President Kennedy didn’t say, ‘We’re going to spend several billion dollars, and do some really neat R&D.’
— Sen. David Vitter (R-Louisiana) referring to the lack of specifics for NASA’s plan. In 1962 Kennedy clearly defined that the US was going to the moon before the decade was out. Here’s a transcript of the historical speech that he gave at Rice University in Houston: http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/jfk-space.htm
