Once the shuttle is retired this year, the only way for the United States to get astronauts into orbit will be on Russian Soyuz rockets.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

He had flown on Apollo Eight, the first flight to orbit the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

On the sixty-second orbit, the astronauts prepared to return to Earth.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

President Barack Obama is calling on private companies, not the national space agency, to carry astronauts into orbit.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21