And Congress was ready to spend the thousands of millions of dollars that a moon landing program would cost.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

I don't know why they make such a big deal out of the person landing on the moon.

我不理解人类登月,有什么大不了的。

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Everything worked as planned. Everyone expected the third moon-landing flight, Apollo Thirteen, would go as well as the first two.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

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

Mary Chapin Carpenter describes real events such as Hurricane Katrina, landing on the moon,and protests by religious workers in Burma.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

Everyone survived the water landing of a US Airways jet on the Hudson River in New York in January.

VOA: special.2009.06.13

At the time President Kennedy first spoke about landing humans on the moon, the Soviet space program seemed far ahead.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

"People of Western Europe: a landing was made this morning on the coast of France by troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force."

VOA: special.2011.06.16

Moving pictures from before World War Two showed a man named Buck Rogers landing on the planet Mars.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

Its purpose was to bring the United States closer to its goal of landing astronauts on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

Gemini's purpose was to bring the United States closer to its goal of landing astronauts on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

"People of Western Europe: A landing was made this morning on the coast of France by troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force.

VOA: special.2011.06.09

It serves as a landing area for bees and other insects that spread pollen to the plant.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

Under the proposed agreement, fishing boats would be directed to a landing port specially equipped for inspections.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

President Richard Nixon gave federal government workers the day off to watch the moon landing on television.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

He decided to march most of his men down the west side of the river to a steamboat landing thirty kilometers below Vicksburg.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

It could change the plane's path just enough to destroy the pilot's chance of a safe landing.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

They were more than two-thirds of the way to the moon on a flight path that would take them to a moon landing.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

They moved Eagle forward, away from a very rocky area that might have caused a difficult landing.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Later,the landing vehicle would carry them back to the command module for the return trip to Earth.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

One hour before landing, Lovell,Swigert and Haise said thanks and goodbye to their lifeboat, the lunar module.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Its crew would attempt a move that would be necessary for any landing on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

Katherine Cole has more. Call it a crash-landing, a ditching, a splash-down, or a nicer name.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

People transporting captured sharks to the boat landing for weighing and killing would also be rejected.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

Gemini,it was hoped, would move America closer to its goal of landing astronauts on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

Since the emergency landing of flight fifteen forty-nine, special radars have received a lot of attention.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

This is what she wrote about landing in northern Canada and jumping out of the plane.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

And millions of people around the world were watching the live television broadcast of the landing.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

There were some problems. But the animal survived the launch and the landing in the ocean.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

It settles into a long, powerless slide toward the landing field at Edwards Air Force Base.

VOA: special.2010.07.07