2009-09-30 Widespread Water Found on Surface of Moon
VOICE ONE: I’m Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I’m Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This week, we tell about the discovery of water on the moon. We…
2009-09-23 Exploring the Magical World of Puppets
VOICE ONE: I’m Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I’m Faith Lapidus with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Since ancient times, cultures around the world have been making and performing with…
2009-09-16 Exploring the Art of Glass Through History and Around the World
VOICE ONE: I’m Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: Tim Tate at the Washington Glass Studio And I’m Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. At the Smithsonian American Art Museum,…
2009-09-09 From Clay to Art: Exploring the World of Ceramics
VOICE ONE: I’m Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I’m Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. At the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. you might see two…
2009-09-02 Exploring the History and Art of Printmaking
VOICE ONE: I’m Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: ”Revolt on the Amistad,” silkscreen print by Jacob Lawrence And I’m Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. At the National Gallery…
2009-08-26 Death Valley: A Beautiful but Dangerous Place
VOICE ONE: This is Phoebe Zimmerman. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we visit one of America’s great national parks. It…
2009-08-19 Eye to Eye With an Elephant, and Watching for Hungry Crocs, on Safari in Africa
VOICE ONE: I’m Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Safari explorers on the Chobe River And I’m Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we go on safari to experience…
2009-08-12 Hoover Dam, Finished in 1936, Is Still a Hugely Interesting Place
VOICE ONE: This is Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Hoover Dam. It was the largest and…
2009-08-05 World’s Fringe Festivals Celebrate the Unusual and Experimental
VOICE ONE: I’m Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I’m Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we travel to the boundaries of artistic production by visiting “fringe” festivals…
2009-07-29 NASA’s Final Apollo Missions: The Last Footsteps on the Moon
VOICE ONE: I’m Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I’m Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the flights that followed Apollo Eleven to the moon.…
2009-07-22 The Story of Apollo 13: ‘Houston, We’ve Had a Problem Here’
VOICE ONE: I’m Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I’m Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we continue the history of the American space program with the flight…
2009-07-15 ‘That’s One Small Step for Man’: Remembering the Apollo 11 Moon Landing
VOICE ONE: I’m Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I’m Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we continue our history of the American space program with the flight…
2009-07-08 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…
2009-07-01 The Race to the Moon: Gemini 6 and 7 Meet High Above Earth in 1965
EXPLORATIONS — a program in Special English by the Voice of America.(MUSIC) Today, Shirley Griffith and Tony Riggs complete a report about America’s second manned space program, Gemini. Its purpose…
2009-06-24 Race to the Moon: The Days of Project Gemini
EXPLORATIONS — a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (MUSIC) Today, Harry Monroe and Tony Riggs report about America’s second manned space program, Gemini. Two astronauts flew…