CNN News:关于在莫哈维沙漠坠毁的维珍银河2号飞船事故原因仍在调查当中

Welcome back to standard time and to this November, 3 edition of CNN STUDENT NEWS. Hope you are doing well this Monday. I`m Carl Azuz.

欢迎收看11月3号的新闻，这里是CNN学生新闻。希望你这个周一会有顺利的一天。我是Carl Azuz。

First up, investigators are trying to figure out what caused another spacecraft disaster in the U.S. 45,000 feet above the Earth and about 20 miles northeast of Mojave, California, the Virgin Galactic Spaceship 2 broke up in a test flight Friday.

首先，对于周五发生在美国加利福尼亚州莫哈维沙漠东北约20英里地方维珍银河2号飞船坠毁原因的调查仍在继续。飞船大约在距离地面45000英尺的高空坠向地面。

There were two pilots on board. One was killed in the accident, the other parachuted to the ground. He was injured, but he survived. The founder of the spaceships company says he`s determined to find out what went wrong and to learn from it. He`s still committed to putting people safely in the orbit, but the accident wrapped up a tragic and trying weak for private space travel.

飞船上有两名飞行员，其中一人在事故中遇难，另一人跳伞降落到地面，受到严重创伤，但是仍幸存了下来。该飞船建造公司创始人说他已经下定决心要彻底调查事故原因并从中吸取教训。他仍将为把人类安全运送到轨道而努力，但是事故的出现产生了负面的影响，也削弱了人们前往太空旅行的热情。

Ground control lost contact with the experimental spacecraft around 10:00 Pacific Time. The half billion dollar rocket power craft could sit six passengers, but during this test flight, only two pilots were on board. The Spaceship is carried into flight beneath an airplane. And that launch vehicle returned to the ground safely, but not the spacecraft. What went wrong is anyone`s guess. The ship is 60 feet long and designed to fly 62 miles above the earth. And the wreckage in the Mojave Desert attests to the ferocity of the explosion.

地面控制平台在太平洋时间大约十点钟的时候与实验飞船失去了联系。价值五亿美元的火箭驱动器可以同时搭载六名乘客，但是在此次试飞过程中只搭载了两名飞行员。飞船由航天飞机搭载，驱动器安全返回了地面，但是飞船却出现了事故。关于飞船坠毁事故的原因现在产生了各种猜测。飞船有60英尺长，预计飞行距离可达62英里远。散落在莫哈维沙漠的飞船残骸显示当时爆炸非常具有威力。

A crumpled parachute could be seen on the ground, but still authorities say one pilot was killed and the other seriously injured.

在地面上可以看到一个皱皱巴巴的降落伞，当局表示飞行员一死一伤。

It`s a far cry from the ambitious hopes Virgin Galactic Founder Richard Branson expressed earlier this year.

这距离维珍银河创始人Richard Branson在今年早些时候的预期成果是非常遥远的。

200 of the best engineers and technicians building them. Now we are beginning the final stages of test flights in flight. By the end of this year, you know, we will eventually gone (ph) interspace.

200名工程人员和技术人员参与了这个飞船的建造。现在已经进入了试飞阶段。在今年年底，我们将会进入太空。

Instead, it is another blow to the idea of privatized space travel, and it comes only days after a spectacular Launchpad explosion in Virginia, a blast that involved a spacecraft once again manufactured by a private company.

但是意外的是，这一私人太空旅游的美梦却破碎了。并且这仅仅是在维珍飞船在弗吉尼亚起飞爆炸之后几天之后出现的裂痕。私人公司推出的飞船再一次发生了爆炸。