Much more to open the way to the moon and we could have hoped for five years ago, Gemini had demonstrated the feasibility of almost everything we plan to do in Apollo. Accept land softly on the moon and returned safely to the Earth's atmosphere. At 25,000 miles an hour. 

Saturn Five is required to inject Apollo into the atmosphere at site speeds. Surveyors demonstrated techniques for a soft landing on the moon and for effective operations from the lunar surface. Most important of all, for amassing a great wealth of operating experience in operating skills, it will be difficult to overstate what it means. The American space effort to be starting the Apollo program with Gemini experience already available to us. We will open a man flight phase of the Apollo program with a seasoned team with Letterman at key positions 10-9.