CNN News:美国轨道科学公司“安塔瑞斯”号火箭爆炸

One viewer said it started as a beautiful site, but it ended in a spectacular blast of fire. Today`s edition of CNN STUDENT NEWS begins with a rocket explosion on Virginia`s Coast. No one was on it, no one was hurt. The failure happened just after liftoff, 200 million dollar Antares rocket falling back down to earth. The explosion was so tremendous because the unmanned vehicle was carrying enough fuel to get it to the International Space Station.

一个观众说它开始很美，但是结束时发生了强烈的爆炸。今天CNN学生新闻的首条新闻来说一说发生在弗吉尼亚州的火箭爆炸。火箭上没有人，也没有造成人员伤亡。爆炸仅仅发生在火箭发射之后，两千万美元打造的Antares火箭直接落向表面。爆炸非常巨大，因为火箭携带着足够飞到国际空间站的大量燃料。

The accident could be seen per miles, the pilot of a small plane shot this video. NASA is now inspecting the damage to its Wallops Flight Facility and Orbital Science Corporation who built the rocket is leading the investigation into why this happened.

爆炸画面被一架小型飞机捕捉到了，美国宇航局正在对Wallops Flight Facility和建造火箭的轨道科学公司进行调查，分析火箭爆炸的原因。

And we have liftoff .

我们已经起飞了

The first stage was just seconds into a four-minute burn when the Antares rocket stalled, fell backward and exploded. Nearly three quarters of a million pounds of thrust went haywire and spectators across the bay say the blast shook the ground even there.

从火箭起飞仅仅用了几秒时间，然后Antares火箭出现故障坠向地面发生爆炸，火势燃烧了四分钟。一百万磅的冲力几乎四分之三的力量全部散发了出来，在海湾对面观看火箭发射的观众称甚至在对岸都能感受到爆炸产生的地面震动。

Immediately probably about five seconds in you just saw kind of a fireball. And it wasn`t -- you could tell something immediately - that something was wrong.

可能在五秒的一瞬间你就看到了一个火球的形成。但是这不是火球，你可以判断出来，是有什么故障发生了。

It also clearly shook Virginia-based Orbital Sciences, the private contractor that built the rocket under a nearly $2 billion contract with NASA now needs answers.

这一状况同时也震惊了弗吉尼亚州的轨道科学公司，私人承包商建造的这枚火箭，与美国宇航局有将近200亿的合同签订，现在需要一个说法。

The investigation will include evaluating the debris that we will find around the launch pad. If you find anything that washes ashore in the local area or came down in a -- on your farm, definitely do not touch it.

调查将包括对从发射台周围发现的碎片进行评估。如果你在当地海岸上或者农场里发现了任何坠落的碎片，你绝不能碰它。

No one was hurt in the explosion, but gone in a flash, 1,600 pounds of science experiments on everything from meteors to human blood flow. More than 1,600 pounds of hardware, computers, spacewalk equipment. And 1,400 pounds of food for the ISS crew. That does not create an instant emergency, but it will put extra pressure on upcoming missions to reestablish the supply chain to those astronauts in orbit. And the explosion could create political pressure, too, in the continuing debate over how much space travel can or should be put into the hands of private companies.

没有人在爆炸中受伤，但是1600磅承载着所有科学实验瞬间消失不见。1600多磅包括各种硬件，电脑，太空行走设备。还有1400磅给国际空间站宇航员准备的食物。这次爆炸并没有产生紧急行动，但是将会给接下来向轨道上工作的宇航员提供供给链条产生压力。而且爆炸同样可能会产生潜在的政治压力，关于太空旅行到底能不能交到私人公司手中完成的争论将会继续展开。