (because remember back then during that time we were also involved in the Vietnam war too and funding that war, besides everything else & the space program). It put a lot of people to work though- 450,000 jobs directly connected to that program alone.
I feel like JFK was the last respectable president in the Democratic Party, or hell.. in any of the parties. He was someone you could respect no matter which political side you leaned to, because he truly tried to unify and represent all the people, he saw himself as not the leader of special interests, not the leader of only his voters or his party, but of the whole nation. He gave a sense of hope for everybody, he was a true progressive in his ambitious desire to move ahead and become stronger and greater and more knowledgeable everyday. He didn't want to drag the country back, he didn't believe our best was behind us, he wanted us to move forward with bravery that we can face and conquer each new challenge that lays ahead. I would have liked to live during those times when there still seemed to be truth and hope for the future, of course those decades had their own problems (racism, segregation, ignorance towards different people) but our decade has more or less the same problems. We're in some ways in more divisive than before, JFK wanted to unify mankind and make us understand how amazing we can be if we work together side by side towards all of our future, in peace, but unfortunately we aren't unified now. We're polarized more than ever.
JFK and Reagan was very for globalisng its not something u can stop? And the USA have never had a left President if you think that you are just plain wrong.
Ignoring Carter. Ignoring...... uh....the last respectable Republican president(pretty liberal now) was Eisenhower. Johnson advanced civil rights(though was riding off the wave of JFK's work)
Devin O'Brien Obama tried to unite the people, his opposition is what divided the nation for petty purpose. Obama is by no means a great president but he isn't near as bad as Nixon, Bush, LBJ, Hoover, Wilson, Jackson, Bush Jr., etc.
Mr. President, Today 19th July 2019 is the day, when we miss you so much. We all human beings, irrespective of country, cast and religion are forever indebted to you and your vision to land on moon.
This very inspiring speech was made exactly 54 years ago (September 12, 1962 today (September 12, 2016)! It's a shame our country doesn't dream anymore of going even further into space. Now we're reduced to buying space shots from old Russian technology.
in less than a week, elon musk will reveal the Mars Colonial Transporter (MCT). its a new generation of dreamers. have hope. the great filter is on the horizon. lets fly beyond it.
are you serious?!?! Have you heard of spaceX or the many satellites that are up in our solar system looking to see whats further than what we know, yeah NASA hasn't has much activity but there is still a huge portion of people that dream to go further.. Also theres a satellite that is going to try to get the first shots of a black hole within a week, now thats revolutionary
listen kids, if nasa cant do something about it, private companies are going to want to venture further into the world of space commercialization. and if no one can do it, china and india will do it. it doesnt matter if the nuke came first or the power plant came first. the technology developed will be shared by all of us.
What an intelligent president and many intelligent people. Today, most people would not be able to follow his speech because they don't have the attention span nor the education to understand his "big words"
That speech was full of hope and dreams, not only in the 'now', but also for the future. I sometimes lie awake at night, wondering what would be, if people like Kennedy lead our nations today.
I've heard this speech before, I know it. But to hear it again now, in this historical moment our Country is in...I feel like I am suffocating. It is devastating to see that, 57 years ago, this is how the President of the United States used to speak. The eloquence, the depth, the vision, the inspiration instilled into everybody listening. The awesome power of words. I've read somewhere that when John F. Kennedy died, America died with him. I am so afraid it did :-(
I wish the USA would be as interested in science as it used to. Now, the general public is only interested in what ever Snookie or Kardashian is doing...
Depends on how you look at it. Todays average teenager and citizen, yes. And unfortunaltley at that. But, our sientists are good. So as I see it, you are half right. Yes we are not as interested, but we are not dumb either. That and kids are just being raised wrong now a days. Nobody is as willing to do something great.
Even here, now, 50 years after he was killed by cowards, his words present the aspirations of everything that is the personification of what America is. We work and strive forward , and this mans visions and positivity are why my 8 year old bears his name. KENNEDY, a man of and for the people. We are blessed and cursed with the hopes of this man whom fell too soon. Imagine what we could be....... :)
David Velevski funny because he was Roman Catholic and they’re typically really close with the church (I’m not and I’m Roman Catholic). People used his religion as a reason to NOT vote for him
+GTown Dave Who's better? I want you to tell me that. China? They oppress their people and are only interested in how the world views them. Russia? They're an oligarchy hijacked by a man who panders to the poor but serves the rich. India? They hold promise, but are stuck in between a third world country and a first, they have decades to go, but I believe in them. So who now stands greater than the United States of America? Which other countries have launched robotic missions to Mars, which other countries have launched interstellar craft that have captured images of Pluto? I want you to name one country that has accomplished more in the endeavors of space travel than America. We invented the internet, the only reason you and I are communicating are through the efforts of Americans like us. You are a cynical person to believe that we've fallen so far, when every year new technologies are invented at our universities, colleges that people from all over the world compete to get into. I think you may be taking what America has given your for granted, and I suggest you travel the world to understand what it truly means to be an American. Do not let the cynicism of the media control your point of view, nor the division of politics, but let perspective alter your outlook of what it means to be an American.
