Sentence examples for early space program from inspiring English sources

Fred Kaplan's "1959: The Year Everything Changed" argued that Lenny Bruce, the early space program and Margaret Sanger became the fulcrum on which the century would turn.

The five men and two women of the Columbia crew — in background and origin as exhilaratingly varied as the crew-cut flyboys of the early space program were monochromatic — deserved the homely praise he gave them.

MOON SHADOWS: Toward the end of "The Right Stuff," Tom Wolfe's exhilarating look at America's early space program, there's a riff about the pressure facing astronauts' families: "The Astronaut's Wife had been converted from an individual to a performer, at least for the duration of the flight — ready or willing or good at it or not.

You deserve most of the credit for the early space program.

Obama's letter includes a fond remembrance of excitement around America's early space program, and a reminder that the original space race resulted not just in advancements in the field of astrophysics, but also in considerably progress around technology in general, and in the medical field.

Earlier research efforts within the U.S. Air Force and many of ARPA's early space programs were also transferred to NASA.

The project is sharing information with Russian curators who have spacesuits from the early Soviet space program.

As the musical comedian Tom Lehrer caustically recounted ("once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down?"), Wernher von Braun, the mastermind at Peenemünde, also went on to mastermind the early American space program.

"Max Faget was a truly essential genius of the early U.S. space program," Andrew Chaikin, a science journalist who is preparing to write a biography of Mr. Faget, said in a telephone interview.

Khrushchev was responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the early Soviet space program, and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy.

A. While the idea of launching such waste into orbit or into deep space was given serious consideration by some government and private scientists early in the space program, it was not deemed practical.