Ladies and gentlemen No man can fully grasp how far and how fast we have come On the new frontier of space We have felt the ground shake and the air shattered For the greatest exploration that the world has ever known We will have literally have reached the stars before midnight tonight For the eyes of the world now look into space And we set sail on this new ocean To the moon and to the planets beyond But why the moon? Why choose this as our goal? Why climb the highest mountain? Because there is new knowledge to be gained And it is one of the great adventures of all time Because that challenge we're willing to accept Not because they are easy But because they are hard Some would have us stay where we are To rest, to wait But man in his quest for knowledge Was not built by those who waited and rested We set sail on this spacecraft of freedom And we have vowed We choose to go to the moon We choose to go to the moon We choose to go to the moon