类似的机器也曾搭乘美国宇航局的航天飞机在太空中飞行，但无法进行时间足够长的测试来证明它们是否有效。
Similar machines have flown in space aboard NASA's shuttles, but they couldn't be tested for long enough to prove whether they were effective.
多亏撞上了极大的好运气，美国宇航局恰好在适当的时间将哈勃太空望远镜恰好对准了适当的位置，在胶片上捕捉到了这些图像。
Through an enormous stroke of luck, NASA aimed the Hubble Telescope at precisely the right place at precisely the right time to capture these images on film.
专门小组极为合理地指出，美国宇航局的预算只考虑了“战神Ⅰ号”[火箭]/“猎户座”[太空飞船]与空间站两者之一，却未兼顾两者。
The panel pointed out quite reasonably that the NASA budget allows for either Ares I/Orion or the space station, but not both.
美国宇航局说，宇航员最早将于2016开始太空飞行。
NASA says astronauts would not fly onboard until at least 2016.
国家宇航局的未来是如此不确定，在太空中的每件东西看起来都需要不断维修。
NASA’s future is so uncertain and everything in space seems to be in constant need of repair.
美国宇航局(NASA)戈达德太空研究所还报告说，2010年，到目前为止，是131年以来最热的。
NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies also reports that 2010, so far, is the warmest out of 131 years.
虽然预报天气情况较差，但美国宇航局正尽全力将亚特兰蒂斯号航天飞机送上太空。
Nasa is going to give shuttle Atlantis every opportunity to launch on Friday despite a poor weather forecast.
在过去的会议中，常听到批评宇航局是平价太空旅行的障碍，今年却鲜有所闻。
It was typical in the past to hear much bashing of the space agency as a barrier to affordable space access at this meeting, but there was very little of it this year.
一份旨在限制未来这些碎片可能会对航空飞船造成的危险的报告在去年的四月份由宇航局发布，用来评估他们关于太空垃圾，名为MMOD（微流星体和太空碎片）的项目。
The report, Limiting future collision risk to spacecraft, was commissioned by Nasa last April to evaluate its programmes on 'space junk', officially known as MMOD (Micrometeoroids and Orbital Debris).
这是半个世纪来美国宇航局NASA日程上首次没有载人太空飞行任务。
For the first time in half a century, the space agency Nasa has no manned space flights on its agenda.
卡尔在美国宇航局关于在太空探索中合成生物学的应用的研讨会上提出了他的科研小组的计划。这个会议于10月30 - 31日在加利福尼亚艾米斯研究中心举行。
Carr presented his team's project at a NASA workshop about applications of synthetic biology in space exploration, held at the Ames Research Center in California Oct. 30-31.
用它，美国宇航局带头创建了太空站，在那里人类已经学会在微重力条件下生存数月，并做生物医学和天文学研究。
With it, NASA took the lead in creating the space station, where humans have learned how to survive for months in micro-gravity and do biomedical and astronomical research.
明星演员是美国宇航局戈达尔太空研究所所长詹姆斯·汉森，他声称有99%的把握，由于人类活动影响的“温室效应”，气温正在上升。
The star actor was NASA Godard Institute for Space Studies director James Hansen who claimed with 99 percent certainty that temperatures were rising due to a human-influenced "greenhouse effect".
美国宇航局的早期宇航员在太空中必须吃的食品对他们的韧性是个考验。
The food that NASA's early astronauts had to eat in space is a testament to their fortitude.
美国宇航局发布了哈勃太空望远镜拍摄的图像，显示了冥王星表面不寻常和多彩变化。
Nasa released images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope which revealed some unusual and colourful changes to the surface of Pluto.
他一直在开发所谓可伸展的太空屋，这是他几年前从美国宇航局购买的技术。
He has been developing so-called expandable space habitats, a technology he bought from NASA a number of years ago.
不过，这家看来有点忙碌的公司开设太空宾馆的创见，目前还可以帮美国宇航局一把。
But the space hotel visionary behind that company seems a bit busy also helping out NASA at the moment.
美宇航局说，这个太空探索车是去年月球表面太空模拟的必备工具。 这一工具可以改造一下，安装在一个飞行平台来适应小行星探索。
Sans wheels, which were needed for last year’s simulations to the surface of the moon, the vehicle could be transformed for asteroid exploration by mounting it on a flying platform, says NASA.
NASA（美国宇航局）的解决方法是：给宇航员配备太空包装眼镜，这使他们能够根据手头的工作内容调整自己的焦距。
NASA's solution: send astronauts to space packing eyewear that allows them to adjust the focus of their lenses depending on the task at hand.
美国宇航局已经表示支持使用私人火箭作为“太空的士”，运送宇航员来往于国际空间站。
NASA has voiced support for using private rockets as "space taxis", ferrying astronauts to and from the International space Station.
物理学家伊萨克•牛顿爵士的那棵苹果树上的一截树枝不久将随美国宇航局的宇航员们前往太空，体验零重力。
A piece of physicist Sir Isaac Newton's apple tree is to defy gravity by being carried into space on the next NASA shuttle mission.
RTG已为许多太空任务提供动力，包括美国宇航局的“卡西尼号”和“新视野”探测器。在放射性物质的小球衰退过程中可以产生出热量，从而将其转化为电能。
RTGs power many space missions — including NASA's Cassini and New Horizons probes — as the slow decay of small pellets of radioactive material produces heat that can be turned into electricity.
您可能会急于看到一位美国宇航局科学家站出来说，开普勒太空望远镜是用来寻找外星人的。
You'd be hard-pressed to get a NASA scientist to come out and say that the Kepler space telescope is designed to find aliens.
欧洲宇航局近日公布的电脑合成图显示，地球被数百万块太空垃圾包围。
Computer generated images released by the European Space Agency (ESA) have revealed millions of assorted debris around the earth.
1968年，美国宇航局的阿波罗8号从太空直播他们的绕月航行，在当时是历史上收视率最高的电视节目。
NASA's Apollo 8 broadcast live from space in 1968 during their journey around the moon. The transmission was the most watched television program ever up to that time.
国家宇航局尤其要停止飞往国际太空站，一般的“近地轨道”飞行也要停止。
NASA should stop travelling to the International Space Station in particular and to “low Earth orbit” in general.
无论一路走来要历经多少坎坷，我都坚信美国宇航局给予商业公司的支持将证实对人类太空[探索]前景至为关键。
Whatever bumps along the trajectory there may be, I am confident that NASA’s support for commercial companies will prove to be critical to humanity’s future in space.
无论一路走来要历经多少坎坷，我都坚信美国宇航局给予商业公司的支持将证实对人类太空[探索]前景至为关键。
Whatever bumps along the trajectory there may be, I am confident that NASA’s support for commercial companies will prove to be critical to humanity’s future in space.
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