The first pictures of Earth taken from space showed a solid ball covered by brown and green landmasses and blue-green oceans.

VOA: special.2011.01.04

NASA scientists using the Kepler space telescope also announced the discovery of six planets orbiting a star called Kepler-11.

VOA: special.2011.02.09

Thirty-six meters! That was far better than the six hundred meters space agency officials would have considered a complete success.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

For example, one American astronaut on a four-month long mission on the Russian space station Mir saw a vision of his dead father.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

He was a test pilot. He had flown earlier on one of the two-man Gemini space flights.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

They worked quickly to catch up. Less than a year later, on October first,nineteen fifty-eight, the National Aeronautic and Space Administration,or NASA, began operations.

VOA: special.2010.08.20

The United States said it would not launch a scientific satellite until a non-military rocket the Vanguard could be completed to carry it into space.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

Within three months, the man-in-space program had a name: Project Mercury.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

The green-eyed monster is not a frightening creature from outer space.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

(OMITTED) Commander Alan Poindexter is leadingthe Discovery's crew on a 13-day mission that includes a stop at the space station.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

China spends about But she also says China's space program has launched there country into a new geo-political class.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

The Discovery and its seven-person crew will deliver a final set of solar arrays and the last main truss for the space station.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

She is a chemical engineer, a medical doctor,a college professor, and in 1992, was the first African-American woman astronaut to go into space.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

The moon landing was seen as the high point of a U.S.space program fueled by a decade-long space race with the former Soviet Union.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

At the time of Endeavour's launch, NASA says the International Space Station was traveling at a speed of about eight kilometers-per-second, above western Romania.

VOA: standard.2010.02.08