"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, and the others, too."
This is a quote from John F. Kennedy's speech on September 12, 1962, at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas. The speech was given during a time when the United States and the Soviet Union were in a Cold War and engaged in a space race to demonstrate technological and scientific superiority. Kennedy's speech was meant to rally support for the United States' efforts to land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth.