A. The importance of the United States winning the space race.
At the time when Keneddy adressed the public in Rice University the battle bettween the east and west was at its most critical point, it was not only the space race, but the whole american way of living that was put through a test agaisnt the Russian way, therefore the space race was the peacefull, single thing that both hemispheres had to prove they were prospering.
The answer would be 6.0 x 10^3
