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Entrepreneurial Government

In: Transformative Entrepreneurs

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  • Jeffrey A. Harris

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The U.S. Congress and President Dwight D. Eisenhower established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958 to counteract the threat of Soviet domination of space following the launching in 1957 of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite. After Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin’s manned suborbital mission four years later, President John F. Kennedy boldly challenged America to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade—a goal the country successfully met with five months to spare. Human space flight galvanized the nation and pushed science and technology to new levels of achievement. However, it took presidential leadership to publicly prioritize the hefty expenditures necessary to develop the program. Fear was the great motivator, but “leadership” carried the day, setting the country on a targeted course with a specific goal and rationale.

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  • Jeffrey A. Harris, 2012. "Entrepreneurial Government," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Transformative Entrepreneurs, chapter 0, pages 163-169, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-51231-4_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-51231-4_13
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