[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