Kennedy commits the United States to a crewed lunar landing

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In a special message to a joint session of Congress on 'Urgent National Needs', President John F. Kennedy asked the nation to commit to landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth before the decade was out. The deadline, not the science, set Apollo's architecture.

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