During the Cold War the USSR launched the first Satellite in space. The Americans believed if they can do this with a satellite they could do it with a bomb?
Kennedy Said-
"First, 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 back safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish."
Kennedy later made a speech at Rice University on September 12, 1962, in which he said
"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.""No nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space."
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