What is the next flight in Americas Apollo space project about?”
The American astronauts of Apollo 17 left a metal sign on the moon marking the end of the first explorations of Earth’s satellite. Transcript of radio broadcast: 28 July 2009 VOICE ONE: I’m Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I’m Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the flights that followed Apollo Eleven to the moon. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: The summer of nineteen sixty-nine was a special time in history. That was when men from Earth — American astronauts — flew their Apollo Eleven spacecraft to the moon, landed and returned home safely. The world honored the astronauts as heroes. Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin were the first to land on the moon. But they were not the last. NASA — the National Aeronautics and Space Administration — launched six more Apollo flights. Apollo Twelve lifted off only four months after the Apollo Eleven flight. Rain had fallen the night before. The clouds cleared, but more rain was expected. Space officials decided the weathe
The next flight in America’s Apollo space project — Apollo Thirteen — never landed on the moon. Three days after launch, an explosion damaged the spacecraft. The astronauts lost most of their oxygen. They had to cancel the moon landing and use the moon lander as a lifeboat. Oxygen from the lander kept them alive during the long trip back to Earth. Apollo Fourteen was launched in January, nineteen seventy-one. It landed in the hilly Fra Mauro area of the moon. Fra Mauro is a huge highlands east of Apollo Twelve’s landing place. A large meteorite hit the area four thousand million years ago. The force of the crash spread material from deep inside the moon. Scientists wanted to study this material. They believed it would give them important information about the early history of the moon.
The summer of nineteen sixty-nine was a special time in history. That was when men from Earth — American astronauts — flew their Apollo Eleven spacecraft to the moon, landed and returned home safely. The world honored the astronauts as heroes. Apollo Twelve lifted off only four months after the Apollo Eleven flight. Rain had fallen the night before. The clouds cleared, but more rain was expected. Space officials decided the weather was safe enough for them to launch the spacecraft.
