Can America meet its next Sputnik moment? – TechCrunch
Megan Lamberth Contributor The TechCrunch Global Affairs Project examines the increasingly intertwined relationship between the tech sector and global politics. The Soviet Union kicked off the Space Age when it propelled the world’s first satellite into space from a desert steppe in Kazakhstan on October 4, 1957. The launch of Sputnik I — a small aluminum orb,…