In his 1962 "We Choose to Go to the Moon" speech, President John F. Kennedy said: But if I were to say, my fellow citizens, that we shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away from the control station in Houston, a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall, the length of this football field, made of new metal alloys, some of which have not yet been invented, capable of standing heat and stresses several times more than have ever been experienced, fitted together with a precision better than the finest watch, carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion, guidance, control, communications, food and survival, on an untried mission, to an unknown celestial body, and then return it safely to earth, re-entering the atmosphere at speeds of over 25,000 miles per hour, causing heat about half that of the temperature of the sun-almost as hot as it is here today-and do all this, and do it right, and do it first before this decade is out-then we must be bold.

What is Kennedy's claim in this excerpt?

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In his 1962 "We Choose to Go to the Moon" speech, President John F. Kennedy said:  But if I were to say, my fellow citizens, that we shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away from the control station in Houston, a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall, the length of this football field, made of new metal alloys, some of which have not yet been invented, capable of standing heat and stresses several times more than have ever been experienced, fitted together with a precision better than the finest watch, carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion, guidance, control, communications, food and survival, on an untried mission, to an unknown celestial body, and then return it safely to earth, re-entering the atmosphere at speeds of over 25,000 miles per hour, causing heat about half that of the temperature of the sun-almost as hot as it is here today-and do all this, and do it right, and do it first before this decade is out-then we must be bold.

What is Kennedy's claim in this excerpt?

anonymous · Answer

@wio can you please help me?

anonymous · Answer

What do you think it is?

anonymous · Answer

Do you think the purpose is to inform people about how far away the moon is, or to brag about the side of his rocket?

anonymous · Answer

I think its to inform people of how far the moon is and how we are bold for trying and succeeding on going there first?

anonymous · Answer

All the stuff he mentions about alloys and distances and stuff, it is just fluff isn't it?  It's there to sound inspiring.

anonymous · Answer

The point is just that it is a bold endeavor.

anonymous · Answer

so... his claim is that being the first to try and to succeed is a bold endeavor?

anonymous · Answer

Yeah

anonymous · Answer

okay thanks for helping me understand :)