They wanted to put thing on it.
they were in a space race to the moon.
There was a space race going on between US and Russia. The US wanted to win the space race and put a lot of money in the NASA. Main goal in 1969 was the moon, US wanted to go there first.
because they wanted people to go to the moon
There have been no women on the moon. There have been no black men on the moon because there were none qualified who wanted to be astronauts.
They wanted to put thing on it.
Russia and US wanted to show who is better in technologies and the best way was to reach the moon.
Because an American person went to the moon, and wanted to show his succes to everyone
because they wanted to know how the moon would look like
people wanted to go to the moon
they were in a space race to the moon.