NASA Funds Twelve New Space Projects
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
NASA has twelve new space projects.
- A2
NASA has chosen twelve new projects for space travel.
- B1
NASA has chosen twelve new research projects to assist human space exploration.
- B2
To assist human space exploration, NASA has chosen twelve new research projects.
- C1
Understanding how to grow food and protect human bodies in extreme environments is absolutely necessary for long-term missions to the Moon and Mars.
- C2
As humanity sets its sights on establishing a prolonged presence on the Moon and Mars, the logistical hurdles of deep-space habitation require unprecedented scientific ingenuity.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- assist
- To help someone do something.
- exploration
- The act of searching or traveling to discover what is there.
- distribute
- To give something out to several people or places.
- edible
- Safe or good to eat.
- extreme
- Very large in amount or degree.
- recover
- To become completely well again after an illness or injury, or to return to a normal state.
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by NASA. Read the original for the full report.