Sentence examples for spacefaring powers from inspiring English sources

The technology could be there, but the passion has gone at least in the traditional spacefaring powers, America and Russia.The space cadets' other hope, China, might pick up the baton.

But the allure of the place is enormous, and, if all goes well, June will see the start of three attempts, by two spacefaring powers, to get past the ghoul and prise free a few more Martian secrets.

"You will see the Chinese quite visibly begin to match the capacity of the other spacefaring powers by 2020," predicts Brian Harvey, space analyst and author of China in Space: The Great Leap Forward.

The project heralds a shift in the balance of power among spacefaring nations.

Meanwhile, the former Science minister, Lord Willetts, confessed to feeling "romantic" about Britain's spacefaring future.

Neffi's spacefaring companion, Cleopatra, did not even survive the journey.

It is inconceivable that the United States, the leading spacefaring nation, will stop sending astronauts into space.

Favata agrees: "At ESA we collaborate with all major spacefaring nations.

"The alternative is to become a spacefaring civilization, and a multi-planetary species".

Still, his spacefaring impulse seems to come from a pure, even childlike, place.

Roach eases us into the story, with an anecdote that reveals the cultural differences among spacefaring nations.