| I will not pretend that the space race was meant to be a glorious celebration of human achievement. |
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| Since the end of the Cold War and all that, I thought Nasa had slowed down as the space race had lost momentum. |
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| His superb book about the space race was given the treatment it deserved with this excellent three-hour drama. |
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| Increased spending on NASA throughout the early 1960s was rationalized as an investment in beating the Russians in the space race. |
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| Just as the launch of Sputnik changed the space race, this surprise announcement is being viewed as a setback for American science. |
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| The space race reaches new lands when the Russian Space Agency launches Nigeria's first satellite. |
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| Now, decades since those heady days, two Irish businessmen are intent on waging their own space race. |
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| Superpowers flexed their muscles figuratively in the space race and literally at the Olympics. |
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| Released at the height of the space race, it's a non-verbal visual experience and features four episodes. |
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| For the generations that grew up during the space race, the future was very hard to predict because the present was moving so fast. |
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| Cynics argue that the space race was merely an expression of cold-war animosity. |
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| When we think of the space race, it's all guts and glory, matching jumpsuits and golfing on the moon. |
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| The rocket was later modified to boost two astronauts in Gemini capsules into orbit during the space race. |
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| I was brought up during the space race and got my first telescope at 11 and have been getting more and more involved ever since. |
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| The country's motivation for taking part in the space race is to raise national prestige at home and abroad. |
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| The USSR launched the first manmade satellite, Sputnik, marking the beginning of the space race. |
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| Dwight Eisenhower's second term is best remembered for the Soviet Union pulling ahead in the space race with Sputnik and the downing of a U.S. spy plane over Soviet territory. |
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| Economically, the benefits for the United States of the space race generally and the Apollo program specifically were far reaching, both direct and indirect. |
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| In short, not only are China's manned space plans unlikely to trigger a space race with the US, such a space race is one of the worst things that could happen. |
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| The year is 1958 and America is set to launch its first satellite in an attempt to steal a march on the Soviet Sputnik and regain supremacy in the space race. |
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| The events it recounts are set in the Cold War when the space race dominated the world's media and another race for supremacy dominated the oceans. |
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| This was back in the late 1950s, when the space race and the deployment of military and civil aeronautics were just beginning. |
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| China, with a successful manned space flight behind it, was already ahead of the EU in the space race. |
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| Today we remain captivated by a space race now driven not by rivalry but by the ideal of cooperation. |
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| Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the space race. |
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| While telescopes gave valuable information about our solar system and the universe, the space race opened a whole new realm of possibilities. |
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| A situation of that kind would certainly have heightened political tension, which was already rife, making the space race a threat to peace on earth. |
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| This is one space race that is well under way. |
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| The Soviet Union beats the United States in the space race by launching the first manmade space satellite, Sputnik 1, in 1957. Sputnik 1 orbits the earth at a height of 800 km. |
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| Without a space race to captivate the imagination, and with so many other distractions for the young, could backyard astronomy ever make a return? |
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| Mr. Tak, either you or Mr. Schubak spoke as if there were almost a space race going on here for who was going to advance hydrogen technology into a practical and affordable technology for today's consumers. |
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| Simply avoiding taking part in the space race for the sake of peace will not prevent space, which is already partially militarised, from becoming more so. |
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| To embark on this kind of exploration takes a confluence of three factors: there has to be a perceived threat, and in those days we were actively involved in a space race with the Soviet Union. |
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| In this time of cold war, the only equivalent to this nuclear race is the space race and Kubrick is interested in it... He contacts Clarke because he decided to adapt The Sentinel. |
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| Today the space race has lost a loto of its appeal. |
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| Since then and with the end of the space race due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, public attention has largely moved to other areas. |
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| The Soviet Union took an early lead in the Space Race, with the first artificial satellite and the first human spaceflight. |
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| As the Space Race started and the Cold War intensified, it ushered in a sweepingly technocratic vision of society that still marks American education. |
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| The Space Age is a period encompassing the activities related to the Space Race, space exploration, space technology, and the cultural developments influenced by these events. |
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