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随着美国在太空半个世纪的统治行将结束,美国国家航空和航天局的雇员们在肯尼迪航天中心怆然泪下。两周前(7月8日),她拖着火柱呼啸升空,她的最后一次发射升空吸引了100万观众。但周四(7月21日),“阿特兰蒂斯”号航天飞机在500万英里旅程结束时默默返回着陆,人类太空飞行史上的30年非凡冒险缓缓落幕。凌晨5点57分(英国夏令时上午10点57分),当这架航天飞机及其4名宇航员降落在佛罗里达州佛罗里达肯尼迪航天中心北部边远地区的一条偏僻跑道上时,美国国家航空和航天局的航天飞机时代正式结束。天亮
As the U.S. rule in space for half a century is coming to an end, NASA employees shed tears at the Kennedy Space Center. Two weeks ago (July 8), she was dragging on a pillar of fire and her last launch took in one million viewers. But on Thursday (July 21), the Atlantis space shuttle silently returned to Earth at the end of a 5 million-mile trip, culminating in a 30-year extraordinary adventure in the history of human spaceflight. At 5:57 am (10:57 am UK daylight saving time), when the space shuttle and its four astronauts landed on a secluded runway in a remote northern part of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Florida, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Bureau of Space Shuttle era officially ended. Dawn