This chapter opens with a conversation between a young man and a senior citizen. The young man tells the senior citizen that he is going to change his mind about going to the Moon. The senior citizen tells the young man that he will have to make his own decision about whether or not he wants to go. The two young men agree that they will not go because they have different ideas about the best way to get to the moon. The older man says that the young men have made their own decision and that they are not the only ones who have made such a decision. He says that each of them has made his or her own choice about whether to go or not to go, and that each has been responsible for making their own choice. The narrator says that this is not the end of the story. He adds that he would like to go and reclaim the moon from the other men. He also says that if they do not go, he will leave and go himself.