How Virgin Galactic, regulators and the public respond to this most recent tragedy will determine whether and how soon private space travel can transcend that playground.
维珍银河公司、监管机构和公众如何应对这起最近发生的悲剧,将决定私人太空旅行能否以及多久能超越这块天地。
On the flip side, companies like Virgin Galactic are plotting a bottom-up assault on the space dream by making it a reality to the public.
另一方面,维珍银河等公司正在策划对太空梦发动一场自下而上的袭击,让普通大众也能够实现自己的太空邀游梦想。
In an interview last year with The Economist, George Whitesides, chief executive of space-tourism firm Virgin Galactic, was placing his company in the latter category.
在去年接受《经济学人》采访时,太空旅游公司维珍银河的首席执行官乔治·怀特赛兹将他的公司归为后一类。
That altitude is a long ways from the height of more than 100 km promised by Virgin Galactic and others developing suborbital space tourism vehicles.
这个高度相对于维珍银河及其它亚轨道空间旅游工具开发者所承诺的100千米高度而言差得一段距离。
The Virgin Galactic experience will start with a couple of days light preparation: medical tests, safety training and some time for the space travelers and pilots to get to know each other.
参加银河圣母太空之旅,首先要进行为期两天的准备:体检,安全培训,旅客与飞行员相互熟悉。
The Ansari X Prize helped inspire a private flight into space, and now Virgin Galactic is taking orders from space tourists.
安萨里x奖促使了一次私人太空旅行的出现。现在,维珍银河航空公司已经开始接受太空旅客的订单。
Anyone with a cool $4 million and change might consider doing what 43 other people have done, and sign up for an orbital space vacation in 2012 with Galactic Suite Space Resort.
无论谁带着足足400万美元并想换换口味,可以考虑像其他43人那样行事,签订一份2012年上空间轨道的太空宾馆银河套房去度假的合同。
This research suggests that the experimental results in our laboratories are a consequence of galactic rotation twisting our local space-time.
这项研究表明,在我们在实验室所得到的实验结果,这仅是银河系自转对我们局部时空扭曲所造成的结果。
Galactic Suite plans to transport its travelers to space via Russian rockets from a spaceport to be built on a Caribbean island.
银河酒店公司计划在加勒比海的一个小岛上建造一个发射场,并使用俄国火箭来接送宾客。
Virgin Galactic has since accumulated a number of commercial rivals in the space-tourism market.
银河维京的这一举动对他们在空间旅游市场上的竞争者们也开始有所动作。
Understanding more about the heliosphere and its ability to filter out galactic cosmic rays could be critical for assessing the safety of human space travel, Schwadron notes.
对日球层和它过滤宇宙射线的机制了解的越多,就越有助于评估人类星际航行安全性。
While Virgin Galactic is offering quick sub-orbital jaunts to just over the Earth's atmosphere, Space Adventures is planning to take its customers even further, for longer.
当银河圣母公司为乘客提供地球大气层上空亚轨道的短途太空旅行服务时,太空冒险公司正计划把乘客送到更远的地方,提供更长时间的太空之旅。
One was that Virgin Galactic, an upstart British firm, said it would develop a space-tourism business based around a craft that had cost only $25m to build.
一件是英国一家迅速崛起的维珍银河公司发布说将会制造一架用于开展航空旅游业务的航天器,造价只需2500万美元。
So when a firm called Virgin Galactic announced in 2004 that it was planning commercial space flights there was, not surprisingly, some scepticism.
所以,当2004年维珍银河公司宣布计划进行商业太空飞行时,有一些怀疑之声也并不奇怪。
But, in this stunning vista, the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared cameras penetrate much of the dust, revealing the stars of the crowded galactic center region.
但是,这令人惊奇的美景可以由史皮策太空望远镜的红外相机穿过厚重的尘埃而捕捉到并且揭示了拥挤的银河系中心区域的恒星们。
The space particle environment is composed of galactic cosmic rays, solar flares and geomagnetically-trapped particles.
空间高能粒子环境由银河宇宙射线、太阳宇宙射线及地磁捕获粒子组成。
The space energetic particle environment inducing SEU includes galactic cosmic ray, solar cosmic ray and high-energy trapped protons and heavy ions.
引发单粒子翻转的空间高能带电粒子环境包括银河宇宙线,太阳宇宙线和地球辐射带中的高能质子及重离子。
Virgin Galactic will start its space flights next year, using environment-friendly space launch technology.
维珍银河将开始太空飞行,明年使用环境友好型太空发射技术。
A natural add-on to the Space Mission, the galactic Rover is motorized, becomes multiple smaller vehicles and guarantees hours and hours of intergalactic fun.
自然附加到航天飞行,又是罗孚的银河摩托啦,可以成为多个更小的车辆,保证时间和星系间的乐趣。
Astronomy focuses on the planetary. galactic. and stellar phenomena occurring in outer space.
天文学专业主要研究星星和星系以及外层空间中恒星的现象。
The Galactic Confederation of Light is here with an enormous fleet of ships known as the Fleet the First Contact that surrounds all this Solar System and specially Gaia and its lunar space station.
这里是光之银河系联邦的一个庞大的舰队,知道舰队船只第一次联系,全部环绕着这太阳系统而且特别是盖亚和它的月亮空间站。
Such galactic black holes are collapsed objects having millions or even billions of times the mass of our sun crammed into a space no larger than our Solar System.
这些宇宙地狱在很多星系里的确存在,星系中的黑洞需要以质量数百万倍甚至数亿倍于太阳的物体来填满,而这些黑洞的体积也就太阳系那么点大。
Virgin Galactic envisions a future where space voyages will become as common as airplane travel.
公司设想将来太空旅行能像乘飞机旅行一样普遍。
During the early years of the Galactic Civil War, Doc sought refuge in Corporate Sector space, maintaining an outlaw tech base with his beautiful young daughter, Jessa.
银河内战初期,“大夫”在企业专区避难,和他年轻漂亮的女儿杰莎一起经营着一家非法的技术维护站。
To start, most of the yellowish objects in the above image from the Hubble Space Telescope are galactic members of a massive cluster of galaxies known as Abell 2667.
在上面这张由哈勃太空望远镜拍摄到的影像中,大多数微黄色的天体就是我们所知道阿贝耳2667星系团内巨大的成员。
To start, most of the yellowish objects in the above image from the Hubble Space Telescope are galactic members of a massive cluster of galaxies known as Abell 2667.
在上面这张由哈勃太空望远镜拍摄到的影像中,大多数微黄色的天体就是我们所知道阿贝耳2667星系团内巨大的成员。
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