Americans are divided at fundamental questions about our country. Who's an American? That was at issue at the

Supreme Court on Wednesday as the justices considered the constitutionality of birthright citizenship.

Another question, what is America's role in the world? President Trump weighs in on that

Wednesday night in an Oval Office address on what comes next in the U.S. Israel War with Iran.

But there's a mission that historically has soared above those disagreements, one that is captured our collective imagination for generations.

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.

That's President John F. Kennedy talking about the U.S. effort to get to the moon in September, 1962.

That goal would be realized just shy of seven years later

on July 20th, 1969.

Pretty beat down to an a half, picking up some depths. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin

landed on the moon.

That's one small step for man.

One giant leap for man.

With Artemis II, American astronauts take a giant leap forward in the effort to return to the moon.

Consider this. The quest to reach the moon has always been a key part of the American myth.

And so has the country's embrace of immigrants,

and its vision of itself as a defender of democracy around the world.

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