What did the U.S. government do in response to the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik in 1957?

AIt increased its nuclear stockpile by ten-fold.

BIt improved science education in schools and created the space program.

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

DIt created an exchange program that sent Soviet scientists to the U.S. and American scientists to the USSR to learn from each other.