CNN News: “宇宙飛船二號”在美國完成首次試飛

What is the oldest state capital in the United States? Richmond, Virginia, Boston, Massachusetts, Sacramento, California, or Santa Fe, New Mexico? Santa Fe was established by the Spanish in 1610 making it the oldest state capital in the country.

美國最古老的州首府是哪里？弗吉亞州里士滿市、馬薩諸塞州波士頓市、加利福尼亞州薩克拉門托市還是新墨西哥州圣達(dá)菲市？圣達(dá)菲市于1960年由西班牙人建立，是美國最古老的州首府。

The state of New Mexico is also home to Spaceport America. A takeoff and landing site for spacecraft that opened in 2011. The facility has seen its share of delays, setbacks and criticism since then. Its $220 million cost has been funded by taxpayers and one of the main reasons for building it was to accommodate space tourism and that hasn't taken off yet. This is now one of several spaceports that have been built in the United States.

新墨西哥州也是美國太空港的所在地。美國太空港是2011年開放的航天器起降基地。從那時起，該設(shè)施遭遇了延誤、挫折和批評。太空港耗資2.2億美元，由納稅人出資，建設(shè)其的主要原因之一是為太空旅游服務(wù)，而這目前尚未實(shí)現(xiàn)。這是目前美國建造的數(shù)個太空港之一。
Critics say there are now more of these facilities than there is business for them. But there was a successful test flight at Spaceport America last week. Virgin Galactic, which is the main tenant there, completed an unpowered flight of its SpaceShipTwo vehicle. And that was seen as another step towards space tourism.

批評人士表示，現(xiàn)在這些設(shè)施的數(shù)量已經(jīng)超過了其業(yè)務(wù)量。但上周，一次試飛在美國太空港成功進(jìn)行。太空港的主要承租方維珍銀河公司完成了其“宇宙飛船二號”飛行器的無動力飛行測試。這被視為向太空旅游邁出的又一步。