The Soviets sent the first satilete in to space it had the name Sputnik this started the space race. Kennedy said we would be on the moon by the end of the decaed and we were on july 20 1969 Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon. By the year 1972 12 men had walked on the moon. The Apollo mission ran from 1961 to 1975 the last misson was a joint US Soivet Uinion mission. Kennedy was the president who got the funnding to the space program NASA. He pleaded in front of crongress saying that we needed to get the moon before the soviet union. THey awarded Billions of dollars for the space program.
Some people think the moonladning was a fake but with so many things that were evidence how was it. I think it interesting that we got there first and had so many struggles with doing this. America is has the can do attutide that makes it possible for things to get done.
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