The First Woman in Space第一位女太空人笪景行

2018-08-04

中学生英语·中考指导版 2018年6期

On June 16， 1963， aboard Vostok 6， Soviet Cosmonaut1 Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman to travel into space. After 48 orbits2 and 71 hours， she returned to earth， having spent more time in space than all U.S. astronauts combined to that date.

1963年6月16日，前苏联宇航员瓦莲京娜·捷列什科娃乘坐“东方6号飞船”，成为太空旅行的第一位女性。在绕地球48圈的71小时太空飞行后，她返回地球，她在太空中的时间比她之前所有美国宇航员的太空飞行时间的总和还要长。

Tereshkova was born to a peasant family in 1937. She began work at a textile3 factory when she was 18， and at age 22 she made her first parachute4 jump under the auspices5 of a local aviation6 club. In February 1962， she was selected along with three other woman parachutists and a female pilot to begin training to become a cosmonaut.

1937年，捷列什科娃出生于一个农民家庭。她18岁的时候开始在一家纺织厂工作，22岁时，她在当地航空俱乐部的赞助下进行了首次跳伞。1962年2月，她与其他三名女伞兵和一名女飞行员一起被选中开始了成为宇航员的训练。

After her historic space flight， in November 1963， she married fellow cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev. They were the first pairing of two single cosmonauts in human history.

在历史性的太空飞行之后，1963年11月，捷列什科娃嫁给了同为宇航员的安德列安·尼古拉耶夫。他们是人类历史上的首对宇航员夫妇。

Tereshkova served as the Soviet representative7 to many international womens organizations and events. She never entered space again， and hers was the last space flight by a female cosmonaut until the 1980s.

捷列什科娃曾担任众多国际妇女组织和运动的苏联代表。她再未进入过太空。直到上世紀80年代为止，她都是唯一一名在太空飞行过的女宇航员。

The United States screened a group of female pilots in 1959 and 1960 for possible astronaut training but later decided to restrict astronaut qualification to men. The first American woman in space was astronaut and physicist Sally Ride， who served as mission specialist on a flight of the space shuttle8 Challenger in 1983.

美国在1959和1960年间为相关的宇航员训练筛选了一批女飞行员，但后来决定将宇航员资格限定在男子中。太空中的第一位美国女性宇航员是宇航员兼物理学家的莎莉·莱德，她在1983年的“挑战者号”航天飞机的任务中飞向太空。