CNN News:美国宇航员入住国际空间站

Space travel is expensive. It`s dangerous. And it`s fascinating. Fewer than 600 people have ever done it. That is nothing considering the billions who`ve inhabited Earth since Yuri Gagarin first went into orbit in 1961. So there might be some questions you have about it. That`s the thinking behind the CNN I-Report project that asks students what they`d ask an astronaut.

太空旅行是非常昂贵且危险的事情，同时又充满着奇幻色彩，只有不到600人完成过。这对在1961年从全球10亿人中挑选出来进入太空轨道的尤里加加林来说没有什么可比性。所以你可能有些问题要问，这就是CNN“我报道”栏目所考虑的内容，考虑到学生可能会问宇航员什么问题。

CNN. This is mission control, Houston.

CNN，这里是休斯敦控制中心。

CNN, how do you hear me?

CNN，能听到我讲话吗?

I hear you lung (ph) clear. My name is Steven Swanson, I`m a NASA astronaut. Right now I`m living aboard the International Space Station, which is in the orbit around the Earth, about 250 miles up. One, it`s a fun experience. It`s go like - a rollercoaster ride in the way, and that begin a rollercoaster ride over. You are going up that steep (INAUDIBLE), click, click, click, click. And it`s a little tension builds. It`s great and then boom, you go. You can feel the acceleration of the engines. Just pushing you down into the seat as you take off. And the whole thing lasts about 8.5 minutes, and after 8.5 minutes we are going 70,500 miles an hour, and we are up in the Earth orbit spinning around.

我能清楚的听到你喘息的声音。我叫Steve Swanson，一名美国宇航员，现在正住在距离地球轨道250英里高空的国际空间站。这是一次有意思的体验，就像在坐过山车一样，飞速向上爬，不停发出嚓嚓声。这是一种非常有张力的家伙，非常了不起，然后开始点火起飞，你就发射出去了。你能感觉到引擎在加速，起飞之后就把你狠狠按在座位上。整个过程也就持续大约8分50秒，然后我们以每小时70500英里的速度飞速前进，之后我们就环绕地球轨道上空旋转。

Exercise is different up here, we don`t have gravity. We have three different types of equipment. We have a treadmill, we have an exercise bike, and we have a resistive exercise device, which is like lifting weights back on earth.

在太空里做的运动是不同的，因为我们不受重力影响。我们有三种不同的设备，有跑步机，有室内脚踏车，还有一个健身器，可以模拟地球引力就像是在地球上做举重。

We do have that planned out. We will be using commercial craft like SpaceX or possibly Boeing. Sierra Nevada also - in Sierra Nevada, there`s a reusable vehicles, so there`s one right now. It`s on the dry board. It has plans, and it`s a possibility that is reusable. The (INAUDIBLE) space craft at NASA is building, is not reusable also, it`s another capsule. Then, of course, we are relied on the Russians until we get one of ours done. But I do hope in the near future we`ll have at least U.S. vehicle and then after that, I do believe going back to some sort of reusable water will help bring the costs down and will help make it affordable for everybody else to come up here.

我们也曾经计划过，我们会利用商业飞船就像太空X号或者波音飞机。内华达山脉也，在内华达山脉有一种可以重复使用的交通工具，现在只有一个，停放在干燥的甲板上。使用这种工具具有计划性，有可能重新利用。美国宇航局正在建造的宇宙飞船不是可以重复利用的，是另一种太空舱。所以我们直到自己创造出可重复使用工具之前要依靠俄罗斯。但我由衷希望美国能在不久的将来能有自己的飞行器，然后我相信对循环用水的研究可以降低成本让更多的人能够承担起来太空旅行的费用。

I`m not really scared. Most of us aren`t (ph) scared. We know there`s a danger involved, but we`ve also been trained to handle all the possible scenarios that have come up.

我并不是真的害怕，我们大多数人都不怕，我们清楚的知道有危险存在，但是我们经过严格的训练应对任何可能会发生的情况。

The number one thing, we all like to do is look out the window. It`s such a beautiful thing to do, and looking down on Earth is just a fantastic way to spend your time. Thank you.

有一件我们都喜欢的事情就是看窗外。宇宙真是太美了，从太空看地球是享受时光的绝佳方式。谢谢你们。