in the history of spaceflight only four 在航天史上只有四个
entities have launched a space capsule 实体都推出了太空舱
into orbit and successfully brought it 并成功地把它进入预定轨道，
back to the earth the United States 回到地上来了 美国
Russia China and Elon Musk 俄罗斯中国和伊隆·马斯克
mr. musk is a wealthy internet 先生。麝香是一个富有的互联网
entrepreneur who has vowed to 企业家谁誓言
revolutionize space exploration by 通过革命性的太空探索
bringing down the astronomical costs and 打倒天文成本，
that can't happen fast enough for NASA 不能为NASA 发生的速度不够快
which retired the shuttle last summer 其退役航天飞机去年夏天
and now has to pay its old rival Russia 现在已支付其老对手俄罗斯
to fly American astronauts into space 飞美国宇航员进入太空
musk is one of the contenders vying for 麝香是竞争者争夺的一个
a NASA contract to build America's next 美国航天局的合同，建造美国的未来
man's spacecraft a contest he believes 男人的飞船竞赛，他认为
he has the right stuff to win the story 他有正确的东西来赢得 故事
will continue in a moment 将继续在一个时刻
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when the final shuttle mission ended 当最后的航天飞机任务结束
last July for the first time in three 去年七月在 三个第一次
decades the United States had no way to 几十年来，美国没有办法
launch astronauts into space it was the 发射航天员进入太空这是
end of one ERA 一个时代的终结
and the beginning of another 和初现端倪
instead of NASA designing the next 而不是NASA设计未来
manned spacecraft the White House 载人飞船白宫
decided that private industry should 决定私营行业应
design build and fly it opening space to 设计建造并驾驶它打开空间
commercial development one of the 商业开发的一个
companies vying for that contract is 公司争夺该合同是
SpaceX Elon Musk is the founder and CEO SpaceX公司伊隆·马斯克的创始人和CEO
it's what we are experiencing at this 这是我们在这个经历
moment in time the turning point in 时刻的转折点
man's reach for space going from 男人的触角从空间去
governments to private companies like 政府如私人公司
yours I think we're at the dawn of a new 你我认为我们正处在一个新的曙光
era and and it's it's I think it's gonna 时代和它的这是我认为这是要去
be very exciting what we're hoping to do 是非常令人兴奋的就是我们希望做
with SpaceX is to push the envelope and 与SpaceX公司是推动信封，
provide a reason for people to be 提供理由的人是
excited and aspire to be human musk is 兴奋和渴望成为人类麝香
40 years old a naturalized American 40 岁的入籍美国
citizen and reportedly worth nearly two 公民，据说价值近两
billion dollars he isn't your typical 十亿美元，他是不是你的典型
corporate CEO as a teenager he wrote 企业的CEO，他写了一少年
computer games in his native South 电脑游戏在他的家乡南
Africa before immigrating to the US and 非洲移民美国前，
to Silicon Valley where he was one of 硅谷在那里他是一个
the most successful internet 最成功的互联网
entrepreneurs the co-founder of PayPal 企业家贝宝的联合创始人
ladies and gentlemen mr. Elon Musk 女士们，先生们先生。伊隆·马斯克
despite a chorus of skeptics musk built 尽管建怀疑论者麝香的合唱
a car company called Tesla that turns 一个叫特斯拉汽车公司转
out 5000 high-end all-electric cars a 出5000高端全电动车
year 年
another musk company sells solar power 另一种麝香公司销售太阳能发电
systems but his lifelong passion is 系统，但他毕生的激情
space and when eBay bought PayPal in 空间，当eBay的贝宝买的
2002 musk started looking for ways to 2002年开始麝香寻找各种方法来
launch his new fortune into orbit I went 推出他的新财富送入轨道我去
to Russia to look at buying a 俄罗斯看购买
refurbished ICBM which is a very trippy 翻新洲际导弹这是一个非常迷幻
experience it was very bizarre and when 体验这是非常奇怪的，当
I tell people that I feel like what musk 我告诉人们，我觉得像什么麝香
