丹麦发明家自制载人火箭本月底试射

　　To achieve human being’s dream to visit out space in the future, Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen, two Danish creators, have sucessfully made the world’s first amateur-built rocket capable of manned space flight.

　　为完成人类未来登上太空的梦想，两名丹麦发明家，克里斯蒂安·冯·本特森和彼得·马德森近日成功自制了全球第一架载人火箭。

　　Von Bengtson and Madsen are the leaders of Copenhagen Suborbitals. Both of them are engineers, and the latter used to work for NASA. But their rocket project didn’t receive government funding; instead they built on a budget of about $63,000 brought in by donation.

　　冯·本特森和马德森都是工程师，他们俩同时又是哥本哈根“亚轨道”组织的领导者，马德森还曾经在美国航空航天局工作。但是此次火箭制造没有获得政府一分钱的资助，所用的6万3千美元费用完全来自捐赠。

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　　If everything goes as planned, the 9 metre-high rocket will burn through its fuel of liquid oxygen and solid rubber in about 60 seconds to propel the craft at 1,250mph to a height of more than 100km where it will experience weightlessness for about five minutes before drifting back to the Baltic sea slowed by a parachute.

　　这架自制火箭高约9米，主要以液态氧气和固体橡胶作为燃料。如果一切进展顺利，燃料燃烧60秒后将产生巨大能量推动飞船以1250英里每小时的速度向上飞行，飞到超过100公里的地方。在那里飞行员将会处于5分钟的失重状态，然后飞船将使用拖曳的减速伞逐渐减速，最后溅落在波罗的海上。