If we take "space" to mean a low Earth orbit such as the one traveled by the space Shuttle roughly 160 to 350 miles above Earth, the Great Wall claim fails twice.

如果我们把“太空”定义为较低的地球轨道，比如大概距地面高度160至350公里航天飞机飞行的轨道，有两点可以揭穿长城传言。

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Okay, we get that the space shuttle is cool - but so are sneezing pandas and homemade macaroni and cheese, and none of them belong on a list of great cars.

好吧，我们承认航天飞机是挺酷的——不过这么说来打喷嚏的熊猫还有自家做的通心粉和芝士也挺酷的，而且它们也都不会出现在一个评选超级跑车的名单里。

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Secondly, even though other objects are visible at this distance, according to Shuttle astronaut Jay Apt, the Great Wall is barely discernable, if not invisible.

其次，根据航天飞机宇航员杰伊·阿普特的说法，在这个距离能看到其他物体，不能说看不到长城，但是只能勉强辨别出来。

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This time it was not the silvery pencil of an Atlas booster carrying the 77-year-old Senator into space but the great technological temple of a space shuttle.

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His wife had watched the launch of his mission but missed the landing, so it was great for her to see the shuttle in the air, he added.

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There are things that happened on this mission that the press really latched on to: the gap filler sticking out, the fact that we had great video of the belly of the shuttle and saw the little pieces flying off.

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