Kennedy is briefed about Project Gemini during his tour of NASA facilities at the Florida Space Center. Project Gemini is intended as a bridge to the Moon between projects Mercury and Apollo. Kennedy talks with George Low (Chief of Manned Space Flight) and two Gemini astronauts, Gordon Cooper and Gus Grissom. Kennedy is shown the Gemini capsule. This was Kennedy's third and last visit to Cape Canaveral, taking place a week before his assassination. One year earlier, President Kennedy had detailed his goals for the nation’s space effort in the famous “Moon speech” at Rice university.

“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 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.” President Kennedy, Rice University, September 12, 1962.

Project Mercury (at least in its latter stages), Project Gemini, and Project Apollo were designed to execute Kennedy's goal. His goal was achieved on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong stepped off the Lunar Module's ladder and onto the Moon's surface.