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On December 2nd, 2020, the economist Walter E. Williams passed away at the age of 84.

For this week’s episode, we’re bringing you a conversation that was a part of Acton’s recent Poverty Cure Summit.

In 1958, in the wake of the Soviet Union launching Sputnik 1 – the world’s first artificial satellite – into space, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, was born. And the space race was underway.