Even if ET has mastered building a rocket that can travel at the speed of light, he may be lying dead inside a weakened craft .

即使外星人已经掌握了制造一枚能以光速飞行的火箭的技术，他也可能死在了一架飞船里。

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Private spaceflight took one giant step forward this week when the Tycho Brahe craft lifted off atop the HEAT-1X rocket engine Friday (pictured) from a platform in the Baltic Sea.

当第谷·布拉赫号飞船周五越过热火- 1x号火箭发动机头顶，从波罗的海的一个平台上升空(如图)，私人太空飞行本周向前迈出了一大步。

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Even if ET has mastered building a rocket that can travel at the speed of light, he may be lying dead inside a weakened craft whose navigation systems have short-circuited.

即使ET已经掌握能够光速航行的火箭技术，他也可能已横尸于损坏的飞船之中，它的航行系统已经短路。

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Jeff Greason, the president of XCOR Aerospace, a company that makes rocket engines for suborbital craft, worries that the X Prize, with its attached conditions, may not in practice lead to the right sort of craft being built.

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It marks his first space venture since the partnership with Rutan and his colleagues to build the prize-winning SpaceShipOne rocket plane, which became the first privately developed craft to reach outer space in 2004.

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Flying at roughly 30, 000 feet, the craft would climb sharply just as it released the rocket, which would use a cluster of four or five engines to boost itself into orbit.

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