ipl-logo

John F. Kennedy's Speech On The Great Space Race

495 Words2 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Speeches on space travel

Drayden Sharifi Per. 2 4/19/16 Dr. Trevor Speech/Debate Historical Speech Background I have chosen one of John F. Kennedy’s most influential speeches, which many people say, still resonates today. His “We choose to go to the moon,” speech. This speech would completely shape where the United States was going in the following decade. He started an exploration of space 60 years ago and that strive for knowing more is still with us today. This speech was delivered at the height of the Cold War and at the beginning of the Great Space Race. The US was rapidly losing the Space Race at the time when soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had become the first human in space. John F. Kennedy needed a way to catch up and energizing the public with this speech was the perfect way. He surely did succeed when Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk the moon in 1969. John F. Kennedy said he would do it before the end of the decade and he really did. Without him the Space program would have never expanded and we would have been destroyed in the Great Space Race. So only eight years after this speech two American Astronauts walked on the moon. This speech is a very powerful speech, which convinced the minds of America to put their power in NASA and win the Space Race. With achieving human efforts the project Apollo became a reality in 1969. NASA said that the only things comparable in construction were the Panama Canal and the Manhattan Project in war. At the time of this speech John F. Kennedy was serving as a US senator of Massachusetts. The great Space Race started with the …show more content…

Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum. Web. 19 Apr. 2016. "John F. Kennedy and the Space Race." WHHA. Web. 19 Apr. 2016. "The Decision to Go to the Moon: President John F. Kennedy 's May 25, 1961 Speech before Congress." The Decision to Go to the Moon: President John F. Kennedy 's May 25, 1961 Speech before Congress. Web. 19 Apr.

Show More
Related
127 Words | 1 Pages

The general impact of the address "The choice to go to the hand" of John F. Kennedy 's motivating. His discourse has been composed and said to illuminate Americans in regards to the thought and mission of the space program and the Assembled States government. The American individuals have thoughts and are happy to wind up plainly the first to put man on the moon. The thought and the mission specified in this discourse have been completed and is exceptionally viable, in light of the fact that we, the US, won the "Race Space" and we prevail in the goals of our as a country. Individuals even today are exceptionally roused by this discourse and it will perpetually leave its blemish on our nation and in our

Read More
583 Words | 3 Pages

Inductive reasoning, much like logos, is able to appeal to an audience's sense of logic by using pieces of information to come to a reasonable conclusion. Kennedy puts this into practice several times in the speech, with one point being mentioned in the previous paragraph. Additionally, he uses it in the third and fourth paragraphs to acknowledge the fears that the public may have about the endeavor and why that may be. Using this technique, he also rebukes this notion, explaining that history has shown that humanity will inevitably venture onward into space, with or without the United States. Laying out what would happen if America refused the call to space would serve to further motivate the citizens to value and support space travel.

Read More
676 Words | 3 Pages

J.F Kennedy, the president of United States wanted to put the first Americans to the moon-America exploring the moon, so he directed his speech to the people of taxes and Rice University to promote his space exploration program that will help America to be the first country to explore the moon. He believes that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. Throughout J.F Kennedy's speech, the speaker makes effective use of evidence, reasoning, rhetorical elements, and rhetorical devices that together form his argument to gain people support for his space exploration program. J.F Kennedy was trying to prove his point of view by giving examples and using a lot of Rhetorical devices and appeals that would grab the reader's attention

Read More
317 Words | 2 Pages

Based on his speech I feel what motivates Kennedy's point of view of wanting to send American's to the moon is to think that by doing that America is not only going to take a big step as a nation by making history, but also by taking a big step into the start of a new era. I think the rhetorical strategies that Kennedy uses in his speech are he is careful in his wording, and with his language. He is very sure to present that they want to reach this goal for all of the nation's people, for America. For example when he says "Yet the vows of this Nation can only be fulfilled if we in this Nation are first, and, therefore, we intend to be first. " He mentions the nation, and that the goals/vows they have made can only be fulfilled if they do it

Read More
947 Words | 4 Pages

The oration was momentary; it only lasted for a little more than four minutes and added up to just 650 words in total. Nevertheless, it was concise and efficient in serving its purpose. Through the brief speech, Reagan not only alleviated the despair suffered by the different groups of audience, but also retained the nation’s spirit in space exploration: “We mourn their loss as a nation together…I’ve always had great faith in and respect for our space program, and what happened today does nothing to diminish it.” As the top leader of the country, Mr. Reagan demonstrated his support for more research and discovery, and were trying to convince the rest of the American population to do the same.

