Read this excerpt from the speech.
There is no strife, no prejudice, no national
conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are
hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the
best of all mankind, and its opportunity for
peaceful cooperation may never come again.
But why, some say, the moon? Why choose
this as our goal? And they may well ask why
climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years
ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play
Texas?
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to
go to the moon in this decade and do the
other things, not because they are easy, but
because they are hard, because that goal will
serve to organize and measure the best of
our energies and skills, because that
challenge is one that we are willing to accept,
one we are unwilling to postpone, and one
which we intend to win, and the others, too.
Why does Kennedy ask and answer these
Questions in his speech?