Frank J. Fleming of imao.us.
because he wanted to beat the Russians to the moon
Sputnik did not launch from the moon, and it did not land on the moon.
No, the United States, not Russia, was the first country to successfully land humans on the Moon with the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. The Soviet Union was the first to launch a satellite, Sputnik, into space in 1957.
In the narrow sense, it would be easier to launch a spaceship from the moon because the gravity is much lower. In practice, the moon has few resources so the spacecraft and fuel would have to come from the Earth in the first place.
No Russians never crashed a maned spacecraft on the moon. A unmanned craft i think so.
No. The Russians have sent unmanned probes, but the only manned missions to the moon were American.
China is planning to launch its artificial moon in 2022.
Russia has not landed a manned vessel on the moon.
Yes.
The answer to this question is kind of greedy, the Russians were the first to launch a satellite into space, the first to launch into space, and the first to have a working spaceship! The only way United States had a chance in advancing in the space race was by going to the moon. Now this raised a lot of conspiracy theories because the Americans tried several times to launch a space craft into the space, but not even one space craft made it higher than five hundred feet. So it is weird to some people that all of a sudden, a space ship made it into space, and even more surprisingly made it to the moon. Me myself, I believe in the moon landing, but there is a plaussible reason for why people think it was fake, sorry I went off track a little, but it seems like you don't know a lot, so I tried to include some more important details, in summery the answer was : Americans hate being 2nd, they wanted to get ahead of the Russians in space travel.
They decided to launch a manned mission to the moon out of pride. It was during the cold war and the Russians were trying to put a man on the moon and so the U.S.A, not wanting to be second, redoubled their efforts and finally, in 1969, Neil Armstrong, American, was the first man on the moon. Some Conspiracy theorists believe that the Russians were closer than the U.S. and so the U.S. decided to stage the whole thing in a filming studio in the desert.
The Soviet Union's lunar program, which aimed to land a cosmonaut on the moon, faced setbacks and was ultimately canceled in the 1970s. The Soviet Union's N1 rocket, which was designed for lunar missions, failed to achieve a successful launch. This meant that the Soviet Union never came close to landing a cosmonaut on the moon.