Space Shuttle Era Closes with Atlantis' Landing The Space Shuttle Atlantis and its four-person crew landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida just before dawn, bringing to a close a program that began in 1981 and leaving the United States tempora...
THIS IS AMERICA - Deep Space Is Next Aim for NASA After Shuttles SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Shirley Griffith. CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: And I'm Christopher Cruise. This week on our program, we look at the Ameri...
As crew members of the upcoming NASA space shuttle mission prepare for the final flight of the shuttle program, they say they are inspired by NASA's accomplishments, but also about the retirement of the shuttle fleet and lay-offs among the NASA commu...
Technology Report - Is NASAs James Webb Space Telescope a Time Machine? This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. If you could build a time machine, what would it look like? Maybe, it should look like a telescope. American scientists are bui...
MOSCOW, May 13 (Xinhua) -- The main and backup(后备) crews that will fly to the International Space Station in June have passed preflight tests and are ready for space travel, the Russian Cosmonauts Training Center said Friday. The main crew includ...
People in America - Alan Shepard, 1923-1998: The First American to Fly in Space SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: I'm Shirley Griffith. STEVE EMBER: And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program People in America. Each week we tell about someone important...
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People are flocking to the central Florida coast for Friday's scheduled launch of the space shuttle Endeavour(奋进号) , the second to last launch of a shuttle as NASA brings the three-decade-old program to an end. The space agency is expecting aro...
This Friday, the U.S. space shuttle Endeavor is scheduled to lift off on its last voyage（航行） to the orbiting International Space Station. And on June 28, barring any last minute complications, Alantis will become the last space shuttle ever t...
