印度飛船進入火星軌道,領先亞洲
India wins Asia's Marsrace as spacecraft enters orbit
印度飛船進入火星軌道,領先亞洲India won Asia's race to Mars on Wednesdaywhen its unmanned Mangalyaan spacecraft successfully entered the Red Planet'sorbit after a 10-month journey on a tiny budget
經過10個月飛行後,週三,印度小預算的飛船進入了火星軌道,領先亞洲。Scientists at mission control let up a wildcheer as the gold-coloured craft manoeuvred into the planet's orbit at 8:02am(0232 GMT) following a 660-million kilometre (410-million mile) voyage.
在經歷了66000萬公里的飛行後,這艘金色的飛船進入了火星軌道,控制中心的科學家們歡呼雀躍。
"History has been created. We havedared to reach out into the unknown and have achieved the nearimpossible," a jubilant Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the IndianSpace Research Organisation's (ISRO) base near Bangalore.
“我們創造了歷史。我們勇於深入未知並創造了不可能,”總理莫迪在班加羅爾附近的印度空間研究組織裏開心的說道。"The success of our space programme isa shining symbol of what we are capable of as a nation," Modi said,grinning broadly and hugging the ISRO's chairman.
“空間項目的成功證明了印度作爲一個國家所具備的能力,”莫迪說,他笑着並擁抱了該機構的主席。India has been trying to keep up withneighbouring giant China, which has poured billions of dollars into itsprogramme and plans to build a manned space station by the end of the decade.
印度一直在追趕鄰國中國,中國花費巨資發展的自己的空間項目,並且計劃在未來幾年建成載人空間站。