David McAlary For weeks, two helicopter crews have been practicing the mid-air capture of a parachute drifting down over the Utah desert. When the event acttually occurs Wednesday, the parachute will

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(下)--健康科技

AS IT IS 2014-12-06 NASA Test Launches Its New Orion Spacecraft 美国航空航天局测试新的航天飞船 The United States plans to launch a new spacecraft on Thursday. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to launch the Orion

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Parker Solar Probe Becomes Closest Spacecraft to Sun The American space agency is reporting that its Parker Solar Probe now holds the record for the closest approach to the Sun by a human-made object. 美国航天局报告称,其帕克号太阳探测

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PEOPLE IN AMERICA -October 27, 2002: Alan Shepard By Avi Arditti VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, People in America. Each week we te

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EXPLORATIONS -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (MUSIC) Today, Harry Monroe and Tony Riggs report about America's second manned space program, Gemini. Two astronauts flew on each flight. Gemini's purpose was to bring the United

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European, Japanese Spacecraft Begins Seven-Year Trip to Mercury European and Japanese space agencies have successfully launched a spacecraft as part of a joint effort to study Mercury, the closest planet to the sun. 欧洲和日本航天机构成功发

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With such a short window to capture data, the team must test and retest the instruments throughout new horizons' nine-year journey.Every year for about two months we are going to wait the spacecraft up and do some testing, some observations of celest

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EXPLORATIONS - November 6, 2002: Space Digest By Paul Thompson VOICE ONE: This is Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we tell ab

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Jupiters Moon Europa May Be Top Candidate for Life A fresh look at old data is giving scientists a new reason to consider Europa, a moon orbiting the planet Jupiter, as a leading candidate in the search for life beyond Earth. 对老数据的一次重新

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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - True or False: Kids + Too Much TV = Less Ability to Learn? By Jill Moss, Jerilyn Watson,... Broadcast: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in V

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EXPLORATIONS -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (MUSIC) Today, Shirley Griffith and Tony Riggs complete a report about America's second manned space program, Gemini. Its purpose was to bring the United States closer to its goal

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AS IT IS 2014-08-07 Rosetta Spacecraft Catches a Comet 罗塞塔航天器捕捉到一颗彗星 After a 10-year trip, a European spacecraft has, for the first time, entered an orbit around a comet. The European Space Agencys Rosetta spacecraft began a

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China's first cargo spacecraft has refueled the Tiangong-2 space lab in orbit for the first time. Tianzhou-1, which was launched April 20th from Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China's Hainan Province, successfully completed an automated dockin

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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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It's morning in the Kalahari, and this female cheetah has discovered that her cubs are growing ever more independent. She calls for them, but theyve already gone out exploring. And theyve discovered a wounded gemsbok that may have escaped from a lion

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US Space Probe to Reveal Comet's Secrets 美国航天探测器揭示彗星状况 A U.S. spacecraft is completing afive-and-a-halfmonth voyage to a distant comet and could create celestial fireworks wh

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Kepler Telescope's Planet-hunting Days End 开普勒望远镜危在旦夕 NASA is ending its attempts to restore the Kepler Space Telescope to full working order. The US space agency will now focus on analyzing the data collected over the past four y

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BEIJING, Sept. 26 (Xinhuanet) -- Weather forecasts showed that Thursday or Friday might be suitable for launching the Tiangong-1 spacecraft, experts said. The unmanned spacecraft, part of China's first spacecraft rendezvous and docking mission, was s

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In March of 1966, Neil Armstrong got his first chance to put his training to the test. He was the command pilot of Gemini 8, which was to dock or connect with another satellite already in space. This was an important step in the goal of reaching the

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The United States space program began in the late 1950s. Only a little more than fifty years earlier, in 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright flew the very first airplane in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Yet by mid-century, air travel was common. After the

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