space age
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The vision of a utopian domestic future took a strange turn during the Cold War, marrying the breathless excitement of the space age with the existential dread of nuclear annihilation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
"There wasn't necessarily a massive amount of choice, but the choice was for these kind of bright space age tinsel decorations... the majority from Hong Kong," says Lucy, 45, from Birmingham.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
In a post today on X, Isaacman expressed his honor at the nomination and states that “this second space age has only just begun.”
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 4, 2024
Millions of items of techno-detritus have accumulated overhead since the start of the space age in 1957 - from flecks of paint to the abandoned upper-stages of rockets, like the one just pictured by Astroscale.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2024
Indeed, and rather extraordinarily, we would be well into the space age before anyone could plausibly account for where all the Earth’s old rocks went.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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