“We Choose to Go to the Moon:” What do the following lines from Paragraph 9 reveal?

“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, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”
Question 9 options:
a) Kennedy’s mission is a challenging competition with the Soviets and cannot wait.
b) Putting American astronauts on the moon will be easy, but expensive.
c) Kennedy understands that there may be some delay in beginning the space mission because of tough economic times.
d) Going to the moon is likely to be in large part a military operation.