Now the two sides were racing to see who could launch the first human space traveler.

VOA: special.2011.05.15

Most of the money will go towards working with industry on new technologies to make human space flight safer.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

"NASA is going to have to decide what it's going to do about the human space program.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

"China is only the third country to have human space flight capabilities.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

"The United States spends on human space flight.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

A lot of it is like a human arm or like a space arm that you might find on the international space station."

VOA: special.2010.07.28

The group recommended that human life must not be risked simply to send equipment into space.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

But those hopes of human exploration deeper into space gave way to goals closer to home.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Some of the experiments focus on studying how orbiting in space can affect the human body and plant growth.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05