Back on Earth, space scientists and engineers worked around the clock to design and test new ideas to help the astronauts survive.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

The treadle pump is based on a design developed in the nineteen seventies by Norwegian engineer Gunnar Barnes.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

The professor says the body design of the creature made it a kind of jaw on legs.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

The solar water heater described here is based on a design developed some years ago in Afghanistan.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

She changes colors,shapes, sizes and placement of beads on the board until the design pleases her.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Its name comes from the design of darker shapes on its hair.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

The garden design is based on the traditional gardens in Yangzhou.

VOA: special.2010.10.01

"That's by design. Retailers want to get you in the door or on their sites.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Atwater and his colleagues have made prototypes of the design in the lab, and the product doesn't look like the typical solar panels you might see on top of a building.

VOA: standard.2010.02.19