We bombed our enemies into submission (Germany and Japan) and then sold our products to them for the next 40 years. If you were German or Japanese and you wanted a washer, dryer or electronics you bought them from Uncle Sam. We have squandered that money and now we have the Detroit of 2016. One out of every three citizens is drawing assistance. In 1950 in was 1 in 147. Progress. 60%+ of our citizens believe in angels and demons and 80% in a god. Our greatest invention is the H1 visa. We love the Chinese and Indians; they make fine scientists. We own 19 trillion in hard dollars. I love my country and wouldn't want to live anywhere except Germany or the Nederlands. Our strength has been in our immigrants; we are a nation of immigrants. Werner von Braun anyone? We have a Mars rover while children in Atlanta starve. Minorities in the USA are paid more in stipends than minimum wage; meanwhile they have babies paid for by the state. It;s midnight and I'm tired. You get my drift.
G Town Dave America still sells billions to the Japanese. Their currency is reliable cars & fancy electronics with which they purchase billions of American dollars every day.
One of my favorite Presidents, and first ladies. My mother was at the ironing board on November 22, 1963, much like she was on many days as I remember as a kid of 6. On that day, in front of the TV while she did the families clothes, mom started weeping and weeping. As a small child, I picked up on that immediately, and then she looked at me and said, "Steve, watch the TV and this very sad event over the loss of our President, and you will remember this day for the rest of your life." I have remembered that day, 50 years ago. RIP JFK and Jacqueline.
Amazing how it took 12 years to go from the first ever object in orbit, to the first man on the moon. Yet 42 years after the last moon mission, we have gone no further than the ISS....
Roger Regor Don't you think the Soviet Union would've exposed the Americans if they faked the moon landings? The Soviet Union had deep space trackers. They also sent several rovers and landers to the moon after 1969. So if there was any doubt, they could've just sent a rover to the Sea of Tranquility in 1970, and then after finding no lunar module, prove the Americans faked it. Why wouldn't the USSR have done this? That would be a huge propaganda win for their side during the Cold War.
There is no hard evidence that we went to the moon. The only possible evidence brought back could have easily been fact. The so-called space rocks were found in Alaska. At first, NASA and their toady "scientists" said there was nowhere else on earth rocks like this could be found. But aha, "moon rocks" were found in Alaska. I've got more important things to do than argue with video game fools like you. So addio!
We have gone beyond our solar system. In July 2015 New Horizons will come very close to Pluto and it's moons. For the first time we will have close ups of Pluto. Voyager 1 and two were launched in 1977 and 30 years later exited our solar system. We have done so much scince 1969. We have just not done it with people. Nasa is testing their new Orion craft which will be able to take humans to astroids and to orbit around Mars. All achivements in space are not published in newspapers. Just look a little closer and you will see how much we've found.
Once we become a space-faring, interplanetary human species there will be no need for labels of countries. Although it will probably not be in my time, I hope humanity reaches that point.
@@michaellatham4890 why? Please not the far left one world communistic utopia. We have different nations, civilizations and cultures, some better than others. You can have pride in your nation if/when it accomplishes great things
FRAGS EFFECT Are you saying that he wasn't American? He was born in the U.S. Aside from your dumbass comment, what would his nationality (which is American, because you clearly don't know the difference between nationality and ethnicity) have anything to do with his claims of America's status being "great"?
Hey, his great nephew (RFK's grandson) Joe Kennedy III is in the House as a Rep. and thought of running for POTUS this time around, but I haven't seen anymore on it. I get his emails. I have watched Joe's speeches and webcasts and like his earnestness, enthusiasm, and intelligence.
How about instead of fighting each other we invest more of our time and effort into space travel. If this happened we might actually achieve something.
5p1t Because we should let terrorist groups dictate human progress? The advancement of science and space doesn't and should never stop because of any one group.
Its sad President Kennedy didn't live to see the day when man went to the moon in the final year of the 60's.. Its sad that since President Kennedy's passing, we haven't had a leader who's heart was filled with love and faith for the American Citizens so truly than JFK. He always had faith and he believed in the American citizen's ability to make good choices.
It would make more people highly uncomfortable if what looks like a woman comes in to the guys bathroom or if what looks like a man goes into the womens room. If you think someone isn't assaulting another because of bathroom rules you are possibly hopelessly ignorant(because nothing is more hopeless than willful ignorance) I would bet you use the opposite arguement to say that gun laws would just keep guns out of the hands of the lawful and good and do nothing to stop crime. Yet these laws will stop pedophiles and rapists from doing what they want...oh and just a side note, trans people have record low violent crime stats compared to nearly every other group you can compare them to.
