But its economic standing has severely eroded over the past generation, culminating recently in the worst financial crisis in its history.
The Marshall center, established around the nucleus of the von Braun team, led the development of several generations of rockets, culminating in the most powerful of all, the Saturn 5's that propelled astronauts to the Moon in the Apollo program.
The physicist Brian Flowers, who has died at the age of 85, was the outstanding scientific and academic administrator of his generation, his career culminating in 12 years as rector of Imperial College London until 1985, and then five years as vice-chancellor of London University.
THE ARE-WE-THERE-YET-ERS Nearly everyone who talks about the apocalypse is secretly excited for it if we were the culminating generation of humans on Earth, we'd be pretty important, after all.
It tells the story of the Hitlers down three generations and 100 years, culminating in the birth of Adolf in 1889.
Design techniques for the fuselage are covered, including planning and sizing the overall configuration, culminating in the generation of three-view drawings outlining the proposed aircraft fuselage configuration.
Parametric studies reveal trends between equilibrium grain size, solute distribution and temperature for various binary systems culminating in the generation of nanocrystalline thermodynamic stability maps as a tool for solute selection in binary nanocrystalline alloys.
I got a PlayStation 3 when the system had enough worthwhile exclusives to its name: the Uncharted series, LittleBigPlanet, Demon's Souls (which I've still not actually played), culminating in the generation-defining The Last of Us.
The pathways and processes culminating in this generation of activated or senescent preadipocytes and fat cells represent potential new targets for intervention.
Evidence further suggests that organic compounds associated with DPM are capable of adverse effects via redox reactions, culminating in the generation of intracellular reactive oxygen species (Li et al. 2003; Shinyashiki et al. 2009).
