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I Like for You to be Still Read by Glenn Close I like for you to be still: it is as though you are 1) absent and you hear me from far away and my voice does not touch you It seems as though your eyes

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The seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is known as Qi Xi Jie or 七夕节, a traditional holiday that has been recently called China's Valentine's Day. The 2,000-plus-year-old holiday marks the star-crossed love between a cow herd

VOA标准英语2011--NASA Announces Next Generation Spacecraf

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 MPC

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如果有一天，地球真的要毁灭了，那么我们就能用一下备胎行星了以前只有太阳系的几颗，现在又找到了7颗！哪天科学家带我们去逛逛吧！ For planet-hunting astronomers seeking twins or even cousins of E

SSS 2008-12-16

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Sarah Palin on the campaign trail was at times dismissive of science. She attacked fruit fly research, saying that tax dollars were going to projects h

CNN 2011-07-12

Hi, we're launching a special addition of CNN Student News this week. As the space shuttle program wraps up, we're taking a look back and a look forward at NASA's space program. US has been launching shuttles for 30 years. They are the world's first

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Raise your head on August 6 and gaze at the stars, you will find something romantic going on in the sky. VALENTINE'S Day in China, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, falls on August 6 this year. That is, on the evening, Niu Lang and Zhi Nv w

VOA标准英语2012--Space Exploration Enthusiasts Say US Program Adrift

Space Exploration Enthusiasts Say US Program Adrift A half century ago, NASA sent astronauts to the moon, and for the past three decades used its space shuttle for low-earth orbit missions. But many veterans of NASA's glory years, such as former John

VOA标准英语2010-Veteran Astronauts Oppose President Obama

Veteran NASA astronauts gathered in Chicago to mark the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission. Despite a catastrophic explosion in 1970, Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert safely returned to Earth. The Adler Planetarium's anniver

VOA标准英语2010-Obama Lays Out Plan for US Space Program

President Barack Obama on Thursday set out his plan for the future of the U.S. space agency NASA. His vision includes an eventual manned flight to Mars, although not as soon as many Americans had hoped. The president went to Florida's Kennedy Space C

VOA标准英语2010年-US Space Shuttle Program Nears End of

The U.S. space shuttle program comes to an end this year, and a debate is underway over what should replace it. The retirement of the shuttle fleet could result in massive job losses in Florida. Thousands of workers protest in Titusville, Florida ove

VOA标准英语2011--Space Shuttle's End Prompts Doubts About

Space Shuttle's End Prompts Doubts About NASA's Future One day after the landing of Atlantis ended the 30-year space shuttle program, the company that ran shuttle operations for the U.S. space agency NASA is dismissing 1,510 employees. The end of the

VOA标准英语2009年-NASA Tests Rocket for Planned Moon, Mars M

By Brian Wagner Miami 28 October 2009 The Ares I-X flight test vehicle lifts off from Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, 28 Oct 2009 NASA launched an unmanned test rocket on Wednesday in the hopes it will become the backbo

PBS高端访谈:在美国航天局探索火星之前,"猎户座"载人飞船将会进行测试

JUDY WOODRUFF: For the first time in more than four decades, NASA is set to launch a space capsule tomorrow that has grander plans of human exploration into deep space. This time, the Orion spacecraft will be unmanned. But it is an important test fli

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By Greg Flakus Houston 15 September 2006 Artist rendition of the Orion crew exploration vehicle approaching the International Space Station The U.S. space agency, NASA, has embarked on a long-range plan to return humans to the moon and then go on to

VOA标准英语2009年-US Space Panel Concludes Billions More Nee

A congressionally appointed panel studying human space flight said this month it will take $3 billion more, per year, for the U.S. to send humans out of low earth orbit in the next decade. Members of the U.S. Human Space Flight Committee testified i

VOA标准英语2010年-Escaped Slaves Followed the North Star

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VOA标准英语2010年-Obama's 2011 Budget Scraps Manned Luna

The U.S. space agency's ambitious plan to put astronauts back on the moon has been cancelled in the Obama administration's proposed 2011 federal budget. The $3.6 trillion spending plan for the U.S. government was submitted to Congress on Feb. 1. NASA

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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