美國太空探索技術企業的“龍”飛船當地時間3日晚從佛羅里達州發射升空，搭載4名美國和俄羅斯宇航員飛往國際空間站。下面請看有關雙語報道。
Four astronauts headed to the International Space station on Sunday where they will oversee the arrivals of two new rocketships during their half-year stint.
周日，四名宇航員前往國際空間站，他們將在為期半年的任務期間監督兩艘新火箭的抵達。
SpaceX's Falcon rocket blasted off from Kennedy Space Center, carrying NASA's Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps and Russia's Alexander Grebenkin.
SpaceX的獵鷹火箭從肯尼迪航天中心發射升空， 搭載著美國國家航空航天局的馬修·多米尼克、邁克爾·巴拉特和珍妮特·埃普斯，與俄羅斯宇航員亞歷山大·格雷本金。
The astronauts should reach the orbiting lab on Tuesday. They will replace a crew from the U.S., Denmark, Japan and Russia, who have been there since August.
宇航員應該會在周二到達軌道實驗室。 他們將取代自今年8月以來一直在那里的來自美國、丹麥、日本和俄羅斯的宇航員。
"When are you getting here already?" space station commander Andreas Mogensen asked via X, formerly Twitter, after three days of delay due to high wind. SpaceX Launch control termed it "fashionably late."
“你們什么時間才到啊?”空間站指揮官安德烈亞斯·莫根森在twitter上問道， 此前因為大風致使發射推遲了三天。 SpaceX發射控制中心將它稱為“時髦地遲到”。
There was almost another postponement Sunday night. A small crack in the seal of the SpaceX capsule's hatch prompted a last-minute flurry of reviews, but it was deemed safe for the whole mission.
周日晚上，幾乎又發生了另一次推遲。 SpaceX太空艙艙門密封處出現的一道小裂縫致使在最后關頭進行了一系列緊急檢查，但最后確認它對整個任務來講是安全的。
The new crew's six-month stay includes the arrival of two rocketships ordered by NASA. Boeing's new Starliner capsule with test pilots is due in late April. A month or two later, Sierra Space's Dream Chaser, a mini shuttle, should arrive. It is for delivering cargo to the station, but not passengers yet.
新機組職員的半年任務包含迎接兩艘由美國國家航空航天局訂購的火箭飛船的抵達。 波音企業的新“星際客機”太空艙搭載試飛員，預計將于4月末抵達。 一個月或兩個月后，塞拉空間企業的“追夢者”迷你航天飛機應該也會抵達。 它用于向空間站運送貨物，但現在不運送乘客。
Epps was originally assigned to fly Boeing's Starliner, which got bogged down with problems and stalled. NASA finally switched her to SpaceX.
埃普斯原本被分配去駕駛波音企業的星際飛船，但這架飛船因為出現問題而陷入困境。 美國國家航空航天局最后將她轉到SpaceX。
Epps, who is from Syracuse, N.Y., is the second Black woman assigned to a long station mission. She said before the flight that she is especially proud to be a role model for Black girls, demonstrating that spaceflight "is an option for them, that this is not just for other people."
埃普斯來自紐約州雪城，是第二位被分配到長期空間站任務的黑人女人。 她在飛行前表示，她特別為自己成為黑人女生的榜樣感到自豪，證明了“太空飛行是她們的一個選擇， 而不止是別的人的選擇”。
An engineer, she worked for Ford Motor Co. and the CIA before becoming an astronaut in 2009. Epps should have launched to the space station on a Russian rocket in 2018, but was replaced for reasons never publicly disclosed.
作為一名工程師，她曾在福特汽車公司和中情局工作， 并于2009年成為宇航員。 埃普斯本應于2018年乘坐俄羅斯火箭前往空間站，但出于從未公開披露是什么原因被替換。
重點詞語
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