These are actually serious-if audacious-ideas for launch systems, both of which have been bouncing around since the start of the Space Age.

Back in 1958, at the dawn of the space age, physicist James Van Allen discovered that the Earth is ringed by high-energy charged particles.

回到1958年，在和平岁月的曙光到来之际，物理学家詹姆斯·范·艾伦发现地球周围环绕着高能的带电粒子。

The end of the Space Age

太空时代的结束

T.they find a fairy tale with a special interest because it is set in the space age, which is closer to their situation than a story set in an old castle.

他们发现与特殊利益的一个童话，因为它在空间时代被设置，比在一座老城堡设置的故事是离他们的情况较近。

Strengths, interests, identity were undoubtedly important factors during the early space age, but the Cold War environment played a key role for the success or failure in international space cooperation at that time.

实力、利益、认同的原则无疑是太空时代初期的重要影响因素，但冷战的国际环境对于当时国际太空合作的成败起到了关键性的作用。

The story of Noah's Ark is widely regarded as a myth, but US scientists have come up with a space age scheme to save humanity from extinction.

人们普遍认为“诺亚方舟”的故事只不过是虚构的神话。然而，为了挽救人类免遭灭顶之灾，美国科学家计划打造空间时代的“诺亚方舟”。

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。

Her life spans the tumultuous period surrounding World War II, while her characters in movies span a time period from Sengoku period through a futuristic space age.

藤原千代子的人生跨越了二战那个喧嚣的年代，而她在过去影片里的角色也从战国到未来世界不等。

There is a marvellous sight in Hong Kong which is right, out of the space age. At that time, watching the tidal bore was already a grand occasion in town when the whole population would turn out for the spectacle.

香港有一处奇观，一处太空时代的奇观。那时的观潮节，已是万人空巷的盛会。

But Mr Kim can claim to have brought North Korea into the space age.

然而，金大中表示，此次发射是朝鲜进入太空时代的序曲。

Our space age dreams of off-world colonies on the moon and Mars faded with the cancellation of the Apollo Program and the last trip to the lunar surface in 1972.

我们在月球和火星殖民的太空梦想随着阿波罗计划取消和1972年最后一次去月球表面而最终不了了之。

It is likely that the Space Age is over.

换言之，太空时代即将结束。

The trouble is that, poetics aside, technology could not ultimately fulfil the space age's air? whipped fantasies of cosmic conquest.

问题在于，诗意或是不诗意的暂且搁置一边，技术并不能最终满足太空时代的人们不断增长的征服宇宙的梦想。

Being this near to the spaceship defies belief: it looks more like a contraption from the steam age than the space age.

如此近距离的观察太空飞船，会令人产生一种难以置信的感觉：看上去，它更像是蒸汽时代的产物，而非来自太空时代。

Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas'was wearing a black space age suit as they sung a number of hits.

来自于黑眼豆豆合唱团的菲姬（点此听歌）将身着黑色“太空时代礼服”，为观众们献上热歌几曲。

Back in the1960s, when we landed on the moon, economists emulated the terminology of Space Age navigation.

追溯到六十年代，当时正值登上月球，经济学人效仿‘太空时代导航术语’。

The instrument concept for the Plasma the'Faraday cup'design dates from the beginning of the space age.

等离子体光谱仪的仪器概念为“法拉第筒”式设计，该设计可以追溯到太空时代之初。

Whichever camp wins the day will have to contend with an imaginative universe that is very different from the one we inhabited in the space age.

无论是那个阵营获胜都得面对一个充满了想象力的宇宙，它和我们太空时代的宇宙大为不同。

Yet none of this was the Space Age as envisaged by the enthusiastic "space cadets" who got the whole thing going.

然而没有这些推动太空事业发展的太空学员的满腔热情，太空时代便无法想象。

Visitors to the test events have marvelled at the space age structures but were surprised at the expanses of concrete and lack of greenery.

参与测试活动的人们都对奥运场馆宇宙概念的架构表示惊叹，不过他们也指出混凝土的使用范围太广，场馆中缺乏绿色元素。

Will the profile of our automobiles look like the shape of space age aircraft?

我们汽车的外形看起来像太空时代的飞行器吗？