Both Koreas see the development of space programs as crucial hallmarks of their scientific prowess and national pride, and both had high-profile failures before success.
Meanwhile, the existence of the shuttle doubtless inhibits the development of a private space industry and the new private companies face regulatory restrictions that do not apply to the shuttle.
The council's reasons for rejecting planning permission were doubts over figures in a traffic survey, as well as the large scale of the development and the loss of open space and amenities.
The US space agency is scheduled to retire its space shuttles next year, and has begun the development of a new human space launch "architecture" called Constellation.
When the Watsons at IBM bet their company on the development of the 360 computer the space was wide open, competition clearly underdeveloped and unable to catch up.
In fact, just the opposite occurred, it spawned the development of foreign firms in the encryption space and the launch of competing products.
It's a strangely Snow White-esque moment that unfolds minutes after we set up our gear in the conference room of the Leadership Development Center -- a drab, unassuming office space in the middle of Colorado Springs' Peterson Air Force Base that serves as a training facility for 11 months out of the year.
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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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The Vienna Declaration on Space and Human Development puts space applications in the service of human welfare.
"There was a competitive concept but it involved a lot of stages, a lot of machines, " recalls Jean-Jacques Juillet, the director of scientific programmes at Thales Alenia Space, the company that led the industrial development of Herschel.
The States of Jersey Development Company wants to turn the 520 space Esplanade car park into a finance hub.
This is the time to reach a level of research and development that we haven't seen since the height of the Space Race.
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The Pittsburgh Persimmon started a space race between the research and development departments of the major club makers.
"We've just collected images over Mali, which we've handed over to the armed forces because we believe they will be helpful to them in the peacekeeping mission over there, " says Seidu Mohammed, director-general of the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA).
Two years ago, I said that we needed to reach a level of research and development we haven't seen since the height of the space race.
Development and assembly of the International Space Station now culminates the largest, most complex initiative in human history, a testament to great potentials and peaceful benefits of multi-national collaboration.
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Revenue losses are offset by the fact that open space drastically increases the property value of nearby urban development.
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"Patenting big swaths of important biochemical pathway space has the potential to turn drug development into even more of an expensive nightmare than it already is, " pharmaceutical chemist Derek Lowe wrote in his blog, In The Pipeline, last month.
Projects up for debate include Europe's continued participation in the space station and the development of a major new weather satellite system.
Mr Perkins called for the co-ordinated development of the land with infrastructure such as schools, medical facilities and public open space.
More than 500 people signed petitions objecting to the development of a new service station near Caerwys with space for up to 20 lorries.
Studies of space weather aid in the development of early warning systems for solar storms and help to minimize the damage from turbulent solar activity, researchers said.
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One of five European Space Agency missions being considered for launch in the early 2020's, Nasa also has a series of exoplanet projects at various stages of development, and both the James Webb Space Telescope and ground based observatories are getting in on the act.
We do pretty much all the product development in Melbourne and competing with the likes of ESPN and larger companies in the sporting social media space.
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The country had (and has) space to spare, which is why the ribbon of low-rise development is the rule and the skyscraper the exception.
The team owners' complaint seeks an injunction against allowing the development of 2.8 million square feet of leasable space to move forward.
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Extension and expanded exploitation of space must be pursued through the development and deployment of new technology over the near- to medium-term.
The move puts the Michigan company among a growing number of venture-backed American companies in the alternative vehicle space to land in China, where the government provides incentives for the development and purchases of all-electric and electric hybrid cars.
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It was stressed that the physical development of the game, with players covering more ground during the course of the match, has made space on the field much harder to come by.
Another major milestone for the industry has been a growing interest and investment from entrepreneurs like Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who financed the development of SpaceShipOne, winner of the Ansari X Prize, and British billionaire Richard Branson, founder of the space tourism company, Virgin Galactic.
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