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

Space News

Broadcast: Jan 29, 2003 By Paul Thompson VOICE ONE: This is Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we tell about a space rock that

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

VOA慢速英语 2007 0308a

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Not all college teachers are professors. In fact, not even all professors are full professors. Many are assistant or associate or adjunct professors. This week in our Foreign Student Series, we sort o

VOA慢速英语2011--Coming to Terms With Academic Titles at

Education Report - Coming to Terms With Academic Titles at US Colleges 教育报道 - 美国大学学术头衔术语 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. 这里是美国之音特别英语教育报道。 Not everyone who teaches in a coll

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,

Preparing for a Walk in Space

Broadcast: June 4, 2003 By Paul Thompson VOICE ONE: This is Ray Freeman. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today, we tell about how astronauts prepa

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,

VOA慢速英语 Education Report - Studying in the US: Coming to Ter

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Not all college teachers are full professors. Many are assistant or adjunct professors. This week in our Foreign Student Series, we discuss academic titles in American higher education. Adjunct profe

VOA慢速英语2010年-Education Report - Coming to Terms Wit

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Not everyone who teaches in a college or university is a professor. Many are instructors or lecturers. In fact, not even all professors are full professors. Many of them are assistant or associate pro

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

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

Working in Project Space

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

Space Shuttle Discovery Prepares for its Final

The U.S. space shuttle（航天飞机） Discovery has completed its work at the International Space Station on its 39th and final mission, and is preparing for Wednesday's scheduled landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle success

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 accomplishes first space docking

BEIJING, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- Two Chinese spacecraft accomplished the country's first space docking procedure early Thursday, silently coupling in space more than 343 km above Earth's surface. Nearly two days after it was launched, the unmanned spacecr

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