At the moment it is still working, but when its fuel runs out, sometime between 2016 and 2018, it will become a giant piece of junk-one that will remain in a crowded orbit for 150 years. Or not.

尽管它目前仍在工作，但其燃料会2016年至2018的某个时刻耗尽，届时它成为一块巨大的太空垃圾且将在拥挤的轨道上存续150年，甚至不止150年。

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At the moment it is still working, but when its fuel runs out, sometime between 2016 and 2018, it will become a giant piece of junk-one that will remain in a crowded orbit for 150 years.

尽管它目前仍在工作，但其燃料会2016年至2018的某个时刻耗尽，届时它成为一块巨大的太空垃圾且将在拥挤的轨道上存续150年。

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The shuttle Discovery is, at this moment, in orbit; Endeavour and Atlantis each has one more flight.

发现号航天飞机现在正在地球轨道上，奋进号和亚特兰蒂斯号还有一次飞行任务。

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That's part of what pulls the boys into their hero's wobbly orbit from the very first moment they see him up close, squinting in the summer sun with a cigarette in his teeth.

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