made three trips to Russia trying to buy 做三次到俄罗斯试图购买
an intercontinental ballistic missile 洲际弹道导弹
called the knepper his plan was bizarre 叫珀他的计划是怪异
put a greenhouse on the rocket landed on 把温室对火箭登陆
Mars and bean packed the pictures don't 火星和豆包装的图片不
get people really excited and that would 让人们很兴奋，并且会
recharge human space exploration that 充值人类太空探索的是
was my original idea you just wanted to 你只是想是我原来的想法
get people interested in space I guess 激起人们的兴趣空间，我猜
capture the imagination yes that would 捕捉到的想象力是会
those that it turns out the knepper was 那些原来的珀是
so expensive his idea never flew 如此昂贵的他的想法永远飞
so musk decided that the only way to get 所以麝香决定， 只有这样，才能
an affordable rocket was to build it 实惠的火箭是建立它
himself and he started SpaceX I thought 自己和他开始SpaceX公司我想
to be coming into the rocket business 要进入火箭业务
you're not knowing anything about 你不知道任何事情
rockets not having ever built anything I 火箭没有我有史以来什么
mean I would have to be insane if I 意思是我会，如果我要疯了
thought the odds are in my favor 以为机会是对我有利
why even began when something is 为什么即使开始时是什么
important enough you do it even though 足够重要，你做它，即使
it's not in your favor how much of your 这不是对你有利多少你
personal fortune have you poured into 个人财富有你倒入
this 这个
one hundred million dollars a hundred 亿美元的 百
million dollars into something that you 百万美元到的东西， 你
did not believe would work at the 不相信会在工作
beginning yes must truly believes that 开始是必须真正相信
low cost space exploration is essential 低成本太空探索是必要的
to the survival of mankind I think it's 到人类的生存，我认为这是
important that humanity become a 重要的是，人类成为
multi-planet species I think most people 多品种的星球我想大多数人
would agree that a future where we're a 会同意，在未来，我们是一个
spacefaring civilization is inspiring 航天文明是鼓舞人心
and exciting compared with one where we 和令人兴奋的一个比较，我们
are forever confined to earth until some 永远局限在地，直到一些
eventual extinction event that that's 最终灭绝事件这
really why I started SpaceX SpaceX is 真的，为什么我一开始SpaceX的SpaceX公司是
housed in a sprawling factory near Los 坐落在洛杉矶附近的一个庞大的工厂
Angeles where 洛杉矶地方
fuselages for Boeing 747s used to be 波音747机身曾经是
built from its beginning ten years ago 从十年前 的初建
its goal has been revolutionary change 它的目标是革命性的变化
in rocket and spacecraft manufacturing 在火箭和航天器制造
now tell me what's that big piece right 现在告诉我那是什么大片权
up there that's the second stage of a 在那里这是一个第二阶段
falcon 9 rocket instead of multiple 猎鹰9火箭而不是多个
companies building parts all across the 公司建筑部件均跨越
country 国家
SpaceX builds most of its rockets and SpaceX公司建立其大部分火箭和
spacecraft in house based on Musk's 在内部空间飞行器基于麝香的
belief that it's more efficient and 相信它的效率更高，并
lowers costs 1,400 engineers and skilled 降低成本1400级的工程师和技术
technicians work here building engines 技术人员在这里工作的建筑引擎
rockets space capsules creating mostly 火箭太空舱创造大多
from scratch the thousands of components 从头成千上万个部件组成
that are the guts of a rocket so what 这是火箭的胆量等什么
that means is raw metal comes in and 该装置是原料金属进来并且
then we build the engines the airframe 那么我们所建立的发动机机体
the electronics and we integrate all of 电子和我们整合所有的
that together and that's all done more 一起，这一切做得更多
or less under one roof metal comes in 或更少的一个屋檐下金属进来
one end of this factory yeah spaceships 这家工厂的一端是的太空船
come out the other yes final assembly 出来对方是最后组装
