They became the first African-American men to fly together on a shuttle mission.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first human to step on the Moon, observed the extraordinary accomplishment of the Apollo 11 mission forever established a lasting legacy in space flight.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

The new schedule calls for Endeavour to lift off before dawn on Wednesday, the same day that NASA had hoped to launch a separate mission to survey the moon.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

Earlier this month, five World Food Program employees were killed in a suicide blast in neighboring Pakistan, and last week a Pakistani officer assigned to a U.N.peacekeeping mission in Sudan was gunned down while on home leave in Islamabad.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28