On a more earthbound note, the space program's money could be put to other uses.
Since then the space program has had nearly countless ups and downs (no pun intended).
In the end, New York beat out places like Houston, which has ties to the space program.
Yes, he did continue his involvement in the space program but not as a supervisor, manager, etc.
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The seven pilots had been just that -- fighter pilots, test pilots -- before being selected for the space program.
For my own part, I fail to see the purpose of not cooperating with China when it comes to the space program.
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Technologically, spin-offs from the space program have revolutionized fields from medicine to energy generation (solar panels were made to power satellites) to breakfast drinks.
Obama "has put the space program on a path where we are conceding our global position as the unequivocal leader in space, " Ryan added.
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He, like Plouffe, made me think of the focussed men in white shirts and narrow black ties who, in the nineteen-sixties, ran the space program.
So I guess it depends who you ask and when you ask, but support has always been more in the majority for the space program.
The rover was scheduled to touch down in less than forty-eight hours, after the most complex and technically daring landing sequence in the history of the space program.
He read the new fact sheets that you guys put out and still has the same criticism, this idea that the space program is going to become mediocre.
Every penny that is spent on the space program goes to people's salaries, so it does provide jobs and income to people and to companies, small and large.
But once the space program commenced at nearby Cape Canaveral, Hudson could catch a glimpse of another world from her front yard as Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraft lofted into orbit.
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During that era of rapid innovation, lives were sacrificed -- by test pilots in space and Gemini astronauts on the ground -- but the space program moved ahead at light speed.
Naturally, people grow older, and the space program matures.
The sad truth is that while most of us take great pride in the amazing things NASA has accomplished, we are now pretty much clueless about where the space program is going.
But in a greater sense, you have to ask what it is the shuttle, or the space program, I guess, is doing, and it is a variety of things, from weather satellites and improved communications to other technologies.
Mr. JONES: There's a point at which any manager in the space program has to decide how much effort is enough to ensure safety vs. how much more resources will have to be expended to get an incremental improvement in safety.
It depends what question you ask and who you ask, but they did a poll recently that showed that people were - more than 50 percent of the taxpayers supported the space program, yet on the space shuttle, they were split, 48 for, 48 percent against.
NASA's had problems, unfortunately quite a few problems, with the manned space program, but the unmanned program continues to go gangbusters.
The SLS rocket will incorporate technological investments from the Space Shuttle program and the Constellation program in order to take advantage of proven hardware and cutting-edge tooling and manufacturing technology that will significantly reduce development and operations costs.
With another successful launch under its belt, and assuming a successful dock on Wednesday, the success of SpaceX means that NASA is no longer solely reliant on the Russian space program to send supplies and cargo to the International Space Station.
The landing marks the end of the Space Shuttle Program, a program which conducted cutting-edge research for NASA for 30 years and built the largest structure in space, the International Space Station.
But then the Russian space program successfully launched a crew of three to the ISS earlier this week, giving the station its first full complement since September.
This plan extended the space shuttle program, put in place a robust commercial space initiative and has put us on track to send American astronauts further into space than ever before.
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The Omega Speedmaster variations that have been produced prior to the US space program are interesting as well as it is the Moonwatch and one of the classics of Omega, as well as the Seamaster models.
Yesterday, the Russian space program successfully launched its Progress spacecraft, which is set to dock with the International Space Station on Wednesday.
Sadly, in 2006 it is painful to contemplate the state of the American space program, to look back and remember how far and fast it progressed in the 1960s, only to slow down abruptly, as if slamming into a meteor field.
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