No one knew if they could get the spacecraft back to Earth, or if they could survive long enough to return.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

One is the long-distance transport of bees for pollination and the spread of bee diseases from one area to another.

VOA: special.2011.05.24

To keep himself awake as he flew east during the long night, Post tied a piece of string to one finger.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

One hoodoo known as the Poodle looks like a poodle dog sitting on top of a long narrow rock.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

There are also two Japanese swords, one long and one short, that were made in the fourteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

They say their findings offer one reason why the custom of cursing may have continued for so long.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

He began to work on one of his long-time dreams - opening a sports center for the young people of San Juan.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

But no one has the answer to how much market share Bing will claim from Yahoo or Google in the long term.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

There could be two more. No one knew how long Kentucky and Missouri would remain in the Union.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Professor Kaufman says it could take the slow-growing coral as long as one hundred years to recover.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

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

It had a high,sharply angled ceiling and many windows lining the walls of its one long,narrow room.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

The twenty-two meter long rocket would put a little scientific satellite into orbit as one of the events of the international geophysical year.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

The last time the United States Education Department asked young people how long they took to finish college was in two thousand one.

VOA: special.2009.07.23