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Why was Apollo 11 sent to themoon?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

To explore the moon.

The United States also wanted to get to the moon before the Soviet Union did; since up until that time the Soviets had been ahead of them in most areas of Space Exploration.

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