31.   Additional reductions of this size would require ending vital programs, possibly closing some field centers and gambling on the future of the space program, he said.

32.   After all, the space program had the full support of the strongest nation on Earth behind it.

33.   Against this gloomy background, Mir is one of the glittering successes of the Russian space program.

34.   After the American triumph of landing men on another world, the space program still had ambition but lacked focus.

35.   Almost from the beginning of the space program, astronauts have trained in water.

36.   Aldrin startled the crowd with remarks scolding Americans for apathy toward the space program.

37.   Bringing the two space programs together should be a boon to scientists in both nations, Pierson and several other researchers say.

38.   Burrough writes brilliantly about the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Russian space program, but his story transcends the details of the subject at hand.

39.   Bush should take the lead, just as Presidents Kennedy and Johnson championed the space program.

40.   Brandt was realistic about what federal downsizing meant for government space programs.