Sentences with phrase «race to the moon»

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

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.

The US space agency is now offering a leg - up in the commercial 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.

Recently released audio recordings from the Kennedy White House reveal that politics, more than science, may have fueled America's race to the moon against the Soviets.

President Kennedy's «race to the moon» speech in 1961 received an enthusiastic public response.

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

Although federal support for science is lagging, Biden quoted President John F. Kennedy speaking about the race to the moon, saying Americans are «unwilling to postpone» what needs to be done to accelerate cancer research.

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

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 rocket equation first became a serious nuisance during the race to the moon.

His book John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon was published in December 2010.

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

In the 1960s Americans had called the Apollo programme a race to the Moon, but many later came to doubt that the USSR had made a serious attempt.

He is author of the forthcoming After Apollo: Richard Nixon and the American Space Program (2015), the award - winning John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon (2010) and The Decision to Go to the Moon: Project Apollo and the National Interest (1970) and is general editor of the multi-volume series Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program.

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.

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.

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

T - Minus: The Race to the Moon The Space Race is a topic that still excites students, and with the 50th anniversary of the moon landing coming in 2019, it's a subject they'll be hearing a lot about.

A premium started being placed on a college degree, especially as new fields opened up in the worlds of science and technology after Sputnik and the race to 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.

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.