CNN News:奋进号航天飞机内部构造曝光

Endeavour carried its first crew into space in May of 1992, and it made its final journey almost exactly 19 years later, coming in for its last landing last year. All of NASA`s space shuttles have been retired now. They`re going to be displayed at different museums around the country. But before that, John Zarrella got the chance to go inside a shuttle.

奋进号飞船于1992年五月第一次载人航天，19年后使命完成光荣退役，去年奋进号成功着陆。如今NASA所有航天飞机都已宣布退役，并被收藏在不同博物馆里。在送往博物馆之前，John Zarrella有幸得到了进入飞机内部。

Encased in steel scaffolding, you can`t see much of the shuttle Endeavour from the outside. A bit of the nose, of course, the underbelly with all those thousands of heat shielding tiles. The engines are gone. But you know what they say. It`s what`s on the inside that counts. And that`s where we went for a rare look.

由于整个飞机外部都包裹着刚脚手架，所以很难看清奋进号外貌。隐约可以看到头部一点特征，还有下面成千上万片防热瓦，发动机虽然没有了，但是工作人员告诉我，里面更有值得 参观的设施。

It`s bigger than a breadbox, but not much.

里面跟面包箱差不多大，稍微大一点儿。

Not much.

差不多大。

On launch days, Travis Thompson was the closeout crew lead. He got 100 shuttle crews in and ready to fly.

在发射的当天，Travis Thompson是当天宇航员负责人。那天他召集了100名宇航员等待进入太空。

This is their living quarters, you know, we`re in the middeck now, flight deck`s above us. So middeck`s where they eat, sleep, potty, you know, do their normal --

这是他们生活区，现在我们是在船舱中部，驾驶舱在我们上面。他们在这里吃饭，睡觉，上厕所。

And you could have five, six, seven people down here all at once.

这里可以同时容纳五六七个人。

Definitely. And there`s not as much equipment in here now as there would be on launch days. So, I mean, there would be lockers out to here about 18 inches.

当然，因为这里没有当时发射准备的设备，所以就比之前宽松了大约18英寸。

To sleep, the astronauts would literally hang in sleeping bags against the wall, like a caterpillar in a cocoon. Now if you think this is a tight squeeze --

睡觉的时候宇航员就把自己装进挂在墙上的袋子里，就像还没破茧的毛毛虫。如果你认为这样极度拥挤的话——

This is the airlock that leads to the cargo bay -- cargo bay right there. Imagine the astronauts in their full space suits, suited up and ready to exit right out here into the cargo bay.

这是通向太空梭酬载舱的气阀，这里就是太空梭酬载舱。想象宇航员穿着他们的太空服。正准备进入太空梭酬载舱。

It`s absolutely massive, and it`s all controlled from up here, the flight deck.

当然这是非常艰巨的任务，所有这些控制都来自驾驶舱。

I`m sitting over here in the commander`s seat, and on, of course, the final flight, this is where Mark Kelly sat on liftoff and when he brought her in for that final landing.

我现在坐在机长的位置，在最后一次飞行中Mark Kelly就坐在这里升空的。

There`s still months of work before Endeavour`s ready to be shipped to its permanent museum, the California Science Center in Los Angeles.

位于洛杉矶的加利福尼亚科学研究所称，在奋进号准备收藏进博物馆之前还是有数月的准备工作要做。

The thing that we`ve been trying to focus on is how fortunate we are to continue to work with these vehicles until the very end. There`s a lot of our coworkers and friends that didn`t get that opportunity. So there`s a small group of us that have been very fortunate to be a part of this. And we`re shuttle-huggers. We`re holding on to the very end.

我们对接收奋进号退役感到非常荣幸。我们很多同事和朋友都没有这样的机会，这让我们很高兴。我们也是航天飞机的守护者，我们会将这一任务圆满漂亮的完成，并坚持到底。

The end should come by the fall. All three vehicles -- Endeavour, Atlantis and Discovery -- will be gone by then -- John Zarrella, CNN, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

整个准备工作进程预计秋天结束，届时奋进号，亚特兰提斯号和发现者号均将被收藏到博物馆。CNN记者John Zarrella在佛罗里达肯尼迪航天中心为您报道。