Sentences with phrase «u.s. race to the moon»

Though the U.S. race to the moon was well underway, a large part of the population still scratched a hard living from the ground.

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Once the U.S. had beaten the Soviet Union's cosmonauts to the moon and funding dried up, Young pushed NASA to return to the moon or venture to Mars, to provide the human race with a backup home in the event of Earth's destruction.

Boeing Co. once helped the U.S. beat the Soviet Union in the race to the moon.

The space race was in high gear, with the USSR landing a vehicle on the moon and the U.S. successfully completing its Gemini program — the precursor to the Apollo moon landing missions.

But after U.S. astronauts won the race to the moon, the wildly expensive U.S. and Soviet programs both hit stiff headwinds.

The U.S. government promptly redirected much of the project's resources toward space exploration and the race with the Soviet Union to reach the moon.

After the Russians jumped ahead in the Space Race when they launched the first man into space, the U.S. refused to be outdone and eventually managed the unthinkable when they landed on the moon.