What was the name of the American mission to land a man on the Moon?
We choose to go to the Moon We choose to go to the Moon "We choose to go to the Moon" is the famous tagline of a speech about the effort to reach the Moon delivered by U.S. President John F. Kennedy to a large crowd gathered at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas on September 12, 1962. The speech was intended to persuade the American people to support the Apollo program, the national effort to land a man on the Moon. In his speech, Kennedy characterized space as a new frontier, invoking the pioneer spirit that dominated American folklore. He infused the speech with a sense of
Man on the Moon (musical) Man on the Moon (musical) Man on the Moon is a 1975 musical written by John Phillips of the Mamas & The Papas, produced by Andy Warhol and directed by Paul Morrissey. The story concerns an American astronaut who leads a mission of interplanetary dignitaries to prevent the destruction of the universe by a bomb that has been placed on the moon by an evil scientist and primed to explode. Original illustration by Rudy Cardenas of Detroit, MI The original production ran at the Little Theatre in New York for 43 preview performances (beginning December 27, 1974), opened on January