高中英語 CNN聽力05月合輯（文本+翻譯）0528素材.doc

cnn英語聽力2012年05月合輯（文本+翻譯）：20120528we appreciate the students at ridgeview junior high for getting us started today.hi, im carl azuz.its may 23rd and we are ready to launch into todays headlines.three, two, one, zero and launch of the spacex falcon 9 rocket, as nasa turns to the private sector to resupplythe international space station.what youre watching is the beginning of a new era in space exploration. its the first time a commercial rocket,one owned by a private company, has taken off for the international space station.spacexs falcon 9 rocket is carrying 1,300 pounds of food, clothes and supplies. the company has a contract with nasa worth nearly $400 million. and its trying to show that private companies can get to the iss safely and efficiently.john zarrella explains this shift in space exploration.no one is going to any planets right now, because there are no vehicles that can take anybody to the planet. so all of these companies are trying to develop their own rockets, their own spacecraft, in order to take u.s.astronauts to the international space station.what nasa decided to do was to get out of the low earth orbit business.how do you do that?you start turning over to commercial companies the flights to the international space station, taking crew, taking cargo and eliminating the space shuttle program. it was the only way that nasa was going to be able to move out and do the things that nasa does best, which is to do deep space exploration.so now you have several commercial companies competing for contracts for taking cargo to the international space station, competing for contracts to ultimately take astronauts to the international space station.the only place to go right now, until there are space hotels, until there are private space stations, is the international space station. so, you know, these companies really need nasas money and nasas seed money in order to develop their spacecraft.and at this point, the only real customer out there to go to the international space station, you know, is nasa.spacex is saying that it can charge nasa $20 million a seat to fly astronauts to the international space station.right now, because nasa has no way to get there but using the russians and their soyuz rocket, nasa is paying $50 million to $60 million a seat to the russians.so a big difference in how much its going to cost if someone like spacex or orbital, u.s. commercial companies,start flying astronauts. it will bring the cost way down. 感謝里奇初中的學(xué)生們，讓我們開始今天的節(jié)目。嗨,我是卡爾阿祖茲。今天是5月23日,我們已經(jīng)準(zhǔn)備好了今天的頭條新聞。三、二、一、零，spacex獵鷹9號火箭發(fā)射標(biāo)志著nasa為國際空間站提供補(bǔ)給轉(zhuǎn)向私人化。你正在看到的是太空探索一個新時代的開始。這是第一次一家私營公司所擁有的商業(yè)火箭,它已經(jīng)起飛前往國際空間站。spacex公司的獵鷹9號火箭裝備有1300磅的食物、衣服和物資。公司與美國宇航局的合同價值近4億美元。它的努力表明,私人公司可以安全有效的到達(dá)國際空間站。約翰薩雷拉解釋這種太空探索的變化?，F(xiàn)在沒有人打算去任何行星,因?yàn)闆]有設(shè)備可以把任何人送往目的地。所以所有的這些公司正在努力開發(fā)他們自己的火箭,他們自己的飛船,為了運(yùn)送美國宇航員去國際空間站。美國宇航局決定做的是擺脫地球軌道的業(yè)務(wù)。你是怎么做到的?你開始將商業(yè)公司的航班駛向國際空間站,搭載船員,搭載貨物并消除航天飛機(jī)項(xiàng)目。這是唯一的方法,美國宇航局將能夠界定及美國宇航局能夠做得最好做的事情,這是深入的進(jìn)行太空探索。所以現(xiàn)在你有幾個商業(yè)公司競爭承擔(dān)貨物至國際空間站的合同,爭奪最終將宇航員送到國際空間站的權(quán)利?，F(xiàn)在唯一的需要的是直到有了太空酒店,直到有私人空間站,而現(xiàn)在是國際空間站。所以, 為了發(fā)展他們的飛船，你知道,這些公司真正需要美國宇航局的種子資金。在這一點(diǎn)上,唯一前往國際空間站真正的客戶,你知道,就是nasa。spac