After WW2, where did the idea of going to the moon came from?

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After WW2, where did the idea of going to the moon came from?

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Man was always interested in the moon. But practically, the Soviets put a man in space first. The Kennedy administration wanted to show that the US could be a space leader and consulted with NASA on what was most likely that the US could do first – a space station or moon landing. LBJ was involved in it and came back to JFK and recommended a moon landing.

In the USSR, the head Soviet rocket designer (Korolev) proposed going to the moon not long after the sputnik launch.