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2001 Space Shattle
2001年的航天飛機(jī)
Kenneth Jon Rose
肯尼思·喬恩·羅斯
When NASA built the first space shuttle and with it the first chance to carry both men and equipment inexpensively into space, it opened the doors to the eventual building and operating of commercial shuttles by private corporations that, possibly within the next generation, may be able to fly us to a space as routinely as we are flown to Europe.
自從美國(guó)國(guó)家航空和航天局制造了第一架航天飛機(jī)，并第一次帶來了將人和器材以不大的代價(jià)送入太空的機(jī)會(huì)后，便為最終由私人公司制造并操作商業(yè)性航天飛機(jī)打開了大門。可能在下一代人的時(shí)間里，私人公司也許就能定期將我們送往航天站，就像現(xiàn)在定期送我們飛往歐洲那樣。
What follows is a highly speculative look at what it may be like to shuttle through space.However, with space technology changing at the speed of light, today's blueprint will likely be made history by tomorrow's research.
下面主要是根據(jù)推測(cè)展望乘坐航天飛機(jī)遨游太空時(shí)可能出現(xiàn)的情景。然而，航天技術(shù)正以光速飛快發(fā)展，明天的研究很可能將今天的藍(lán)圖變?yōu)闅v史。
You'll need tickets first. Unlike the NASA shuttle, which launches like a rocket, the future passenger shuttles will take off the way jets do now, that is, horizontally on a runway.Ticket and reservation counters, as well as the shuttles themselves, most likely will be located at several airports around the world.
首先你需要航天票。與國(guó)家航空和航天局的航天飛機(jī)不同，未來的航天客機(jī)不是像火箭一樣發(fā)射升空，而是像今天的噴氣式飛機(jī)那樣在跑道上水平起飛。售票和訂票處，還有航天飛機(jī)，很可能設(shè)在世界上的某幾個(gè)機(jī)場(chǎng)內(nèi)。
The tickets won't be cheap, though. One round-trip fare may cost four times the amount of a flight from New York to Tokyo3,or about $4,500. This might seem a lot to pay for a flight that is going to take 30 minutes to get up and the same coming down.
但航天票不會(huì)便宜。一張來回票可能價(jià)值一張從紐約到東京機(jī)票的四倍，約為4,500美元。對(duì)一次來回各30分鐘的航行來說，這個(gè)數(shù)目會(huì)顯得相當(dāng)可觀。
