143 - We choose to go to the moon - See one, do one, teach one

In 1961 John F Kennedy gave a speech before Congress, regarding America's sights to land on the moon. On May 25, President Kennedy challenged Americans to rally behind his call to put a man on the moon. What he said was "If I were to say, my fellow citizens , that we shall send to the moon 240,000 miles away from the control station in Houston a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall, the length of a football field, made of new metal alloys, some of which have not yet been invented, capable of withstanding heat and stress 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, in an untried mission, to an unknown celestial body, and then return it safely to earth, re-entering the atmosphere at speeds over 25,000 mph, causing heat about half that of the temperature of the sun, almost as hot as it is here today, and do all this, and do it right, and do it before this decade is out, then we must be bold. 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're 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."