The Audacity to Dream

50 years ago today President John F. Kennedy gave his famous speech in which he set a goal for the United States to go to the Moon by the end of the decade. This was just four years after NASA was founded. Man first went to space only a little more than a year prior to Kennedy's speech, and yet he knew that the United States could achieve it. The innovation and technological advancements that spurred from the race to the Moon were enormous. With the nation's support, the scientists and engineers at NASA were able to do an incredible thing. They went to the Moon.

"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because the are easy but because they are hard."--John F. Kennedy

Sadly, now it has been almost 40 years since a man has been on the Moon. We have continued to learn and develop new and amazing technologies in space, but our drive to move forward and pursue that which we don't know seems to have dimmed. I know many people who still have that drive, but engineers and scientists aren't enough. The entire country must want it. The more we want to explore and learn in space, the more emphasis our schools will put on it, the more money our government will give to it. So I have one more video title "Audacity to Dream". Let's continue the dreams and the discoveries we were called to do 50 years ago.

"To the Moon and the planets beyond."--John F. Kennedy