takes place at the Cape Canaveral launch 发生在卡纳维拉尔角发射升空
pad if the margins there and we don't 垫是否有边距和我们不
then have margin to the fourth power 再有余量的四次方
that's fine 没关系
musk has college degrees in business and 麝香具有大学本科学历的业务和
physics but SpaceX is his first venture 物理学但SpaceX公司是他的第一次创业
in aerospace he bills himself as chief 在航空航天，他自己开账单的首席
designer and chief technology officer 设计师兼首席技术官
how did you get the expertise to be the 你是如何获得的专业知识是
chief technology officer of a rocket 火箭的首席技术官
ship company um well I do have a physics 船公司以及嗯我有一个物理学
background that's helpful as a 背景是有帮助的
foundation and then I read a lot of 粉底，然后我读了很多
books and talk to a lot of a lot of 书籍和交谈了很多很多的
smart people you're self-taught yeah 聪明的人你是自学成才啊
well I self-taught yes meaning um I 好，我自学的意思是我庵
didn't I don't have an aerospace degree 没有，我没有一个航天度
so how did you go about acquiring the 所以你怎么去获取
knowledge well I like said I read a lot 知识以及我喜欢说我读了很多
of books talk to a lot of people and 书谈了很多人，
have a great team his team is a mixture 有一个伟大的球队， 他的球队是一种混合物
there are newcomers mostly 30-something 有新人大多是30多岁
engineers some of them straight out of 工程师其中一些直 出
college and then there are the skilled 大学再有熟练的技术
technicians and aerospace veterans 技术人员和航天老兵
former NASA astronaut Garrett Riesman 前美国宇航局宇航员加勒特里斯曼
spent three months aboard the space 花了三个月乘坐空间
station and flew on one of the final 站飞去对最终的一个
shuttle missions 航天飞机飞行任务
was brought in to help oversee the 被带来帮助监督
companies man's space work you know I'm 公司人的空间工作，你知道我
curious you have so much background in 好奇的你有这么多的背景
engineering you could have easily gotten 工程，你可以很容易地得到
a job at Boeing or at Lockheed but you 在波音或洛克希德但你一份工作
came here if you had a chance to go back 来到这里，如果你有机会回去
in time and work with Howard Hughes when 在时间和工作与霍华德·休斯时
he was creating TWA if he had a chance 他创造TWA， 如果他有机会
to be there at that moment when it was 在那里，在那一刻，当它是
the dawn of a brand-new era wouldn't you 一个崭新时代的黎明不会吧
want to do that I mean that's that's why 要做到这一点我的意思是这是这就是为什么
I'm here and that's why most of the 我在这里，这就是为什么大多数的
engineers we met are here building 我们遇到了工程师在这里建设
spaceships is the chance of a lifetime 飞船是一个千载难逢的好机会
if you reach the point of having a 如果达到具有点
successful manned flight what will you 成功的载人飞行你会
have proven we're not doing it to prove 已经证明我们没有这样做，证明
anything you know we know it can be done 你知道什么，我们知道这是可以做到
we're just trying to do it a little bit 我们只是尝试做 一点点
differently a little bit faster and to 不同得快一点，并
push the push defense a little bit 推则推防守一点点
farther out and then we can all go I 更远的地方，然后我们都可以去我
mean I want to go into space I assume 意思是我想进入的空间，我承担
most people here do as well how many 大多数人在这里做的一样好 多少
want a ride to what four years after 想搭车去什么后四年
starting SpaceX rolled out its first SpaceX公司开始推出了其第一
rocket an unmanned booster called the 火箭的助推器无人叫
Falcon one that has cleared the tower 猎鹰一个已清除了塔
but the first three test flights failed 但前三试飞失败
to reach orbit we are hearing from the 到达我们从听到轨道
launch control center that there has 发射控制中心，有有
been an anomaly on the vehicle when you 一直对车辆异常时，
had that third failure in a row did you 有这样的连续第三次失败没有你
think I need to pack this in ever why 想我需要在不断为什么这个包
not 不
I don't ever give up 我从来没有放弃
