The delays forced NASA officials to shorten the shuttle's mission by one day and eliminate one space walk.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

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

The atmosphere is about twenty-percent oxygen and eighty percent nitrogen from Earth's surface to where space begins at one-hundred-twenty kilometers up.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

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

Mister Sumrall says NASA estimates the new Ares One will be twenty to thirty times safer than the Space Shuttle.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

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

Frank Borman noted happily that after twelve lonely days in space, he and James Lovell finally had company for one night!

VOA: special.2009.07.01

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, launched Columbia from Kennedy Space Center on April twelfth nineteen eighty-one.

VOA: special.2011.07.27

It was the last of one hundred thirty five flights for the world's first reusable space vehicle design.

VOA: special.2011.07.27

But one thing is sure. The discoveries in the meteorite helped shape policy and exploration efforts at the United States space agency,NASA.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

For example, one American astronaut on a four-month long mission on the Russian space station Mir saw a vision of his dead father.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

There should be about one centimeter of space between the soil and the top of the container.

VOA: special.2010.10.12

But Richard Branson is not the only one working to make space flight available to the public.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

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

He was a test pilot. He had flown earlier on one of the two-man Gemini space flights.

VOA: special.2009.07.15