To respond to the fears that the U.S. had fallen behind the Soviets after Sputnik, in 1961 Kennedy pledged that, by the end of the decade, the U.S. would:
A) build a supersonic passenger plane.
B) put a man on the moon.
C) produce most of its electricity from nuclear power.
D) graduate more science Ph.Ds than any other nation.
Answer: B
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