ISS launch: New US-Russian crew heads to space station
国际空间站发射：美俄新机组人员前往空间站
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying three US astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut has blasted off from Florida bound for the International Space Station (ISS).
一枚载有三名美国宇航员和一名俄罗斯宇航员的太空探索技术公司猎鹰 9 号火箭从佛罗里达州升空，前往国际空间站。
The Crew-8 mission will be in space for six months. Space is one of the few areas where the US and Russia continue to co-operate closely despite the war in Ukraine.
载人 8 号任务将在太空停留六个月。尽管乌克兰发生了战争，但太空是美国和俄罗斯继续密切合作的少数领域之一。
The three men and one woman are in a capsule used in space four times before by Elon Musk’s SpaceX firm.
这三名男子和一名女子在埃隆·马斯克的太空探索技术公司之前四次在太空中使用的太空舱中。
They plan to do various experiments.
他们计划做各种实验。
One will involve growing artificial replicas of human organs in the low-gravity environment – which is not possible on Earth.
其中一个将涉及在低重力环境中培养人体器官的人工复制品，这在地球上是不可能的。
It will be one of more than 200 science experiments that are to be conducted during the mission, scheduled to finish in mid-August, according to Nasa’s ISS programme manager Joel Montalbano.
据美国国家航空航天局国际空间站项目经理 Joel Montalbano 介绍，这将是计划于 8 月中旬完成的任务期间进行的 200 多项科学实验之一。
hTe crew of four blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 22:53 local time (03:53 GMT Monday).
当地时间 22:53（格林尼治标准时间周一 03:53 ），四名机组人员从佛罗里达州肯尼迪航天中心升空。
The first launch attempt on Saturday was called off due to strong winds.
由于强风，周六的首次发射尝试被取消。
A live webcast broadcast by Nasa on Sunday showed the 70m (229 ft)-tall rocket launching into the night sky, with clouds of vapour surrounding it as it rose off the ground.
美国国家航空航天局周日进行的网络直播显示，这枚 70 米（ 229 英尺）高的火箭向夜空发射，当它从地面升起时，周围环绕着蒸汽云。
The Falcon propelled the spacecraft it was carrying – named Endeavour – into orbit nine minutes after lift off.
猎鹰号在升空九分钟后将其携带的名为奋进号的航天器送入轨道。
Footage from the cabin showed the four crew members strapped into the spacecraft in their black and white flight suits.
舱内的视频显示，四名机组人员穿着黑白飞行服被绑在飞船上。
“What an incredible ride to orbit,” flight commander, Matthew Dominick, is quoted by Reuters news agency as saying as he radioed to ground control.
路透社援引飞行指挥官 Matthew Dominick 在向地面控制中心发送无线电时的话说：“这是一次多么不可思议的轨道之旅。”。
Mr Dominick and Russian Alexander Grebenkin were making their first flight into space. The other crew members on board were astronaut Jeanette Epps and physician Michael Barratt- the Crew-8 pilot – who’s on his third visit to the ISS.
多米尼克和俄罗斯人亚历山大·格雷本金首次进入太空。机上的其他机组人员是宇航员珍妮特·埃普斯和医生迈克尔·巴拉特，他是 8 号机组的飞行员，正在第三次访问国际空间站。
The four crew members are scheduled to reach the ISS on Tuesday, docking with the orbital laboratory some 250 miles (420km) above the Earth.
四名机组人员计划于周二抵达国际空间站，与地球上空约 250 英里（ 420 公里）的轨道实验室对接。
They will join a seven-person crew currently at the space station, Nasa said.
美国国家航空航天局表示，他们将加入目前在空间站的七人机组。
The International Space Station – about the length of a football field and the largest human-made object in space, according to Reuters news agency – is a rare area of international co-operation between various global governments. It has been continuously maintained by a US-Russian consortium including Canada, Japan, and 11 European countries.
据路透社报道，国际空间站大约有一个足球场那么长，是太空中最大的人造物体，是全球各国政府之间罕见的国际合作领域。它一直由包括加拿大、日本和 11 个欧洲国家在内的美俄财团持续维护。
Alexander Grebenkin is the latest cosmonaut to fly aboard a US spacecraft under a deal signed in 2022 by Nasa and the Russian space agency, Roscosmos.
根据美国国家航空航天局和俄罗斯航天局于 2022 年签署的协议，亚历山大·格雷本金是最新一位乘坐美国航天器的宇航员。
原文：https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68465056
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