Sentences with phrase «by race to the moon»

He was captivated as a child by the race to the moon, prompted in part by his father's career as an aeronautical engineer.

Synth Racing by Race to the Moon is a time - trial racing game that takes all the style and speed from Wipeout, but doesn't quite manage to live up to the game it takes its inspiration from.

Not exact matches

In 1967, inspired by a new international outer - space treaty, the space - racing nations of the world agreed to spare no effort in preventing the potential spread of organisms from one moon or planet to another.

In 1961, New Scientist was actually calling for a halt to the moon race, driven as it was by cold war rivalry.

American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World by David Baron.

Here's three new movie stills featuring The Rock in the upcoming film «Faster» by director George Tillman Jr. (Notorious, Soul Food) and starring Dwayne Johnson (The Fast and the Furious 5, The Other Guys), Tom Berenger (Inception, Silent Venom), Carla Gugino (Race to Witch Mountain, Watchmen), Micaela Johnson (Transformers 3, Greek), Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter, Quarantine), Billy Bob Thornton, Moon Bloodgood and Maggie Grace (Knight and Day).

Here's another brand new movie clip from the upcoming film «Faster» by director George Tillman Jr. (Notorious, Soul Food) and starring Dwayne Johnson (The Fast and the Furious 5, The Other Guys), Tom Berenger (Inception, Silent Venom), Carla Gugino (Race to Witch Mountain, Watchmen), Micaela Johnson (Transformers 3, Greek), Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter, Quarantine), Billy Bob Thornton, Moon Bloodgood and Maggie Grace (Knight and Day).

In his unformed mind, he can do with it what he wants, so he revises the history of the NASA Space Program, starting with Kennedy and enrolling the likes of Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Richard Nixon, to create a world in which the race to the moon was secretly a race with the Russians to bring Sentinel Prime (voiced by Leonard Nimoy) back to Earth.

It turns out that an Autobot spaceship crash landed on the moon in 1961 and the entire Space Race between the US and the Soviets was motivated by the desire to recover the technology first.

Watch a new movie clip from the upcoming film «Faster» by director George Tillman Jr. (Notorious, Soul Food) and starring Dwayne Johnson (The Fast and the Furious 5, The Other Guys), Tom Berenger (Inception, Silent Venom), Carla Gugino (Race to Witch Mountain, Watchmen), Micaela Johnson (Transformers 3, Greek), Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter, Quarantine), Billy Bob Thornton, Moon Bloodgood and Maggie Grace (Knight and Day).

Watch the red band movie trailer for the upcoming film «Faster» by director George Tillman Jr. (Notorious, Soul Food) and starring Dwayne Johnson (The Fast and the Furious 5, The Other Guys), Tom Berenger (Inception, Silent Venom), Carla Gugino (Race to Witch Mountain, Watchmen), Micaela Johnson (Transformers 3, Greek), Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter, Quarantine), Billy Bob Thornton, Moon Bloodgood and Maggie Grace (Knight and Day).

(One of them featured an XQ «astronaut,» played by The Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams, striding toward the camera, Right Stuff — style, then talking to viewers from the middle of a busy New York City sidewalk, reminding them of the 1960s moon race and asserting, «We need to talk about high school.»)

The opening spreads record the history of space travel — from the first rockets used by the Chinese 2,000 years ago as weapons against the Mongols to the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, as each raced to be the first nation to put a man on the moon.

Once in a blue moon, Corvette celebrates its heritage by giving us the Grand Sport — a model that started out as a skunkworks project behind GMs back to make a standard «Vette race - ready.

The answers to some of those questions appear in different formats: images of the first walk on the moon, music videos related to the space race, quotes by artists in the show about the concept of space, cartoons that explain the theory of relativity, or comics that posit parallel universes.

A plan to tackle climate change by emulating the race to put a man on the moon is launched on Tuesday, aiming to channel billions of dollars in research that will give renewable energy commercial lift off.