"Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is an American business magnate and inventor. He is well-known for being the cofounder and chief executive officer of Apple. He was born in San Francisco and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California. His biological mother nearly refused to agree to the adoption after she learned that his mother never graduated from college and his father never graduated from high school. She relented only after his parents promised that he would go to college. He dropped out of college after one semester and never graduated."

"Everything else - speaks for itself!"

The Apollo program, maned after the Greek God who drove his chariot to the sun, was America's effort to be first to the moon. Conceived during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, and guided by NASA, it began in earnest after President John F. Kennedy's May 25, 1961 special address to a joint session of Congress. In this speech Kennedy declared a national goal stating, "I believe that this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth." Apollo was preceded by the Mercury and Gemini missions, which laid the ground work necessary for Apollo's success.

Kennedy's goal was accomplished on July 20, 1969, when the Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Moon. Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit.
Five subsequent Apollo missions also landed astronauts on the Moon, the last in December 1972. In these six Apollo spaceflights, 12 men walked on the Moon allowing them to joining
one of histories most elite clubs.

The entire program was accomplished with only two major setbacks: The first was the Apollo 1 launchpad fire that resulted in the deaths of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee; the second was an oxygen tank rupture on Apollo 13 during the Moonward phase of its journey, which disabled the command spacecraft. However there were many near disasters like the Apollo 12 lightning strike, Apollo 14 nearly being unable to dock, and Jim Irwin suffering a heart attack on the moon.

In the 1968 Mexico City Olympic games, a young African runner from Tanzania, named John Stephen Akhwari, would compete in the last event of the games - the 26 mile, 385 yard marathon. Although he would ultimately finish last, nearly an hour behind the rest of the runners, he would nonetheless finish the race and in doing so deliver a finish that will be remembered long after the winner has been forgotten. He did all of this in spite of taking a bad fall early in the race. After he fell he got up and carried on anyway, running on a badly injured leg and knowing full well that he was then out of the competition. The other runners reached the finish line nearly an hour before Akhwari would finally approach the stadium. The stadium, by this
time, was nearly empty. Yet, when Akhwari entered
the stadium the crowd rose to their feet and cheered. Photographers scrambled to set up cameras they had long stowed away, barely managing to capture one of the greatest finishes in Olympics history.

After the race a reporter questioned Akhwari -
"Why did you go on, you knew you couldn't win, why
didn't you just quit?"

Looking puzzled by this question Akhwari paused
for a moment, and then relied simply:

"I don't think you understand."

"My people did not send 5000 miles to start the race, they sent me 5000 miles to FINISH they race!"
- John Stephen Akhwari