Orion was originally intended to serve as a crew capsule for the Constellation program, an ambitious NASA project to return humans to the moon and eventually create a full-time lunar base.

奥赖恩太空船原本打算作为星座计划(美国航天局的一项雄心勃勃计划，试图使人类重返月球，并最终建立一个专用的月球基地)的乘员太空舱。

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The saucer, pictured above, was the Genesis sample return capsule, part of a human-made robot Genesis spaceship launched in 2001 by NASA itself to study the Sun.

它是2001年美国航太总署发射用来探索太阳的创世纪号无人探测船之组件。

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The return home is not a smooth transition from weightlessness to 1-g for astronauts that return home via the Soyuz capsule.

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We also reached a critically important milestone in May when SpaceX became the first private company to send a spacecraft -- the Dragon cargo capsule -- to the International Space Station and return it with cargo intact.

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The capsule, called Foton-12, was launched on September 9th and is due to return on September 25th.

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