It thundered into space perfectly, pushing an unmanned Apollo spacecraft more than eighteen thousand kilometers up into the atmosphere.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Today, Tony Riggs and Larry West tell about the beginning of the United States space program that carried humans into space.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

Its Titan rocket could lift three times as much weight into space as the Atlas rocket used for the Mercury flights.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

Rockman imagines a terrible future in which plants and animals must be sent into space to protect them from Earth's pollution.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

Mister Branson expects his company will be able to take one thousand people into space within the first year of operation.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

Less than two months later, James McDivitt and Ed White went into space on the second Gemini flight.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

The largest object ever put into space -- the International Space Station -- could not have been built without the shuttle program.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

NASA's most important job was to send an American into space and return him safely to Earth.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

So it died in space. A few months later, the Soviet Union put a one thousand three hundred sixty kilogram satellite into space.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

But before NASA could send an astronaut into space, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union became the first person to travel in space.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

Arctic sea ice is important because it throws sunlight back into space, keeping the sea cold.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

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

VOA: special.2009.12.30

Today we finish the story of the first American program to send a person into space.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

Much work had to be done before Project Mercury could put an American astronaut into space.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

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

VOA: special.2010.04.28

But others note that Jupiter's powerful gravitational field can just as easily send an object into Earth's path as push it deeper into space.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

China put an astronaut into space in two thousand three, and it plans to send a robotic explorer to the moon two years from now.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Then supernovas blasted these elements into space, supplying ingredients for stars and planets to come.

VOA: special.2010.09.29

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

Boeing and Lockheed Martin have carried tons of satellites into space on their rockets.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

I'm Shirley Griffith. Listen again next week to the second part of the story of the Mercury program that took the first American astronauts into space.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

They wanted a plane that could test conditions for future flights into space.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

Right now,few companies have rockets that are able to lift people into space.

VOA: special.2010.04.28