The triumph and tragedy of space flight, manned and unmanned, have been on full view over the past year. The tragedy occurred on the inner fringe of space with the crash of SpaceShipTwo, Richard Branson’s space tourism vehicle, at the end of October. The most notable triumph was the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission which first achieved a rendezvous with a comet half a billion kilometres from Earth and then landed a robotic probe on the comet’s surface, in an operation that caught the public imagination the world over.
過去一年，公衆目睹了載人和無人太空飛行的勝利與悲劇。悲劇發生在近地太空，理查•布蘭森(Richard Branson)的太空旅行太空船「太空船2號」(SpaceShipTwo)在10月底墜毀。最引人注目的勝利歸屬歐洲太空總署(European Space Agency)的羅塞塔號(Rosetta)，它首次與一顆距離地球5億公里的彗星實現會合，然後它的機器人探測器在彗星表面著陸，這次行動引發了全世界人民的無限遐想。
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