VOA慢速英语 登陆月球:双子星计划

　　Then NASA considered another plan.

　　There was nothing wrong with the Gemini Six spacecraft. So, NASA announced that Gemini Seven would lift off on December third, nineteen sixty-five. Then, if everything else was ready, Gemini Six would be launched a few days later. It would attempt to meet in space with the orbiting Gemini Seven.

　　VOICE TWO:

　　NASA quickly added a warning to its plan. There was less than a fifty percent chance of success. But Americans were hopeful. If the plan succeeded, it would be the greatest space act since manned flights began.

　　We will continue our story of America's Gemini space program next week.

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　　ANNOUNCER:

　　This VOA Special English program, EXPLORATIONS, was written by Marilyn Rice Christiano. Your narrators were Tony Riggs and Harry Monroe. This is Shirley Griffith.

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　　Editor's Note: Ed White was the United States' first spacewalker, on June 3, 1965. But the world's first spacewalker was Alexei Leonov of the Soviet Union, on March 18, 1965.

　　一、词汇学习

　　1.survive vt. 比...活得长, 生存, 生还, 幸免于

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