"You wring these techniques out on the moon first," says Mark Geyser, manager of the Orion project.

“你可以在月球上把这些技术都实验一遍”，“猎户座”计划的经理马克·吉斯尔(Mark Geyser)说道。

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Orion was originally intended to serve as a crew capsule for the Constellation program, an ambitious NASA project to return humans to the moon and eventually create a full-time lunar base.

奥赖恩太空船原本打算作为星座计划(美国航天局的一项雄心勃勃计划，试图使人类重返月球，并最终建立一个专用的月球基地)的乘员太空舱。

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"We're anchoring our models in Apollo data points," says Cleon Lacefield, a vice President and project manager for Lockheed Martin, the prime contractor for the Orion orbiter.

“我们的设计基于阿波罗模型”，猎户座探测器主承包商-洛克希德。马丁公司的副总裁和项目经理塞利昂·拉瑟菲尔德(Cleon Lacefield)说道。

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After seeing some of the facilities being used to build our nation's next-generation spacecraft, we were awed by the sheer scope and complexity of the Orion project.

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"This is the successful culmination of all of the design trade studies and activities to date, " said Mark Geyer, manager of the Orion Project Office at Nasa's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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Experts are also taking a fresh look at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's 1996 Project Orion, a "space broom" concept to fry space trash with ground-based lasers.

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