The United States had sent an astronaut of its own into space for the first time in nineteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Mars Day at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington is a celebration of our solar system's most famous planet.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

He says the agency currently has twenty-eight projects working in astrobiology, or the study of life in outer space.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

The collision of the Russian and American satellites was the first of its kind in over fifty years of space travel.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

The repairs carried out in May by the crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis are expected to be the last.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

Join us again next week as we continue the story of the Apollo space flights on EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

The researchers found the presence of carbon thirteen, a version of the carbon atom that is usually found in space.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

One observer said in a joking way that the space agency was just looking for a group of "normal,everyday supermen."

VOA: special.2009.06.10

Astronomers use the observatory to study the positions and movements of the Earth, sun,moon and other objects in space.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

The painting hangs in a circular room and completely surrounds visitors standing in the middle of the space.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

But his flight gave Americans the feeling that the United States could pull ahead of the Soviet Union in the space race.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

The Guggenheim says the aim is to celebrate the basic idea behind Wright's architecture -- the sense of freedom in interior space.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

Next year, the Chinese plan to launch a small space laboratory to practice docking of spacecraft in orbit.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

The United States entered the Space Age in nineteen forty-five, at the end of World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.06.10