CNN News:美國宇航員入住國際空間站

Space travel is expensive. It`s dangerous. And it`s fascinating. Fewer than 600 people have ever done it. That is nothing considering the billions who`ve inhabited Earth since Yuri Gagarin first went into orbit in 1961. So there might be some questions you have about it. That`s the thinking behind the CNN I-Report project that asks students what they`d ask an astronaut.

太空旅行是非常昂貴且危險的事情，同時又充滿著奇幻色彩，只有不到600人完成過。這對在1961年從全球10億人中挑選出來進入太空軌道的尤里加加林來說沒有什么可比性。所以你可能有些問題要問，這就是CNN“我報道”欄目所考慮的內(nèi)容，考慮到學生可能會問宇航員什么問題。

CNN. This is mission control, Houston.

CNN，這里是休斯敦控制中心。

CNN, how do you hear me?

CNN，能聽到我講話嗎?

I hear you lung (ph) clear. My name is Steven Swanson, I`m a NASA astronaut. Right now I`m living aboard the International Space Station, which is in the orbit around the Earth, about 250 miles up. One, it`s a fun experience. It`s go like - a rollercoaster ride in the way, and that begin a rollercoaster ride over. You are going up that steep (INAUDIBLE), click, click, click, click. And it`s a little tension builds. It`s great and then boom, you go. You can feel the acceleration of the engines. Just pushing you down into the seat as you take off. And the whole thing lasts about 8.5 minutes, and after 8.5 minutes we are going 70,500 miles an hour, and we are up in the Earth orbit spinning around.

我能清楚的聽到你喘息的聲音。我叫Steve Swanson，一名美國宇航員，現(xiàn)在正住在距離地球軌道250英里高空的國際空間站。這是一次有意思的體驗，就像在坐過山車一樣，飛速向上爬，不停發(fā)出嚓嚓聲。這是一種非常有張力的家伙，非常了不起，然后開始點火起飛，你就發(fā)射出去了。你能感覺到引擎在加速，起飛之后就把你狠狠按在座位上。整個過程也就持續(xù)大約8分50秒，然后我們以每小時70500英里的速度飛速前進，之后我們就環(huán)繞地球軌道上空旋轉(zhuǎn)。

Exercise is different up here, we don`t have gravity. We have three different types of equipment. We have a treadmill, we have an exercise bike, and we have a resistive exercise device, which is like lifting weights back on earth.

在太空里做的運動是不同的，因為我們不受重力影響。我們有三種不同的設(shè)備，有跑步機，有室內(nèi)腳踏車，還有一個健身器，可以模擬地球引力就像是在地球上做舉重。

We do have that planned out. We will be using commercial craft like SpaceX or possibly Boeing. Sierra Nevada also - in Sierra Nevada, there`s a reusable vehicles, so there`s one right now. It`s on the dry board. It has plans, and it`s a possibility that is reusable. The (INAUDIBLE) space craft at NASA is building, is not reusable also, it`s another capsule. Then, of course, we are relied on the Russians until we get one of ours done. But I do hope in the near future we`ll have at least U.S. vehicle and then after that, I do believe going back to some sort of reusable water will help bring the costs down and will help make it affordable for everybody else to come up here.

我們也曾經(jīng)計劃過，我們會利用商業(yè)飛船就像太空X號或者波音飛機。內(nèi)華達山脈也，在內(nèi)華達山脈有一種可以重復使用的交通工具，現(xiàn)在只有一個，停放在干燥的甲板上。使用這種工具具有計劃性，有可能重新利用。美國宇航局正在建造的宇宙飛船不是可以重復利用的，是另一種太空艙。所以我們直到自己創(chuàng)造出可重復使用工具之前要依靠俄羅斯。但我由衷希望美國能在不久的將來能有自己的飛行器，然后我相信對循環(huán)用水的研究可以降低成本讓更多的人能夠承擔起來太空旅行的費用。

I`m not really scared. Most of us aren`t (ph) scared. We know there`s a danger involved, but we`ve also been trained to handle all the possible scenarios that have come up.

我并不是真的害怕，我們大多數(shù)人都不怕，我們清楚的知道有危險存在，但是我們經(jīng)過嚴格的訓練應(yīng)對任何可能會發(fā)生的情況。

The number one thing, we all like to do is look out the window. It`s such a beautiful thing to do, and looking down on Earth is just a fantastic way to spend your time. Thank you.

有一件我們都喜歡的事情就是看窗外。宇宙真是太美了，從太空看地球是享受時光的絕佳方式。謝謝你們。