This is Rice University Football Stadium in Houston.

The very place in 1962 that President John F. Kennedy chose to make his famous speech,

rallying a nation to the great challenge of landing people on the surface of the moon

before the end of the decade.

I can imagine the electric atmosphere here that day, under the searing text of sunshine

with the stands towering above me, packed with 40,000 expectant Americans and the young

presidents where I am standing now on the 50-yard line at his podium on this field.

And this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space.

We mean to be a part of it.

We mean to lead it.

We set sail on this new sea.

That speech set the world on course for the greatest feat of exploration in the history

of our species.

So for the last podcast in our series, we thought Rice University was the perfect place

to bring together a panel of people who have all played their part in the boldest adventure

of all time.

As no conscience of its all, we choose to go to the moon.

We choose to go to the moon.

We choose to go to the moon and this decade and do the other thing.

But because they are easy, but because they are hard.

Because that gold will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills.

Because that challenge is one that we're willing to accept.

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