Moon Shot + 40

[eagleair89]

40 years ago today, a Saturn V rocket launched Armstrong, Aldrin & Collins into history........

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,533160,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

from President Kennedy's address to Congress (5/25/1961):

....we have examined where we are strong and where we are not, where we may succeed and where we may not. Now it is time to take longer strides-time for a great new American enterprise-time for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on earth. .......

.....For while we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last......

.....Space is open to us now..... We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share. ......

.... I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.......

....I believe we should go to the moon.....

WAR EAGLE