Space Stories

Gillian A.
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  1. concern
    something that interests you because it is important
    The stories below all concern recent events related to space, or space exploration.
  2. event
    something that happens at a given place and time
    The stories below all concern recent events related to space, or space exploration.
  3. exploration
    travel for the purpose of discovery
    The stories below all concern recent events related to space, or space exploration.
  4. identify
    recognize as being
    Can you identify which of the stories is not true?
  5. request
    express the need or desire for; ask for
    Obama turned down NASA’s requests, and the reason he gave was that they had already been there.
  6. priority
    status established in order of importance or urgency
    Obama believes the US space programme should have other priorities.
  7. orbit
    the path of a celestial body in its revolution about another
    He suggested that by the mid 2030’s NASA could send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth.
  8. shrink
    wither, as with a loss of moisture
    In August this year NASA scientists made a surprising announcement: the Moon is shrinking.
  9. contraction
    the act of decreasing in size or volume or quantity or scope
    A NASA spacecraft that is orbiting the Moon had taken photos showing huge cracks caused by the contraction of the Moon’s surface as its core becomes cooler.
  10. core
    the center of an object
    A NASA spacecraft that is orbiting the Moon had taken photos showing huge cracks caused by the contraction of the Moon’s surface as its core becomes cooler.
  11. occur
    come to pass
    The scientists are particularly interested in the cracks because they have occurred recently, and are probably still getting bigger.
  12. lunar
    of or relating to or associated with the moon
    A NASA spacecraft orbiting the Moon recently answered a question that many people have been asking for more than 30 years: what happened to the US flag that the American astronauts left on the Moon’s surface after the first manned lunar landing in 1969?
  13. reveal
    make visible
    Pictures taken on 19th May this year finally revealed the flag’s position – upside-down in a crater about fifteen kilometres from the site of the 1969 landing.
  14. crater
    a bowl-shaped geological formation at the top of a volcano
    Pictures taken on 19th May this year finally revealed the flag’s position – upside-down in a crater about fifteen kilometres from the site of the 1969 landing.
  15. site
    the piece of land on which something is located
    Pictures taken on 19th May this year finally revealed the flag’s position – upside-down in a crater about fifteen kilometres from the site of the 1969 landing.
  16. debris
    the remains of something that has been destroyed
    NASA estimates that there are around 18,000 pieces of man-made debris orbiting the Earth, from disused satellites to nuts and bolts that have fallen off spacecraft.
  17. attach
    be in contact with
    The solution recently suggested by a US company was to send up small spacecraft with special nets attached to them.
Created on Wed Sep 05 14:58:09 EDT 2012 (updated Wed Sep 05 15:08:02 EDT 2012)

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