Causes Of The Apollo Program

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The main cause for why we had the Apollo program when we did was the challenge by John F. Kennedy to the American people saying “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…” (qtd. In Compton 6). It was during the cold war and the Americans and the Russians would try to do anything to show up the other country to show them who was better. But to get a man to the moon was a challenge that would take years to perfect. When John F. Kennedy said that, we were just barely getting people into space and to actually get to the moon would take a lot more than what we knew at the time. By taking what we did know of rocket science and