Solar system

weightlessness

2. Look through the vocabulary and try to guess what the report is about.

1. exploration and settlement of the Red Planet

2. to put payloads into orbit - полезная нагрузка; грузоподъёмность final payload — полезная нагрузка последней ступени (многоступенчатой ракеты)

3. to take tourists into space

4. an aerospace engineer

5. to send humans to Mars

6. an exploratory base

7. permanent settlements on Mars

8. to use the moon as a base to travel on to Mars

9. orbiters

10. to circle the planet – to orbit

11. robotic missions to Mars

12. (вездеход), Spirit and Opportunity

13. to function on the surface

14. in the early stages of discovery on Mars

15. to permeate through the exploration - to penetrate or pervade

16. to look for water

17. to encourage private space flight

18. to develop a tourist spacecraft

19. to offer weightless rides in airplanes that simulate the zero-gravity conditions of space

20. a competition for rocket racers

21. to open up the solar system

22. a career in aerospace

23. to go into nuclear thermal propulsion - продвижение вперёд, движение вперёд; поступательное движение 2) а) движущая сила б) импульс, толчок

3. Listen to the text (audio and script are available) Scientists, Space Enthusiasts Share Vision for Mars

4. Answer the questions:

1. What does Robert Zubrin, the aerospace engineer, foresee?

2. What is Fuk Li, the manager for the Mars exploration program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory worried about?

3. What do Peter Diamandis, the man behind the X Prize, Burt Rutan and British entrepreneur Richard Branson encourage people for?

4. What do the possibilities excite Emily Colvin, 22 to?

Text 3

1. Listen to the text (audio and script are available) NASA Scientists See Hastened Arctic Warming

2. Comment on the following:

1. satellite data

2. to be entirely ice free

3. to decrease

4. to get thinner

5. to get at this tipping point

6. to be supported by ground based observations and measurements

3. Single out the most striking statements of the text.

4. Give the main issues of the report.