JFK's 'We choose to go to the Moon' speech at Rice Stadium

President John F. Kennedy delivered his September 12, 1962 speech at Rice Stadium, famously stating 'We choose to go to the Moon' while outlining the national goal of a crewed lunar landing before the end of the decade. The speech tied NASA's lunar ambitions directly to Houston's growing role in human spaceflight and is frequently cited in histories of the U.S. space program. Rice Stadium is on the Rice University campus and remains a site of commemoration for that address.