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

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

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Mister Gallant says the two top floors could be turned into rooms for workshops or studios or more performance space.

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

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

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Space scientists have collected a wealth of information from spacecraft that have orbited,landed on and dug into the Martian surface.

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

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

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Ed White would leave the protection of the spacecraft and move out into the unknown emptiness of space.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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"By twenty twenty-five, we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first-ever crewed missions beyond the moon into deep space.

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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.

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Instead,he called on the space agency to reach deeper into the solar system.

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High levels of domoic acid in the sardines may have worsened the effects of oxygen loss in the water as the fish crowded into a limited space.

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The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit in April of nineteen ninety.

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Now,the United States was ready for the next historic jump into space.

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The Gemini program would send two astronauts at a time into space.

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Also this week, the country launched its first Iranian-made satellite into space.

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He was the first American to be launched into space.

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Its major goal: sending the first Americans into space.

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