This is not your father's Apollo program.

Apollo does not always keep his bow strung.

I was in a great situation here and wasn't about to give up a great program for something that I didn't think that we could get done. Looking at the facilities they have and I've visited with a lot of people and I know there's a lot of talent right now in the younger classes but I'm not going to give up on those older classes.

The Apollo program, the race to the moon became emblematic of American science and technology,

This is a program where the kids try to get better. As the players get better, so does the program.

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.