The caravel was a type of sailing ship. so was the galleon. which correctly combines the two sentences to form a compound sentence?

The galleon and the caravel are types of sailing ship.

the president was the speaker and it was a great part of history.

explanation:

video of the national aeronautic space administration's (nasa) coverage of president john f. kennedy’s address at rice university, houston, texas, concerning the nation's efforts in space exploration. in his speech the president discusses the necessity for the united states to become an international leader in space exploration and famously states, "we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."

i think that the answer is a