Contemporary Texas

A period of great profits followed by a sharp decline:

• energy
• sustainability
• innovation
• boom & bust cycle

All the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country.

• immigration
• population
• migration
• census

Increasing connectivity between the world's societies represents:

• innovation
• technololgy
• globalization
• transportation

The branch of technology and industry concerned with both aviation and space flight.

• OPEC
• Aerospace
• sustainability
• globalization

Those who study statistical data about human populations.

• cartographers
• geographers
• demographers
• stenographers

A forecast or hypothesis.

• prelude
• synopsis
• preface
• prediction

Ability to maintain natural resources in order to keep nature's  balance, and keep resources for future generations.

• globalization
• conservatism
• sustainability
• technology

Intergovernmental organization that regulates the oil market based upon supply and demand; or Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.

• ORMC
• OAGC
• NASA
• OPEC

The National federal agency that is responsible for aerospace research, Aeronautics, and the civilian Space program Association.

• NCIA
• NSA
• NASA
• NADA

The country the that U.S.A. was entangled in a cosmic race with.

• Germany
• Russia
• Cuba
• Sweden