据多家外媒报道,美国流行乐女歌手“水果姐”凯蒂·佩里( Katy Perry)将和其他五位女性乘坐亚马逊巨头贝佐斯的蓝色起源火箭,飞向太空!
这将是蓝色起源的第11次载人航天飞行,同时也是1963年以来,首次有“全女性”航班飞向太空。
本次“太空游”长约10分钟,目前具体发射日期未定,计划今年春季发射。 这也意味着“水果姐”将成为首位进入太空的流行巨星!
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Blue Origin’s next crewed flight mission aboard its tourismrocket, expected to lift off this spring, will carry an all-female crew to space.
蓝色起源公司计划在今年春季发射旅游火箭,进行下一次载人飞行任务,届时将搭载一支全女性乘员组进入太空。
Journalist Gayle King, singer Katy Perry and bioastronautics research scientist Amanda Nguyen are among the six-person crew who will launch on the New Shepard vehicle. They will be joined by Aisha Bowe, a formerNASArocket scientist and CEO of STEMBoard , and Kerianne Flynn, a film producer who has conducted nonprofit work with The Allen-Stevenson School , The High Line and Hudson River Park .
记者盖尔·金、歌手凯蒂·佩里以及生物航天研究科学家阿曼达·阮,将与前美国国家航空航天局火箭科学家、STEMB oard首席执行官艾莎·鲍伊,以及曾与艾伦-史蒂文森学校、高线公园和哈德逊河公园合作开展非营利性工作的电影制 片人凯瑞安·弗林一同乘坐新谢泼德号飞行器升空。
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Lauren Sánchez, a pilot, journalist and vice chair of the Bezos Earth Fund , “brought the mission together” and will also be on the flight, according to Blue Origin . Sánchez is also engaged to the company’s founder, Jeff Bezos.
据蓝色起源公司称,飞行员、记者兼贝佐斯地球基金会副主席劳伦·桑切斯“促成了这次任务”,她也将参与此次飞行。 桑切斯同时也是该公司创始人杰夫·贝佐斯的未婚妻。
“She is honored to lead a team of explorers on a mission that will challenge their perspectives of Earth,empowerthem to share their own stories, and create lasting impact that will inspire generations to come,” according to a statement from Blue Origin.
蓝色起源公司在一份声明中表示,她很荣幸能够带领一支探险队执行这项任务,这次任务将挑战她们对地球的看法,激励她们分享自己的故事,并产生持久的影响,从而激励后代。
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The mission, known as NS-31, will be New Shepard’s 11th flight carrying humans past theKármán line, an area 62 miles (100 kilometers) above Earth’s surface that is widely recognized as the altitude at which outer space begins — but there’s a lot of gray area.
Blue Origin has not announced a specific date for the mission.
这次任务,代号NS-31,将是新谢泼德号第11次将人类送过卡门线——距离地球表面62英里(100公里)的区域,该区域被广泛认为是外太空的起点,但实际上存在很多模糊地带。蓝色起源公司尚未公布此次任务的具体日期。
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The company, founded by Bezos in 2000, said the mission will be the first all-female flight crew since Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solospaceflightin 1963.
这家由贝索斯于 2000 年创立的公司表示,此次任务将是自 1963 年苏联女宇航员瓦莲京娜·捷列什科娃独自进行太空飞行以来,首次由全女性组成的飞行机组执行的任务。
"If you had told me I'd be part of the first all-female crew in space, I would have believed you. Nothing was beyond my imagination as a child," Perry said in a statement cited by Newsweek.
佩里在《新闻周刊》发表的声明中说道:“如果你当初告诉我,我会成为首个全女性太空乘组的一员,我肯定会相信。在我小时候,没有什么是我想象不出来的。”
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相信未来将会有更多女性进入太空!
对于“水果姐”的这次太空计划,
很多网友都在社交平台上为她的勇气点赞:
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如果是真的话,我作为她的粉丝那可真是太高兴了
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干得漂亮。这真的是一项值得称赞的成就
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太酷了我爱凯蒂
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这需要很大的勇气。我还没那么勇敢
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她大概要在太空里唱《E.T.》那首歌了
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本期重点词汇:
rocket/ ˈrɒkɪt / n.火箭
NASA/ ˈnæsə / abbr.美国国家航空和宇宙航行局(National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
empower/ ɪmˈpaʊə(r) / v.授权,使能够
Kármán line卡门线,国际航空联合会认定的大气层和太空的分界线,位于海拔100公里处
spaceflight/ ˈspeɪsflaɪt / n.航天;宇宙飞行
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