理查德·布兰森进入太空
Jackie Wattles, Fernando Alfonso III and Mike Hayes, July 11, 2021
Edited and Translated by Ray & Sally
Traveling to space must be "more accessible to all," Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson said during a news conference following his successful flight aboard Galactic's VSS Unity earlier today.
维珍银河公司的创始人理查德·布兰森在今天早些时候乘坐银河公司的VSS Unity号成功飞行后的新闻发布会上说，到太空旅行必须是“所有人都更容易做到的”。
"We're here to make space more accessible to all. We want to turn the next generation of dreamers into the astronauts of today and tomorrow. We've all us on this stage have had the most extraordinary experience, and we'd love it if a number of you can have it, too," he said. "If you ever had a dream, now is the time to make it come true. I'd like to end by saying welcome to the dawn of a new space age."
“我们今天来这里是为了让所有人都可以进入太空。我们要把下一代的梦想家变成今天和明天的宇航员。他说：“在这个舞台上，我们都有过最不寻常的经历，如果你们中的一些人也能有这样的经历，我们会非常高兴。”如果你曾经有过梦想，现在是实现梦想的时候了。最后，我想说：“欢迎进入新太空时代的黎明。”
Richard Branson became the first person to ride into space aboard a rocket he helped fund. The supersonic space plane developed by his company, Virgin Galactic, roared into the sky over New Mexico early Sunday, carrying Branson and three fellow crewmembers.
理查德布兰森成为第一个乘坐他资助的火箭进入太空的人。他的公司维珍银河公司研制的超音速太空飞机星期天早上在新墨西哥州上空呼啸而过，机上搭载着布兰森和三名同事。
Branson -— along with Virgin Galactic employees Beth Moses, Colin Bennett, and Sirisha Bandla and pilots Dave Mackay and Michael Masucci — boarded the SpaceShipTwo, a winged plane with a single rocket motor that the company has spent nearly two decades developing, before the crack of dawn. Attached beneath its massive, twin-fuselaged mothership, dubbed WhiteKnightTwo, the vehicle took to the skies at 8:30 am MT and climbed to about 50,000 feet in the air.
黎明前，布兰森和维珍银河公司的员工贝丝·摩西、科林·贝内特、西莉莎·班德拉以及飞行员戴夫·麦凯和迈克尔·马苏奇一起登上了太空船二号，这是一架有翼飞机，搭载了该公司花了近20年时间研制的单火箭发动机。这艘被称为“白骑士二号”的巨型双机身母舰，于上午8:30升空，升空高度约50000英尺。
Branson's flight — which came just nine days before Amazon bilionaire Jeff Bezos is slated to rocket into suborbital space aboard his own company's spacecraft — is a landmark moment for the commercial space industry. The up-and-coming sector has for years been seeking to make suborbital space tourism (a relatively simple straight-up-and-down flight, as opposed to orbiting the Earth for longer periods) a viable business with the aim of allowing thousands of people to experience the adrenaline rush and sweeping views of our home planet that such flights can offer.
布兰森的这次飞行是商业航天业的一个里程碑式的时刻，距离亚马逊亿万富翁杰夫·贝佐斯计划乘坐自己公司的飞船进入亚轨道空间只有9天时间。新兴行业多年来一直在寻求实现亚轨道太空旅游（一种相对简单的直线上下飞行，与绕地球运行更长时间不同），这是一项可行的业务，目的是让成千上万的人体验这种飞行所能提供的令人兴奋的、对我们地球家园一览无余的景象。
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