Europe's new generation spacecraft European space travel is taking a giant step forward with the launch of a first-of-its-kind spacecraft. Its the biggest space vehicle Europe has ever built. Jules Verne weighs 20 tons and stands more than 30 feet h

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VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This week, we hear some unusual sounds from space. Scientists created them by taking radio wave observations and turning them into sound waves

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Lesson Fifteen Pre-class Work Read the text a third time. Learn the new words and expressions listed below. Glossary aborted adj. stopped because it would be difficult and dangerous to continue 中途失

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EXPLORATIONS - 'Houston, We've Had a Problem Here': The Survival of Apollo 13By Marilyn Rice Christiano and directed by Paul Thompson Broadcast: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 ANNOUNCER: EXPLORATIONS -- a

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By Marilyn Rice Christiano Broadcast: August 20, 2003 (THEME) ANNCR: Explorations -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (THEME) (Apollo Eleven Countdown) A rocket launch countdown.

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On November 8th, Russia launched a probe toward the tiny Martian moon Phobos. The launch was picture-perfect, and the spacecraft, called PhobosGrunt, soared into the night sky over Kazakhstan. The good news stops there. For instead of boosting itself

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美国私企飞船与空间站对接 WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- A commercial spacecraft, operated by U.S. space company Orbital Sciences Corp., docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday morning on its first official cargo resup

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JIUQUAN, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- China will launch the spacecraft Shenzhou-8 in early November at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest deseart area. The unmanned spacecraft is expected to perform China's first space docking with Tiangong-1, o

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Juno Spacecraft Enters Jupiter Orbit 朱诺号探测器进入木星轨道 American scientists cheered loudly as their spacecraft, called Juno, entered Jupiters orbit Monday night. Juno, welcome to Jupiter! The scientists are with the U.S. space agenc

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NASA Paints Pluto Wild With Color NASA公布冥王星表面色彩 NASA, the U.S. agency that explores outer space, calls this image Psychedelic Pluto. Pluto is the furthest planet in our solar system. The word psychedelic means bright, edgy colors, a

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China has released a short list of eight names for the country's first Mars spacecraft, which is scheduled to launch by 2020. 近日,中国发布了一份名单,列出了中国第一个、预计于2020年发射的火星探测器的八个待选名称

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The Russian Soyuz spacecraft has docked with the International Space Station after a flawless rendezvous. It came two days after the spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The spacecraft brought a Russian cosmonaut, a NASA as

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low Earth orbit 近地轨道 lunar module 登月舱 lunar rover 月球车 main landing field/ primary landing site 主着陆场 manned space 载人航天计划 manned space flight 载人航天 manned spaceship/ spacecraft 载人飞船 Milky Way 银河系

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The U.S. space probe MESSENGER is poised to enter orbit around Mercury(水银) early Friday, Universal time, capping a nearly seven-year journey to the solar systems innermost planet. Scientists with the U.S. space agency, NASA, hope the orbiting

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China is developing a new generation of reusable manned spacecraft that can operate in both low-earth orbit and manned moon landing missions, Zhang Bainan, chief designer of manned spacecraft at China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, rev

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The Shenzhou 10 spacecraft has been transferred to its launch pad in northwestern China in preparation for its launch later on this month. CRI's Su Yi has the details. Both the ship and its Long-March 2-F rocket have been moved to the Jiuquan Satelli

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We are rediscovering the enigmas(谜团) of the Moon and they're really in our own backyard Dr Jim Garvin, Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center Moon water has world in a twitter A surprising amount of water has been found to exist in the Moon's soil. Data

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本期内容: China is preparing to make the first attempt at landing robotic spacecraft on the Moon's far side. A static lander and rover are expected to be deployed to the surface in the next day, state media reports. The vehicles are carrying a

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This is Steve Ember. And this is Shirley Griffith with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we finish the story of the first American program to send a person into space. It was called Project Mercury. The American space agency opened

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本期内容: 神舟十一号17日发射,开启了我国时间最长载人飞行,下面看一则选自上周日CNN发布的新闻 China is preparing for its longest-ever crewed space mission, with a spacecraft carrying two astronauts expected t

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