印度飞船进入火星轨道,领先亚洲
India wins Asia's Marsrace as spacecraft enters orbit
印度飞船进入火星轨道,领先亚洲India won Asia's race to Mars on Wednesdaywhen its unmanned Mangalyaan spacecraft successfully entered the Red Planet'sorbit after a 10-month journey on a tiny budget
经过10个月飞行后,周三,印度小预算的飞船进入了火星轨道,领先亚洲。Scientists at mission control let up a wildcheer as the gold-coloured craft manoeuvred into the planet's orbit at 8:02am(0232 GMT) following a 660-million kilometre (410-million mile) voyage.
在经历了66000万公里的飞行后,这艘金色的飞船进入了火星轨道,控制中心的科学家们欢呼雀跃。
"History has been created. We havedared to reach out into the unknown and have achieved the nearimpossible," a jubilant Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the IndianSpace Research Organisation's (ISRO) base near Bangalore.
“我们创造了历史。我们勇于深入未知并创造了不可能,”总理莫迪在班加罗尔附近的印度空间研究组织里开心的说道。"The success of our space programme isa shining symbol of what we are capable of as a nation," Modi said,grinning broadly and hugging the ISRO's chairman.
“空间项目的成功证明了印度作为一个国家所具备的能力,”莫迪说,他笑着并拥抱了该机构的主席。India has been trying to keep up withneighbouring giant China, which has poured billions of dollars into itsprogramme and plans to build a manned space station by the end of the decade.
印度一直在追赶邻国中国,中国花费巨资发展的自己的空间项目,并且计划在未来几年建成载人空间站。