Join us again next week as we continue the story of the Apollo space flights on EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

At the end of the test flight,the speed of the Apollo spacecraft was increased to forty thousand kilometers an hour.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Near the space center in Houston,Texas, some amateur star-watchers were trying to see the Apollo spacecraft through telescopes.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Today look back at the first flights of the Apollo program designed to land humans on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Harrison Schmitt talked about the moon landings of the Apollo program as a historic beginning to greater exploration.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

They also showed that the Apollo spacecraft could survive the launch and could re-enter Earth's atmosphere safely.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

One of them,the Apollo-11, traveled to the moon just seven months after the last X-15 flight.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

Cernan and Schmitt landed in a valley almost directly north of the Apollo Eleven landing place.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

The aim was to recreate the success of the Apollo program, mainly based on existing technologies.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Production of the Saturn Five rocket and the Apollo spacecraft ended with Apollo Seventeen.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

Two-and-one-half minutes after the Apollo Eleven launch, the first-stage rocket separated from the spacecraft.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Apollo Twelve lifted off only four months after the Apollo Eleven flight.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

Young and Duke landed southwest of the Apollo Eleven landing place.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

She had entered a competition at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.

VOA: special.2010.07.04