VOA慢速英语 太空竞赛的获胜者是俄罗斯人

　　In Race to Space, the Winner Was a Russian

　　太空竞赛的获胜者是俄罗斯人

　　VOICE ONE:

　　This is Steve Ember.

　　VOICE TWO:

　　And this is Shirley Griffith with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we finish the story of the first American program to send a person into space. It was called Project Mercury.

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　　VOICE ONE:

　　The American space agency opened for business October first, nineteen fifty-eight. NASA's most important job was to send an American into space and return him safely to Earth. Project Mercury was the plan for doing this. It would use one of several dependable military rockets to launch a small, one-man spacecraft. The space vehicle would return to Earth and land in the ocean.

　　Astronauts would be chosen for the program from the best military test pilots who had education in science or engineering.

　　The idea was simple. But making it happen was not a simple job. Thousands of scientists, engineers, technicians and other workers were needed. And money was needed -- thousands of millions of dollars.

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