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,

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On November 8th, Russia launched a probe toward the tiny Martian moon Phobos. The launch was picture-perfect, and the spacecraft, called PhobosGrunt, soared into the night sky over Kazakhstan. The good news stops there. For instead of boosting itself

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm John Matson. Got a minute? On November 8th, Russia launched a probe toward the tiny Martian moon Phobos. The launch was picture-perfect, and the spacecraft, called PhobosGrunt, soared into the nigh

New Horizons Space Probe Gets Mission Extension

New Horizons Space Probe Gets Mission Extension The U.S. space agency has announced it is extending the mission of the New Horizons spacecraft. New Horizons is a spacecraft without a human crew. It was the first spacecraft to visit the dwarf planet P

VOA标准英语10月-India Launches First Unmanned Mission to Moon

India has launched its first unmanned mission to the Moon. The mission is a major boost to the country's space program, as India joins Asian nations China and Japan in exploring the Moon. Anjana Pasricha has a report from New Delhi. In this photo pr

美国国家公共电台 NPR NASA's Other Asteroid Mission: Grab A Chunk And Put It In Orbit Around The Moon

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TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(8)

What then of manned space exploration? 那载人的空间探索呢？ The government recently announced plans to return to the moon by 2024. 美国政府最近宣布了2024重返月球的计划。 The successful conclusion of that mission will result

China Declares Shenzhou-10 Space Mission A Success

Astronauts Zhang Xiaoguang, Nie Haisheng and Wang Yaping (from left to right) shake hands after they got out of the re-entry capsule of China's Shenzhou-10 spacecraft following its successful landing at the main landing site in north China's Inner Mo

2016年CRI Chinese space lab Tiangong-2 kicks off in-orbit tests, waiting for docking with Shenzhou-11

Hours after Tiangong-2 was successfully launched, the space lab conducted its first transfer of orbit at 2:45 am Beijing time on Friday morning. In the meantime, it has also started in-orbit tests, which are a series of examinations on the functions

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Last Updated Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:48:34 EDT The repairs made to the space shuttle Discovery while it was in orbit are the first step toward other missions in the solar system, a returning astronaut sai

PBS高端访谈:揭秘矮行星--谷神星的秘密

JUDY WOODRUFF: Let's look at a space mission that's generating lots of interest and excitement. It's the mission to orbit the dwarf planet Ceres by the NASA spacecraft named Dawn. It arrived in March, and as the spacecraft has gotten closer in recent

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They did that restruction in 2012.They have brought themselves 3 to complete that restruction at which point they are going have to refinance.I think whether or not that will be succesful depends on another thing,whether or not they can make the cuts

MESSENGER Probe Sends First Mercury Images

The U.S. space agency(代理中介) has released the first ever image taken of the surface of Mercury from a spacecraft orbiting the planet. The black and white image, posted on the NASA website Tuesday, shows a surface pocked with craters of varying

U.S. shuttle Endeavour undocks from space station

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:

Space junks threaten future mission

BEIJING, Sept. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- The amount of space junks floating in Earth's orbit has reached a critical level, warned scientists. The future space missions may become too dangerous to fly for a risk of colliding with space junks, said a report rel

Mars mission enters final countdown

BEIJING,Nov. 9 (Xinhuanet) Yinghuo-1, China's first interplanetary spacecraft, is set to hitch a ride with Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars mission in the early hours on Wednesday, after a two-year delay. A Zenit-2SB rocket will carry Yinghuo-1 and Phobos-

MESSENGER Spacecraft Will Be First to Orbit Planet Mercury

The U.S. space probe MESSENGER is poised to enter orbit around Mercury（水银） early Friday, Universal time, capping a nearly seven-year journey to the solar systems innermost planet. Scientists with the U.S. space agency, NASA, hope the orbiting

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

Russia's Mission Control raises ISS by 10.2 km

MOSCOW, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Russia's Mission Control announced on Wednesday it had raised the International Space Station (ISS) by 10.2 km to 374.7 km with the help of the Europe's ATV-2 Johannes Kepler. The Mission Control conducted the correction(修

China's Shenzhou 10 Spacecraft Ready to Launch

The Shenzhou 10 spacecraft has been transferred to its launch pad in northwestern China in preparation for its launch later on this month. CRI's Su Yi has the details. Both the ship and its Long-March 2-F rocket have been moved to the Jiuquan Satelli