Astronauts Frank Borman,James Lovell and William Anders were in the spacecraft at the top of the Saturn Five rocket.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Israel says the purpose is to keep weapons out of Gaza and to prevent rocket fire into the Jewish state.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

Officials say the solid-fuel rocket could reach Israel, southeastern Europe and American bases in the Middle East.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

Production of the Saturn Five rocket and the Apollo spacecraft ended with Apollo Seventeen.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

Apollo flights Five and Six tested the moon-landing module and the Saturn Five rocket.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Two-and-one-half minutes after the Apollo Eleven launch, the first-stage rocket separated from the spacecraft.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

And we hear about the test flight of NASA's newest rocket.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

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

Armstrong and Aldrin fired the lander rocket engine.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

The pirates have machine guns and rocket-powered bombs.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

The Iron Dome will help neutralize the rocket threat from Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

The kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and continued rocket attacks from Gaza have kept Israel from lifting it.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

Israel's new anti-rocket system, called the Iron Dome, has passed final tests and will be deployed near the country's borders by November.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Patriot PAC-3 guided missiles are in place in Iwate and Akita prefectures, below the path Pyongyang has announced its rocket will traverse.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

Some shuttle workers had hoped to get jobs developing a rocket and capsule to take astronauts back to the Moon by 2020.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Defense officials warn that the system will not completely eliminate the rocket threat from Lebanon and Gaza.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

"I mean it took off like a rocket." Under Fiedler,the Pops truly became a national orchestra, touring the country and appearing on television.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

He says any missile or rocket flying over Japan is unacceptable, and adds Japan will take approriate measures with anything that affects the nation's interests.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

So this year NASA sent up a spacecraft and sent the rocket stage right into the moon to 'bomb' the moon, basically,and see what came up.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

But South Korean,Japanese,and U.S. officials are skeptical about the North's plan and suspect the so-called satellite launch is in reality a way to test a long-range rocket.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

Reports from the first round of voting detailed a number of violent attacks by the Taliban, including rocket fire and the amputations of ink-stained fingers on voters' hands.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

He adds that the newer version has a shorter launch time, better deterrent capability, and that it is a two-stage rocket using solid fuel that is highly maneuverable.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

U.S.officials say no part of the three-stage rocket reached orbit and the launching was a thinly-disguised test of a long-range ballistic missile that was banned under a 2006 U.N.resolution.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

(Speaking) "North Korea was showing all its cards to the Obama administration, both the rocket test and the nuclear test, giving the United States a choice between nuclear negotiations or nuclear proliferation,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

Authorities say they quickly killed two of the gunmen, but two others continued to fire machine guns in the extended battle in Pul-i-Alam, Witnesses say U.S.military helicopters were part of the response force, and one aircraft fired a rocket into a multi-story building which the insurgents had seized, used to launch their attack and had rigged with explosives.

VOA: standard.2009.08.10