What did the u. s. government do in response to the launch of the soviet satellite sputnik in 1957?
a. it increased its nuclear stockpile by ten-fold.

b. it improved science education in schools and created the space program.

c. it searched the country for the greatest scientific minds and made them compete against each other.

d. it created an exchange program that sent soviet scientists to the u. s. and american scientists to the ussr to learn from each other.