The idea of inflatable spacecraft dates back almost to the beginning of the space age, solving a stubborn conundrum with putting stuff in space.
充气式航天器的概念几乎要追溯到太空探索的起步年代,当时提出这个想法是为了解决在太空中放置物品的棘手难题。
For all its flaws, it was a bold idea: to replace the throw-away rockets that began the space age with a truck that could go in and out of orbit routinely.
鉴于它的所有缺点,这是个大胆的构想:以能够例行进出轨道的运载工具取代一次性的火箭而开启太空时代。
Launching humans into space and landing astronauts on the moon in the early years of the space age captured the public imagination, but those days are long past, Weinberg argues.
在太空时代的早期,将人类送入太空,送上月球,能够激发公众的想像力,但是那个时代已经很遥远了,Weinberg说。
"When we launched, the space age was only 20 years old, so we had no evidence that things last that long," added California Institute of Technology's Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist.
“当我们发射它时,太空时代才刚开始20年,所以我们没有证据表明它能飞这么久,”加州理工大学的旅行者号科学家EdStone补充道。
This is the National Air and Space Museum, with exhibits on aviation history and space age.
这是国家航空及航天博物馆,展出了有关航空史和宇航时代的展品。
Sputnik: Any of a series of Earth-orbiting spacecraft whose launching by the Soviet Union inaugurated the space age.
史波尼克:苏联发射的一系列人造地球卫星,标志着太空时代的开始。
Whichever camp wins the day will have to contend with an imaginative universe that is very different from the one we inhabited in the space age.
无论是那个阵营获胜都得面对一个充满了想象力的宇宙,它和我们太空时代的宇宙大为不同。
But running the object's orbit backwards showed that the asteroid never came close enough to Earth during the space age to have started life as a rocket booster.
但是追溯、反向分析它过去的轨道位置表明这个小家伙在人类太空时代不可能近距离靠近地球,也就不可能是火箭助推器了。
Her life spans the tumultuous period surrounding World War II, while her characters in movies span a time period from Sengoku period through a futuristic space age.
藤原千代子的人生跨越了二战那个喧嚣的年代,而她在过去影片里的角色也从战国到未来世界不等。
In 1957, the Soviet union took other nations by surprise by launching the first satellite "Sputnik 1" into space, an event which marked the beginning of the space age.
1957年,苏联成功发射第一枚人造卫星卫星一号,此举不但令举世震惊,更标志人类从此进入太空时代。
Whatever happened to the space age as imagined back in the 1950s and early ’60s, when science fiction writers and rocket scientists spun tales of travel out in the solar system and beyond?
回想一下20世纪50年代和60年代初,科幻作家和火箭科学家们编织太阳系或更远的太空旅行故事时,太空时代究竟发生了什么?
But ever since the beginning of the Space Age in the 1950s, it has been accompanied by a hefty dose of glitz and PR.
但是自20世纪50年代进入太空时代以来,空间探索一直伴随着大量的浮华和公关。
This view is conceptual, but based on real science observations that have been made since the beginning of the Space Age.
这一图像只是个概念性的示意图,不过也是基于太空时代以来的实际科学观测。
In his home office, a floor-to-ceiling cabinet houses a tower of high-end stereo components-including a Space age-looking turntable that cost as much as a used car.
在他家中的办公室里,一只从地板高至天花板的柜子里摆放着一堆高端音响设备——包括一台太空时代造型的唱盘,几乎花去一辆二手车的价钱。
The good citizens of Houston are rightly indignant about being deprived of their space-age heritage.
休斯敦的好公民对被剥夺他们太空时代遗产满怀义愤。
It has terrific museums, architectural treasures, and open-air shopping as well as space-age factories and world-class markets.
它有令人流连忘返的博物馆、建筑珍品,露天商场,也有太空时代的工厂和世界顶级的购物商场。
Electrical discharge machining has proved especially valuable in the machining of super-tough, electrically conductive materials such as the new space-age alloys.
电火花加工法对加工超韧性的导电材料(如新的太空合金)特别有价值。
One of these was the evolution of the hammer and sickle symbol from its agrarian roots into a space-age propaganda object, as seen above.
其中的一项便是象征工农的锤子和镰刀造型转变成了太空时代的宣传工具,如上图所示。
The pair employed the latest space-age materials - Dacron, which was already used in heart grafts, as well as Teflon and a flexible silicone called Silastic.
他们两人采用了最先进的太空时代材料——达克隆。达克隆当时已经在心脏移植手术中使用。他们还采用了特氟隆和一种有弹性的硅胶,叫作硅橡胶。
She says that instead of using a team of experts with laptop computers and other devices, it will soon be possible to send only one person with a space-age backpack.
她说,以后不再需要需要配备笔记本电脑和其它设备的专家团队,可能很快就只需要派出一位背着这款先进背包的员工。
She says that instead of using a team of experts with laptop computers and other devices, it will soon be possible to send only one person with a space-age backpack.
她说,以后不再需要需要配备笔记本电脑和其它设备的专家团队,可能很快就只需要派出一位背着这款先进背包的员工。
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