For most of the space age that insight led scientists to Mars.

在太空时代的大部分时间里，这种洞察力将科学家引向了火星。

Before the space age, people thought it might be very Earth-like on Venus.

太空时代以前，人们普遍认为金星类似地球。

However, some experts say the expression did not begin with the space age.

然而，一些专家表示，这种表达并非始于太空时代。

The Soviet Union launched the space age by putting the world's first satellite into earth orbit.

苏联将世界上第一颗卫星送入地球轨道，从而开启了太空时代。

A player piano for the space age.

太空时代的自动钢琴。

Humans have only recently entered the space age; yet here we are, contemplating interplanetary colonization.

人类最近才进入太空时代。然而我们在这里，正在考虑行星际殖民。

After decades of launches since the dawn of the space age, Earth's orbit has become a junkyard of dead satellites and abandoned rocket bodies.

自太空时代开始以来，已经向地球轨道发射了几十次（航天器），这里现在已经变成了废弃卫星和火箭残骸的垃圾场。

I'm not quite that ambitious but certainly before the space age reaches the ripe old age of 50 years or so, I believe the program will be underway.

我没有那么大的雄心壮志，但我相信在太空时代达到50年左右的成熟年龄之前，这个计划将会顺利进行。

The interesting metric is that over the next ten years, were going to launch three times as much into space as we have launched since Sputnik, since the beginning of the space age.

有趣的一点是，在未来的十年里，我们将会向太空发射的东西是自斯普特尼克以来的三倍，也就是太空时代开始以来的三倍。

Not incidentally, he was also a founding director of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which eventually became the National Aeronautics and Space Agency, or NASA, and thus can rightly be considered the grandfather of the space age.

需要提一句的是，他还是美国航空学顾问委员会的创始理事，该委员会后来成为美国国家航空和航天局，因此他完全有理由可以被认为是空间时代的鼻祖。