Sentences with phrase «latest space race»

The driving force behind this latest space race is the impending retirement of NASA's space shuttle fleet, sometime in 2010.

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In his State of the Union speech in late January, he vowed to spark an R&D frenzy not seen since the space race — and named clean energy as the main goal.

Obama referenced America's race to one - up the Russians in space exploration during the 50s and 60s: «We built a space program almost overnight,» he said, «and twelve years later, we were walking on the moon.»

That's not just a hypothesis for our satellite's origins: the latest space racers want to build a lunar staging post for exploration, and settlement, of the solar system (see «China lands on moon, kicks off next lunar space race «-RRB-.

In the late 1960s, at the height of the Cold War space race, the Apollo programme alone received as much as 0.8 per cent of the US's gross domestic product — equivalent to more than $ 60 billion today.

Three days later — just one month after Sputnik 1 was launched and started the space race — she became the first living creature in history to leave Earth.

The launch was the starting gun for the space race, embarrassing the US, which was even more chagrined when the rocket meant to launch its first satellite, Vanguard, blew up in front of news cameras two months later.

Speaking of which: in the series's latest bit of tongue - in - cheek revisionist history, it is disclosed that John F. Kennedy fast - tracked the moon landing not to beat the Soviet Union in the space race, but rather to secure a site where a giant Autobot vessel had crash - landed after a big war on Cybertron.

Double Take, Johan Grimonprez's quasi-experimental meditation on (among other things) the Cold War tension of the late fifties, the space race and the culture of commercial television, turns Hitchcock into the main character of an abstract thriller about the director meeting his own double.

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Viewed from the eyes of Samus, you'll explore the vast reaches of the planet Tallon IV in an attempt to stop the Space Pirate's latest mad scheme and to fulfill the legacy of a long - dead Chozo race.

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Noble was one of five founding members of City Racing, an influential artists» space in London during the late 1980s, and was nominated shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2012.

In the late 1960s, at the height of the space race, he was creating sculptures that explore the gravity, balance and specific properties of a wide variety of materials.

The race to have clear space on the shelf means that all that is left is the popular novel or current celebrity biography, the books being highlighted in the media or the texts about a skill or activity promoted in the latest reality show.

I'm a little late planting and getting my outdoor space ready but my mind is racing with things to do!!!