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.
17:17 "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."
It's not that he lacks the passion. It's simply because right now we have other problems to worry about. Back then America was prospering and its economy was booming. They were a true superpower and had hardly anything to worry about. We also wanted to beat the soviets and prove our nations power. Which we did! In my opinion Obama is just as passionate.
+Rain Storm Back then we had nuclear war to worry about (and we still do today). But back then I remember going to bed at night wondering if the bomb was going to drop in the middle of the night. Today one of our greatest crises, besides the Middle East mess, is global warming. Unfortunately Obama has moved too slow on this issue. It was 4 years before he even mentioned the word environment in his second inaugural address, and six years before he had an actual achievement. Too late as far as I am concerned. You just don't stall and put off an issue that affects the survival of the planet and all of humanity. Even if you can't get legislation through Congress, a President can use his office to make speeches and educate the American people and ask for their support. He wasted his entire first term and did nothing. I suspect, although I don't know for sure, that it was because of political contributions he took. Sorry, but I not only think he lacks the passion of JFK, he lacks the inner strength, he sold out on the most important issue of the day, because he wanted to be President so badly.
if you still had any doubts about the superiority of JFK in particular, and Democrats in general as a political organization, over their opponents, here is your answer. What an honest, precise, intelligent, enlightened speech.
Today SOMEONE will say: We will built a huge rocket. The best rocket. Better than any other. And you know who builds it? I do. I do the best rockets. Giant rockets. Faster than any other rocket. It‘s going to be fantastic! A really really enormous Rocket.
Are you kidding me! Love this man! Even explained the cost of space travel! What President has ever told us what the cost of any endeavor would cost us! Bravo to John Kennedy!
I like the part where he mis-speaks and says "payroll" instead of "payload". The crowd bursts out laughing. Then he covers with that famous quick wit. "Yes....the bill will also provide a large payroll too".
Mankind has been on the moon because of that speech. As a German, I take pride in being from the country who provided the engineers to do the job, but without that speech, it would not have been done. Kennedy said we do it and dammit, they did!
Aw, you humans are growing up so fast. I think i'm gonna cry, it seems just like yesterday you kids were still sharpening wooden spears with stones, now you harnessed nuclear power. Go on kids, do this before i die, go beyond our solar system, say hi to alpha centauri for me when you get that far.
Well, it took people/engineers , scientists , etc. of all nationalities to do it, though I know you mean how the German scientists had developed the rockets from their research which provided the basis for it . Yes, the US and Russia (almost wrote USSR for a second there, LOL) employed those scientist after the war. So yes, Germany greatly aided in making that dream a reality and should celebrate it too. It is a human kind achievement.
The legend I wish we could have had even one more person like Kennedy in US history. Hell I just wish the man got his second term instead of a bullet. One of the greatest leaders ever got the whole county on one mission I hope to see this type of leadership in my generation. We were the greatest, china is taking the next great race, solar right from under us.
Every sentence in JFK’s speech can easily be used as an inspirational quote for life. He’s easily one of my favorite POTUS. Can't believe we went from greats like Kennedy and Eisenhower to the buffoon today.
"I'll make my first lecture brief" he says...so he then proceeds to recount all of human history from prehistoric man through the Plymouth Bay colony to the steam engine to transatlantic flight and spaceflight. lol
1962: “We choose to go to the moon!!!” 2018: “So the people of West Virginia and all over, you look at Wyoming, you look at so many different places where they just, Pennsylvania, where they loved what we did, and it’s clean coal and we have the most modern procedures. But it’s a tremendous form of energy in the sense that in a military way - think of it - coal is indestructible. You can blow up a pipeline, you can blow up the windmills. You know, the windmills, boom, boom, boom [mimicking windmill sound] bing [mimes shooting large gun], that’s the end of that one. If the birds don’t kill it first. The birds could kill it first. They kill so many birds. You look underneath some of those windmills, it’s like a killing field, the birds. But you know, that’s what they were going to, they were going to windmills. And you know, don’t worry about - when the wind doesn’t blow, I said, ‘What happens when the wind doesn’t blow?’ ‘Well, then we have a problem.’ Okay, good. They were putting them in areas where they didn’t have much wind, too. And it’s a subs - you need subsidy for windmills. You need subsidy. Who wants to have energy where you need subsidy? So, uh, the coal is doing great.”
This gets under a million and James Cordon and Adelle gets 42,000.000. We have failed on the ignorant. Let's get out there. We have to or all we have is the level of Adele
JFK was great, and he was a part of the great things. I can not imagine that someone 50 years after from today will be watching the speeches of Bush, Obama and especially Trump
