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From the earth to the moon《从地球到月球》精讲之二
[ 2007-10-29 15:05 ]

 

影片对白  Man has traversed the reaches of outer space, and that man is a Communist.

文化面面观   Apollo 1 阿波罗一号灾难纪实

 

Cause

The fire is believed to have been caused by a spark somewhere in the capsule's 50 km (31 miles) of wiring. Due to the pure oxygen inside the capsule (which was at a pressure of 15 psi or 100 kPa), the fire was quickly out of control. The Apollo 204 Review Board determined that a silver-plated copper wire running through an environmental control unit near the command module pilot's couch had become stripped of its teflon insulation and abraded by repeated opening and closing of an associated access door. This weak point in the wiring also happened to pass near a junction in an ethylene glycol/water cooling line, which had developed a leak. The electrolysis of ethylene glycol solution with the anode made of silver resulted in a violent exothermic reaction that ignited the ethylene glycol mixture, which in turn was able to burn in the atmosphere of pure pressurized oxygen. A similar March 1961 incident had previously claimed the life of Soviet cosmonaut trainee Valentin Bondarenko when a fire started in the pure oxygen atmosphere in the isolation chamber he had been occupying, a calamity the USSR had, for years, concealed from the public. The NASA investigation found that a bar of aluminum can burn like wood in a pure oxygen atmosphere. It also found substandard wiring in the craft and a missing socket wrench that was ruled out as the fire's cause. Many items on board were flammable, and flammable Velcro had been applied to the walls of the craft to secure items in weightless conditions.

Memorial

 
Mission insignia 

While Launch Complex 34 has been essentially dismantled, the concrete and steel-reinforced launch platform remains at the site. The launch platform is located at 28.52182° N 80.561258° W. The platform bears two plaques for the 3 men who died.

Three stars, Navi, Dnoces and Regor were named in honor of the crew. The names are "Ivan", "Second" and "Roger" spelled backwards. Ivan was Grissom's middle name and White was Edward H. White the Second. The crew used the stars to calibrate their equipment and, as a practical joke, recorded the names in official NASA documentation. The names eventually stuck as a posthumous honor.

In addition, craters on the Moon and hills on Mars are named after the three astronauts.

Three public schools in Huntsville, Alabama, home of George C. Marshall Space Flight Center and the United States Space and Rocket Center, are named for the Apollo 1 crew. They are Virgil Grissom High School, Ed White Middle School, and Roger Chaffee Elementary School.

Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee were both buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Ed White was buried at the cemetery at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. Their names are also enshrined together on the Astronaut Memorial at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Merritt Island, Florida.

考考你

用今日所学将下面的句子译成英语。

1. 离开之前你得把房间收拾好。

2. 你在给谁打电话?

3. 我非常明白你话的意思。

From the earth to the moon《从地球到月球》精讲之一 考考你 参考答案

1. 简向宴会组织者要了一份和摩根夫妇的婚礼宴会差不多的菜谱。

Jane asked the caterer for a menu along the lines of the Morgans' wedding reception.

2. 我不确定。应该在1933到1936年之间吧。

I’m not sure. Somewhere between 1933 and 1936.

3. 不久的将来我们就会有辆车了。

We’ll have a car in the immediate future.

 

影片对白  Man has traversed the reaches of outer space, and that man is a Communist.

文化面面观   Apollo 1 阿波罗一号灾难纪实

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