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  • Obama to speak of 'Sputnik moment' in State of the Union (Link to excerpts of speech)

    01/25/2011 4:34:44 PM PST · by Free ThinkerNY · 89 replies
    The Hill ^ | Jan. 25, 2011 | Michael O'Brien
    The U.S. is facing a "Sputnik moment" in which it must embrace investments in research and education, President Obama will say at his State of the Union address Tuesday night. Obama, in excerpts of his speech released Tuesday evening, hearkened back to the Sputnik era, when the Russian satellite's 1957 launch set off the "space race" and a decade of intense technological development. "Half a century ago, when the Soviets beat us into space with the launch of a satellite called Sputnik, we had no idea how we’d beat them to the moon. The science wasn’t there yet. NASA didn’t...