We choose to go to the Moon! We choose to go the Moon in this decade and to 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... This is in some measures an act of faith and vision, for we do not know what benefits await us... But space is there and we are going to climb it.
--John F. Kennedy, Sept. 12, 1962
Six years and ten months later, Apollo 11 touched down in the Sea of Tranquility.
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Probably the greatest quote ever. Definitely the most inspiring.
Just watched a special on NASA mission control on the History channel yesterday. God, what those men did with what they had at their disposal in the limited time they were allotted. If you think about it, think really hard about it, what could you do with but one percent of their drive? Write a book and get it published? Or maybe start your own business and make a success out of it? Hmmm? Hmmmm?
Gee I vividly remember being in Toms River with you and grandpa bantering back n forth Lana-a-kin...that him, while watching lift off on our black and white TV. AAAAAA those were the days my friend.
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