
What John F. Kennedy’s Moon Speech Means 50 Years Later
“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.”
Reflecting on humanity’s first steps on the lunar surface, fifty years after the epochal event.

“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.”

Nearly 50 years after Neil Armstrong first set foot on the lunar surface, it’s clear that Apollo 11 will haunt the human imagination for a long time to come.

Don DeLillo's literary interpretation of an astronaut’s “endlessly fulfilling” view of our home planet

The film is a 141-minute commercial for a uniquely American brand of determination and achievement.