[ClaytonP]

"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 Kennedy 9/12/1962

We then landed on the moon on 7/20/1969 - less than 7 years later.

It will take us until 2021 - 8 years just to get back up to the floating money toilet in low earth orbit.

[dfwgator]

We went from that to this....

“he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with predominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering.”