"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."

President Kennedy
Rice University
Houston, Texas
September 12, 1962

 

On July 1969 at Kennedy Space Center, President Kennedy got his wish.  The United States had the first manned landing on the moon.  The shuttle to land on the moon was called Apollo 11.  Manning the shuttle was Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins.  This site will tell about the details of Apollo 11's trip to the moon.