新的NASA火星任务将深入研究行星表面

New NASA Mars Mission Will Study Deep Under Planets Surface NASA, the American space agency, is sending a robotic scientist to Mars. It will dig deeper than ever before to study the planets geological activity. The Mars InSight spacecraft launches Ma

Humans to Mars Official NASA Goal, But What About Radiation?

Human exploration of Mars is now an official goal of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump signed a bill to increase NASAs budget. The law sets spending at $19.5 billion for the 12-month per

VOA慢速英语--NASA称新发现的行星或拥有生命形式

For the first time ever, astronomers have discovered a system of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting around a single star. The finding was announced Wednesday by officials from NASA the U.S. space agency and other research team members. The discovery

On Mars, NASA Finds ‘Organic’ Substances Linked to Life

The United States space agency says its Mars exploration vehicle has discovered chemical substances necessary for life. Scientists reported that NASAs Curiosity rover found large amounts of organic molecules in 3.5 billion-year-old rock in an area ca

VOA慢速英语--NASA Spacecraft to Study the Sun Up Close

The United States space agency will launch a spacecraft to explore the sun more closely than ever before on Saturday. NASAs Parker Solar Probe will fly through the hot solar atmosphere and come within just 6 million kilometers of the suns surface. Th

NASA找到消失8年的印度首艘月球太空船

US space agency NASA has successfully located India's first lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 that lost contact with ground controllers on Earth eight years ago. 日前，美国航天局NASA已经成功定位到印度首艘月球太空船--月球飞船一

VOA慢速英语2012 NASA's Curiosity Rover on Mars

NASA's Curiosity Rover on Mars LAUREL BOWMAN: There will be several weeks of tests before NASA lets its robotic vehicle, called Curiosity, explore the surface of Mars. Curiosity will look for evidence that the planet once might have had conditions ne

VOA慢速英语2015 NASA Working Toward Mission to Mars

NASA Working Toward Mission to Mars The head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, said that the space agency is on track to land people on Mars in the 2030s. Charles Bolden is the administrator for NASA. He said that five ye

VOA慢速英语2016--NASA发现丢失的宇宙飞船

AS IT IS 2016-08-26 NASA Finds Lost Spacecraft NASA发现丢失的宇宙飞船 The American space agency, NASA says it has again made contact with a spacecraft studying the sun and space weather. NASA said it lost contact with the Solar Terrestrial R

VOA标准英语2012--NASA Reflects on Past, Plans for Mars

NASA Reflects on Past, Plans for Mars U.S. astronaut John Glenn first orbited the Earth 50 years ago on February 20, 1962. And when he returned, an adoring public greeted him, along with a burgeoning U.S. space program that propelled men to the moon

NASA前工程师加盟优步“飞车”团队

Uber has hired a former Nasa engineer to help it to research flying cars. 优步(Uber)聘请了美国国家航空航天局(NASA)一名前工程师来协助研究飞行汽车。 After more than 30 years at the US space agency, Mark Moore is joining Ub

VOA双语新闻：2、尝试新概念 NASA火星着陆器遇挫

尝试新概念 NASA火星着陆器遇挫 The U.S. space agency's test run of a Mars landing system came to a disappointing end Monday when the saucer-shaped vehicle's parachute failed to unfurl high over the Pacific Ocean. 美国太空总署（NASA）

NASA's twin probes reach lunar orbit

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- Twin U.S. spacecraft to study the moon from crust to core put themselves into the lunar orbit on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, the country's space agency said. The second Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory, o

NASA's Stardust spacecraft ends 12-year operation

WASHINGTON, March 25 (Xinhua) -- NASA's Stardust spacecraft(宇宙飞船) depleted fuel and ceased operation on Thursday after a 12-year run, the U.S. space agency said Friday. This is the end of the spacecraft's operations, but really just the begin

NASA plans unmanned Orion flight in early 2014

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- NASA plans to add an unmanned flight test of the Orion spacecraft in early 2014 to its contract with Lockheed Martin Space Systems for the multipurpose crew vehicle's design, development, test and evaluation, the U.S. s

NASA: Confident, Anxious Ahead of Mars Rover Landing

The Curiosity rover is the centerpiece of NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory mission. The U.S. space agency is preparing for the rover to land on the Red Planet on Monday [August 6 at 5:31 UTC]. Curiosity has traveled some 566 million kilome

NASA's Mars rover arrives in Florida

WASHINGTON, June 23 (Xinhua) -- NASA's next Mars rover has completed the journey from its California birthplace to Florida in preparation for launch this fall, the U.S. space agency said Thursday in a statement. The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rove

NASA Sets Final Shuttle Launch for July 8

The U.S. space agency completed a day-long readiness review of the space shuttle Atlantis and set July 8 as the targeted launch date for its final flight. It is a historic last mission of the 30-year-old shuttle program. The space shuttle Atlantis is

NASA close to deciding Mars rover landing site

BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhuanet) -- NASA is close to deciding on a landing site for its Mars rover Curiosity mission by narrowing the choices to four, media reports said Monday. Scientists in the close-knit Mars research community get one last chance to m

NASA’s Rover Ends Mission after 15 Years

The American space agency NASA had expected its rover called Opportunity to operate on Mars for just 90 days. But the vehicle kept exploring for 15 years after landing on the red planet. Opportunity landed on Mars in 2004. Scientists finally lost con