俄罗斯的和平号空间站在轨运行15年,完成了它的历史使命;国际空间站目前正在组装。它们既是人类从事科学研究的空间实验室,远途空间飞行的中转站,同时也是人类在太空中生活的家。空间站与我们在地球上的家园大相径庭,由于所处的太空环境所致,使得空间站设计得像一件现代艺术作品,它与我们所想像的“家”相去甚远。地球上的家,为我们遮风避雨,而环绕在地球轨道上的房子却要为我们遮挡太阳风,还要经得起 Russia’s Mir station has been on orbit for 15 years and completed its historic mission; the ISS is currently being assembled. They are not only space laboratories for human beings engaged in scientific research, transit stations for long-distance space flights, but also homes for humankind’s life in space. Space station and our home on Earth are very different, because of the space environment, making the space station designed like a modern art, it and we imagine the “home” a long way. Homes on Earth shelter us from rain while houses around orbiting Earth have to shield us from the solar wind,