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NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was established on July 29th, 1958. It was responsible for the USAs space exploration programme. NASA has changed the way we live here on Earth, and the way we look at the universe. President Dw

Pakistan mobilising for displaced

Pakistan mobilising for displaced 巴基斯坦决定安置流离失所人员 Authorities in Pakistan say they are mobilising to receive as many as half a million people displaced by fighting in the Swat Valley. A minister in North West Frontier Province told the

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Alibaba Group Holding, known for its success in e-commerce, is trying to build up its reputation as a technology powerhouse. 因电商领域的成就而广为人知的阿里巴巴集团正在尝试建立其作为科技巨头的声誉。 In the next t

NASA's WISE satellite spots "horseshoe" asteroid

LOS ANGELES, April 8 (Xinhua) -- NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has discovered a rare asteroid that traces out a horseshoe shape relative to Earth, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said on Friday. Unlike most near-Earth asteroid

NASA Satellites Help Protect Developing Nations

NASA Satellites Help Protect Developing Nations Satellite technology is the newest tool for helping developing countries deal with climate change and natural disasters. Satellites can measure conditions on the ground and share the data with communiti

2007年VOA标准英语-NASA Offers Shuttle Launch Experience

By Rohit Kulkarni Washington, D.C. 23 July 2007 Flying into space is an adventure only a select few will ever experience. But the U.S. space agency, NASA, is now offering visitors to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida the excitement of spaceflight w

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NASA Scientists Testing New Aircraft Designs NASA的科学家测试新飞机的设计 The U.S Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, is commonly associated with space exploration, but aeronautics is still a big part of the agencys research. Engi

voa标准英语2008-NASA Delays 2009 Mars Mission Due to Technical P

NASA says its next mission to check for life on Mars will have to wait two more years. In the meantime, NASA plans to continue testing its next-generation Mars rover, and it hopes to continue exploring the red planet with the help of the European Sp

Atlantis opens next chapter, says NASA

BEIJING, July 3 (Xinhuanet) -- The Atlantis mission to be launched by NASA on July 8 will not be an end to the space age, as some media suggest. Although it is the final mission of the space shuttle, it will open up the next chapter in the United Sta

NASA发布照片：冥王星 你为什么心碎？

During a news briefing at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory on Tuesday, NASA scientists revealed what they've gleaned from the latest photos of Pluto. The New Horizons spacecraft was set to make its closest approach of the dwarf planet on

NASA科学家 火星表面有液态水

US satellite observations have produced the first strong evidence for water flowing on Mars. 美国卫星观测找到了火星表面存在液态水的首批强有力证据。 The water is a brine saturated in salts such as perchlorates. As it seeps d

NASA announces design of new rocket

BEIJING, Oct. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- NASA recently unveiled its new rocket design, named Space Launch System (SLS), according to media reports. The rocket will make its first unmanned flight in 2017, and the flight with astronauts aboard won't happen unti

NASA to launch twin probes to measure moon gravity

BEIJING, Sept. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- NASA will launch on Thursday twin lunar orbiters built to map the gravity of Earth's moon in unprecedented detail, media reported Tuesday. The twin lunar probes, Graili-A and Graili-B, will blast off from Florida's Cap

NASA发现“另一个地球”

Today we're announcing the discovery of an exoplanet that as far as we can tell is a pretty good close cousin to the earth and our sun An historic moment in NASA's epic pursuit of earth-like planets, as the newly discovered Kepler-452b was officially

经济学人210:望远镜将其他科研项目挤出NASA的预算

A shiny new telescope is crowding out NASA's other science missions 一个引人瞩目的望远镜把其他科研项目挤出NASA的预算 THE Hubble space telescope, an orbiting observatory launched in 1990 by NASA, America's space agency, 哈勃望远

经济学人:自由交流:利益交易无需考虑"道德问题"?(2)

Though studies show that telling people that payment encourages organ donations increases support for legalising payments, other examples work in the opposite way. 尽管研究表明，告诉人们付款鼓励器官捐赠增加了对合法化支付的支

NASA ready to launch shuttle Endeavour

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

NASA Announces Next Generation Spacecraft

NASA has unveiled plans for its next-generation, post-Shuttle spacecraft to carry humans into earth orbit and beyond. The state-of-the-art, four-astronaut capsule, called the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle or MPCV, builds on earlier designs for the Orion

【英音模仿秀】大麻的另一面

模仿文本： The debate over decriminalising cannabis continues particularly in the US where two states have legalised it for recreational use. In California, marijuana for medicinal purposes has been legal for years. But the campaign to make it m

【英音模仿秀】改变生活习惯有助于预防痴呆

模仿句子：Researchers say the number of people living with dementia in parts of Western Europe is stabilising which is a bit surprising because the incidence has been increasing as people live longer and that process continues. So what might be