Because it’s next
“Why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal?” asked President Kennedy during a speech at Rice University in 1962. The answer he gave then still rings true:
“We choose to go to the moon…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 we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win…”
No other human endeavor tests us as much as space travel. No other pushes us so far beyond our limits. To conquer space, we invent new materials and new sciences. We dream up new maths and new engineering disciplines. We break our understanding of physics and put it together again. There is no goal that is more fitting for the human spirit than space flight.
This is incredible, and rings beautifully. Please be sure to read the whole thing over James’s way.
2 years ago