[00:00.660]But why, some say, the moon?
[00:03.760]Why choose this as our goal?
[00:06.680]And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain?
[00:11.090]Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?
[00:17.250]We choose to go to the moon.
[00:20.630]We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things,
[00:24.670]not because they are easy, but because they are hard,
[00:28.600]because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills,
[00:36.110]because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept,
[00:39.830]one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win
[01:33.010]240,000 miles away from the control station in Houston,
[01:38.850]a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall,
[01:43.670]the length of this football field, made of new metal alloys,
[01:48.420]some of which have not yet been invented,
[01:51.080] capable of standing heat and stresses several times more than have ever been experienced,
[01:57.680]fitted together with a precision better than the finest watch,
[02:01.920]carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion, guidance, control,
[02:06.390]communications, food and survival, on an untried mission,
[02:12.070]to an unknown celestial body,
[02:14.610]and then return it safely to earth, re-entering the atmosphere at speeds of over

But why, some say, the moon?
Why choose this as our goal?
And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain?
Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?
We choose to go 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
240,000 miles away from the control station in Houston,
a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall,
the length of this football field, made of new metal alloys,
some of which have not yet been invented,
capable of standing heat and stresses several times more than have ever been experienced,
fitted together with a precision better than the finest watch,
carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion, guidance, control,
communications, food and survival, on an untried mission,
to an unknown celestial body,
and then return it safely to earth, re-entering the atmosphere at speeds of over