Atlantis returned safely from its final mission on July 21st, bringing an end to 30 years of NASA's space-shuttle voyages, and thus to American manned flights in space.
7月21日,亚特兰蒂斯号结束最后一次任务安全返航,结束了国家航空航天局30年的航天飞机之旅,也结束了美国的载人航天飞行。
Once the space-shuttle program ends this year, the only way to get people into orbit and to the International Space Station will be to buy seats on Russia's three-person Soyuz capsules.
美国航天飞机项目今年退役后,购买限乘3人的俄罗斯联盟号太空舱座位将是运送人员抵达国际空间站的唯一途径。
Case in point: Space shuttle Discovery, as it nears retirement, wears its age with pride.
一个典型的例子就是“发现号”航天飞机,它已经临近退休,荣誉满身。
The Space Shuttle was expected to provide inexpensive and reliable access to space for a multitude of missions.
航天飞机的本意是希望提供廉价而且可靠的太空运载工具,可以执行多次任务。
But they would do a lot less harm to the stratosphere than Concorde or the space shuttle, devices that were accepted by most people.
但是同已为人们所接受的诸如协和号飞机或者太空飞船相比,它们对平流层的危害要小很多。
The space shuttle Discovery is set to land for the last time Wednesday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
发现号航天飞机将在星期三降落在佛罗里达州肯尼迪航天中心,这是发现号的最后一次太空飞行。
A planned servicing mission was cancelled in January 2004 after the space shuttle Columbia was lost along with its crew of seven astronauts in 2003.
2003年哥伦比亚号太空飞梭失事,七名宇航员丧生,这之后,2004年,对哈勃原定的维修任务被取消。
The mission is NASA's 132nd space shuttle flight since the fleet began launching into space in April 1981.
自1981年4月首次进入太空以来,本次任务是NASA航天飞机的第132次太空飞行。
The space shuttle took five astronauts to the space station.
航天飞机把五名宇航员送到航天站。
The expanded Expedition 23 crew will continue science investigations and support two space shuttle missions to the station.
经过扩充的“远征23队”将继续科学调查工作,并对未来两架抵达空间站执行任务的航天飞机提供支持。
The next and last launch of a US space shuttle is scheduled for early July.
美国航天飞机最近一次的发射被安排在7月初。
It has been more than 30 years since NASA launched something other than a space shuttle to test a manned spaceflight system.
近30多年来,这是NASA第一次对航天飞机之外的载人航天系统进行发射测试。
A humanoid robot will visit space for the first time in September aboard the space Shuttle Discovery, NASA announced Wednesday.
NASA在本周三宣布,第一台人形机器人将于今年九月搭乘发现号航天飞机首次踏入太空。
Space shuttle Endeavour is set to launch on a mission to the International Space Station, after a series of weather delays.
奋进号航天飞机已经准备就绪,发射前往国际空间站。在此之前,一连串恶劣的天气推迟了发射。
The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off into the bright morning sky as a cheer went up across the Kennedy Space Center.
奋进号航天飞机在肯尼迪航天中心爆发出的欢呼声中发射进入清晨明亮的天空。
The U. S. space shuttle Discovery has landed safely at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after a 13-day mission.
美国发现号太空梭在完成13天的任务后,已经在佛罗里达州的肯尼迪航太中心安全著陆。
The space agency says a problem has developed with an experiment aboard the space shuttle.
航天局说在航天飞机上做的一项实验出了问题。
The space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on its last mission.
位于佛罗里达的肯尼迪航天中心,发射中的奋进号航天飞机正在完成它的最后一次航天任务。
For instance, three keywords, "Beijing," "space shuttle," and "iguana," are used.
例如,使用3 个关键字 “Beijing”、“space shuttle”和 “iguana”。
Space shuttle Discovery approaches the International Space Station on Feb. 26, 2011, on its 39th and final flight.
发现号航天飞机在2011年2月26日正在接近国际空间站,这是它第39次也是最后一次飞行。
For instances, three keywords, "Beijing," "space shuttle," and "iguana," are used. (See Figure 51.)
例如,使用3个关键字“Beijing”、“space shuttle”和“iguana”(参见图51)。
The space shuttle is a flying truck: fine for the lunch-bucket work of hauling cargo a couple of hundred miles into space, but nothing more.
航天飞机是一种飞行卡车:运送货物到几百英里远的太空这样的体力活很在行,仅此而已。
Helium is used for arc welding and leak detection, mostly, although NASA USES it to pressurize space shuttle fuel tanks.
虽然美国宇航局用它来给航天飞船的燃料箱加压,氦主要还是用来做弧焊和裂纹检测。
The space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to dock with Russia's Mir space station.
亚特兰蒂斯号航天飞机计划与俄罗斯的米尔号空间站对接。
The space shuttle Atlantis is on its way back to earth from the International space Station on its last voyage after a 25-year career.
经过25年的职业生涯之后,亚特兰蒂斯后航天飞机正在从国际空间站返回地球,这是其最后一次航行。
NASA's space shuttle Endeavor is due to launch, again.
美国宇航局太空飞船“奋进”号将再次升空发射。
The space shuttle touched down yesterday.
这架航天飞机昨日着陆。
This is Mission Control calling the space shuttle Discovery.
这是地面指挥中心呼叫航天飞机“发现号”。
This is Mission Control calling the space shuttle Discovery.
这是地面指挥中心呼叫航天飞机“发现号”。
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