In 1983, trailblazing astronaut Sally Ride blasted out of Earth's orbit, opening the world of space travel for women. Watch the stories of other pioneers who have followed her path to the stars. Since the US space program began in 1958, NASA has ach

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 国家地理2008年

U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson broke the record Monday for the most total time spent in orbit by an American. Commander Whitson, who is currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS), has been in space a total of 534 days during her career. U.S

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(四)月

Photo: NASA US forces in Iraq speak with 2 NASA astronauts aboard the ISS in a video downlink aired on NASA TV about life on the station, their military careers and what it is like to live in space for up to 6 months, 29 Dec 2009 When many Americans

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(125) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(十二月)

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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Language Sense Enhancement 1、Read aloud paragraphs 4-11 and learn them by heart. 2、Read aloud the following poem. An Excerpt from Queen Mab Percy Bysshe Shelley Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright, through which the moon's

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 全新版大学英语综合教程

AMERICAN MOSAIC - Remembering Astronaut Neil Armstrong JUNE SIMMS: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English! Im June Simms. This week, we hear about a new book on natural soundscapes and the man who recorded them. We also tell about singer K

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 2012年VOA慢速英语(八)月

Astronauts Train Underwater for Deep Space Missions 宇航员为太空旅行做水下实验 Manned deep space missions are still a long way off, but space agencies are already testing procedures, equipment and human stamina for operations in extreme

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2015年(八月)

Astronaut M B spent 199 days on the international space station in 2009.On Feb. 17th 2013, he told kids about his time in space as part of Family Science Day Effort on the Annual Meeting of American Association for the Advance of Science in Boston.Qu

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(二)月

Wilson had always wanted to be an astronaut. His kindergarten teacher had told him that was impossible. That's nice, she said. But you'll probably never make it. Wilson thought she was very mean. Still, he never gave up his dream. Twenty years later,

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 英语第4级听力-English Level 4

VOICE ONE: This is Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: 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. (MUSIC) VO

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(六)月

EXPLORATIONS - How the 'Mercury 13' Led the Way for Women in the US Space Program Im Steve Ember. And Im Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about a program in the nineteen sixties to train women as astronauts. Today

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 2013年VOA慢速英语(四)月

By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 21 September 2007 The space age began 50 years ago this October, when the former Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik, sparking a U.S.-Soviet space race. Scientists and engineers gathered at the California

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Like most twins, Scott Kelly says he and his brother, Mark, shared a lot as kids, even taking the same part-time jobs in high school. When we were 17 years old we worked for the same ambulance company. I think that at one point we even made pizzas to

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The U.S. space shuttle program comes to an end this year, and a debate is underway over what should replace it. The retirement of the shuttle fleet could result in massive job losses in Florida. Thousands of workers protest in Titusville, Florida ove

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(三月)

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Back in January, we introduced you to the Rahimov family. They had immigrated from Uzbekistan, and we met them on the day they became U.S. citizens in Kansas City, Mo. In that story, we heard 16-year-old Murad Rahimov talk about

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台8月

Theres been a lot of talk about space travel in the news, a new mission to the moon, future missions to Mars, spacecraft that have traveled much further away than the red planet. But beyond whats technologically possible, whats physically possible? S

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2018年4月

By Jessica Berman Washington 15 October 2007 Astronaut Peggy Whitson is poised to become the first woman to command the International Space Station. Whitson and two new crew members arrived at the orbiting scientific outpost Friday to begin a mission

发表于:2019-01-21 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA常速英语(十月)

今天我们要学的词是firsthand。 Firsthand, 是直接的,第一手的意思。 Firsthand information, 第一手信息。 The astronaut gave the students a firsthand account of how cool it is to walk in space, 这名宇航员给学生们讲解了

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

The Tiangong-1 is now undergoing its final preparations for its launch tonight from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu. Ahead of the historic launch, CRI secured an opportunity to talk to one of the few astronauts who has spent time living

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 世界各地新闻集锦

Topics: Ask an American: Saving the space program; point versus period versus dot; using no with a verb; all the same Words: vehicle astronaut orbit to hitch a ride to imply to stoke innovation golden era space exploration driven by to shift outlook

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