To respond to the fears that the United States had fallen behind the Soviets after Sputnik, in 1961 Kennedy pledged that, by the end of the decade, the United States 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 PhDs than any other nation


Answer: B

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