英语课程计划-NASA

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

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Stuart stood in line in the drugstore. The clerk said, Next. She asked Stuart for his Rewards card. Stuart had been digging through his wallet looking for it. He finally found it. It was with seven other Rewards cards for seven other stores. Each car

地道英语对话：Policy Towards Pets(3)

A: Are renters allowed to have pets? B: We allow a small well-behaved pet, but you need to sign an agreement saying youll pay for any damages. A: Do you allow both cats and dogs? B: We only allow a medium or small dog or a cat. A: Are there any speci

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A: I was wondering if you allow pets in this building. B: We do allow some pets, but you must pay an additional five hundred dollar security deposit. A: What kind of pets do you allow? B: You may keep either one cat or one dog. A: Can cats and dogs b

地道英语对话：Policy Towards Pets(2)

A: What is your policy towards tenants keeping pets? B: You may have a pet, but you have to pay an extra two hundred dollar cleaning deposit. A: How many pets can we have? B: You may have only one pet. You can have either a small dog or a cat. A: Wha

为打造全球第五大经济体 阿里巴巴启动NASA计划

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

VOA常速英语2014--NASA Scientists Testing New Aircraft Designs NASA的科学家测试新飞机的设计

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

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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

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