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NASA Sets Final Stage For Commercial Crew

机译:美国宇航局为商业船员设定最后阶段

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With its selection of Boeing and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. to develop competing capsules to transport astronauts to and from the international space station, NASA took a big step toward restoring a human spaceflight capability the United States has lacked since the 2011 retirement of the space shuttle fleet. In announcing the awards Sept. 16, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden acknowledged the difficulty of leaving Sierra Nevada Corp. Space Systems - the only commercial crew contender to propose a vehicle that would glide to Earth for a runway landing - high and dry. But NASA's acquisition professionals are paid to make the choices that make the most sense for the nation's civil space program. Contrast that with the U.S. Congress, whose latest failure to perform its most basic function, passing a budget, effectively ensures that NASA's effort to end its reliance on Russia for space station crew access will start off in a fiscal hole. Lawmakers, who have shortchanged the program from the beginning - while giving generously to a giant rocket and deep-space capsule whose only identified mission they have rejected - settled yet again for a continuing resolution that funds federal activities at prior-year levels.
机译:美国宇航局选择波音和太空探索技术公司来开发竞争性太空舱,以运送宇航员往返国际空间站,这标志着美国恢复自2011年航天飞机退役以来所缺乏的人类航天能力迈出了一大步舰队。在9月16日宣布这一奖项时,美国宇航局局长查尔斯·博尔登(Charles Bolden)承认离开内华达山脉公司(Sierra Nevada Corp.)的困难。航天系统公司是唯一提议向地球滑行以降落跑道的商业竞争者。但是,NASA的采购专业人员却获得了报酬,做出了对美国民用航天计划最有意义的选择。与美国国会形成鲜明对照的是,美国国会最近一次未能履行其最基本的职能,即通过了预算,从而有效地确保了美国宇航局结束对俄罗斯的依赖,以免其进入空间站人员的努力将在财政上陷入困境。从一开始就改变了计划的议员们,尽管慷慨地给予了他们唯一拒绝执行的确定任务的巨型火箭和深空太空舱,却又重新达成了一项继续解决方案的决议,该决议需要为上一年的联邦活动提供资金。

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    《Space news》 |2014年第38期|18-18|共1页
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