Elon Musk Reminisces First Failed Launch Of Falcon 1 From 18 Yrs Ago After Historic Polaris Dawn Mission
Elon Musk Reminisces First Failed Launch Of Falcon 1 From 18 Yrs Ago After Historic Polaris Dawn Mission
It has been 18 years since the first Falcon flight of Falcon 1 failed pic.twitter.com/Ha6ynd8crySpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Monday reminisced about the first failed launch attempt of the company's Falcon 1 launch vehicle after the Polaris Dawn crew landed safely back to Earth in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft after conducting the first-ever commercial spacewalk.
spacex(临时代码)首席执行官埃隆·马斯克周一在polaris公司黎明机组安全返回地球后发表了关于公司猎鹰1号运载火箭首次失败发射的回忆，此前这支队伍曾在进行首次商业太空行走后在一艘spacex(临时代码)龙飞船上着陆。
What Happened: "It has been 18 years since the first Falcon flight of Falcon 1 failed," Musk wrote on the social media platform X. The post was accompanied by a photo collage of two images side-by-side.
发生了什么：“猎鹰1号的第一次飞行失败已经过去了18年，”马斯克在社交媒体平台X上写道。这篇发帖配有两幅并排的照片。
While one image shows Musk sitting by the debris from a failed Falcon 1 launch, the other shows an astronaut conducting the first commercial spacewalk as part of the recent Polaris Dawn mission to space.
一幅照片显示了马斯克坐在猎鹰1号失败发射的残骸旁边，另一幅显示了宇航员进行首次商业太空行走的场景，这是最近的polaris公司黎明任务的一部分。
It has been 18 years since the first Falcon flight of Falcon 1 failed pic.twitter.com/Ha6ynd8cry
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 16, 2024
猎鹰1号的首次飞行失败已经过去了18年 pic.twitter.com/Ha6ynd8cry
— 埃隆·马斯克 (@elonmusk) 2024年9月16日
SpaceX attempted its first launch of the Falcon 1 in 2006 which failed. It failed again in March 2007 and then again in August 2008. After three consecutive failures to launch, the team was low on cash but had a spare vehicle. The team worked on it and eventually, the first successful launch came in the second half of 2008— on Sept.28.
spacex(临时代码)于2006年尝试了猎鹰1号的首次发射，但失败了。它于2007年3月再次失败，然后在2008年8月再次失败。在连续三次发射失败后，团队资金紧张，但有一辆备用飞行器。团队对此进行了修复，最终在2008年下半年实现了第一次成功发射—即9月28日。
"If the fourth one had not succeeded, SpaceX would not exist. It was a very close call," Musk previously said about the fourth launch attempt.
“如果第四次发射没有成功，spacex(临时代码)就不会存在了。那是一个非常危急的情况，”马斯克曾经说过关于第四次发射尝试。
Why It Matters: SpaceX has come a long way since.
为什么重要：自那以后，spacex(临时代码)已经取得了长足的进步。
The Musk-led company completed 67 missions using its Falcon launch vehicles as of the end of the second quarter, with its Falcon 9 workhorse alone accounting for 66 launches. The company is looking to launch 144 times in 2024, averaging twelve times per month.
截至第二季度末，由马斯克领导的公司已使用其猎鹰运载火箭完成了67次任务，其中猎鹰9号工作马甲就独自占据了66次发射。该公司计划在2024年发射144次，平均每月12次。
Last week, four commercial astronauts were launched into space by SpaceX's Falcon 9. The company's Dragon spacecraft and the four-member crew spent about 5 days in space before returning to Earth on Sunday. The crew also conducted a spacewalk at about an altitude of 738 km on Thursday, marking the first-ever commercial spacewalk.
上周，四位商业宇航员乘坐 spacex的猎鹰9号火箭进入太空。这艘载人龙飞船和四名乘员在太空停留了大约5天，然后在周日返回地球。乘员还在周四进行了一次高度约为738公里的太空行走，这是商业航天史上首次进行的太空行走。
While space agency NASA routinely conducts extravehicular activities with government astronauts, no commercial spaceflight companies or astronauts have attempted it before, making this a landmark achievement for SpaceX.
尽管美国航天局常规地与政府宇航员进行太空行走，但商业太空飞行公司或宇航员以前从未尝试过，这使得这次 spacex的成就成为具有里程碑意义。
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