If we could power such an elevator with solar energy, we could simply rise up into space for a fraction of the cost of a trip by rocket or shuttle.
如果我们能利用太阳能为这样的电梯提供动力,我们只需花费乘坐火箭或航天飞机旅行费用的一小部分就能进入太空。
It was to take off and land like a plane, but soar into outer space like a rocket.
它像一架飞机一样起飞和着陆,也可以向火箭一样飞进外层空间。
South Korea's latest attempt to enter the Asian space race suffered a setback today when a satellite carried by the country's first rocket veered off course.
韩国试图进入亚洲太空竞赛的最新尝试今天遭遇挫折,其首枚载有一颗卫星的火箭偏离了轨道。
For example, if the space department for a country issues a news release of a successful rocket launch, information will be readily available.
例如,如果一个国家的宇航部门发布了一次成功火箭发射的新闻稿,这样的信息非常容易拿到。
Us video game magnate Richard Garriott headed into space aboard a Russian rocket yesterday watched by his father, a NASA astronaut who went into space at the height of the Cold War.
美国电脑游大亨理查德·加里奥特于昨日搭乘一架俄罗斯载人飞船,在父亲的目送下飞赴太空。他的父亲曾是美国宇航局的一名宇航员,曾在“冷战”时期登上太空。
The slender, 100 metre-high rocket was moved in a delicate, slow operation from its 52-storey assembly hangar at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida this morning to a launch pad about four miles away.
今天上午,这个细长的100米高的火箭从位于佛罗里达州肯尼迪航天中心52层高的组装库被缓慢而巧妙地运到4英里外的发射平台。
Two European satellites that will study the weather in space are finally orbiting the Earth four years after a first launch attempt ended in disaster when a carrier rocket blew up.
两枚将探测太空天气情况的欧洲卫星终于进入绕地球运行轨道,4年前第一次发射时因运载火箭爆炸而失败。
Once in space, ion engines steadily propel a spacecraft until it travels faster than it would have using a chemical rocket.
一旦进入太空,离子发动机将稳步推进航天器,最终达到的速度会比使用普通火箭的更高。
South Korea launched a multi-stage rocket Tuesday in the country's first space shot, but the satellite it was carrying separated a few seconds later than planned and didn't reach the proper orbit.
韩国周二在该国的首次太空发射中发射了一枚多级运载火箭,但所携带卫星与火箭的分离时间比计划晚了几秒钟,卫星未能进入预定轨道。
In 2010, Iran announced it had successfully launched a rocket carrying a mouse, turtle and worms into space.
在2010年,伊朗宣布成功的用火箭将一只老鼠,乌龟和蠕虫送入太空。
A small Danish organisation funded entirely by sponsorship is developing a rocket to send a man into space.
丹麦的一业余火箭小组正在研发能够将一个人送上太空的火箭。
If Discovery isn't flying by then, it will have to get in line behind a Russian Soyuz rocket that's set to blast off March 26 with a fresh space station crew.
如果到时发现号还没有上天的话,发现号将不得不在预定于三月26日俄罗斯发射的联盟号火箭上天后才能升空。联盟号主要是运送新一轮空间站工作人员上天。
A rocket belonging to India's space agency lifted off from the Sriharikota space station in Andhra Pradesh early Monday, putting a cluster of ten satellites into earth orbit within minutes.
星期一早上,印度宇航局的一枚火箭从安得拉邦的斯里赫里戈达航天发射场发射升空,在几分钟之内把搭载的十颗卫星送入地球运行轨道。
If you ever wanted to take a trip to the International Space Station, or fly on board a rocket into orbit, now's your chance.
如果你曾梦想国际空间站之旅,或搭乘火箭飞行,现在就是实现你梦想的机会。
Since time is kind of like space (the four dimensions go hand in hand), a working time machine would zoom off like a rocket rather than disappearing in a puff of smoke.
既然时间在某种程度上象空间那样(从一维空间到四维空间都是在一起的),一部运转的时间机器就应该象一架火箭那样急剧加速飞离而不是在一阵烟雾中消失。
The rocket uses a nuclear engine, a technology that was under serious investigation for a long time (and may yet see its day in space).
宇航员的火箭使用的是核动力引擎,该技术长久以来都处在认真研究之中(但至今仍未能投入实用)。
His distillery is striking, housing a well-appointed tasting room and a custom-built 300-gallon German-made Holstein pot still, which vaults through the space like a burnished copper rocket.
他的酒厂是引人注目的,拥有一间设备完善的品酒室和一个专门定制的2300加仑的德国造荷尔斯泰因(Holstein)罐式蒸馏器。这个蒸馏器的顶部就像一个抛光铜火箭。
And NASA used a plane and a Pegasus rocket to launch a satellite. The satellite will observe the sun, in hopes of improving space weather forecasting.
美国国家航空和宇宙航行局利用一架飞机和一枚飞马火箭发射了一枚卫星。这枚卫星将要探测太阳,并有望提高太空天气预测能力。
In July, an Indian rocket successfully put five satellites into orbit, three months after the country's space ambitions suffered a setback when a rocket crashed on lift-off.
在七月,一个印度火箭成功地将五颗卫星送入轨道,之前三个月印度的空间野心因一次火箭发射失败遭遇挫折。
The rocket, carrying a Russian cosmonaut and a Belgian astronaut, launched on Wednesday and is expected to reach the space station on Friday.
该火箭载着一名俄罗斯宇航员和一名比利时宇航员于星期三发射升空,预计周五与空间站对接。
An American space company says a powerful new rocket should be ready for a test launch by the end of next year.
一家美国航天公司称,一种强大的新型火箭将在明年年底准备进行试射。
When a giant radio-telescope turns in on the messages sent from a rocket in space, a computer guides the turning of the telescope in the right direction .
当一架具有无限电收发功能的望远镜接收到火箭在太空中发出的信息,计算机可以控制望远镜转到正确的方向。
A private company from the United States successfully launched there first rocket into space and put a probe into orbit a month ago.
一个月前,一个美国私营公司成功的发射了他们的第一个火箭到太空中并释放了一个探测器到轨道上。
Space lifts, dreamed up in the late 1950s, are a way of getting into orbit without using a rocket.
人们在二十世纪五十年代想象出来的太空电梯就是一个不需要火箭,就可以进入轨道的设备。
So if you want to know what it feels like to fall through the air, take off in a rocket, fly a helicopter or fight alien creatures in outer space, visit one of the theme parks in your area.
因此,如果你想感受一下飞到空中、乘坐火箭、驾驶直升机或者在外太空与外星人作战的感觉,去你们当地的主题公园游玩一下吧。
So if you want to know what it feels like to fall through the air, take off in a rocket, fly a helicopter or fight alien creatures in outer space, visit one of the theme parks in your area.
因此,如果你想感受一下飞到空中、乘坐火箭、驾驶直升机或者在外太空与外星人作战的感觉,去你们当地的主题公园游玩一下吧。
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