It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.
Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, "Is this thing still flying?" If the answer is yes, then there's no immediate danger, no need to overreact.
Eventually there are going to be cities in space.
We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.
I can remember walking on the moon.
History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.