"Crisis in Education" 1958/3/24

• SAGE pioneered computer technology and network

• Jupiter rocket carried the first of 31 satellites launched during Ike's presidency
• Explorer I from NASA Sputnik Anniversary

• MIT President James Killian was Presidential Assistant for Science

Lyndon Johnson led Congress to create NASA July 16 as the nation's civilian space agency

• NASA began Mercury project using Atlas rocket

midterm elections in Nov. 1958 won by Democrats

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Sources:

• Beschloss, Michael R. MAYDAY: Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U-2 Affair. New York: Harper, 1986.
• Crankshaw, Edward. Khrushchev: A Career. New York: Viking, 1966.