当战斗的人类幸存者被押上航天飞机时，他们拿着武器站岗。
They stand guard with weapons as the human survivors of the battle are marched onto the shuttle.
在这本书中，他提到了挑战者号和哥伦比亚号航天飞机的失事以及泰坦尼克号的沉没。
In this book, he includes the loss of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, and the sinking of the Titanic.
该项目的幕后推动者是史蒂芬·埃尔特穆斯，他在休斯敦约翰逊航天中心担任总工程师。
The driving force behind the project was Stephen J. Altemus, the chief engineer at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston.
该公司正研发叫“追梦者”的航天飞船，该飞船能载6到8人在近地轨道往返飞行。
The firm is developing a space vehicle called Dream Chaser, which could carry six to eight people to and from low-Earth orbit.
这次惨剧致使航天飞机的飞行叫停（挑战者号的失事，曾使美国的航天事业受到沉重打击，航天飞机在以后停止飞行长达3年之久。 译注），随后展开的重大事故调查，相关部门提出了29修改建议，以防此类惨剧事件在未来继续发生。
The disaster prompted the suspension of shuttle flights and led to a major investigation resulting in 29 recommended changes to prevent future calamities.
而短短两年之前，美国航空航天局还发生过一起挑战者号航天飞机爆炸致使7名宇航员遇难的事件。
Only two years earlier, NASA's Challenger shuttle disaster killed seven astronauts.
当我那时为坐航天飞机飞行而感到骄傲时，明天的探索者现在会梦想着有一天在火星上行走。
While I was proud to fly on the shuttle, tomorrow's explorers will now dream of one day walking on Mars.
像它的美国竞争者一样，未来的俄罗斯火箭将月球作为最后的目的地，同时美国载人航天计划在目标上的不确定性也是俄罗斯制定计划的一大障碍。
Like its American competitor, the future Russian vehicle has the Moon as its ultimate destination, and the uncertainty of us goals in manned spaceflight is an obstacle for Russian plans.
美国国家航天局正在计划与太阳帆技术的长期支持者“行星学会”一道开发一套类似的系统。
The US space agency has been working on a project with The Planetary Society, a long-time proponent of the technology.
NASA最初的两架航天飞机，“哥伦比亚号”和“挑战者号”，比“发现号”更老，但均毁于航天灾难。
NASA's first two shuttles, Columbia and Challenger, were older than Discovery, but both were lost in spaceflight tragedies.
自航天飞机计划开始以来，五年间的运行几乎都是成功的。直到1986年元月28日，在起飞不久后，挑战者号航天飞机发生爆炸，全部乘员遇难。
Once the shuttle program began, it operated more or less successfully for five years - until Jan. 28, 1986, when shortly after takeoff, the shuttle Challenger exploded, killing all those aboard.
看看这些拍摄银河系、行星以及探索者航天飞机的美妙照片吧！
Check out these photos of galaxies, planets and the discovery shuttle and many more.
航天飞机将于明年退役，它们的退役和接任者的到来之间的空隙已经引起了一些焦虑。
The shuttles are due to retire next year, and there is already consternation about the gap between that retirement and the arrival of their successor.
飞车研制者之一，美国航天局前工程师表示，该飞车的驾驶和保养都非常容易，能够停进普通的家庭车库，使用的也是普通汽油。
Its creators, which include former Nasa engineers, say the vehicle is easy to keep and run because it can fit into a normal domestic garage and uses regular gas.
事件：1986年1月28日，挑战者号航天飞机在起飞73秒后爆炸，机上所有宇航员全部遇难。
What happened: on January 28, 1986 the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after takeoff, killing all the astronauts on board.
我们确信我们可以通过科技改变整体面貌并且再一次振兴航空航天工业，而且让NASA重新回归到最根本的角色：真正的创新者。
We know we can make a difference through technology to reinvigorate the aerospace industry and get NASA back to its roots as a true innovator.
其中的挑战者号和哥伦比亚号分别于1986年和2003年失事，同时也有14名航天英雄不幸罹难。
Two of them, Challenger and Columbia, were destroyed in the disasters of 1986 and 2003 that cost 14 astronauts their lives.
据说火星漫游者计划送出的探测器自2004年以来完成的工作量仅仅相当于一个载有两人的阿波罗航天器一天的工作量。
It's been said that the Mars rovers that have been on Mars since 2004 have done about as much work as a single, two-man Apollo crew would do in a day.
1986年1月28号，挑战者号航空航天飞机因为一个圆形截面环的错误导致在起飞73秒之后爆炸。
The Space Shuttle Challenger was destroyed 73 seconds after takeoff due on January 28, 1986 due to a faulty O-ring.
事实上因此，美国宇航局决定其继任者会是商业火箭与航天器。
In effect, therefore, NASA has decided that the successor to the space shuttle will be commercial rockets and spacecraft.
“猎户”是将未来探险者送往月球的航天器，看起来与阿波罗飞船非常相似。
The spacecraft to carry future explorers to the moon, the Orion crew exploration vehicle, looks very similar to the Apollo spacecraft.
哥本哈根次轨道组织创立者表示，他们建造航天飞船的动机部分是出于个人目的。
The Copenhagen Suborbital founders have said that their motivation for building a spacecraft was partly personal.
科学家接者收目前会听航天噪音，然后找出不变信号或者找出那些常规跳动的信号。
The receivers scientists are currently using to listen to space noise are designed to find constant signals, or signals that are pulsing at regular intervals.
图上这名机器宇航员本应在这周作为太空中首位人形机器人而开启它的服役生涯，不过，因为搭载它的航天飞机发现者号在检修故障，所以它的行程推迟了。
Robonaut, who was supposed to start his career as the first humanoid robot in space this week, remains while the shuttle Discovery sorts out its problems.
航天飞机宇航员坐在燃料箱旁边，燃料箱紧挨着曾导致挑战者号航天飞机解体的爆炸发动机；上面是曾导致哥伦比亚号航天飞机失事大块掉落泡沫。
Shuttle astronauts sit alongside the fuel - next to the exploding motor that claimed Challenger, beneath the chunks of falling foam that killed Columbia.
在过去二十年间，许多团队都在研发测试远程控制的科研用飞机。 曾在美国西部上空执行任务，原为军用飞机的“捕食者B”经过国家航空航天局修整改进，更加精巧完善。
During the pasttwo decades, several teams have developed and tested remote-controlled scienceplanes, and NASA already flies the smaller Predator B — also of military origin— over western US wildfires.
在2001年，美国航空航天局启动了试验性的的“点击研究者”项目，这一工程用来定位火星表面的坑状物并加以进行分类。
In 2001 NASA created the experimental Clickworkers project to locate and categorize craters on the surface of Mars.
工程师们希望这次“压罐子”实验将验证这些轻巧材料的受力性能，从而使以后的火箭制造者们在未来更大起飞重量的航天器中可以尽可能的设计采用轻量化的材料。
Engineers hope the can-crushing tests will prove the strength of thin materials, enabling rocket builders to design lightweight materials for future heavy-lift launch vehicles.
2001年3月8日，肯尼迪航天中心，一名观众正在宇航局新闻区观看发现者号航天飞机发射，这次发射的代号是STS- 102，航天飞机将去往国际空间站执行任务。
A spectator in the NASA press site views the launch of the space shuttle Discovery on Mission STS-102 to the International space Station at the Kennedy space Center, March 8, 2001.
3名死于阿波罗计划早期实验的火灾中，14名在挑战者号和哥伦比亚号航天飞机失事中牺牲。
Three perished in a fire during early testing for the Apollo programme and 14 died in the wreckage of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia.
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