September 12 1962 President Kennedy stood in front of the nation and the world at Rice Stadium and proclaimed that : 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 September 12 1962 President Kennedy stood in front of the nation and the world at Rice Stadium and proclaimed that : 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