To be sure, we are behind, and will be behind for some time in manned flight. But we do not intend to stay behind, and in this decade, we shall make up and move ahead.
“We have had our failures, but so have others, even if they do not admit them. And they may be less public.”
A defence of the US space programme and the goal of reaching the Moon, linking exploration with national ambition, technological progress and Cold War competition.