John_F_Kennedy’s.txt

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…
Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the Industrial Revolution, 
the first waves of modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power. 
And this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space, 
we mean to be a part of it, we mean to lead it.