Pāhonoa te oro

My dear friends... allow me a few words, if you please! Let us pause and fill our hearts with the warm, glowing light of pure inspiration that was this launch! Contemplate with me, with chests swollen by patriotic pride and scientific admiration, this imposing, colossal, blinding-orange giant of American engineering that has just thundered off the pad with a roar that shook the Earth, hurling our brave astronauts toward the Moon and reviving the golden glories of the Apollo era!