Moon shot.

It was an against-all-odds idea. It was a plan that was as far-fetched as it was impossible. It was the kind of ridiculous idea that you threw out there as an example of ridiculous ideas.

But in 1961, John F. Kennedy gave the impossible a deadline. He stood before a joint session of Congress and said the United States would not just compete in the space race but win it. In less than nine years, we would send a man to the moon and bring him back alive.

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