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。

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More subtly, passengers will need to demonstrate that they have the psychological stability to handle a trip to space without the sort of panic attack that could scuttle the mission.

再深入一点，乘客必须展现出过硬的心理素质以应对空间旅行，从而不至于在中途因惊恐而发作，搞砸飞行任务。

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It may seem surprising, but there are large Numbers of people who would spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a trip into space.

这似乎有些令人惊讶，伹有许多人愿意花费几十万美元去太空旅游。

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Alec Meer, a writer at games news site Rock Paper Shotgun, expressed surprise that Mr Garriott had to appeal for funds via Kickstarter given that in 2009 he spent millions of dollars to take a trip into space.

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Astronauts would then travel to the asteroid where "there could be mining activities, research into ways of deflecting an asteroid from striking Earth and testing to develop technology for a trip to deep space and Mars, " it said.

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Bridas sued the California oil giant for stealing its idea. (Bridas lost.) Unocal mixed it up with tyrants, too, flying a delegation of Taliban officials to its engineering headquarters in Houston, with a side trip to the NASA Space Center.

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