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The "Geek Gap": the erosion of America's manufacturing base is undermining our research and development capacity--and, unless reversed, will lead to a shortage of hi-tech engineers.(INDUSTRY)
In May 1961, shortly after the Soviet Union placed Yuri Gagarin into orbit, President John F. Kennedy issued a challenge to send an American to the moon before the end of the decade. Roughly eight and a half years later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left their footprints--and planted a U.S. flag--in lunar soil, thereby securing an American victory in the "Space Race" with the Soviets.
The eight-year campaign that led to the Apollo 11 lunar landing consumed $150 billion in today's dollars. That money was spent on a complex, multi-phase effort to build and test an entirely new set of technologies. The effort also enlisted tens of thousands of top-flight engineers ...
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