But it would perform a similar function of support as robotic cars crawled up and down it, ferrying people and equipment to and from the satellite—whence they could depart into the cosmos.

但是，当机器人汽车在它上面往返于地球与卫星之间，运送人们和设备时，它将执行一个类似的支持功能，同时人们从卫星上可以出发遨游宇宙。

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Its most striking feature is to delegate the humdrum task of ferrying people and equipment to low-Earth orbit to the private sector.

其最明显的特征就是把运送人员和设备到低地球轨道上的单调而令人厌烦的任务委托给私营部门。

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April 20-21: The Damon Bankston, a 285-foot workboat that was ferrying equipment to the Deepwater Horizon, reports it had picked up 110 crew members, three of them critically injured.

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Its most striking feature is to delegate the humdrum task of ferrying people and equipment to low-Earth orbit to the private sector.

ECONOMIST: The space shuttle