America was nowhere near putting anyone on the moon. there were major scientific advancements that needed to, happen first. it was a long, shot or as it came to be known, a moon shot. the building blocks where. there america does need to commit to the exploration of space. so it did. project apollo got underway, as nasa put. it's quote, only the construction of the panama canal in modern peacetime in the manhattan project in war were comparable in scope. the moon shot took some, time but seven years after jfk's speech the u.s. mid-landed men on the moon, being soviet rivals in the space race. ...