Its football stadium (Rice Stadium) is best known as where then-President [[John F. Kennedy]] challenged Americans to send a man to the Moon and return him safely to the Earth before the end of the 1960's (Houston being the home of NASA's Mission Control Center). The stadium itself previously had a greater seating capacity than the total number of Rice alumni living and deceased, though it would later be downsized. | Its football stadium (Rice Stadium) is best known as where then-President [[John F. Kennedy]] challenged Americans to send a man to the Moon and return him safely to the Earth before the end of the 1960's (Houston being the home of NASA's Mission Control Center). The stadium itself previously had a greater seating capacity than the total number of Rice alumni living and deceased, though it would later be downsized. |