Now, at the 2005 Joint Assembly meeting organised by the American Geophysical Union, space scientists say they are confident - and agreed - that Voyager has gone beyond the termination shock and is flirting with deep space.
Every person in the Soviet Union went into space with Yuri Gagarin, they tore away from the earth with him.
Climb to the top of the grassy hill to enjoy the lovely view of Lake Union and the Space Needle.
In 1957, just before this college opened, the Soviet Union beat us into space by launching a satellite known as Sputnik.
Concorde was in the air and it was every schoolboy's conviction that the next inevitable step would see Union Jacks flying in space.
My mother was particularly insistent, lobbying for an event space near Cooper Union.
In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first inhabited space capsule, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika.
After all, this was 1986: IBM had just unveiled its first laptop, the Soviet Union was launching the Mir Space Station and Tom Cruise kept daring us to fly ever higher in the hit film "Top Gun".
President Reagan had planned to deliver his annual State of the Union address on the day the space shuttle Challenger exploded killing all seven crew members aboard.
Hopes for dialog in the Middle East also gave oil some breathing space, with European Union policy chief Javier Solana telling the media that he hoped to meet with his Iranian counterpart before the end of the month.
America was in the throes of a national state of anxiety over the Soviet Union's launch of its Sputnik space satellites.
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.
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.
Iran has already tested intercontinental ballistic missiles by using them to send satellites into space, much like the Soviet Union did with Sputnik.
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Other primates and mice followed, and the Soviet Union a few years later joining the animal space race when nine dogs went skyward aboard rockets.
Plus, Las Vegas is a union town, and the requirements for booth space are enough to give an entire corporate finance committee a simultaneous heart attack.
His mission will make him the first UK national to live and work in space, and to fly the Union flag, on a British-government-funded programme (the UK is Esa's third largest contributor).
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Billionaires and near-billionaires Mark Shuttleworth, Dennis Tito, Anoush Ansari and Simonyi have already taken advantage of the infrastructure built by fallen superpower Soviet Union to hitch a ride to the International Space Station.
And with recent opinion polls indicating that more than a third of voters would like to leave the European Union, it is potentially quite a large space much too large to ignore, according to unrepentant old Thatcherites, such as Lord Tebbit.
The scope of the Soviet programs indicates that the Soviet Union is seeking the military and commercial domination of space.
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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In July 1990, together with four other sons of prominent politicians, he issued a statement urging the then-ruling party, Kenya African National Union (Kanu), to open up the political space.
The backlash in the streets started Tuesday morning, several hours before more than 25, 000 largely peaceful marchers headed from a union-backed rally at Memorial Stadium, near the Space Needle, toward the shops and hotels of downtown.
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As the foreign-ministry document asserts, Russia needs to consolidate the former Soviet space by, for example, pushing the customs union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
The Czech MEP was the first man in space not to be from the US or the Soviet Union.
Nazi aerospace engineers pioneered the jet engine and their early work on rockets laid the foundations for the post-war space programs of both the United States and the Soviet Union.
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During the cold war between America and the Soviet Union, the two were closely matched in their struggle for supremacy in space.
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This perception has had several practical and beneficial effects for the Soviet national security apparatus: First, it has greatly attenuated support for Western military preparedness, providing "a breathing space" (peredyshka) vitally needed if the Soviet Union is to restore a favorable correlation of forces.
In 1963, the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union signed a treaty in Moscow banning nuclear tests in the atmosphere, in space and underwater.
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