"We choose to go to the moon. 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." President John F. Kennedy - September 12, 1962
Forty years ago today we met President Kennedy's challenge to reach the moon, landing there three years ahead of his deadline. It was not at all obvious to anyone inside or outside of the space program it could be done when JFK made clear landing on the moon would be one of our top national priorities, but Americans did not recoil at the goal of landing a man on the moon in spite of the unknowns.
Today we celebrate the anniversary of the moon landing at a time some are doubting our nation's ability to respond to global warming, healthcare reform and other pressing concerns. The Apollo 11 mission is a demonstration of just how much and how quickly America can make things happen when we commit ourselves to the effort. In arguments over improvements to our nation's technology and infrastructure or reform, we should never let those whose main point is "it can't be done" win the day. As the American people and our astronauts demonstrated 40 years ago today, what we can do is only limited by the laws of physics and our imagination.
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I would like to see their statement against Democratic senators of "partisan politics" when judge Miguel Estrada was denied a seat in the Court of Appeals by the Democrats.
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