He justified the program in terms of its importance to national security, and its focus of the nation's energies on other scientific and social fields. He rallied popular support for the program in his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech, on September 12, 1962, before a large crowd at Rice University Stadium, in Houston, Texas, near the construction site of the new Manned Spacecraft Center facility. Full text 
"" "మేము చంద్రుడికి వెళ్లాలని ఎంచుకున్నాము" "టెక్సాస్లో ఏ ప్రదేశంలో ప్రసంగం ఇవ్వబడింది?"
Rice University Stadium