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【句子对照】 He is just a space cadet; you see his dreams have never come true. 他只爱幻想,却不付诸于实际行动。他的梦想从来没有实现过。 【关键俚语】 space cadet 英:Someone who is generally unaware, or not paying attention, or out of touch with rea
ESL Podcast 1182 Finding a Parking Space Alan: We have to find a parking space. Lets drive around the block one more time. Did you say that the restaurant were going to has no off-street parking at all? Sasha: None. When I called the restaurant earli
By Jessica Berman Scientists with the U.S. space agency NASA have begun investigating the crash landing Wednesday of the Genesis space capsule in Utah. The mission came to a disastrous end when a para
Space aliens and extraterrestrials have long been popular subjects of Hollywood movies and science fiction literature. But the idea of intelligent life in outer space is no longer limited to fiction. For the last 50 years, scientists and astronomers
EXPLORATIONS - After 30 Years, the Space Shuttle Program Retires MARIO RITTER: I'm Mario Ritter. BARBARA KLEIN: And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This week, we talk about the final American space shuttle flight. Last wee
By Kent Klein Washington 03 June 2008 Astronauts at the International Space Station have attached a $1 billion Japanese laboratory to the orbiting outpost. During a space walk Tuesday, mission specialists Michael Fossum and Ronald Garan unlocked the
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
Technology Report - Test of Big Space Rocket Set for Late 2012 This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. An American space company says a powerful new rocket should be ready for a test launch by the end of next year. The company is Space Exp
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
EXPLORATIONS - Project Mercury: Alan Shepard Becomes the First American in Space STEVE EMBER: This is Steve Ember. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And this is Shirley Griffith with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we finish the story of the firs
A Chinese astronaut has made the historic first step in outer space for his country. With the successful spacewalk, China has become the third country, after the United States and Russia, to do so. Stephanie Ho reports from Beijing. In this video gr
Space Exploration Enthusiasts Say US Program Adrift A half century ago, NASA sent astronauts to the moon, and for the past three decades used its space shuttle for low-earth orbit missions. But many veterans of NASA's glory years, such as former John
New Texas Institute Coordinates Space Medicine Research Since the human space flight adventure began more than 50 years ago, scientists have learned a lot about things like the effects of weightlessness on bones and muscles, and the danger of increas
Retired Space Shuttle Makes Final Voyage Discovery took off after daybreak one last time, leaving its home of nearly three decades - NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. But instead of blasting off, it rode atop a special 747 jumbo jet that ferrie
Future for Commercial Space Endeavors Looks Bright Space the final frontier. Once the purview of cash-rich governments, launching rockets into space has become increasingly commonplace as demand for communications satellites and space-based imaging s
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless has died. You may not know his name, but you've probably seen him in one of the most famous pictures ever taken in space. In 1984, McCandless strapped on a jet-powered backpack and flew away from t
LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: About eight feet beneath Washington D.C.'s Dupont Circle, there is a network of dark winding concrete passageways. It's the remains of what used to be a trolley system - train tracks, platforms, tunnels - mostly abandone
Since the US space program began in 1958, NASA has achieved much in the realm of space exploration. From lunar landings to voyages into the depth of our solar system, NASA has built a storied history. In the early days, space was a men's world. All t
By Paul Sisco Washington, D.C. 07 June 2007 The first of four shuttle missions to the International Space Station this year is set for late Friday. Space shuttle Atlantis The shuttle Atlantis is on the launch pad and everything looks good for Friday
Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts-off from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, 08 Feb 2010 The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in the southeastern U.S. state of Florida before dawn, bound for the Inte