My Way News - 50 Years Ago, Sputnik Changed Technology

My Way News - 50 Years Ago, Sputnik Changed Technology: "Sputnik gave birth to more than mere technology. The threat of a Soviet-dominated space spurred the U.S. government to increase tenfold money spent on science, education and research. Satellite pictures of Earth inspired an embryonic environmental movement." "Embryonic environmental movement."? That's a loaded word. How strange it found it's way into a science article.