It thundered into space perfectly, pushing an unmanned Apollo spacecraft more than eighteen thousand kilometers up into the atmosphere.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

But in the western United States, there are highways where the speed limit is one hundred twenty-five kilometers an hour.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Beauregard had twenty thousand soldiers at Manassas Junction, a railroad village in Virginia less than fifty kilometers from Washington.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

The debris now circles the Earth in orbits from two hundred kilometers to over three thousand eight hundred kilometers.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

It can be driven three hundred kilometers on the hydrogen cell and an additional fifty kilometers on its batteries.

VOA: special.2009.09.07

Then the show moved to the Grand Ole Opry House, fourteen kilometers east of the center of the city.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

His records include bouncing a ball the fastest for one mile,or 1.6 kilometers, on the Great Wall of China.

VOA: special.2011.05.16

On April twentieth an oil drilling rig, the Deepwater Horizon, exploded and sank about eighty kilometers from the Louisiana coast.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

The atmosphere is about twenty-percent oxygen and eighty percent nitrogen from Earth's surface to where space begins at one-hundred-twenty kilometers up.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

For example, a person was 20% more likely to feel happy if a friend living within 1.5 kilometers was also happy.

VOA: special.2009.01.21

But they have been reported to move in other directions and as fast as one hundred seventeen kilometers an hour.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

If you lined up all the stores side by side, they would cover a distance of almost seven kilometers.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

He faced winds blowing more than one hundred twenty kilometers an hour, and ocean waves at least twenty meters high.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

These studies must consider wildlife activity up to about three thousand meters above an airport and eight kilometers around it.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

American Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the Iranian missile will be able to travel up to two thousand five hundred kilometers.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

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

In some cases, the resulting paths of damage can stretch more than a kilometer wide and eighty kilometers long.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

The eastern part of the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch is about one thousand six hundred kilometers west of California.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

But now,military officials say the area held by the Tamil Tigers has been reduced to just a few square kilometers of beachfront.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

But it represents a loss of about five hundred ninety thousand kilometers from the yearly average between nineteen seventy-nine and two thousand.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

The nearest port was more than one thousand kilometers away from where the gold discovery had been made.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

Then,on April twenty-fifth, General Taylor received word that a large Mexican force had crossed the border a few kilometers up the river.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

And they had to defend a line almost sixty kilometers long, from Richmond to the city of Petersburg.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

LCROSS will then study the soil thrown up to ten kilometers above the lunar surface before it too crashes into the moon.

VOA: special.2009.09.30