第一批私人客户将上太空？
A crew of private astronauts will pay around $55 million each to spend about eight days at the International Space Station next January in what would be a new step for joint private-public space missions.
明年1月，一组私人宇航员将每人支付约5500万美元，在国际空间站呆上8天左右，这将是公私合作太空任务的新举措。
Axiom Space, a Houston company, says the trip will be led by former NASA astronaut and space station commander Michael López-Alegría.
休斯顿的公理太空公司说，这次旅行将由前美国宇航局宇航员和空间站指挥官迈克尔·洛佩兹-阿勒格瑞亚领导。
The proposed Ax-1 mission will use a SpaceX rocket to put three paying customers — American Larry Connor, Canadian Mark Pathy and Israeli Eytan Stibbe – into low-Earth orbit on the space station.
Ax-1计划将使用SpaceX火箭将三位付费用户——美国人拉里·康纳、加拿大人马克·帕西和以色列人埃坦·斯提比——送入近地轨道的空间站。
All of the trio are wealthy entrepreneurs and investors. The group will be under the command of López-Alegría, who is now an executive at Axiom.
这三人都是富有的企业家和投资者。该小组将由洛佩兹-阿勒格瑞亚领导，他现在是公理公司的一名高管。
It would be the first time an entirely private mission sends astronauts to the International Space Station.
这将是第一次完全由私人完成的将宇航员送上国际空间站的任务。
Russia sold the first ride to the station to a private citizen, American businessman Dennis Tito, in 2001.
俄罗斯在2001年将第一趟太空旅程的票卖给了普通公民，美国商人丹尼斯·蒂托。
All of the private astronauts for the upcoming mission are far older than the average NASA astronaut's age of 34.
所有参加这次任务的私人宇航员的年龄都远远超过美国宇航局宇航员的平均年龄34岁。
The space agency does not have age restrictions for astronaut candidates, who generally range from 26 to 46 years old.
航天局对宇航员候选人没有年龄限制，但一般都在26岁到46岁之间。
At 70, Connor is surpassed in age only by John Glenn, who flew on the space shuttle when he was 77.
70岁的康纳在年龄上仅次于77岁时乘坐航天飞机的约翰·格伦。
Under NASA's rules for private astronaut missions, Axiom must ensure its astronauts meet the space agency's medical standards.
根据美国宇航局关于私人宇航员任务的规定，公理公司必须确保其宇航员达到太空总署的医疗标准。
They must also undergo training and certification procedures required for crew members of the International Space Station.
他们还必须接受国际空间站工作人员所需的培训和认证程序。
While the paying customers represent a new era of space tourism, they will also perform research as the space station whizzes over the Earth.
虽然这些付费用户代表了太空旅游的新时代，但他们也将在空间站掠过地球时进行研究。
Connor will work with the Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic on research projects, Axiom says, while Pathy will collaborate with the Canadian Space Agency and the Montreal Children's Hospital.
公理公司说，康纳将与梅奥诊所和克利夫兰诊所在研究项目上合作，而帕西将与加拿大航天局和蒙特利尔儿童医院合作。
Stibbe plans to do experiments for Israeli researchers, working with the Ramon Foundation and Israel's space agency.
史蒂伯计划与拉蒙基金会和以色列航天局合作，为以色列研究人员做实验。
"We sought to put together a crew for this historic mission that had demonstrated a lifelong commitment to improving the lives of the people on Earth, and I'm glad to say we've done that with this group," Axiom Space President and CEO Michael Suffredini said as the company announced the crew.
“我们试图为这一历史使命招募一组船员,该任务一直致力于改善人类在地球上的生活,我很高兴地说我们跟我们的这一组船员已经做到了”,公理空间总裁兼首席执行官迈克尔·苏弗雷迪尼说,该公司宣布了船员名单。
Similar missions are planned for the future, Suffredini said. Axiom hopes to arrange up to two trips per year — and the company also wants to build its own privately funded space station.
苏弗雷迪尼说，未来也计划进行类似的任务。公理希望每年能安排两次太空旅行，而且该公司还希望建立自己的私人资助空间站。
Under that plan, its modules would be attached to the space station as soon as 2024.
根据该计划，它的模块最早将于2024年与空间站相连。
And when the space station is retired, the Axiom modules would break off to continue in orbit on their own.
当空间站退役后，“公理”太空舱将脱离空间站继续在轨道上运行。
NASA announced its plans to open the International Space Station to commercial activities in June 2019, saying it wants businesses to use innovation and ingenuity to speed up development of "a thriving commercial economy in low-Earth orbit."
美国宇航局于2019年6月宣布了向商业活动开放国际空间站的计划，称希望企业利用创新和聪明，加快“近地轨道繁荣商业经济”的发展。
The space agency has a plan to recoup the steep costs of a private citizen visiting the space station.
美国宇航局有一项计划来补偿普通公民访问空间站的高昂费用。
Its pricing policy lists expenses such as a daily fee of $11,250 per person for "regenerative life support and toilet" and $22,500 per person for crew supplies such as food and air.
它的定价政策列出了一些费用，比如每人每天11250美元的“再生生命支持和卫生间”费用，以及每人22500美元的机组人员用品(如食物和空气)费用。
The price sheet also includes a data plan, priced at $50 per gigabyte.
价格表还包括一项数据套餐，价格为每GB 50美元。
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