


For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. The middle portion of the speech is best remembered and quoted: Kennedy, giving his Moonshot speech at Rice University 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 goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.' In that now famous speech, Kennedy said: 'We choose to go to the moon. She also worked at the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity.īiden's speech will be on the 60th anniversary of President Kennedy's Moonshot speech at Rice University. government-run biomedical research group.Īt Ginkgo, Wegrzyn worked on applying synthetic biology to outpace infectious diseases – including COVID-19 – through biomanufacturing, vaccine innovation, and biosurveillance of pathogens at scale. Renee Wegrzyn, a longtime science adviser and who most recently served at the biotech company Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings Inc, as the first director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, a U.S. Renee Wegrzyn as the first director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Healthīiden also will name Dr.
