Sputnik Moments, Moonshot Visions
Three Urgent Challenges Await US National Leadership.
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit earth. Just over a decade following the end of the Second World War, this event shocked the United States out of our increasingly complacent, incumbent mindset.
President Dwight Eisenhower’s administration scrambled to answer the challenged with a series of act…
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