As a result of Kennedy’s space plans, NASA created the Mercury program specifically to send Americans into space.
- The idea behind the Mercury Program was to make the United States the first country in the world to send a man in space.
- The Space Race began after the successful launch of Sputnik I by the Soviet Union led to the direct formation of NASA in America in 1958.
- President Kennedy pledged to support an American space program, and in 1961, Alan B. Shepard went to space and became the first person to travel into space.
Therefore we can conclude that a plan to send a man into space led to creating the Mercury program.
Thus option C. is the correct answer.
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