Sep 22 1963

From The Space Library

September 21-22: Worldwide press reaction to President Kennedy's U.N. speech of Sept. 20, proposing joint manned lunar landing effort " . The very reasons which impelled the powers to reach a test ban treaty-a combination of common sense and a recognition that costs were going up by geometric progression-should now bring them to combine a space program." (London Times)

". . The horizons opened by the President ... were vast." (Paris Aurore)

". .,Benefits from such a joint effort militate in favor of this second major step to develop the improved international relation­ship already stemming from the agreement on the limited nuclear test-ban treaty." (NYT)

". . . Will excite world-wide attention ... eminently sensible suggestion ... national advantages to be derived by the first nation to the moon are great, in a political and propaganda con­text, but they are lesser than the advantages that all mankind will derive from the extension of human knowledge that is going to be involved in the effort to reach the moon . . . ." (Wash. Post)

" . Stirred the imagination of the world ... tend to open up the closed society of the U.S.S.R." (Wash,. Star)

" . Kennedy envisages an incredibly bold scientific advance [and] accepts as possible a degree of collaboration between two opposing systems . . . which would have seemed incredible only a few months ago." (London Daily Express, NYT, September 22, 1963)

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