Sentences with phrase «of race to the moon»

Koblick was among the early converts to the concept of undersea living when it came of age in the 1960s, in the shadow of the momentous achievements of the race to the moon.

The 32 fully illustrated pages of Race to the Moon paint a surprisingly complete picture of space travel.

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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.

«The last time R&D's share of GDP was in this range was during the mid-1960s, when the country was in a «Space Race» to beat Russia to the moon,» says Laetsch.

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Orb, named in reference to his sire, Malibu Moon, has won five consecutive races, including all four of his starts this year.

In January 2004, Jan Moons of Racing Genk became the first footballer to receive instructions from the bench via an earpiece in a first class professional game.

The race is on to bank Earth's riches on the moon, from sacred texts to human and plant genomes, in the hope of rejuvenating Earth after a major cataclysm (see main story).

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 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.

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

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.

The mid 1900's era was the age of jet travel and the race to the moon, and designers were experimenting with new materials and technologies.

John F. Kennedy laid out the most ambitious Space Race goal in 1961 - for NASA to send the first humans to the surface of the moon and return them safely

The 1968 Rachel, Rachel was the outcome of Woodward's exile; she and Newman admitted it was carefully designed as a vehicle to resuscitate her career, and the ploy worked brilliantly — he directed, she starred, and together they led the film to four Oscar nominations, including Best Actress and Best Picture.The following year Woodward and Newman reunited onscreen for the auto - racing drama Winning, and again starred together in 1970s politically charged W.U.S.A., a reflection of the couple's high - profile support of liberal causes; when 1971's They Might Be Giants proved unsuccessful, Newman directed Woodward to Best Actress honors at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man - in - the - Moon Marigolds.

The Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington - Whiteley, Tyrese Gibson The Plot: The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the Moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets.

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.

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.

The map has led them to a distant moon they call «LV - 223,» where the team as a whole is informed of their mission to find ancient aliens that seem to have created the human race.

An explosion occurs on the Klingon moon known as Praxis (an allusion to the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl), which makes the Klingon race face possible extinction, as their way of life crumbles, rendering them a superpower no longer (akin to the breakup of the USSR).

And it treats the complicated moves and countermoves of a major election as fodder for a broadly comic grudge match, with scenes that wouldn't have felt out of place in The Campaign, like Jane mooning Pat during a ridiculous bus race or Pat arranging to have a beloved llama run over during the filming of a Castillo spot.

Hitting movie theaters this weekend: Transformers: Dark of the Moon — Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington - Whiteley, Tyrese Gibson Larry Crowne — Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Sarah Mahoney Monte Carlo — Selena Gomez, Leighton Meester, Katie Cassidy Movie of the Week Transformers: Dark of the Moon The Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington - Whiteley, Tyrese Gibson The Plot: The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the Moon, and race against the Decepticons to -LSB-...]

The Coming Race is, err... coming Iron Sky: The Coming Race, the hotly anticipated sequel to the 2012 hit about Nazis on the moon, is well underway with its crowdfunding campaign, which aims to raise $ 500,000 for production of the new film.

(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.

Race to the Moon is as much a history of space exploration as it is that of the flight of Apollo 11.

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Then, during the early 1960s, the emphasis on homework intensified as the United States raced to put a man on the moon ahead of the Russians.

The United States declared victory in the Space Race on July 20, 1969 when astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission.

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.

-- Garth Stein, author of The Art of Racing in the Rain [HarperCollins], now 94 weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list, and more than 1.5 million copies sold to date in hardcover and paperback, also How Evan Broke His Head, and Raven Stole the Moon

With a steady mix of Wii U and 3DS games on display, the developers are keen not to leave anyone out, and their releases show a good range from the well known gentle RPG Harvest Moon: Seeds of Memories to the more niche developments of Gotcha Racing and Brave Tank Hero.

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Harvest Moon: Grand Bazaar offers all the classic Harvest Moon gaming features that fans enjoy with new exciting extras, such as windmills to let you combine ingredients to make goods to sell at the Bazaar, an improved control system that lets players jump up hills and over streams, new festivals including the fan favourite horse race festival and the option of owning multiple pets to help you on your farm.

The story (on the surface, at least) is about stopping the moon from destroying the world within three days, and in order to get across the urgency and the ominousness of that scenario the developers created a three - day cycle gameplay mechanic that the player had to continuously rewind and race against while trying to beat the game.

Left on Earth like all women who were never part of the moon race, she settles in at her «BaseCamp» (APF LAB, located at 15 Wooster Street), where she will live for two weeks wearing a customized astronaut suit, residing among drawings and prototypes that aim to both parody and make a serious claim for women's presence on the moon.

Concurrently with the military - industrial «space race» leading up to the moon landing, American artists began to experiment outside of traditional studio practice, intervening at a terrestrial scale to initiate the Land Art movement.

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.

The yellow band in the graph is, in essence, a portrait of the space race as reflected in federal money for basic R&D related to going into orbit and to the Moon.

And then four days later, I watched along with hundreds of millions of others around the world as Neil Armstrong took one small step to the surface of the moon and changed the history of the human race.

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.

Over recent times there has been an increasing number of global powers and emerging market economies announcing plans to enter the space race, many announcing plans to visit the moon; India, China, Russia, USA to name a few all accelerating plans for visits to outer space and the moon.

For example, the Department of Energy has launched several new, highly ambitious «race to the Moon» R&D programs through its ARPA - E initiative, which is modeled after the highly successful DARPA program in the Pentagon, as well as massively increased funding for renewable energy research across the nation.