JPL Marks Ninety Years With Missions From Earth to Space
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The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
JPL is ninety years old on 31 October 2026.
- A2
JPL marks its 90th anniversary on 31 October 2026.
- B1
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) marks its 90th anniversary today, 31 October 2026.
- B2
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) marks its 90th anniversary today, 31 October 2026.
- C1
Ninety years ago today, on 31 October 1936, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) graduate students and rocket enthusiasts went to the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena, California, to test rocket propulsion.
- C2
Ninety years ago today, on 31 October 1936, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) graduate students and rocket enthusiasts headed into the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena, California, to test rocket propulsion.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- anniversary
- a date on which an important past event is remembered every year
- mission
- an important journey or job, especially a flight into space
- generation
- all the people in a society or family who are born around the same time
- buried
- hidden or covered under the ground
- launch
- to send a spacecraft or satellite into the sky or into space
- gravity
- the natural force that pulls objects towards the ground or towards a planet
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by NASA. Read the original for the full report.