An astronaut who does work outside the space shuttle usually is wearing more than seventeen pieces of protective equipment.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

The repairs carried out in May by the crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis are expected to be the last.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

But, the space shuttle program has come to represent the success,and tragedy, of discovery at the limits of our world.

VOA: special.2011.07.27

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

But the NASA rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, are the closest things we have to the space robots of science fiction.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

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

During World War Two, the Red Cross made bandages in the house and also used the space to treat soldiers wounded overseas.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

This is important because President Obama hopes to extend the life of the space station beyond twenty twenty.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

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

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

VOA: special.2010.04.28

The painting hangs in a circular room and completely surrounds visitors standing in the middle of the space.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

This week on our program, we tell you about the new goals that President Obama is proposing for the space agency NASA.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

But his flight gave Americans the feeling that the United States could pull ahead of the Soviet Union in the space race.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

The astronauts' decrease in bone strength measured from point six percent to five percent for each month spent on the space station.

VOA: special.2009.03.10