I mean I'd have to be dead or completely 我的意思是我就得死或完全
incapacitated it turned out that the 无行为能力的事实证明了
third failure was caused by a two-second 第三故障是由两秒引起
glitch in the timing eight weeks later 毛刺在定时8周后
must bet the company on another flight 必须赌公司对其他航班
this time around everything worked 周围的一切此时工作
perfect if that poor Forge hadn't work 完美的，如果那个可怜的锻造已经无法正常工作
that would have been it we would have 那会是它我们就
not had the resources to the amount of 不是有资源量
faith you couldn't have gone on at that 信仰你不可能在那个上了
point 点
yes death would have been I think 是的死亡本来我想
inevitable because we did not have the 不可避免的，因为我们没有足够的
resources to to mount a path launch this 资源要挂载的路径启动此
is a tricky business tricky yeah yeah I 是一个棘手的问题棘手，耶，耶我
wish it wasn't so hard 希望这不是那么难
in 2010 SpaceX tested a larger more 在2010年SpaceX的测试更大更
powerful nine engine rocket called the 功能强大的9分引擎的火箭叫
Falcon nine and an unmanned cargo 猎鹰九无人驾驶货运
capsule known as Dragon it was the first 胶囊称为龙它是第
privately developed rocket designed to 自行开发的火箭设计的
carry cargo and eventually astronauts to 运载货物并最终宇航员
the space station and back ignition 空间站和背部点火
confirmed 3.2 comix per second in its 每秒3.2证实在齐心其
first test flight the Dragon capsule 首次试飞龙胶囊
performed flawlessly orbiting the Earth 表现堪称完美绕 地球 轨道运行
twice before splashdown in the Pacific 在太平洋溅落前两次
the first time a private company had 第一次的私营公司有
launched and recovered its own 发射并回收了自己
spacecraft and this is a historic 飞船，这是一个历史性的
spacecraft yeah we came across the 飞船是的，我们遇到了
Dragon capsule while musk was showing us 龙胶囊而麝香为我们展示
around you know what I noticed about 围绕你知道我注意到了有关
your cargo ship is that it has windows 你的货船是， 它有窗户
yeah absolutely the windows are there in 是的绝对窗户都在那里
case there's an asteroid on board he 情况下， 有一个小行星他在船上
wants to look out but people don't put 想要看出来，但人们不把
windows in cargo ship that's right 在货船的窗户这是正确的
exactly what that tells me is that this 到底是什么，告诉我是这
was never intended to be only a garbage 从来没有打算只是一个垃圾
no the dragon was always designed to 没有龙总是设计成
carry astronauts must says a manned 携带宇航员必须说，载人
version of the Dragon capsule will be 龙胶囊的版本将是
safer than the space shuttle and a lot 比航天飞机安全多了
cheaper engineers are already designing 便宜的工程师已经设计
escape rockets life-support equipment 逃离火箭生命支持设备
and computer guidance systems they were 和电脑导航系统，他们
studying seating for seven when 学习座位七时
over there do you believe that your 在那里你相信你的
rocket will be the next American rocket 火箭将是未来美国火箭
to take an astronaut into space I 把宇航员送入太空我
believe that's the most likely outcome 相信这是最有可能的结果
yes that sort of confidence has not 是那样的自信也没有
exactly endeared him to the space 正是爱戴他 的空间
establishment or to his competitors 建立或他的竞争对手
there are people who have been in the 还有谁一直 在 人
rocketry business for decades yeah who 火箭经营数十年呀谁
say about you that you don't know what 说你，你不知道是什么
you don't know well I suppose that's 你不知道的好，我想这是
true of anyone how can anyone know what 任何人的真正 怎么知道是什么
they don't know critics say you can't do 他们不知道批评者说，你不能这样做
this your answer to them is we've done 这个答案对他们是我们所做的
it he's done it in partnership with NASA 它他做了它 的合作伙伴关系与NASA
which has given SpaceX technical advice 这给了SpaceX公司的技术咨询
