Bill Federer's American Minute:
Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy this day, July 16, 1969, on the first mission to walk on the moon. Commenting on the Apollo program, President Richard M. Nixon stated in his Inaugural Address: "Only a few short weeks ago we shared the glory of man's first sight of the world as God sees it, as a single sphere reflecting light in the darkness. As the Apollo astronauts flew over the moon's gray surface...they spoke to us the beauty of earth — and in that voice so clear across the lunar distance, we heard them invoke God's blessing on its goodness."
They chose to go to the moon. Do yourself a favor and borrow or buy the greatest historical tribute to America's finest spaceflight, Tom Hanks' 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon.