SpaceX 太空艙將搭載世界上第一批文職人員降落_風聞

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The quartet of newly minted citizen astronauts comprising the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission were due to splash down in the Atlantic off Florida on Saturday, completing a three-day flight of the first all-civilian crew ever launched into Earth orbit. This SpaceX rocket ship blasted off from Florida on Wednesday carrying a billionaire e-commerce executive and three less-wealthy private citizens he chose to join him in the first all-civilian crew ever launched into Earth orbit.

組成 SpaceX 靈感4 任務的四名新公民宇航員將於週六在佛羅里達州附近的大西洋降落，完成有史以來第一次進入地球軌道的全平民宇航員的為期三天的飛行。這艘SpaceX火箭週三從佛羅里達州起飛，載着一位億萬富翁的電子商務高管和他選擇的三位不太富裕的公民，成為有史以來第一個發射到地球軌道的全民用機組。

To prepare for atmospheric re-entry and return to Earth, the SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle completed two rocket “burns” on Friday to lower its altitude and line up the capsule’s trajectory with the targeted landing site.

為了準備重返大氣層並返回地球，SpaceX Crew Dragon 飛船在週五完成了兩次火箭“燃燒”，以降低其高度並將太空艙的軌跡與目標着陸點對齊。

The Dragon capsule, dubbed Resilience, is scheduled to parachute into the sea around 7 p.m. Eastern time, shortly before sunset, according to SpaceX, the private rocketry company founded by Tesla Inc electric automaker CEO Elon Musk.

據特斯拉公司電動汽車製造商首席執行官埃隆-馬斯克(Elon Musk)創辦的私人火箭公司SpaceX稱，被稱為 “復原力 “的龍式太空艙計劃在東部時間晚上7點左右，即日落前不久跳傘入海。

SpaceX supplied the spacecraft, launched it from Florida and flew it from the company’s suburban Los Angeles headquarters.

SpaceX提供航天器，從佛羅里達州發射，並從該公司的洛杉磯郊區總部進行飛行。

The Inspiration4 team blasted off on Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral atop one of SpaceX’s two-stage reusable Falcon 9 rockets.

週三，Inspiration4團隊從卡納維拉爾角的肯尼迪航天中心乘坐SpaceX的兩級可重複使用的獵鷹9號火箭起飛。

Within three hours the crew capsule had reached a cruising orbital altitude of just over 363 miles (585 km) – higher than the International Space Station or Hubble Space Telescope, and the farthest any human has flown from Earth since NASA’s Apollo moon program ended in 1972.

在三個小時內，乘員艙達到了略高於363英里（585公里）的巡航軌道高度--比國際空間站或哈勃太空望遠鏡還要高，也是自1972年美國宇航局阿波羅登月計劃結束以來人類飛離地球的最遠距離。

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It also marked the debut flight of Musk’s new space tourism business and a leap ahead of competitors likewise offering rides on rocket ships to well-heeled customers willing to pay a small fortune to experience the exhilaration of spaceflight and earn amateur astronaut wings.

這也標誌着馬斯克新的太空旅遊業務的首次飛行，並領先於競爭對手，他們同樣向願意支付小筆財富來體驗太空飛行的興奮和獲得業餘宇航員的翅膀的高富帥提供火箭船的乘坐。

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The Inspiration4 team was led by its wealthy benefactor, Jared Isaacman, chief executive of the e-commerce firm Shift4 Payments Inc, who assumed the role of mission “commander.”

Inspiration4團隊由其富有的贊助人，電子商務公司Shift4 Payments Inc的首席執行官賈裏德-艾薩克曼（Jared Isaacman）領導，他承擔了任務 “指揮官 “的角色。

He had paid an undisclosed but reportedly enormous sum — put by Time magazine at roughly $200 million – to fellow billionaire Musk for all four seats aboard the Crew Dragon.

他曾向同為億萬富翁的馬斯克支付了一筆未披露但據稱是鉅額的款項--《時代》雜誌稱大約為2億美元--用於購買 “乘龍 “號上的所有四個座位。

Isaacman was joined by three less affluent crewmates he had sexted – geoscientist and former NASA astronaut candidate Sian Proctor, 51, physician’s assistant and childhood bone cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux, 29, and aerospace data engineer and Air Force veteran Chris Sembroski, 42.

艾薩克曼和他挑選的三位不那麼富裕的機組成員--51歲的地質科學家和前美國宇航局宇航員候選人西安-普羅克特、29歲的醫生助理和兒童骨癌倖存者海莉-阿塞諾以及42歲的航空航天數據工程師和空軍退伍軍人克里斯-森布羅斯基。

Isaacman conceived of the flight primarily to raise awareness and donations for one of his favorite causes, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, a leading pediatric cancer center in Memphis, Tennessee, where Arceneaux was a patient and now works.

艾薩克曼構思這次飛行主要是為了提高人們對他最喜愛的事業之一--聖裘德兒童研究醫院的認識和捐款，該醫院是田納西州孟菲斯的一家領先的兒童癌症中心，阿塞諾曾是該中心的病人，現在在那裏工作。

The Inspiration4 crew had no part to play in flying the spacecraft, which was operated by ground-based flight teams and onboard guidance systems, even though Isaacman and Proctor are both licensed pilots.

儘管艾薩克曼和普羅克特都是有執照的飛行員，但Inspiration4號機組沒有參與飛船的飛行，飛船由地面飛行團隊和機載導航系統操作。

SpaceX already ranked as the most well-established player in the burgeoning constellation of commercial rocket ventures, having launched numerous cargo payloads and astronauts to the space station for NASA.

在新興的商業火箭企業羣中，SpaceX已經被列為最成熟的參與者，為美國國家航空航天局發射了許多貨物有效載荷和宇航員到空間站。

Two rival operators, Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc and Blue Origin, inaugurated their own astro-tourism services in recent months, with their respective founding executives, billionaires Richard Branson and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, each going along for the ride.

兩個競爭對手的運營商，維珍銀河控股公司和藍色起源公司，在最近幾個月啓動了他們自己的天體旅遊服務，他們各自的創始高管，億萬富翁理查德-布蘭森和亞馬遜公司創始人傑夫-貝佐斯，都去參加了這次活動。

Those suborbital flights, lasting a matter of minutes, were short hops compared with Inspiration4’s three days in orbit.

這些亞軌道飛行持續了幾分鐘，與Inspiration4的三天在軌飛行相比，是短暫的跳躍。

(Writing and additional reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Editing by Daniel Wallis)

(Steve Gorman在洛杉磯撰寫和補充報道; Daniel Wallis編輯)