Read More
177 Words | 1 Pages

By the time millions of Americans were tuned in to watch Neil Armstrong take his first step on the moon, millions of dollars and scientists had been invested into the mission for a decade. The challenge given by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 began NASA´s preparation for landing on the moon in order to answer the questions concerning what we could find in space and in order to beat the Soviet Union in the Space Race. Firstly, unmanned Apollo Missions were sent into space in order to test the structure of the launch vehicles. On January 27, 1967, efforts were momentarily thwarted when a fire broke out at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and 3 astronauts were killed. It wasn´t until 1968 that the first manned space mission orbited earth.

Read More
599 Words | 3 Pages

“We Choose To Go To the Moon,” by John F Kennedy Think back to a speech or story that was enjoyable to listen to. Did it have many different components to it that made it enjoyable? Effective and enjoyable speeches do in fact have many different components techniques to them that make them appeal to their listeners. In John F Kennedy’s speech, We Choose to go to the Moon, he used a variety of different techniques such as stress and relating to his audience to explain why the United States chose to begin research to go to the moon in an effective way that was interesting to his audience.

Read More
625 Words | 3 Pages

John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States and is highly regarded as one of the most liked. However his presidency wasn’t perfect; if it wasn’t for how he handled the situations that came up, he would not have been as well liked. The cuban missile crisis, the Bay of Pigs,Vietnam, and civil rights were hard topics, and Kennedy did his best to assist his nation and help others as well. One of Kennedy’s greatest endeavors was his efforts to get to the moon. Before being elected to president he built his repertoire in the field of politics.

Read More
360 Words | 2 Pages

The American NASA Team was quickly able to replicate all the same accomplishments the U.S.S.R. achieved, within a year timeframe no less, all the under the Presidential administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower. John F. Kennedy however showed much more urgency in the matter and saw a prime opportunity to strike up and rally the nation together by instilling nationalistic pride in the need to make the first man on the moon an American. Following the return of NASA’s human spaceflight program, Project Mercury, which put Alan Shepard as the first American outside of earths orbit on May 5, 1961, President John F. Kennedy addressed Congress that the U.S. would become the first country to land on the moon by the end of the decade. President John F.

Read More
461 Words | 2 Pages

On September 12, 1962, President John F. Kennedy gave a speech to the people of the U.S. at the Rice University Stadium in hopes of gaining support for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's program to land humans on the moon. Kennedy used logical facts, the values of the people of the U.S., repetition, and syntax to effectively convey his desire to raise support for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's program. At the start of Kennedy's speech, he used facts to illustrate how far our society has advanced and how we could have the possibility of advancing even more with the public's support. At the beginning of Kennedy's speech, he states a list of achievements and advancements society has been able to achieve throughout

Read More
1362 Words | 6 Pages

Kennedy stated the United Nations being the world’s last hope with the tensions of Russia and communism on the rise. America was also having a problem with Cuba, Fidel Castrol and the communist regime and the differences of opinions that were held. The Cold War also led to a space race in a mission for America to expand their horizons as for the Soviet dictator seeing space exploration as a promoting communism. Kennedy vowed to put a man on the moon which transpired in 1969. Kennedy spoke in his in inaugural speech of space exploration and innovation.

Read More
1440 Words | 6 Pages

Speech analysis: John F. Kennedy “The decision to go to the moon” On September 12, 1962, the president of the United States JFK delivered a speech at Rice University in Houston, Texas regarding the special effort of the nation. He starts by addressing the president of the university and vocalizes his appreciation for the opportunity of having been conferred to speak before the public. He continues by emphasizing three qualities that are necessary in his time, characterized by different contrasts such as: change as opposed to challenge, hope as opposed to fear and finally knowledge against ignorance.

Read More
883 Words | 4 Pages

Although he was not able to achieve his goal while in office, the goal was later was achieved in July of 1969. Neil Armstrong of the Apollo11 mission, was the first man to walk on the Moon, proving that JFK is one of the best presidents of all

Read More
438 Words | 2 Pages

The choice made by John F. Kennedy to place a man on the moon opened an endless realm of possibilities for space exploration, while simultaneously uniting and boosting the morale of the American people together. After the long-lasting fight of World War II, the only two great powers that were left in the world were the United States and the Soviet Union. Both countries differed in many ways. For example, they were dissimilar economically, politically, and culturally. When the war ended, tension rose

Read More
844 Words | 4 Pages

On September 12, 1962, at Rice University in Houston Texas, John F. Kennedy gave a powerful speech to garner support for the funding of the space race for the USA. He stated the importance of putting a man on the moon before the end of the decade in its efforts against the Soviet Union and the expectation was met in 1969 by the astronaut Neil Armstrong. His speech forged a new path that the US was heading and inherently started the revolution of the exploration of outer space. Kennedy’s “Moon Speech” makes use of ethos and Kairos to persuade the people of America to become interested in and invest in the ongoing space race. A very important factor in JFK’s speech was his effective use of rhetoric, notably ethos, which he used to make himself become more believable and authoritative.

Read More

More about John F. Kennedy's Speech On The Great Space Race

Open Document