告别航天飞机
原作者: 来源 焦点视野 – 告别航天飞机(多图) 译者 匹夫 Dismantling the Space Shuttle Program 告别航天飞机 NASA’s Space Shuttle program continues to wind down, with only two more launches planned — the final one taking place in June (if funded). NASA Administrator Charles Bolden recently announced four facilities where shuttle orbiters will be displayed permanently in New York, California, Florida, and Washington, D.C. At Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Launch Pad 39B, originally designed for the Apollo program and later customized to support the Space Shuttle, is currently being taken apart in preparation for future missions with new, post-shuttle launch systems. Space Shuttle Discovery — which landed for the final time last month after having flown 39 missions, traveling 148,221,675 miles — now sits inside Orbiter Processing Facility-2, as it’s inspected, disassembled, and prepared for its new life as a public exhibit. Collected here are some images of the 29-year old program’s last days. [27 photos] 美国宇航局(NASA) 正逐渐放慢 航天飞机计划的发展脚步,至今还剩下两个发射计划–最后一次预计在6月份(如有资金资助)。NASA局长 查尔斯· 博尔 登(Charles Bolden)最近宣布这些航天飞机将永久性陈列在纽约,加利福尼亚,佛罗里达和华盛顿四处。在佛罗里达的肯尼迪航天中心,原本为阿波罗计划设计后来又被改装用来支撑航天飞机的38号发射台,现在正在被拆解准备用在未来新的航天飞机发射后(原文应改为“shuttle post-launch”)系统中。发现号航天飞机–z直到上个月最后一次着陆已经飞行了39次,航行148,221,675英里–如今放置在OPF-2仓库(译者注:Orbiter Processing Facility-2,NASA在肯尼迪航天中心的三个大型飞机维修库之一)内,经过检查和拆解后,已准备用它作为 公共展品。下面的照片记录下这一历时29年的项目最后的日子。 1 Space shuttle Discovery’s forward reaction control system (FRCS), which helped steer the shuttle in orbit, sits atop a transporter in Orbiter Processing Facility-2 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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