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

But an explosion in space cost him the chance to reach the moon -- and nearly cost the crew their lives.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

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

But they were not the last. NASA -- the National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched six more Apollo flights.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

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

He also produced the thirteen-part series, "From the Earth to the Moon" because of his support for human space travel.

VOA: special.2011.06.17

If not,she says, they may be at increased risk for age-related broken bones years after their visits to space.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

Jim Tedder tells us more. VSA hired the well-known building designer Michael Graves to design the "Revealing Culture" exhibit space.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

The first pictures of Earth taken from space showed a solid ball covered by brown and green landmasses and blue-green oceans.

VOA: special.2011.01.04

NASA scientists using the Kepler space telescope also announced the discovery of six planets orbiting a star called Kepler-11.

VOA: special.2011.02.09

Thirty-six meters! That was far better than the six hundred meters space agency officials would have considered a complete success.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

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

That worries community leaders on the Space Coast -- the area around the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

But some in Congress want to cancel plans for the next-generation replacement for the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.

VOA: special.2011.07.18