We choose to go to the moon.
The following is adapted from a speech United States President John F. Kennedy gave in Houston, Texas, on September 12, 1962.
Why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may ask: why climb the highest mountain?Why,35 years ago, fly across the Atlantic?
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade, not because it is easy, but because it is hard. But the challenge is one that we are willing to accept. It is one we are unwilling to put off.
To send a rocket to the moon, we must be bold. The moon is 240,000 miles away from the Earth. And the rocket is just 300 feet tall. The rocket will need new kinds of metal, some of which have not yet been invented.