Age of Space

Although decades behind Russia and the United States , China has now put astronauts in orbit and has ambitious plans to join - or even lead - a new age of space exploration .

尽管落后于俄罗斯和美国几十年，中国现在已将宇航员送入太空轨道，并制定了雄心勃勃的计划进入太空探索的新时代，甚至要在其中发挥领导作用。

Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution , the first waves of modern invention , and the first wave of nuclear power , and this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space .

我们的前辈让这个国家掀起了工业革命的第一波浪潮、现代发明的第一波浪潮、核动力的第一波浪潮、核动力的第一波浪潮，而我们这一代并不打算在即将到来的太空时代的浪潮中倒下。

Since the beginning of the space age , the cost of space flight hasn 't changed much , and that 's because there hasn 't been enough flights to force the cost down .

太空时代以来，太空飞行费用并没有改变多少，那是因为没有足够的航班迫使成本降低。