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.
– John F. Kennedy
If you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It’s the law of the universe.
– Bear Grylls
When I fly, I like to imagine Ben Franklin on the plane next to me, his eyes wide with astonishment that airplanes are possible.
In 1962, only 59 years after the first successful airplane flight, John F. Kennedy proclaimed: humans would fly to the moon. Kennedy’s audacity cannot be understated: important rocket technology precipitated out of World War II, and similar accelerated technology advances (due to the war) were underway
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