英语翻译Many people will remember the flight of the space shuttle (航天飞机) Challenger,in June,1993.The achievement of Sally Ride,America’s first woman astronaut to fly into space,made this flight especially memorable.Students from two Cam

英语翻译Many people will remember the flight of the space shuttle (航天飞机) Challenger,in June,1993.The achievement of Sally Ride,America’s first woman astronaut to fly into space,made this flight especially memorable.Students from two Cam
英语翻译
Many people will remember the flight of the space shuttle (航天飞机) Challenger,in June,1993.The achievement of Sally Ride,America’s first woman astronaut to fly into space,made this flight especially memorable.Students from two Camden,New Jersey,high schools,however,are probably to remember Norma rather than Sally whenever they think about the flight.
Norma didn’t travel alone.She brought about 100 companions along with her.Norma was an ant,a queen ant who,with her subject,made up the first ant colony (群体) to travel into space.The ants were part of a science experiment designed by students to test the effects of weightlessness on insects.
The equipment designed by the students for their colony functioned perfectly throughout the long space trip.The young scientists and their teachers were very sad to find that their insect astronauts had all died at some point before the container was returned to the school and opened.The problem didn’t occur in space,but on the ground after challenger had landed.The container remained in the desert for nearly a week before the ant colony was moved.The hot,dry desert air dried out the colony’s container and the ants died from lack of moisture (水分).
The project was termed success because it did provide useful information.Students will continue their efforts to pinpoint (精确找到) what went wrong.They will try to prevent the same difficulties from reoccurring on future missions.They don’t want to be discouraged either by the demise of the ants or by the $10,000 shuttle fare they will have to pay to send the next colony of ants into space.

英语翻译Many people will remember the flight of the space shuttle (航天飞机) Challenger,in June,1993.The achievement of Sally Ride,America’s first woman astronaut to fly into space,made this flight especially memorable.Students from two Cam
很多人会记得1993年6月挑战者号航天飞机飞行的事情.作为美国首个进入太空的宇航员,萨莉•瑞德的这一成功,使得这次飞行特别具有纪念意义.但是,来自新泽西州卡姆登的两个高中学生想起这次飞行时,更可能会记起诺玛,而不是萨莉.
诺玛不是一个人旅行.与她同行的还有大约100名同伴.诺玛是一只蚂蚁,这位蚁后和她的臣民成了在太空旅行的首个蚁群.这些蚂蚁是学生设计的科学实验的一部分,学生是为了试验失重对昆虫的影响.
学生为蚁群设计的设备在整个长途太空之旅期间完美运行.不过,年轻的科学家和他们的老师非常遗憾地发现,昆虫宇航员早在容器回到学校并且被打开之前的某个时候已经全部牺牲了.可是问题不是出在太空中,而是在挑战者号着陆之后的地面上.在搬动蚁群之前,容器在沙漠里面搁了将近一周.干燥而又炎热的沙漠空气烘干了装蚁群的容器,蚂蚁们缺水而死.
不过人们还是认为项目成功了,因为它的确提供了有用的信息.学生将继续努力,确定问题之所在.他们会尽力防止将来发生同样的问题.他们不希望因为蚂蚁的死或者为了将下一批蚁群送入太空而必须支付的10,000美元航天飞机旅费而失去信心.