NPR 2008-11-15

Six, Five, four three, two, one, booster ignition and liftoff of space shuttle Endeavour，preparing our home in space for a larger international family. The space shuttle Endeavour with the seven-member crew lifting off the pad just moments ago at C

NPR 2011-05-16

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jim Howard. At least 13 people are dead in anti-Israeli protests along the Lebanese and Syrian borders and in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The violence comes on a day called Nakba, the annual observa

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By Paul Sisco Washington 20 August 2007 Student gather for a classroom lesson from Shuttle Endeavour Twenty young students gathered at the Challenger Space Center outside Washington DC last week for a firsthand lesson in space science, all the way fr

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AP 2011-06-04

1. A UN official who met with war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic as he was being extradited from Belgrade says Mladic was extremely cooperative when taken into custody. He'll appear before a judge in the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal on Friday. Mladic is

AP 2011-06-02

1. A lawyer for Ratko Mladic says the war crimes suspect won't live to see the start of his trial on genocide charges. The lawyer says Mladic is ill, and wants doctors to examine the 69-year-old. Mladic is accused of ordering the killing of 8,000 Mus

AP 2010-02-17

1. The space shuttle Endeavour is on its way toward the International Space Station. Endeavour lifted off this morning just after 4 a.m. in one of the shuttle program's last scheduled missions. (The) pre-dawn launch was the last one in darkness if th

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The Space Shuttle Endeavour has landed after completing an 11-day mission to expand living space aboard the International Space Station. VOA's Brian Wagner reports from Miami. Space shuttle Endeavour and the STS-126 crew land at Edwards Air Force Ba

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NASA Identifies Shuttle Endeavour's Heater Glitch NASA says engineers at Kennedy Space Center believe they have identified the cause of the heater failure that forced the postponement of the launch of the shuttle Endeavour. NASA technicians say the f

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WASHINGTON, July 15 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. space shuttle Endeavour lifts off on Wednesday evening from Kennedy Space Center in Florida after five delays, on a track to the International Space Station (ISS). According to NASA TV, Endeavour blast off at

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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

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WASHINGTON, May 30 (Xinhua) -- After nearly 12 days together in orbit, U.S. space shuttle Endeavour(奋进号) undocked from the International Space Station on Sunday night, NASA announced on Monday. According to NASA, the undocking took place at 11:

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WASHINGTON, May 27 (Xinhua) -- Two U.S. astronauts conducted the fourth and final scheduled spacewalks for space shuttle Endeavour 's STS-134 mission on Friday morning, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced. The seve

VOA常速英语2008年-US Space Shuttle Endeavour Launches With New La

By Brian Wagner Miami 11 March 2008 Space Shuttle Endeavour has launched on an ambitious mission to deliver a new science laboratory and robotic system to the International Space Station. VOA's Brian Wagner reports from Miami. The seven-person crew a

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By Cindy Saine Washington 08 August 2007 Shuttle Endeavour lifts off launch pad The U.S. Space Shuttle Endeavour has lifted off into space late Wednesday from Cape Canaveral, Florida and is heading towards the International Space Station for a constr

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The space shuttle Endeavour has returned to Earth for the final time, after completing a 16-day mission to the International Space Station. NASA welcomed home the Endeavour shuttle before dawn Wednesday, after the ship glided in from a safe re-entry

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BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhuanet) -- NASA has readied the space shuttle Endeavour for its liftoff set for Monday, media reported Monday. Good weather looks 70 percent likely for Monday's scheduled launch of Endeavour, the next-to-last U.S. space shuttle mi

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The U.S. space agency NASA is preparing the space shuttle Endeavour(奋进号) for a Monday launch, its final voyage before retiring and the next-to-last launch for the 30-year space shuttle program. The Endeavour mission was originally supposed to b

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