The American-operated ship carried thousands of tons of agricultural materials for the World Food Program and other aid organizations.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

This is a very important mission and so there is a computer program named Hal that helps run the ship and takes a lot of the burdens off of the part of the human astronauts who are on the ship.

这是一项非常重要的任务,因此,一个被命名为哈尔的计算机程序,被安排协助飞船的运行,减轻飞船上,人类宇航员的负担

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The interception of the ship comes amid growing tensions between Israel and Iran over Teheran's nuclear program.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

But Andrew Mwangura of the piracy specialist group East African Seafarers' Assistance Program says he believes the ship is one of the regular weapons carriers circumventing the U.N.arms embargo on Somalia.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10