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太空飞行初成现实，曾经在电影中航行宇宙的柯克船长即将真正进入太空。
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US tech billionaire and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's space travel company Blue Origin confirmed that William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk in the Star Trek series, would be blasting off from Texas on 12 October. Aged 90, the actor will become the oldest person to have flown into space.
美国科技巨富、亚马逊创始人杰夫·贝索斯的太空旅行公司“蓝色起源”证实，《星际迷航》系列中柯克船长扮演者威廉·夏特纳将于10月12日从德克萨斯州升入太空。这位90岁的演员将成为飞入太空的最年长者。
"I've heard about space for a long time now. I'm taking the opportunity to see it for myself. What a miracle," Shatner said in a statement.
"我听闻宇宙已久，如今终于有机会亲眼目睹它，真不可思议。"夏特纳在一份声明中说。
Shatner will be joining three other people aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket for the company's second human spaceflight.
另有三人将与夏特纳一起登上“蓝色起源”的新谢泼德号火箭，进行该公司的第二次载人航天飞行。
As with the previous flight, the October voyage is expected to last about 10 minutes and will take the crew just beyond the Karman Line - the most widely recognized boundary of space which lies 100km (60 miles) above the Earth.
根据此前航行的经验，十月份的这次远征预计将持续十分钟左右，并带着乘客们飞出卡门线——公认的地球大气层和太空的边界，距地表大约100公里（60英里）。
第一次太空飞行
Jeff Bezos joined the first crewed flight, along with Mark Bezos, aviation pioneer Wally Funk, and Blue Origin’s first customer, Oliver Daemen.
杰夫·贝索斯、马克·贝索斯、航天先驱沃利·丰克以及该公司的第一位客户，奥利弗·戴蒙共同参加了第一次载人飞行。
飞行结束后，四人接受采访。图源：Blue Origin官网
They lifted up to the skies on board the reusable suborbital rocket New Shepard from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One, which is situated in a remote location in the West Texas desert, US, on July 20.
“蓝色起源”的1号发射点坐落于美国西德克萨斯沙漠的一处僻远之地。7月20日，四人乘着可循环亚轨道火箭新谢泼德号升空。
The day chosen for this flight is historic — on this day in 1969, American commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo lunar module “Eagle” on the surface of the Moon and kicked open the door to human lunar exploration.
这是历史性的一天——1969年的同日，美国指挥官尼尔·阿姆斯特朗和登月舱飞行员巴兹·奥尔德林将阿波罗登月舱“鹰”降落在月球表面，开启了人类探索月球的大门。
The spaceflight achieved several records announced by Blue Origin and GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™, which are the following:
“蓝色起源”与吉尼斯世界纪录宣布，这次太空飞行创造了以下几个纪录：
·The oldest person to go to space is Wally Funk, who crossed the Karmen line at the age of 82 years, 169 days on July 20, 2021.
2021年7月20日，沃利·丰克以82岁169天的高龄成为最年长的穿过卡门线进入太空的人。
· The youngest person to go to space is Oliver Daemen, who crossed the Karman line at the age of 18 years 334 days on July 20, 2021.
2021年7月20日，奥利弗·戴蒙以18岁334天的年龄成为最年轻的穿过卡门线进入太空的人。
· The first siblings to go to space at the same time are Jeff and Mark Bezos, who crossed the Karman line on July 20, 2021.
2021年7月20日，杰夫与马克成为第一对同时穿过卡门线进入太空的兄弟。
· The first suborbital spacecraft to carry paying customers was Blue Origin’s New Shepard RSS First Step on July 20, 2021.
2021年7月20日，“蓝色起源”的新谢泼德号RSS第一步乘员舱成为第一艘搭载付费客户的亚轨道宇宙飞船。
Blue Origin said its vice president of mission and flight operations, Audrey Powers, would also be on board the flight, as well as a former Nasa engineer and a health care entrepreneur.
蓝色起源称其公司的太空飞行任务与运营副总监奥黛丽·鲍尔斯，也将参与这次飞行，同时参与的还有一位前NASA工程师和一位医疗企业家。
四位参加人员（从左到右）：NASA工程师克里斯·博舒赞 威廉·夏特纳 奥黛丽·鲍尔斯 医疗企业家格伦·德弗里斯. 图源：CBS news
A Canadian actor, Shatner famously played Captain James T Kirk of the USS Enterprise in the original Star Trek TV series in the 1960s, and later appeared in films of the franchise.
