Thankfully, so was he!... I recently watched an amazing movie called "For All Mankind" which is a collection of stories from the 24 men who have traveled to and walked on the Moon, check it out!
(from nasa.gov)
John F. Kennedy Moon Speech - Rice Stadium (ironically delivered on my birthday)
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. FULL SPEECH
and then we went to the Moon... How awesome is that?! Google Moon
