They had to do this by firing the lunar module rocket engine for just the right amount of time.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

For several tense minutes, the astronauts of Gemini Six were sitting on top of a highly explosive mass of rocket fuel.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

The weather was good. The scientists had planned that part of the rocket would fall into the ocean after the launch.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

There were new designs for the plane's rocket engine, landing equipment and the small rockets needed to move it in space.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

This meant the Apollo Eight astronauts could fire the rocket that would send them from Earth orbit toward the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Astronauts Frank Borman,James Lovell and William Anders were in the spacecraft at the top of the Saturn Five rocket.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Israel says the purpose is to keep weapons out of Gaza and to prevent rocket fire into the Jewish state.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

Air Force pilot Gordon Cooper became an expert on the Redstone Rocket that would launch Mercury astronauts on short training flights.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

"Call me Haiz" he says upon arrival in a rocket ship that opens up with a crazy world inside it.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

There were some concerns about the safety of the huge Redstone rocket that was to carry the spacecraft.

VOA: special.2011.05.15

In nineteen fifty-six, the United States launched a Jupiter military rocket that flew more than five thousand kilometers.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

The huge Saturn rocket, as tall as a thirty-six-floor building, was the heaviest thing ever to leave Earth.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

German rocket scientists, with the support of the German government, had spent fifteen years developing rockets as weapons.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

The agency is to design its own heavy lift rocket at a cost of three billion dollars.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Navi Pillay, in Geneva, criticized Hamas leaders for the harm caused to Israeli civilians by rocket fire.

VOA: special.2009.01.10

Officials say the solid-fuel rocket could reach Israel, southeastern Europe and American bases in the Middle East.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

Finally,on February twentieth, John Glenn climbed into his tiny spacecraft on top of the huge Atlas rocket.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

Two hours after Apollo Thirteen went around the moon, the astronauts fired the rocket for five minutes.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

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

You might see a war movie in which an airplane has been hit by rocket fire.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

But he has won praise at home for his support for developing satellite and rocket technology.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

After a few seconds, when the X-15 was safely away, the pilot started its rocket engine.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

"You do not need to be a rocket scientist to see that our soap cleans better."

VOA: special.2010.06.27

To get below the ancient lunar rocks, NASA crashed a rocket into the moon's south pole.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

"Come on." she says. "You do not need to be a rocket scientist to understand this."

VOA: special.2010.06.27

In two thousand two, he released his first album, "Waiting for My Rocket to Come."

VOA: special.2010.01.29