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Festival Promotes Science as Fun Frontier To these children, it's all fun and games. But the marbles in this so-called Chaos Machine teach them about physics, gravity and more, says exhibitor Tony Montuori. It also teaches kids all kinds of useful sk

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Beans are a popular choice for home gardens. Specialists at the University of Illinois Extension say bush beans need the least work. The plants do not need supports to stand. Green bush beans used

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AS IT IS 2013-05-03 Space Flights Can Harm Astronauts' Health Hello, again. Im Jim Tedder in Washington. Thank you for spending some time with VOA. Today, we have two stories from Africa. There is disturbing news about migrants in the Horn of Africa.

VOA慢速英语2012 EXPLORATIONS - ‘One Small Step for Man:’ Apollo 11 And the 1st Moon Landing

EXPLORATIONS - One Small Step for Man: Apollo 11 And the 1st Moon Landing MARIO RITTER: Welcome to EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. We continue our history of the American space program with the flight of Apollo Eleven. We also remember Neil Arms

2006年VOA标准英语-Hubble Telescope Given Reprieve; Astronauts to

By David McAlary Washington 31 October 2006 The U.S. space agency says it will send space shuttle astronauts one more time to extend the life of the Hubble Space Telescope. The decision reverses one made by NASA's previous management two years ago,

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.

Step by Step2000 第三册unit1 World News Up in Space

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2006年VOA标准英语-Hubble Telescope Repaired

By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 05 July 2006 watch Hubble Repair report A Hubble telescope image of part of the universe Space scientists at the U.S. space agency, NASA, are celebrating the return to action of the Hubble telescope. --------- For more t

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BBC Learning English People and Places The Final Frontier Callum:Hello, Im Callum Robertson and this is People and Places. Today Im going to be talking about the actor James Doohan. James Doohan was most well known as the engineer Scotty in the icon

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By Trish Anderton Jakarta 29 May 2006 Former South Korean leprosy patient, Oh Chun-duck, participates in an anti-Japan rally for having been forced to stay in isolated leprosariums during Japan's wartime colonial rule (File photo - Oct. 27, 2005) Th

VOA标准英语2012--Cameroon Businesswoman Rises from Poverty to Financial Security

Cameroon Businesswoman Rises from Poverty to Financial Security Jacqueline Kamsu arrived at the US embassy in Yaounde in late August looking every bit a success story. She had been invited to speak to a group of young leaders on her non-profit, Beads

VOA标准英语2012--Retired Space Shuttle Makes Final Voyage

Retired Space Shuttle Makes Final Voyage Discovery took off after daybreak one last time, leaving its home of nearly three decades - NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. But instead of blasting off, it rode atop a special 747 jumbo jet that ferrie

VOA标准英语2011--Artist Inspired by Final Space Shuttle L

Artist Inspired by Final Space Shuttle Launch Standing on the grounds of Kennedy Space Center, facing the launch pad as a space shuttle lifts off, is an experience that defies words. Friday's historic launch of Atlantis marks the beginning of the end

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THIS IS AMERICA - Naval Observatory in Washington By Jill Moss Broadcast: September 23, 2002 VOICE ONE: The United States Naval Observatory performs an important scientific duty for the United States,

VOA常速英语2007-US Space Shuttle Docks at International Space St

By Alex Villarreal Washington 25 October 2007 The U.S. space shuttle Discovery has docked at the International Space Station, marking the next phase in a complex mission to expand the international orbiter. VOA's Alex Villarreal reports from Washingt

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Working in Project Space One of the givens in David Allens Getting Things Done is that you cant do a project. Instead, Allen recommends you break projects down into immediate next actions, discrete doable chunks that can be cranked through with a min

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

China sends its first female to space

JIUQUAN, June 16 (Xinhua) -- She is a wife. She belongs to China's one-child generation. On Saturday, 33-year-old Liu Yang becomes the country's first woman entering space. The home-grown Shenzhou-9 spacecraft, atop an upgraded Long March-2F carrier