thumb|left|upright|alt=Kennedy, in a blue suit and tie, speaks at a wooden podium bearing the seal of the President of the United States. Vice President Lyndon Johnson and other dignitaries stand behind him.|President John F. Kennedy speaking at Rice University on September 12, 1962 In spite of that, the proposed program faced the opposition of many Americans and was dubbed a "moondoggle" by Norbert Wiener, a mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The effort to land a man on the Moon already had a name: Project Apollo. When Kennedy met with Nikita Khrushchev, the Premier of the Soviet Union in June 1961, he proposed making the Moon landing a joint project, but Khrushchev did not take up the offer. Kennedy again proposed a joint expedition to the Moon in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on September 20, 1963. The idea of a joint Moon mission was abandoned after Kennedy's death.
thumb|left|upright|alt=Kennedy in a blue suit and tie speaks at a wooden podium bearing the seal of the President of the United States Vice President Lyndon Johnson and other dignitaries stand behind him|President John F Kennedy speaking at Rice University on September 12 1962 In spite of that the proposed program faced the opposition of many Americans and was dubbed a "moondoggle" by Norbert Wiener a mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology The effort to land a man on the Moon already had a name Project Apollo When Kennedy met with Nikita Khrushchev the Premier of the Soviet Union in June 1961 he proposed making the Moon landing a joint project but Khrushchev did not take up the offer Kennedy again proposed a joint expedition to the Moon in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on September 20 1963 The idea of a joint Moon mission was abandoned after Kennedy's death