What else was the Great Depression or the space race or the construction of the railroads?
大萧条，太空竞赛，铁路建设还意味着什么呢？
The real space race is whether we will colonise off Earth on to other worlds before money for the space programme runs out.
真正的太空竞赛是我们是否会在太空计划的资金耗尽之前，在地球以外的其他星球建立殖民地。
At least the space race had a military rationale.
太空竞赛至少有军事上的需要。
You've very quiet, John, how do you feel about space race?
约翰，你怎么一言不发？你觉得空间竞赛如何？
It's a mistake to take the space race term and just blindly apply it.
开启太空竞赛并盲目使用它是一个错误。
Part of the reason is that the space race was ill-conceived from the start.
其中部分原因应当归咎于：太空竞赛从一开始就是个病态的构想。
A new space race to the moon has an even less lofty goal: sightseeing.
一个新的到月球的竞争有一个更加崇高的目标：旅游观光。
The green-tech space race isn't one that one side wins and the other loses.
绿色空间竞争并不是胜者为王败者为寇的竞赛。
They're happy plodding along slowly and creating this perception of a space race.
他们愉快地缓慢前行，形成太空竞赛的感观。
The space race is not simply the objective search for knowledge it is often made out to be.
太空竞争的目的不单单是客观地探求知识，虽然它常常自命如此。
A few hope for a modern rerun of the space race, with China or perhaps India providing the competition.
有些人寄希望于一场新的太空竞赛，让中国或是印度作为美国的竞争对手。
The launch will put India into an Asian space race, which last year saw Japan and China launch lunar orbiters.
继日本和中国去年先后发射了月球探测器后，印度也将借此加入到亚洲的太空竞赛中来。
It was a surprise to the world, a shock to many Americans, and the starting gun for the space race between the superpowers.
在冷战中，这个消息震惊了世界，并给美国人带来巨大冲击，同时也是两个超级大国间太空竞赛的发令枪响。
Description: Remember the excitement as you watched the coverage of those early NASA achievements in the great Space Race?
说明：请记住你的兴奋观看了这些早期美国宇航局在太空竞赛的伟大成就的报道？
Although it is often remembered as an exercise in technology, the space race was just as much a competition in public relations.
太空竞赛尽管总被认为是技术竞争，其实倒不如说是公共关系的竞争。
Science spending was huge, the space race was going at full speed, the education level of the population increased dramatically.
科学投入巨大，太空竞赛正在全速进行，全民的教育水平急剧增长。
That is exactly why the U.S. wanted to do it, in order to one-up the Soviet Union, who were perceived as leading the space race at the time.
这正是为什么美国想要这样做的原因——为了领先苏联。 那时人们曾认为苏联处于太空竞争的领先地位。
But India is not the only Asian country in the new space race - Iran recently announced that it will attempt a manned space flight by 2021.
但是印度不是参与亚洲空间竞争的唯一的国家——伊朗最近宣布，将在2021年试射载人飞船。
I grew up during the Space Race and the Cold War, and as I explained above, my father was an SF reader in the 1930s and I grew up reading his collection.
我自己的科幻故事总被人说是老式的。我成长于太空竞赛和冷战时期，像我刚刚说过的，我父亲喜欢读30年代的科幻小说，而我成长过程中读的都是他收藏的书。
I grew up during the Space Race and the Cold War, and as I explained above, my father was an SF reader in the 1930s and I grew up reading his collection.
我自己的科幻故事总被人说是老式的。我成长于太空竞赛和冷战时期，像我刚刚说过的，我父亲喜欢读30年代的科幻小说，而我成长过程中读的都是他收藏的书。
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