It's also a story about two countries the U.S. and the Soviet Union
President John F.Kennedy made his first speech about sending a man to the moon in May 1961. At that time the Soviet Union had already started to explore the space beyond our planet. In October 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik the world's first satellite into space. Then the Soviets became the first nation to send a person into space. This was a major win for them