这位名叫夏特纳的加拿大演员，因其在1960年代出演了星际迷航原初系列剧集和此后该系列的授权电影中联邦星舰进取号的詹姆斯·T·柯克舰长而出名。
《星际迷航》中，夏特纳饰演的柯克船长. 图片源自网络
Reports in 2013 said he had turned down Sir Richard Branson's offer to fly him into space with Virgin Galactic - the billionaire's space travel company which took Sir Richard to the edge of space in July.
2013年的报道称，他曾经拒绝了理查德·布兰森爵士让维珍银河航空公司（Virgin Galactic）送他飞入太空的提议。维珍银河是理查德爵士的太空旅行公司，曾在今年7月将这位亿万富翁送上太空的边缘。
Sir Richard told The Sun newspaper at the time it was because Shatner has a fear of flying. But in 2011 the actor said he had turned down the offer because the billionaire allegedly wanted him to pay for the journey.
当时，理查德爵士告诉《太阳报》，夏特纳拒绝是因为害怕太空飞行。但在2011年，这位演员说，据称那位亿万富翁希望他支付这次旅行的费用，所以他才拒绝。
"He wanted me to go up and pay for it and I said: 'Hey, you pay me and I'll go up. I'll risk my life for a large sum of money.' But he didn't pick me up on my offer," Shatner told reporters.
"他想让我自费参加，我说：‘嘿，你付钱，我就去。看在这么一大笔钱的份上，我愿意拿我的生命冒个险。’不过他并没有同意。"夏特纳告诉记者。
The Star Trek star will not however be the first original cast member to leave the planet. Last year The Times revealed that the ashes of James Doohan, who played Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, were smuggled on board the International Space Station in 2008, three years after Doohan's death.
然而，在这个系列电影里，他不是第一位飞离地球的演员。去年，《纽约时报》透露，2008年，扮演蒙斯科蒂·斯科特·蒙哥马利的詹姆斯·杜汉的骨灰在其去世三年后被偷运到国际空间站。
《星际迷航》中，杜汉饰演的斯科特（左）. 图片源自网络
最新进展：
由于天气影响，此次太空飞行延迟一天进行，暂定于周三早晨9时30分（美东时区时间）发射。
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难点表达解释：
blast off：（火箭）点火起飞，离地升空
例：The space shuttle had been scheduled to blast off at 04:38.
pioneer: n. a person who is the first to study and develop a particular area of knowledge, culture, etc. that other people then continue to develop 先锋，先驱，带头人
例：He is a pioneer in modern medical practice.
suborbital: adj. having or involving a trajectory of less than one orbit 亚轨道的
例：Virgin Galactic plans to launch the first commercial suborbital spaceflights by2012 for about$ 200,000 a seat.
module: n. a unit of a spacecraft that can function independently of the main part （航天器上独立的）舱
例：the lunar module 登月舱
mission：n. a flight into space 太空飞行任务
例：mission control (= the people on earth who control and communicate with the people on the mission ) 太空飞行的地面指挥人员
franchise: n. ormal permission given by a company to sb who wants to sell its goods or services in a particular area; formal permission given by a government to sb who wants to operate a public service as a business （公司授予的）特许经销权；（国家授予的）特别经营权，特许
例：In the reorganization, Southern Television lost their franchise.
allegedly：adv. 据称；根据（人们）宣称；据说如此
例: He lost his job for allegedly being incapable.
smuggle：v. to take, send or bring goods or people secretly and illegally into or out of a country, etc. 走私；私运；偷运
例：They were caught smuggling diamonds into the country.
原文链接：
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58792761
https://www.blueorigin.com/news/first-astronaut-crew-receive-guinness-world-records
Blue Origin's First Human Spaceflight — Bezos, Branson, And The “Billionaire Space Race” (swarajyamag.com)
文案 | 陈瀚 肖敏瑜 刘铸 陈宇昕 赵巍 余梓骞
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