Exploration
Adventurer Steve Fossett Set More Than 100 World Records in Five Different Sports
VOICE ONE: I’m Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I’m Doug Johnson with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the adventurer and explorer Steve Fossett. He was famous for extraordinary efforts setting world records in flying, ballooning and sailing. He set or broke more than one hundred records in five different sports. Many [...]
Robert Edison Fulton Rode Around the World on a Motorcycle
VOICE ONE: This is Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: Robert Edison Fulton And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about an unusual man who traveled alone around the world. He was an inventor and a filmmaker. He wrote a best-selling book. He was a poet, an artist and an [...]
Race to the Moon: NASA and the Early Apollo Flights of the 1960s
VOICE ONE: I’m Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I’m Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. The nineteen sixties were exciting times in space exploration. Today look back at the first flights of the Apollo program designed to land humans on the moon. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: President John Kennedy sets the goal of a [...]
