August 26, 2011
We choose to go (to the moon)...not because it is easy, but because it is hard... because the challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.
John F. Kennedy, 35th President, 1961-1963
...because that goal will serve organize and measure the best of our energies and skills...
We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and must be won and used for the progress of all people.
(excerpt from speech given at Rice University in Houston, Texas on September 12, 1962.) Houston did become NASA's Mission Control Center.
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