It had Been called a "success-oriented" schedule to get the space shuttle flying again, But the Odyssey of "discovery" was Beset with various proBlems.

航天飞机的再度发射被称作一个“十拿九稳”的计划，但是“发现者”号的旅程一波三折，问题重重。

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In 2005, during the first launch after the Space shuttle Columbia disaster, a shuttle was threatened by another flying menace: a vulture that smacked into the external tank during takeoff.

在2005年在哥伦比亚号遇难后的第一次发射中，太空梭受到了另一飞行威胁：在起飞过程中一只秃鹫撞入燃料箱。

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Authorised by Richard Nixon in 1969, the shuttle was a flying compromise.

1969年在尼克松的授权下，航天飞机获得了飞行许可。

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"Some people say we should stop flying the shuttle because we've had an accident - frankly two accidents, " she said.

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"I did see, you know, some parallels between what I had to deal with in flying airplanes and flying the space shuttle and what I had to deal with in handling this situation, " Kelly told Morgan in 2011.

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The two monkeys were part of the joint Russian-American Bion 11 mission in 1997, flying aboard the space shuttle.

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