The astronauts would ride to the moon in the command module and then ride back to Earth in it.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

The Lunar Rover also had a television camera and an antenna for sending color television broadcasts back to Earth.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

No one knew if they could get the spacecraft back to Earth, or if they could survive long enough to return.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Now the problem was how to get the astronauts back to Earth as quickly and safely as possible.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

At space agency headquarters, doctors studied his medical condition as the information was being sent back to Earth.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

She fell back to Earth, but the steel-spring bustle just bounced her back up as high as before.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

Scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,Maryland, found the substance glycine in material brought back to Earth from a comet.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

Back on Earth, space scientists and engineers worked around the clock to design and test new ideas to help the astronauts survive.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

The story of how space scientists were able to recover the material and bring it back to Earth is just as exciting.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

They needed to change their flight path to take them around the moon and back toward Earth.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Later,the landing vehicle would carry them back to the command module for the return trip to Earth.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Curiosity even has an arm that can touch things and send the information back to Earth.

VOA: special.2011.04.26

Material from the RQ36 asteroid will be sent back to Earth in a special protective device.

VOA: special.2011.06.22

But there were three astronauts. And the trip back to Earth would take four days.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Oxygen from the lander kept them alive during the long trip back to Earth.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

Then they returned to the orbiting command module and started back to Earth.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

Getting them back to earth for study is the next big project.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

"Can we get these guys back?" (SAYING) With the world watching, flight controllers at NASA and the astronauts frantically worked to find a way to get them safely back to Earth.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

And if all of the possible brackets were filled out on standard paper and stacked on top of each other, how big would the pile be?" It would actually go from the earth to the moon and back,1.1 million times,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

"What we are doing,folks, we are rolling up our sleeves and we are getting down to business and getting back to the common sense conservative principles that made this country the greatest country on earth, and we are not going to sit down and shut up."

VOA: standard.2010.03.28