and a contract worth up to 1.6 billion 和合同价值高达1.6十亿
dollars 美元
mostly for 12 cargo flights to the space 多为12个货运航班的空间
station but SpaceX's lack of experience 站，但SpaceX公司缺乏经验
bothers some NASA legends like Apollo 困扰美国航空航天局的一些 传说像阿波罗
astronauts Neil Armstrong and Gene 宇航员尼尔·阿姆斯特朗和基因
Cernan they've testified to Congress 塞尔南他们已经在国会作证
that the Obama administration's drive to 奥巴马政府的驱动器
commercialize space could compromise 商业化的空间可能会危及
safety and eventually cost the taxpayers 安全性和最终花费纳税人
now it's a time to overrule this 现在这是一个时间来否决这个
administration's pledge to mediocrity 政府的承诺，平庸
you know there are American heroes who 你知道有美国英雄谁
don't like this idea the alarm strong 不喜欢这个主意报警强
gene cernan have both testified against 基因塞尔南兼得作证反对
commercial spaceflight in the way that 在路上的商业太空飞行是
you're developing it and I wonder what 你正在开发它， 我不知道是什么
you think of that I was very sad to see 你想到的，我很遗憾地看到
that because those guys are yeah you 因为那些家伙是你呀
know but those guys are heroes of mine 知道，但那些家伙都是我的英雄
so it's really tough you know I wish 所以这是非常艰难的，你知道我想
they would come and visit and see the 他们会来参观，看到了
hardware that we're doing here and I 我们在这里所做的硬件和我
think that would change them like they 认为这将改变他们就像他们
inspired you to do this didn't they yes 促使你这样做难道他们是
and to see them casting stones in your 并看到他们铸造的石头在你的
direction 方向
difficult 难
did you expect them to cheer you on so 你希望他们给你带来欢乐就这么
they hoping it would what are you trying 他们希望这将你到底
to prove to them what I'm trying to do 向他们证明什么，我试图做
is to make a significant difference in 是让在显著差异
in spaceflight and and and help make 在航天，以及并帮助
spaceflight accessible to to almost 航天接触到几乎
anyone and I would vote for as much 任何人，我会投票支持尽可能多的
support in that direction as we as we 支持这一方向的 ，因为我们，因为我们
can receive President Obama made his 可以收到奥巴马总统做了他
support clear when he visited SpaceX's 支持明显，当他参观了SpaceX公司
launch site 发射场
just before Falcon 9's first test flight 之前猎鹰9号的首次试飞
as this animation shows Elon Musk's next 因为这动画显示伊隆·马斯克的未来
flight will be far more ambitious carry 飞行将是更为雄心勃勃的套利
and cargo all the way to the space 和货运一路空间
station it was scheduled to fly in 站就定于飞
February but it's taken longer than 二月但它采取长于
expected to perfect the flight software 预计完美的飞行软件
the flight will be a complicated 飞行将是一个复杂的
rendezvous with a space station that is 会合与空间站即
moving 17,000 miles an hour 240 miles 移动17000英里小时240英里
above the earth okay so it looks like 上述好了，所以它看起来像地球
our burn performance is nominal in the 我们燃烧性能标称
SpaceX mission control flight SpaceX的任务控制飞行
simulations are continuing and if all 仿真继续，如果所有
goes well SpaceX will begin routine 顺利的话SpaceX公司将开始常规
Space Station cargo deliveries later 空间站运送货物后
this year but the big prize 但今年的大奖
is winning the NASA contract to build 在赢得了美国航空航天局建造合同
America's next manned spacecraft and 美国未来载人航天器和
Elon Musk is facing stiff competition 伊隆·马斯克正面临着激烈的竞争
I'm probably not the guy that most 我可能不是家伙，最
people would bet on wins it's like a 人们会在胜打赌它就像一个
little kid fighting a bunch of sumo 小孩子打架一堆相扑
wrestlers usually the sumo wrestlers win 摔跤手通常是相扑选手夺冠
we're a little scrappy company every now 我们有点零碎的公司现在每
and again no scrappy company wins and 又一次没有斗志旺盛的公司胜
III think this will be one of those III认为这将是其中之一
times 时