NASA Picks SpaceX to Launch StarBurst Satellite
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The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
NASA picks SpaceX for a new mission.
- A2
NASA picked SpaceX for a new space mission.
- B1
NASA is a big group that studies space.
- B2
NASA has picked SpaceX, a company that builds and flies its own rockets, to launch the StarBurst small satellite mission.
- C1
NASA has picked SpaceX to launch its StarBurst small satellite mission.
- C2
NASA has formally selected SpaceX to launch its StarBurst small satellite mission.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- launch
- to send a rocket or a spacecraft into the sky or into space
- satellite
- a machine sent into space to move around Earth or another planet and collect information
- spacecraft
- a vehicle used for traveling in space
- burst
- sudden and short periods of something like light or energy
- collide
- to crash into each other with force
- remains
- the parts of something that are left after the rest has been destroyed or has died
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by NASA. Read the original for the full report.