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Bill Anders, lunar module pilot of Apollo 8, the first human spaceflight to leave Earth's orbit, said sending crews to Mars was "almost ridiculous". Nasa is currently planning new human missions to the Moon, because it wants to learn the skills and develop the technology to enable a future human landing on Mars. But the former astronaut is scathing about how Nasa has evolved since the heady days. "Nasa couldn't get to the Moon today. They're so ossified... Nasa has turned into a jobs programme... many of the centres are mainly interested in keeping busy and you don't see the public support other than they get the workers their pay and their congressmen get re-elected." Said Bill.

lunar: adj. 月亮的
lunar module: 登月艙
orbit: n. 軌道；v. 繞……軌道而行
The earth orbits the sun. 地球圍繞著太陽轉。
crew: n. 全體船員；全體機務人員
ridiculous: adj. 荒唐的；荒誕的
scathing: adj. 嚴厲的；損傷的
scathe: v. 傷害，損害
heady: adj. 興奮的；令人陶醉的
These good old days are really my heady days. 那些過往的日子真的是令我留戀。
ossified: adj. 僵化的
ossify: v. 固化；僵化
congressman: n. 眾議員

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