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Humans are natuarlly curious. We want to figure things out. Someone looked up in the sky and saw the moon, and strted asking questions. Then, astronauts started training so they could answer them. Also, humans might have been wondering about other life forms.

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JFK set a challenge for NASA to land a man on the moon in a speech. We were also in the middle of a space race during the Cold War with Russia.

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Because they put a lot of time, effort and money into it.

It was a race against the USSR.

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so United States could represent that united states is the most advanced country because they could send a people to the moon and set the first human step on moon.

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