英语听力：自然百科 Mission to Mars 火星任务：巨大的心理考验

This is Mars on Earth, a station that was built to help us learn how to live on the red planet. A group of explorers and NASA scientists are spending the next two weeks inside this habitat, trying to figure out how people will live on Mars. The NASA

02-A Boy With a Mission 男孩的使命

In 1945, a 12-year-old boy saw something in a shop lineage 2 adena window that set his heart racing. But the pricefive dollarswas far beyond Reuben Earles means. Five dollars would buy almost a weeks groceries for his family.Reuben couldnt ask his fa

VOA慢速英语2009年-EXPLORATIONS - NASA's Final Apollo Mission

VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the flights that followed Apollo Eleven to the moon. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: The summer of nineteen sixty-nine was a special tim

unit14 Mainly Revission

[00:00.00] unit 14 Mainly Revision [00:34.51]Ann___(not,watch)TV last night.The children__(go)to the farm last Saturday. [00:47.86]The boys__(meet)after school yesterday afternoon. [00:53.42]Mr Turner__(say)sorry to the conductor on the train because

VOA标准英语2011--Atlantis Crew Ready for Final Shuttle Mi

Atlantis Crew Ready for Final Shuttle Mission The end of an era is near. The U.S. space shuttles - the complex workhorses of the U.S. space program - are being retired so NASA can focus on developing spacecraft that can travel beyond low-Earth-orbit.

VOA标准英语2011--Discovery Preps for Last Space Mission

As Discovery begins its 39th and final mission into Earth's orbit Thursday, America's 30-year space shuttle program comes one step closer to its scheduled end this April. The aging fleet of reusable spacecraft has become an American technology icon,

英语新闻视频 NASA buys Russian toilet system for ISS

At the Johnson Space Center in Houston, engineers are getting ready for a new toilet system. The Russian-designed system will be installed next year, well in time for the expansion of the International Space Station in 2009. NASA has signed a contra

2006年VOA标准英语-New US Mars Mission to Get Better Look at

By David McAlary Washington 06 March 2006 The newest American mission to Mars is hurtling toward the red planet, due Friday to examine it in the sharpest detail yet. It will be the largest spacecraft

2006年VOA标准英语-Controversial Shuttle Mission to Launch Saturda

By David McAlary Washington 26 June 2006 Members of the space shuttle Discovery crew leave the Operations and Checkout building during a count down dress rehearsal for flight STS-121 at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Flarida on June 15,

2007年VOA标准英语-New Iraq Commander: Mission 'Hard, Not Hopeless

By Al Pessin Pentagon 23 January 2007 The U.S. Army general named by President Bush as the new coalition commander in Iraq told a Senate committee Tuesday he believes the new Baghdad security plan can work, but it will not be easy. VOA's Al Pessin r

2007年VOA标准英语-NASA Mission to Seek Polar Lights' Energy Sourc

By David McAlary Washington 18 February 2007 The U.S. space agency NASA has launched five satellites - the most ever from one rocket - to locate the source of energy in Earth's magnetic field that triggers the colorful, dancing auroras over the north

VOA标准英语2012--Private Spacecraft Ready for Launch to ISS

Private Spacecraft Ready for Launch to ISS An animation shows what space station partner nations and SpaceX hope to see on launch day. The Falcon 9 rocket, carrying its Dragon capsule, will launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The cargo-carrying sp

VOA标准英语2012--SpaceX Capsule Docks with ISS

SpaceX Capsule Docks with ISS SpaceX's Dragon capsule made history when it approached the International Space Station, becoming the first private spacecraft ever to do so. The robotic capsule free floated 10 meters away from the orbiting lab, and the

VOA标准英语2011--Atlantis Crew 'Honored' to Be On Final S

Atlantis Crew 'Honored' to Be On Final Shuttle Mission The space shuttle Atlantis is preparing for the final mission of the U.S. shuttle program next month. Atlantis's crew is excited and reflective before the space craft's last flight. The crew, led

VOA标准英语2011--Gadhafi Death Marks End of NATO Mission

Gadhafi Death Marks End of NATO Mission NATO's operations against Moammar Gadhafi's forces began in March, with French and British airstrikes on Libyan army positions. And it was French warplanes that ultimately brought the mission to an end, bombing

VOA标准英语2009年-NASA Prepares for Return to Moon, Missions

As the world observes the 40th anniversary of the historic moon landing on July 20, 1969, the U.S. agency that accomplished that feat is working on plans for a return to the moon and an even more ambitious plan to use the moon as a base for missions

2007年VOA标准英语-Female Astronauts Discuss Upcoming US Missions

By Greg Flakus Houston 02 August 2007 In October, NASA, the U.S. Space Agency, plans major additions to the International Space Station (ISS) in two separate missions, both of which will be under the command of female astronauts. The two women who wi

2007年VOA标准英语-New Yorker’s Mission: Helping Children from Abr

By Weaver Carolyn New York 09 April 2007 Watch Global Medical Relief Fund A tiny organization based in New York City is making big changes in the lives of a few lucky children from around the world. The ten-year-old Global Medical Relief Fund has he

2006年VOA标准英语-Space Shuttle Undocks from ISS

By David McAlary Washington 15 July 2006 The U.S. space shuttle Discovery has departed from the International Space Station (ISS), but has not gone far away. It will remain in the vicinity of the outpost until flight controllers are certain there is

Russian Space Agency names next crew to ISS

MOSCOW, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- The Russian Space Agency Roscosmos confirmed on Monday the list of next crew members who will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) on Nov. 14. Russia's Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft will bring Russian cosmonauts Anton Sh