because they wanted to know how the moon would look like
The program that put man on the moon was called Apollo.
It took a great deal of money and man effort to put a man on the moon and to bring him back.
1969
They put him on the the moon 57 times,true fact
Neil Armstrong in 1969
The US space program is the only one to have put men on the moon.
The Apollo program
Russia to put a man in orbit US to put on the moon
the year that the USA put the first man on the moon was in 1969 and it was Neil Armstrong.
The United States is the only nation that has landed a man on the moon, however, Russia has sent probes to the moon, things like that, and have attempted to put Russians on the moon, but the rocket crashed during takeoff. In layman's terms, the only country that put a man on the moon is the US.
the space race
Apollo 11 put Neil Armstong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon.