BARBARA KLEIN: Im Barbara Klein. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This week on our program, we tell you about the new goals that President Obama is proposing for the space agency NASA. The plans include a deci

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By David McAlary A panel of scientists and engineers appointed by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences urges NASA to refurbish the observatory one final time, predicting that compelling scientific re

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Reuters. Live on Chinese State Television, a Chinese countdown. 6,5,4,3,2,1, 点火 And the Long March Rockets carrying a Shenzhou 7 spacecraft with three astronauts launches from a remote site in northwest China. The astronauts plan to make a space

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Astronaut Yang Liwei, the first Chinese to enter space, is seen here before he entered the Shenzhou-5 spacecraft at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province on October 15, 1999. [Photo: 163.com] China first unveiled its

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This year marks the 20th anniversary of the creation of China astronaut training program. All 11 Chinese astronauts who have been to space are revisiting the oath of bravery and commitment they took years before. The move is to commemorate the 20th a

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Why Do Zebras Have Stripes? For many animals, camouflage is an important part of survival. A leopards spotted coat and a polar bears white fur help them blend into their respective environments. But a zebras bold stripes cant help to disguise it in i

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英国每日邮报的一篇报道说,在太空中,没人能听到宇航员打呼噜,但是,这或许正是他们失眠的原因. 为何宇航员在太空中会失眠? Daily mail: In space, no one can hear you snore - but that's probably because you'r

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美联社,新闻一分钟,Russian,British,Israeli,1. Seven people trapped on a Russian mini-submarine for three days are rescued when a British remote-controlled vehicle cuts away undersea cable s that snarled the vessel. 2. Israeli Finance Minister

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AS IT IS 2016-02-26 Astronaut Scott Kelly Talks about His Year in Space For nearly a year, American astronaut Scott Kelly has been living and working at the International Space Station (ISS), with no running water. He told reporters Thursday that it

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NASA officials say images taken of the space shuttle Discovery's launch on Tuesday show a small piece of foam insulation may have struck the orbiter's wing. A similar wing hit during the launch of the Columbia in February 2003 caused the disaster whe

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Astronauts Zhang Xiaoguang, Nie Haisheng and Wang Yaping (from left to right) shake hands after they got out of the re-entry capsule of China's Shenzhou-10 spacecraft following its successful landing at the main landing site in north China's Inner Mo

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China successfully launches Shenzhou-11 manned spacecraft As the sun rose over Northwest China's Gobi dessert, Shenzhou 11 spacecraft blasted off into space, propelled by its Long March 2F carrier rocket at 7:30 am Monday morning. After its separatio

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Shenzhou 11 spacecraft to carry two astronauts into space Sitting under the national flag and separated from the media by a transparent glass wall, 50-year-old Jing Haipeng and 37-year-old Chen Dong appeared calm as they prepare to be part of, what i

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In April 1970, Apollo 13 was scheduled to land on the moon in NASA's bid to further explore the lunar surface. Instead, an in-flight explosion rocked the spacecraft, preventing astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise from landing on the m

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THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: Man on the Moon STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. (MUSIC AND SPUTNIK SOUNDS) On a cold October day in nineteen fifty-seven, the Soviet U

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Film offers first glimpse of space telescope's breathtaking deep space images in IMAX 3D Penelope Poulou | Washington, DC 01 April 2010 Astronaut John Grunsfeld is positioned on a foot restraint on the end of Atlantis' remote manipulator system and a

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Topic 1-Nude pictures as IOU for online loan According to media reports, female university students have undertook risky loans via P2P platforms whereby they are required to submit nude photographs of themselves as collateral to loan sharks. If payme

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On the morning of July 16, 1969, Neil and his two fellow Apollo 11 crewmen rose at 4:15 A.M. They had steak and eggs for breakfast, the same breakfast all astronauts had before a flight. The night before a special visitor had arrived for dinner to wi

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THE APOLLO PROGRAM CAME AFTER THE GEMINI PROGRAM. APOLLO SPACECRAFT WERE BIGGER AND BETTER. NASA THOUGHT A MOON LANDING MIGHT HAPPEN IN 1967. THREE ASTRONAUTS WERE CHOSEN FOR THE FIRST APOLLO MISSIONROGER CHAFFEE, GUS GRISSOM, AND ED WHITE, THE KIND

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For a long time, the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics has been the cradle for China's space industry talent. Today a special competition was held on campus to mark the day and shape the future. They are the astronauts and spacecraft

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