Rice Stadium - JFK 'We choose to go to the Moon' speech site

President John F. Kennedy delivered his 'We choose to go to the Moon' speech at Rice Stadium on September 12, 1962, publicly committing the United States to land a man on the Moon before the end of the 1960s. The speech is widely cited as a pivotal moment that galvanized national support and helped accelerate NASA's human spaceflight programs based in Houston. Rice Stadium is on the Rice University campus, near facilities that later collaborated with NASA research and engineering efforts.