Christopher Tinの楽曲群/We Choose to Go to the Moon のバックアップ(No.1)

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.		我々は月に行くことにした。
この十年で我々は月に向かい
様々なことをする。簡単だからではない、
難しいからこそだ。
この目標が我らをまとめ上げ、
我らの精力と技術の粋を試すに相応しいからだ。
We choose to go to the Moon.
We choose to go to the Moon in this decade
because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept,
one we are unwilling to postpone,
and one we intend to win.
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.
For space science, like nuclear science
and technology has no conscience of its own.
Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man,
whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace
or a new terrifying theater of war...
a theater of war!
For the eyes of the world now look into space,
the moon and to the planets beyond,
with hopes for knowledge and peace
We have vowed that we shall not see space filled with weapons,
but with instruments of knowledge.
we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag,
but with a banner of freedom and peace.
There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space.
Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind.
We choose to go to the Moon!
But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal?
Why thirty-five years ago fly the Atlantic?
And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain?
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."
Space is there and we're going to climb it!
Space is there and the moon and the planets!
Space is 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.
We choose the moon,
We choose the stars,
We choose the sky.
We choose to go!