Land men on the moon and return them safely to earth by the end of the decade.
This was the "public" goal declared by president Kennedy.
However the underlying secret goal was to demonstrate which country could throw the largest hydrogen bomb possible the farthest distance and hit a target accurately - without having to actually throw a real hydrogen bomb (and risk starting a war). By getting men to the moon we proved we could deliver any possible hydrogen bomb anywhere we wanted to put it on earth.
to end the pacific arms race
There was a space race going on between US and Russia. The US wanted to win the space race and put a lot of money in the NASA. Main goal in 1969 was the moon, US wanted to go there first.
The biggest goal of the Space Race was to send people to the surface of the Moon. The US accomplished this, and put 12 people on the Moon, two at a time. The USSR did not send anyone to the Moon.
During the space race, the leader of the United States was President John F. Kennedy. He set the goal of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth before the end of the 1960s.
1) every one running in race 2) to achive there lot of goal race going on.......
Give Us a Goal was created in 1978-03.
The goal was to get man on the moon by the end of the decade
To promote research and development leading to technological superiority to make possible the defense of the U.S. against possible future attack by unfriendly nations.
No, never, where did you get that idea
The major goal of Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s was to end segregation based on race.
To promote research and development leading to technological superiority to make possible the defense of the U.S. against possible future attack by unfriendly nations.
To beat Russia to the moon. And to create a huge event intended to both cow the USSR and to give the US public something real to celebrate after more than a decade of coming 'runner up' to the Soviets in the conquest of space. It's been suggested that a further goal was to deflect attention away from JFK's contreversial handling of the situation with Cuba. to successfully land on the moon before the soviets