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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.

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