NBC晚间新闻 维珍太空船带你去太空旅行（在线收听）

The view from Virgin Galactic spaceship 2, spectacular. December's mission marked the first manned launch from US soil since the space shuttles retired in 2011, climbing 51.4 miles into the FAA definition of space. Buddy, we’re going to space. Today pilots Mark Stuckey and CJ Sturckow received their commercial astronaut wings as virgin prepares to be the first to carry paying customers by year's end.

I want to do dozens, you know dozens and dozens of these flights and and with paying customers and and ensure experience with them. 600 people have already signed up, many celebrities paying $250,000. It feels tantalizingly close to the culmination of our dreams. Billionaire founder Richard Branson plans to fly in July and says the trips will get cheaper the more spacecraft he builds. You know we may be able to get the price right down in 10 years rather than 20. Until then a four-minute quarter-million dollar view.

在维珍银河太空船二号看到的景色太壮观了。自从这个宇宙飞船在2011年退役后，12月这次的任务是首次在美国本土进行载人发射。飞行高度51.4英里，到达了美国联邦航空局定义下的太空。伙计，我们要去太空了。今天，飞行员马克·斯塔基和CJ 斯图克都获得了商业飞行许可，维珍太空船准备在年底前成为第一架搭载付费客户的太空船。你知道，我想做几十次、很多次这样的搭载付费客户的的飞行，并确保他们的体验。现在600人已经签约参加这个飞行，很多名流为此支付了250000美金。那感觉就像是一步一步走向我们最大的梦想。亿万富翁创始人理查德·布兰森计划在7月参加这个飞行。他说，他建造的太空船越多，飞行的费用就会越低。我们或许可以在10年内把飞行费用降下来，而不是20年。直到那之前，这就是一次花费达250000美元的4分钟的飞行。