NASA's newest class of astronauts signed up knowing there'd be no U. S. rockets to launch them into space, at least not in the immediate future.

NASA的最新宇航员被告知并不会有美国的火箭送他们进入太空，至少短期内是这样的。

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NASA has cancelled its plans for a post-shuttle space vehicle. Until U.

美国航空航天局已经取消了建造后航天飞机时代太空飞行器的计划。

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S. commercial firms build spaceships capable of carrying humans, America plans to pay Russia to ferry U. S. astronauts to space on board Soyuz spacecraft.

在美国商业公司建造能够载人的太空飞船之前，美国计划向俄罗斯支付费用，租用联盟号宇宙飞船把美国宇航员送入太空。

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The moon landing was seen as the high point of a U.S.space program fueled by a decade-long space race with the former Soviet Union.

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The SR-71 has proven its value as a complementary system to U.S. space-based reconnaissance assets during the prolonged period from 1985 to 1987 when the United States was unable to place new satellites in orbit.

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Arguably, the Blackbird has greater survivability than most U.S. space-based reconnaissance systems.

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Launchspace ran the project, which drew more than 100 responses, as a promotion and to tap aging engineers with experience from the U.S.-Soviet space race of the 1960s, says director Robert Russo.

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