Beyond RE-ENERGYSE, the federal government should work to expand these programs into a clean-energy education strategy on par with the National Defense Education Act of 1958, which helped reposition the U.S. in the space race and achieve revolutions in information technology.
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And when, during the next dozen years, America and Russia vied to get ahead in the space race, they were largely engaged in a display of economic muscle-power.
Eisenhower's message of peace to the world transmitted from space was touted as a victory in the space race after the Soviet Union launched a satellite the year before.
And Kubrick himself was really in a space race with NASA. He worked on this film for years.
NASDA's other backers can always swallow their pride and turn to the education ministry to keep them in the space race.
The Russians started the space race back in the 1950s.
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It is true he was speaking in a state with a heavy investment in the space race, but the final frontier has been a long-standing obsession for him.
This new influx of money could give Florida a leg up in the space race, yet Tom Moser of the Texas Aerospace Commission will not entertain such an idea.
Other companies are also jumping in the suborbital space race.
Big increases in government spending associated with the Great Society programs, the war on poverty, the Vietnam War, and the Space Race, resulted in large deficits (by 1971 standards of course).
And after the Soviet launch of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, the United States went about winning the Space Race by investing in science and technology, leading not only to small steps on the moon but also to tremendous economic benefits here on Earth.
Given the market share disparities between Android, iOS and the others, the race is on in the connected mobile device space for third place.
And in this respect the new space race is more 1990's than 1960's.
The apogee of central planning occurred in 1957, when the greatest central planner of them all, the Soviet Union, suddenly burst ahead in the space (and technology) race with Sputnik I.
The diplomatic maneuvers and the public relations contest between the United States and the Soviet Union in the early years of the space race provide a vivid historical example of mutual noise making.
The vehicle for Chambers' space race is TechNet, a lobbying outfit he founded in 1997 with venture capitalist John Doerr and then-chief executive of Netscape, James Barksdale.
The civil unrest of the previous decade had finally settled down, the student body was growing larger and more diverse, the university had changed its applications process to a double-blind procedure with no special consideration for gender, race, or ethnicity, and research in medicine and the physical sciences shared space in the curriculum with philosophy and art.
Gardner's Maggot Moon is the story of a 15-year-old dyslexic boy living in a dystopian 1950s society whose rulers are intent on winning the space race.
New freedoms were ushered in and Panorama's films on the changing face of the UK illustrated this, but in this decade it was to the wider world that Panorama turned time after time, with reports on unrest in the Middle East, Vietnam, the civil rights movement and the space race.
Kennedy led the United States on a journey when he kicked the space race between the US and the Soviet Union into high gear with a speech in Houston.
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But Vincent Sabathier of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, says China is being careful not to rile America by talking of a space race.
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