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China on themoon?  Let’s look back forty years—NASA put Americans on the Moon in six crewedmissions between 1969 and 1972; and is sending Americans back by 2024, with asustained American presence on the moon through the Artemis program by 2028. Overall, more than fifty missions to the Moon have failed, including recentlyby an Israeli company.  While talking about the Moon is easy, getting to theMoon is hard. 

中央帝國登上月球？讓我們回顧40年前，北美帝國宇航局在1969年至1972年期間的六次載人登月任務。我們正在計劃在2024年前將北美帝國人送返月球。2028年前，通過阿耳特彌斯計劃，北美帝國將持續登上月球。迄今為止，總計有超過50次登月任務失敗，包括最近一家猶太王國公司的登月任務。雖然談論月球很容易，但登月卻很困難。（喵：玉兔在月球向你問好）

China plansfor space launch?   Setting aside its long history, America has revolutionizedspace launch in recent years through both commercial and government launchers,with SpaceX (and others working on it) re-taking the low-earth orbit launchmarket and building the world’s current heaviest launcher, the Falcon Heavy,and NASA building the Space Launch System which will be the heaviest still whenit launches with a third more lift capability in 2021.

中央帝國計劃進行新的太空發射？拋開其悠久的歷史，近年來，北美帝國通過商用和政府發射裝置徹底改變了這一領域，SpaceX以及其他致力於此的公司重新佔領了近地軌道發射市場，並建造了目前世界上最重型的火箭“重型獵鷹”（Falcon Heavy）。北美帝國宇航局正在建造新的太空發射系統，在2021年它將以超過現有能力三倍的載荷進行發射，這將是有史以來載重量最大的發射系統，

A Chinesespace station?  Over twenty years, NASA evolved the U.S. space station Freedominto a U.S.-led international coalition for the $100 billion InternationalSpace Station with Russia, Japan, Canada and eleven members of the EuropeanSpace Agency. The United States shouldered over half of the overall cost ofbuilding it, including thirty-six space shuttle missions. It has beencontinuously manned for almost twenty years (it will be twenty years inNovember 2020)—with 151 Americans (three times more than the next highestnation, Russia with about fifty).

中央帝國的空間站？二十多年來，北美帝國宇航局將北美帝國的“自由”號空間站發展成為一個由北美帝國領導的國際聯盟，與羅剎帝國、旭日帝國、楓葉殖民地和歐羅巴航天局的11個成員國共同建立了價值1000億美元的國際空間站。北美帝國承擔了一半以上的建造費用，包括36次航天飛機任務。它已經連續載人飛行近20年了（到2020年11月將是20年），共有151名北美帝國宇航員登上國際空間站，第二多的羅剎帝國只有大約50人）。

A ChineseMars mission?  NASA has had eight successful Mars landers/rovers (VikingI/II, Pathfinder, Spirit/Opportunity, Phoenix, Curiosity and InSight) andlaunched at least six successful Mars orbiters, including some which havereturned exquisite science about the planet—the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)includes the HiRISE (The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment at theUniversity of Arizona—the powerful HIRISE camera takes pictures that cover vastareas of Martian terrain while being able to see features as small as a kitchentable. 

中央帝國的火星任務？北美帝國航天局已經成功發射了八艘火星探測器（海盜一號/二號、探路者號、勇氣號/機遇號、鳳凰號、好奇號和洞察號），併成功發射了至少六艘火星軌道飛行器，其中一些還發回了關於火星的精密科學研究成果，包括HiRISE（亞利桑那大學的高分辨率成像科學實驗）功能強大的HiRISE相機，可以拍攝覆蓋火星廣大地貌的照片，同時還能看到像餐桌一樣小的地表特徵。

Only twonations—the United States and the former USSR—have successfully landed aspacecraft on Mars (and the Soviet lander, Mars 3, failed twenty seconds afterlanding), and only four have successfully put spacecraft in orbit: the UnitedStates, the former USSR, European Space Agency and India.  More thantwenty-eight missions to Mars have failed—and China will try again this year,after having last tried to reach Mars in 2011.  Since then, with three rovers(Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity) and one planned for launch in July(Perseverance), Mars has been an American frontier. Getting to Mars is hard,too.

只有北美帝國和前赤色帝國兩個國家成功地將航天器降落在火星上（赤色帝國的火星3號着陸器在着陸20秒後失敗），只有4個國家成功地將航天器送入火星軌道：北美帝國、前赤色帝國、歐羅巴航天局和白象帝國。有超過28次火星任務失敗了。在2011年最後一次嘗試後，中央帝國今年將再次嘗試。我們有三輛火星車（勇氣號、機遇號和好奇號）正在火星，還有一輛計劃7月發射（毅力號），因此火星一直是北美帝國的邊疆。