Rockman imagines a terrible future in which plants and animals must be sent into space to protect them from Earth's pollution.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

He also produced the thirteen-part series, "From the Earth to the Moon" because of his support for human space travel.

VOA: special.2011.06.17

The astronauts' decrease in bone strength measured from point six percent to five percent for each month spent on the space station.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

Yet,it took some time for the team to confirm that the amino acid glycine came from space.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

One of the most important was how to design the special clothing needed to protect a person from the dangers of the space environment.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

It was put in place to help protect the space shuttle from bird strike damage.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

But Ms.Neal says the United States space program always seems to recover from hardship.

VOA: special.2011.02.09

They're very efficient." Not far from Taylor Glacier, researchers for the American space Agency are using the icy Lake Bonney to test an underwater robot vehicle.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

For a while, there was no communication from space to Earth.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

On March twenty-second, NASA again ordered the astronauts on the linked space station and shuttle Discovery to move out of the way of another piece of debris from a rocket.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

"This risk could push our forces further from the battle space, compromising our ability to bring our conventional superiority to bear.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

(Speaking) Endeavour blasted off from Florida to the Space Station last week, carrying the cupola, attached to the new module called Tranquility.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

Charles Bolden, the head of the US space agency, NASA,and Lisa Jackson from the Environmental Protection Agency,or EPA, came to this Washington,DC middle school to encourage these youngsters to focus on math and science careers.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

But he still has memories of those days. He recalls standing on his grandfather's shoulders in his native state of Hawaii, waiting for the Apollo 11 space capsule to be plucked from the Pacific Ocean and brought to shore.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20