Richard Nixon actually said...

We do this not only because it is man's destiny to dream the impossible, to dare the impossible, and to do the impossible, but also because in space, as on Earth, there are new answers and new opportunities for the improvement and the enlargement of human existence.

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Statement Following Lift-Off From the Moon of the Apollo 17 Lunar Module.

12/13/1972

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