The Space Race also depended on accurate spacecraft control.

Eisenhower was also criticized for his handling of the 1960 U-2 incident and the international embarrassment, the Soviet Union's perceived leadership in the nuclear arms race and the Space Race, and his failure to publicly oppose McCarthyism.

Helium use following World War II was depressed but the reserve was expanded in the 1950s to ensure a supply of liquid helium as a coolant to create oxygen / hydrogen rocket fuel ( among other uses ) during the Space Race and Cold War.

As the Space Race gathered momentum, the continuing turmoil of decolonisation visited wars, coups, famine, armed uprisings and violent repression on countries across South and Central America, Africa and Asia.

The US was well behind the Soviet Union in the Space Race, so President Kennedy increased the stakes with the Apollo Program, which used Saturn rocket technology that had been funded by Eisenhower.

* 1975 – Space Race: Apollo – Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight.

* 1969 – Space Race: Neil Armstrong and Edwin " Buzz " Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission ( July 20 in North America ).

On 4 October 1957 the Soviet Union had launched the first artificial satellite Sputnik 1 and ignited the Space Race, a part of the Cold War.

* 1957 – Space Race: M. I. T.

* 1957 – Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

This in turn triggered the Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States.

The unanticipated announcement of Sputnik 1s success precipitated the Sputnik crisis in the United States and ignited the so-called Space Race within the Cold War.

The early era of space exploration was driven by a " Space Race " between the Soviet Union and the United States, the launch of the first man-made object to orbit the Earth, the USSR's Sputnik 1, on 4 October 1957, and the first Moon landing by the American Apollo 11 craft on 20 July 1969 are often taken as the boundaries for this initial period.

The surprise success precipitated the American Sputnik crisis, began the Space Age and triggered the Space Race, a part of the larger Cold War.

* Documents related to Sputnik and the Space Race, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library

Space Invaders ( 1978 ) is probably the most notable, but games such as Speed Race ( 1974 ), Gun Fight ( 1975 ), Qix ( 1981 ), Jungle Hunt ( 1982 ), Elevator Action ( 1983 ), Bubble Bobble ( 1986 ), Operation Wolf ( 1987 ), Chase H. Q.

As the Cold War and the Space Race took hold, U-M became a major recipient of government grants for strategic research and helped to develop peacetime uses for nuclear energy.

The world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, had been put into orbit by the Soviets in 1957, and this could be considered the beginning of the Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States.

On 1 August 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin left the Fallen Astronaut on the surface of the Moon as a memorial to all the American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts that died in the Space Race, with Yuri Gagarin listed among 14 others.

This competition included the development and improvement of nuclear weapons and the Space Race.

The conflicts included the Korean War in the beginnings of the decade and the beginning of the Space Race with the launch of Sputnik I.

* July 29 – The United Kingdom opts out of the Space Race, with the cancellation of its Black Arrow launch vehicle.

They existed prior to the Space Race of the Cold War ( between the USSR and the USA.

Previously unpublished works are coming to light in A Café in Space, the Anaïs Nin Literary Journal, which most recently includes " Anaïs Nin and Joaquín Nin y Castellanos: Prelude to a Symphony — Letters between a father and daughter.

Following the entry into force of a framework agreement between the EU and ESA there is a Space Council configuration-joint and concomitant meeting of the EU Council and of the ESA Council at ministerial level dealing with the implementation of the ESP adopted by both organizations.

In the Space To Care study aimed at improving hospital design for children, researchers from the University of Sheffield polled 250 children regarding their opinions on clowns ; all 250 children in the study, whose ages ranged between four and sixteen, reported that they found clowns frightening and disliked clowns as part of hospital decor.

Anti-capitalist art group the Space Hijackers, for example, did a piece in 2004 about the contradiction between the capitalistic elements of Banksy and his use of political imagery.

Located on Merritt Island, Florida, the center is north-northwest of Cape Canaveral on the Atlantic Ocean, midway between Miami and Jacksonville on Florida's Space Coast.

GRS is a collaboration between University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Lab., the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Russia's Space Research Institute.

The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster was caused by rubber O-rings that were being used well below their glass transition temperature on an unusually cold Florida morning, and thus could not flex adequately to form proper seals between sections of the two solid-fuel rocket boosters.

Rice acted as a temporary intermediary in the transfer of land between Humble Oil and Refining Company and NASA, for the creation of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center ( now called Johnson Space Center ) in 1962.

The difference was remarked upon in dialog between characters in " Trials and Tribble-ations ", an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine when modern-era characters travel back in time to the days of Kirk and Spock ( and via then-brand new CGI techniques, appear within the TOS episode " The Trouble With Tribbles ", frequently coming into contact with the Enterprise crew ).

The informant is subsequently executed by the Dominion, causing Captain Benjamin Sisko, the commander of Deep Space Nine, to caution that Starfleet might not grant Worf his own command after this incident, but adds that had he been forced to choose between his duty and his wife, he would have done the same thing.

Sometime between October 2372 and February 2373, with a Dominion attack on Deep Space Nine imminent, Gul Dukat announced the Cardassian Union's entry into the Dominion, shocking not only the Federation but most Cardassians as well.

Space could be thought of in a similar way to the relations between family members.

The Strategic Air and Space Museum, formerly the SAC Museum, was located adjacent to Offutt AFB till moved to its site off of I-80 between Omaha and Lincoln, preserves SAC's heritage in a fashion open to public view.

* Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirls ( SPANC ), a light-hearted competition between starship crews of cat girls in search of toys and loot.

Space Quest is a series of six comedic science fiction computer adventure games released between 1986 and 1995.

* Space Quest: The Lost Chapter-an interquel set between the second and third games.

* Space Quest IV. 5: Roger Wilco And The Voyage Home set between the fourth and fifth game.

While Space Shuttle Atlantis was refurbished and relaunched in 53 days between missions STS-51-J and STS-61-B, generally months were required to repair an orbiter for a new mission.

* Space Shuttle Enterprise ( OV-101 ), the first Space Shuttle Orbiter, used for test flights in earth atmosphere, landing procedures, and ground tests between 1975 and 1985.

* The majority of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine two-part story " Past Tense " takes place between August 30 and September 3, 2024.