Elon Musk's SpaceX Successfully Launches All-Civilian Crew Into Space, Inspiration 4 Reaches Orbit
Elon Musk's SpaceX Successfully Launches All-Civilian Crew Into Space, Inspiration 4 Reaches Orbit
SpaceX Inspiration4 flight on Wednesday successfully launched a four-member civilian crew into orbit for three days, a new milestone in private space travel.
SpaceX 靈感4週三的飛行成功地將一個四人的民用機組人員送入軌道，為期三天，這是私人太空旅行的一個新里程碑。
What Happened: The flight took off at 8.02 p.m. ET from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
發生的事情：飛機於晚上8點02分起飛。ET來自肯尼迪航天中心在……裏面弗羅裏達登上一艘SpaceX獵鷹9號火箭。
Dragon and the @inspiration4x astronauts are now officially in space! Dragon will conduct two phasing burns to reach its cruising orbit of 575km where the crew will spend the next three days orbiting planet Earth
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 16, 2021
龍與龍@spiriration4x宇航員現在正式進入太空了！“龍”號將進行兩次分階段燃燒，以達到575公里的巡航軌道，在那裏，機組人員將在接下來的三天裏繞地球運行。
-SpaceX(@SpaceX)2021年9月16日
The capsule carrying members of the mission separated from the booster about 12 minutes into the flight and began traveling to an orbit about 360 miles above Earth.
搭載任務成員的太空艙在飛行約12分鐘後與助推器分離，開始向地球上空約360英里的軌道飛行。
Crew send off before they make their way to Launch Complex 39A pic.twitter.com/pa5pXaAdNm
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 15, 2021
機組人員在前往發射綜合體39A之前發射升空Pic.twitter.com/pa5pXaAdNm
-SpaceX(@SpaceX)2021年9月15日
The crew inside the capsule comprises Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of e-commerce firm Shift4 Payments Inc (NYSE:FOUR), and three other U.S. citizens who are not professional astronauts but did spend months preparing for the flight.
太空艙內的機組人員包括賈裏德·艾薩克曼，電子商務公司創始人兼首席執行官Shift4 Payments Inc.紐約證券交易所代碼：四)，以及另外三名美國公民，他們不是專業宇航員，但確實花了幾個月的時間為這次飛行做準備。
During the journey, which will take the crew as deep as 360 miles in space, those onboard will conduct scientific and medical research on human health on Earth and during future long-duration space flights, SpaceX said in a statement.
SpaceX在一份聲明中表示，在這次旅行中，機組人員將在太空深處360英里(約合360公里)的地方，機上人員將對地球上的人類健康以及未來的長期太空飛行進行科學和醫學研究。
The capsule is configured to remain in orbit for about a week if needed, Isaacman had tweeted earlier.
艾薩克曼早些時候在推特上寫道，如果需要，太空艙被配置為在軌道上停留約一週。
As configured for this mission, about a week.
— Jared Isaacman (@rookisaacman) September 15, 2021
按照這次任務的配置，大約一週。
-賈裏德·艾薩克曼(@rookisaacman)2021年9月15日
Why It Matters: SpaceX’s maiden civilian flight goes deeper into space than those of rivals led by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Holdings (NYSE:SPCE) and Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin. The two billionaires flew along with their crews but those flights spent far less time and only made a dash into space and flew back to earth quickly.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who also leads Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), earlier said the reason he started SpaceX was to get humanity to Mars.
SpaceX首席執行官埃隆·馬斯克誰也是領頭羊特斯拉公司(納斯達克：特拉斯)，早些時候他説他創辦SpaceX的原因是為了把人類帶到火星上。
“I want to make the dream of space accessible to anyone and ultimately make science fiction, not fiction,” Musk said in a Netflix Inc (NASDAQ:NFLX) trailer that documents the mission.
馬斯克在一次演講中説：“我想讓每個人都能實現太空之夢，並最終創作出科幻小説，而不是虛構作品。”奈飛(納斯達克：NFLX)記錄任務的預告片。
Price Action: Tesla shares closed 1.52% higher at $755.83 on Wednesday.
價格行動：特斯拉股價週三收高1.52%，報755.83美元。
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