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"We choose to go (back) 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, b
by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
"We choose to go (back) 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."
- pryce 7y agoMillions of people have looked to the moon for tens of thousands of years, and wondered if someday, a human being might walk on it. A truly transcendent category of goal, even if a large part of the underlying motive was pretty obviously demonstrating American superiority over the Communist 'other'. I don't really put retrieving the 'Snoopy' module in this same category.
- saagarjha 7y agoI think you may have missed the joke.
- pryce 7y agoI did, thanks. EDIT: for anyone interested in the history of the Apollo 10 mission, its commander (and only crew-member remaining living) Thomas Stafford also went to Moscow to serve as a pallbearer in the state funeral given to the Soyuz 11 crew after the tragedy, the only human beings known to have died in space.