巨大显眼的助推火箭脱离后，它看上去只是架小型滑翔机或飞机。
The huge, showy booster rockets fallen away, it was just a little glider or an aeroplane.
与过去这些巨型的火箭相比，航天飞机可能看起来像个“小不点”，但其28年的飞行历史使它成为助推器调配很好的标杆。
NASA’s space shuttle fleet may seem puny compared to giant rockets of the past, but its 28-year flight history makes it a good measuring stick when it comes to booster match-ups.
从外部燃料箱的顶端至船尾固体火箭助推器的裙摆，发射台上的航天飞机高184英尺(56米)。
A shuttle on the launch pad measures 184 feet (56 meters) tall from the tip of the external tank down to the aft skirts of its twin solid rocket boosters.
屹立在39B发射台上的战神I-X火箭塔高327英尺（约100米），这个发射场此前一直被用于航天飞机发射，现在已被转用于新的助推器。
The Ares I-X towers 327 feet (100 meters) above Launch Pad 39B, a launching site that until recently was used to fly space shuttles, and has been converted for the new booster.
NASA计划用五级航天飞机助推火箭作为Ares I火箭的第一级，Ares i是淘汰航天飞机后的星座计划使用的两种火箭之一。
NASA plans to use a five-segment shuttle booster as the first stage of its Ares I rocket, one of two being designed as part of the post-shuttle Constellation program.
航天飞机的初始设计即没有预料到泡沫脱落问题也没有预料到固体火箭助推器连接密封性能这么差。
The initial Shuttle design predicted neither foam debris problems nor poor sealing action of the Solid Rocket Booster joints.
文中对航天飞机固体火箭助推器回收系统所用的降落伞及即将使用的新式轻型降落伞的研制情况作了简要介绍。
This paper describes the parachutes that have been developed for the space shuttle solid booster recovery system. A status report on a new lightweight parachute system being developed is presented.
亚特兰蒂斯号航天飞机的同时降低其外部燃料箱和高湾，美国航天局的大型交通工具装配大楼1固体火箭助推器。
Space shuttle Atlantis is lowered alongside its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters in High Bay-1 of NASA's massive Vehicle Assembly Building.
亚特兰蒂斯号航天飞机的同时降低其外部燃料箱和高湾，美国航天局的大型交通工具装配大楼1固体火箭助推器。
Space shuttle Atlantis is lowered alongside its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters in High Bay-1 of NASA's massive Vehicle Assembly Building.
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