Finding water nearby would not only reduce the cost and complexity of setting up a lunar colony, but would also help it become a staging post for future trips further into space.

倘若在该地点附近找到水的话，不仅降低能设立月球载入空间站的成本和复杂性，而且也将有助于成为未来进一步深入探索空间的补给基地。

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Paging space, or swap space, is a type of logical volume that serves as a staging area for processes that are not using active random-access memory (RAM).

分页空间（或交换空间）是一种逻辑卷，用来存储不使用随机存取存储器（RAM）进程的临时区域。

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The Moon could then become the space equivalent of a service station - acting as a staging post for manned missions to Mars.

然后，月球就可能变成太空服务站人类登陆火星的补给站。

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So the ISS's value for science and even as a staging post for deep space travel is not clear-cut.

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