space program
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- noun
- /speɪs ˈprɒɡræm/
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programa espacial
- So China is going full steam ahead in developing a space program, doing a lot of incredible work.
- NASA space program
- U.S. space program
- American space program
So China is going full steam ahead in developing a space program, doing a lot of incredible work.
- So China is going full steam ahead in developing a space program, doing a lot of incredible work.
- Who was the mastermind behind the space program?
- So appreciate the space program's place in the world, both for technological achievement and for statesmanship.
- And her father worked in what she called the secret space program.
- VW cars, Fanta, US space program.
- The thing that you end up with is every bit a reality of a space program implemented from you.
- Basically, I was at a dinner party with a friend of my wife and she at one point she, she knew I was a big fan of the space program.
Examples
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We have some women in the space program.
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There are quite a few women working in the space program.
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That is why I love the space program so much, because the people make it real.
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Are you boys in the space program, too?
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Well, at least the US space program seemed somewhat back on track.
Fiction book (1999) -
And with that, the United States space program known as NASA was born.
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There is no doubt in my mind that the NASA space program is the best thing our government does.
Academic text (2000) -
Enormous engineering resources were invested in the U.S. space program during the 1960s.
Academic text (2005) -
So appreciate the space program's place in the world, both for technological achievement and for statesmanship.
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The U.S. government has a space program dedicated to exploring the moon and Mars.
How Ambitious
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an organized initiative to explore outer space' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'space' (the cosmos beyond Earth) with 'program' (an organized set of projects). This is a straightforward noun-noun compound following standard compositional patterns and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Space program: The name space program comes from government plans to send rockets into space. People thought of a program as a set of jobs and steps, like a schedule for a mission, so the phrase now means an organized effort 'to explore outer space'.