Great is our yearning to return to the Heavens. And even in our attempts to extend our reach beyond the Earth through science we have evoked Apollo, Mercury, Ares, Orion and other mythical personages. The Olympian Starseeds Initiative supports all of humanity's efforts to transcend the earth and venture forth into space, be they metaphysical, mechanical or even imaginal.

EXCERPTS FROM A HISTORIC SPEECH:

I) If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred. The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in the race for space.

II) We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people.

III) 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.

IV) Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, "Because it is there."

Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked.

Source:

John F. Kennedy Moon Speech: Rice Stadium: September 12, 1962