"With this we can control both the orbit and the attitude using only sunlight," says Yuichi Tsuda of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

日本宇宙开发机构的津田雄一说：“借助智能玻璃，我们只要利用太阳光就可既控制飞行轨道又控制飞行姿态。”

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Every USSR citizen was proud of the country's space exploration program. One of the top Soviet spaceships, called "Buran", could deliver weapons of mass destruction to the orbit.

每一个苏联的公民都曾为他们国家的空间探索计划而骄傲。其中一艘苏联最顶尖的叫“布兰”的航天飞船能够运送大规模杀伤性武器到既定的轨道上。

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In theory, the outsourcing of low earth orbit will make available resources for NASA to focus on farther-reaching manned exploration.

理论上，近地轨道外包将使美国宇航局有更多资源来专注于远程有人探索。

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An estimated half million pieces of debris litter the Earth's orbit as a result of man's exploration of space.

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Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: NASA and the European Space Agency have signed an agreement calling for the Europeans to provide the service module for the Orion space capsule, the U.S. space agency's crew vehicle for exploration beyond Earth orbit.

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He added that it could also help achieve the holy grail of space exploration: missions that send astronauts out of orbit for more than a year.

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Designed to be flexible for launching spacecraft for crew and cargo missions, SLS and Orion will expand human presence beyond low-Earth orbit and enable new missions of exploration in the solar system.

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