NASA hit the challenge hard. The space agency built a bird radar to scan for flocks that could fly through a shuttle?s launch path and pose an impact risk.
NASA下定决心要解决这一问题，宇航局建立了一座鸟类雷达，以扫描航天飞机发射路径上是否有可能造成冲撞的鸟群。
One serving shuttle pilot confessed to leaving a wake of laptops and other vital belongings behind him the first time he tried to fly from one room to another.
一位现役穿梭机飞行员承认在他首次尝试从一个房间进入另一个房间时，不慎弄乱了身后的笔记本电脑和其他重要物品。
Engineers told Congress that shuttle missions might fly up to once a week, allowing NASA to amortise its development costs over lots of launches; in the event there have been only a handful each year.
工程师告知国会航天飞机任务周期可能为一周一次，这样NASA才有可能分期偿还其多次发射的开销；结果每年只有寥寥几次。
We knew as we were going through the interview process that there was no suggestion that any of us would fly on the shuttle.
我们知道我们经历面试过程，这也暗示着我们将很久不能参与飞行。
While I was proud to fly on the shuttle, tomorrow's explorers will now dream of one day walking on Mars.
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。
Dutton, Lindenburger and Yamazaki are making their first spaceflights. These three astronauts are the last rookies that will fly aboard the shuttle before its planned retirement.
达顿、林登伯格和山崎是首次进行太空飞行，也是“发现号”按计划退役前乘坐这架航天飞机的最后三位新手。
The space agency is developing a new generation of rockets and crew capsules capable of reaching the moon which are due to fly within five years of the space shuttle fleet being retired next year.
美国宇航局正在研制能到达月球的新一代火箭和载人太空舱，计划在五年内搭载航天飞机进行发射，而目前的航天飞机将于明年退役。
Moreover, the panel said that Ares I/Orion would be ready to fly to the space station only in 2017, six years after the space shuttle retires.
另外，专门小组称“战神Ⅰ号”/“猎户座”预备在航天飞机退役六年后，即2017年才飞向空间站。
NASA plans to fly two more shuttle flights - on Discovery and Endeavour, respectively - before retiring the space shuttles for good.
美国国家航空航天局计划再进行两次飞行——发现号和奋进号各一次——在两个航天飞机永远退役之前。
The extra shuttle mission will likely fly aboard Atlantis and carry a fresh four-person crew in summer of 2011.
预计在2011年夏天，额外的航天任务很可能会携带4位新船员进入亚特兰蒂斯宇宙飞船。
Nasa also wants to fly the shuttle Atlantis this summer with a year's worth of supplies to tide over the space station until commercial resupply vehicles are operational.
NASA还希望在今年夏天发射亚特兰蒂斯号航天飞机，给空间站送去一年的补给，以便其维持到商务补给飞船开始运行的时候。
Endeavour is scheduled to fly the last mission of the space shuttle program in November of this year.
按照飞行时间表的安排，今年11月，奋进号执行完最后一次飞行任务后也将退役。
NASA also would like to make a final servicing call to the Hubble Space Telescope and fly two resupply flights to the station before the end of the shuttle program.
美国航空航天局同时计划最后访问一次哈勃太空望远镜，在航天飞机退役前进行两次空天飞行，对哈勃太空望远镜的太空站进行补给。
Meanwhile, smoke continues to pour from the power station chimneys and lorries shuttle backwards and forwards, taking away the fly ash to be mixed into cement at the neighbouring Ambuja factory.
与此同时，电站烟囱继续在排着浓烟，往来的卡车装走煤灰运到附近Ambuja工厂里和水泥搅拌。
"We're going to step back and figure out what the problem is, and then we'll fly," said LeRoy Cain, deputy space shuttle program manager.
“我们要后退，找出问题所在；然后我们会放飞，”航天飞机计划副经理勒罗伊·凯恩说。
Retired astronaut and Air Force pilot Tom Akers, for example, decided he'd rather fly the shuttle than get promoted to flying a desk at the Pentagon.
例如，已经退休的宇航员兼空军飞行员汤姆•阿克斯（TomAkers）认为宁愿驾驶航天飞机也不愿通过空军飞行晋升到五角大楼的办公桌边。
Retired astronaut and Air Force pilot Tom Akers, for example, decided he'd rather fly the shuttle than get promoted to flying a desk at the Pentagon.
例如，已经退休的宇航员兼空军飞行员汤姆•阿克斯（TomAkers）认为宁愿驾驶航天飞机也不愿通过空军飞行晋升到五角大楼的办公桌边。
应用推荐