VOA慢速英语2012 ECONOMICS REPORT - SpaceX Is Doing Business in Space

ECONOMICS REPORT - SpaceX Is Doing Business in Space 经济报道 - SpaceX公司开展太空业务 This is the VOA Special English ECONOMICS REPORT. 这里是美国之音慢速英语经济报道。 Space Explorations Technologies, or SpaceX, may be a

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,

2017年CRI A look back at China's manned space program

Astronaut Yang Liwei, the first Chinese to enter space, is seen here before he entered the Shenzhou-5 spacecraft at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province on October 15, 1999. [Photo: 163.com] China first unveiled its

US to Test Its First Automated Space Rendezvous System

By David McAlary The U.S. space agency is planning to conduct its first completely automated rendezvous in space Tuesday. In a test of new technology, a spacecraft is scheduled to be launched to track

EXPLORATIONS - Life on the International Space Station

EXPLORATIONS – July 3, 2002: Life on the International Space Station By Paul Thompson VOICE ONE: This is Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program EXPLO

VOA标准英语2014--Future for Commercial Space Endeavors Looks Bright

Future for Commercial Space Endeavors Looks Bright Space the final frontier. Once the purview of cash-rich governments, launching rockets into space has become increasingly commonplace as demand for communications satellites and space-based imaging s

美国国家公共电台 NPR Bruce McCandless, First Astronaut To Fly Untethered In Space, Has Died

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless has died. You may not know his name, but you've probably seen him in one of the most famous pictures ever taken in space. In 1984, McCandless strapped on a jet-powered backpack and flew away from t

2017年CRI China's first cargo spacecraft launched

China's first cargo spacecraft, the Tianzhou-1, was launched on Thursday from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern China's Hainan Province. Tianzhou-1 is the first cargo ship independently developed by China and is expected to dock with the o

2017年CRI China's cargo spacecraft refuels space lab in orbit

China's first cargo spacecraft has refueled the Tiangong-2 space lab in orbit for the first time. Tianzhou-1, which was launched April 20th from Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China's Hainan Province, successfully completed an automated dockin

2017年CRI China's first cargo spacecraft docks with Tiangong-2 space lab

China's first cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-1 successfully docked with the Tiangong-2 space lab for the first time on Saturday. China has taken another step toward its goal of putting a space station into orbit around 2022, by sending its first cargo spa

2006年VOA标准英语-Space Shuttle Prepares for International Space

By Michael Bowman Washington 05 July 2006 Preparations are underway on the Space Shuttle Discovery for Thursday's planned docking with the International Space Station. Discovery's crew spent much of the day performing a thorough examination of the o

VOA常速英语2007年-US Lawmakers Grill Space Agency on Plans for Sh

By Michael Bowman Washington 15 November 2007 U.S. space agency officials are facing sharp questions from U.S. lawmakers over a five-year gap in American spaceflight capabilities between the planned 2010 retirement of the space shuttle fleet and the

2007年VOA标准英语-US Space Shuttle Endeavour Launches Safely with

By Cindy Saine Washington 08 August 2007 Shuttle Endeavour lifts off launch pad The U.S. Space Shuttle Endeavour has lifted off into space late Wednesday from Cape Canaveral, Florida and is heading towards the International Space Station for a constr

Space Shuttle Discovery to Carry Robot on Final Mission

Crews at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida are preparing the Space Shuttle Discovery for its final launch, scheduled for Thursday. Among the things it will carry to the International Space Station will be a humanlike robot designed to help astronau

International Space Station Gets New Permanent Storage Unit

Astronauts(宇航员) aboard the International Space Station have installed a new permanent storage unit, creating an additional 70 cubic meters of cargo space and a new venue in which to conduct experiments. Crew members on Tuesday used the space st

First commercial spacecraft docks with space station

WASHINGTON, May 25 (Xinhua) -- SpaceX's unmanned Dragon capsule docked with the International Space Station on Friday and became the first commercial spacecraft to reach the orbital outpost. According to U.S. space agency NASA, the capsule was secure

US Space Program Goes Commercial

This Friday, the U.S. space shuttle Endeavor is scheduled to lift off on its last voyage（航行） to the orbiting International Space Station. And on June 28, barring any last minute complications, Alantis will become the last space shuttle ever t

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

2016年CRI China's New Carrier Rocket to Launch 1st Cargo Spacecraft in 2017

Saturday's launch marks a key step towards China's plan to eventually operate a permanent space station, which is the final step of China's three-phased manned space program. The Long March-7 rocket has been designed as a cargo spacecraft, and is set

2016年CRI More Details Unveiled about China's Space Plan

As part of the plan, the latest step will be the launch of the second space lab, the Tiangong-2, which is scheduled for the third quarter of this year. Shortly afterward, the Shenzhou-11 spacecraft is due to carry two astronauts to dock with the lab