We Choose the Moon

confuZion3 wrote: What the hell was Kennedy talking about in that famous clip that we always hear? "We choose to go to the moon! We choose to go to the moon, and do the other thing, before this decade is out." What other thing? What was he talking about?

I think MM had been been there, done that by then.

I always thought he said "and do the other things", and by this I took it to mean the projects like Gemini which were still way in the future at that point as well as the unmanned exploration stuff.

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friedgreencorrado wrote: One of 400,000 people who put humanity on the moon. There ain't enough cash in the world to bribe *that* many people to keep quiet.

Or, for that matter, if the landing was faked, don't you think they'd have better video? (Note: NASA is enhancing the berkeleyed up video from the landing. Turns out some guy recorded over the original!)

It also seems that NASA has current pictures which show the equipment that the astronauts left behind. I haven't seen the pics, but allegedly you can even see the trails of footprints.

EDIT: I just saw FGC's link to the LRO pics, he beat me to it. The Apollo 14 pic is the one with the trails of footprints.

confuZion3 wrote: What the hell was Kennedy talking about in that famous clip that we always hear? "We choose to go to the moon! We choose to go to the moon, and do the other thing, before this decade is out." What other thing? What was he talking about?

It's "other things." In the previous paragraph he mentioned three: (1) climbing the highest mountain, (2) flying across the Atlantic, and (3) Rice playing Texas. (The speech was given in Rice Stadium.)

JFK said: ... But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon... (interrupted by applause) 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....

Does anyone else get thrown off by how JFK says "de-cade"? The accents on the wrong syllable.