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  • 3/25/2025
"That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." These were 4 unforgettable moments in NASA history.

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00:00Five, four, three, two, one.
00:12We have one of the most challenging assignments
00:14that has ever been given to modern man.
00:17We will be developing and launching into space
00:20vehicles needed to obtain scientific data
00:23and to explore the solar system.
00:26We will be preparing for the day
00:28when manned flight goes into space.
00:31And that isn't a complete list either,
00:33but it will give you an idea of the size
00:35and the complexity of our mission.
00:37NASA will have about $300 million
00:40for its program in fiscal 1959.
00:47We choose to go to the moon.
00:50We choose to go to the moon.
00:58We choose to go to the moon in this decade
01:01and do the other things, not because they are easy,
01:04but because they are hard.
01:06Because that goal will serve to organize
01:10and measure the best of our energies and skills.
01:14Because that challenge is one that we're willing to accept,
01:18one we are unwilling to postpone,
01:20and one we intend to win, and the others too.
01:28That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
01:38You prepared it beforehand, didn't you?
01:40No, not until after I'd landed on the moon.
01:44So I did think about it at that point.
01:49And it was a marvelous moment.
01:55Touchdown, we have a touchdown.
01:57There it is.
02:07We're looking good.
02:08Yes, we have a touchdown time of 12 hours, 12 minutes.
02:12I'm assuming that we must be sitting right on the X.
02:15That's the smooth area.
02:16So everybody just did fabulous and couldn't miss it.
02:19I'm assuming that we must be sitting right on the X.
02:22Everybody just did fabulous and couldn't be more pleased.
02:32The Cuban spaceflight is the reason that SpaceX was created.
02:36And we're incredibly honored to partner with NASA
02:41and to make this happen.
02:44It's been almost nine years since we've been in this position.
02:47A lot of work done by thousands of people to get to this point.
02:52Five, four, three, two, one, zero.
02:57Ignition.
02:58Liftoff of the Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon.
03:01Go NASA.
03:02Go SpaceX.
03:03Godspeed, Bob and Doug.
03:07America has launched.
03:10And so rises the new era of American spaceflight
03:13and visit the ambitions of a new generation continuing the dream.
03:21NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

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