con-volution:

We blinked, and almost missed it. The link below takes you to President John F. Kennedy’s speech — delivered 50 years ago today — in which he passionately (and as it turned out, accurately) committed the United States to landing man on the Moon by the end of that decade.

http://1.usa.gov/QFMqQb

Thank you, Mister President. It’s a shame you didn’t get to see it happen.

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It’s a shame that it took the Cold War to trigger it, but we almost certainly wouldn’t have propelled ourselves quite so boldly headlong into space otherwise.