American science and tech during 1960s?

ok well i am anthing but an expert to be exact i am busy avoiding homework myself right now but I would say that the cause of the moon exploration was probably the cold war, which also caused the US and other countries to start to create more advanced weapons The Cold War probably was a cause for many of these advances because the U.S. was so determined to show up the "communist" nations. They probably put more funding towards these projects which allowed scientists to work faster and better at coming up with ways to explore space and such. Well hope this could help a little good luck!!!