美俄宇航员在太空工作6个月后返回地球

AS IT IS 2016-09-10 US, Russian Astronauts Return After 6-Month Space Station Mission 美俄宇航员在太空工作6个月后返回地球

One American astronaut and two Russians landed safely in Kazakhstan Wednesday after spending nearly six months on the International Space Station.

The U.S. space agency NASA announced that American astronaut Jeff Williams and Russian cosmonauts Alexy Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka returned to Earth this week.

Their journey from the space station to Earth took about three and a half hours.

Astronaut Jeff Williams has now spent more time in orbit than any other American. He has spent 534 days in space during four separate missions.

It is a Russian cosmonaut who holds the world record: Gennady Padalka has spent 879 days in space.

NASA wrote about Jeff Williams’ experience at the space station. The U.S. space agency said Williams performed five space walks during his time there. During one of the space walks, Williams installed a station where commercial space flights can stop.

NASA said Williams played an important role in getting the space station ready for a private U.S. space industry – not just government-operated missions.

Williams also commented on his experience on social media. He posted a picture of Earth’s outer atmosphere and wrote, "I will certainly miss this view!"

Russian Anatoly Ivanishin took command after Williams left the station. The Russian cosmonaut remains¹ in the space station with American Kate Rubins and Japan’s Takuya Onishi.

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cosmonaut – n. an astronaut in the space program of Russia or the former Soviet² Union

mission - n. a job or project that someone is given to do

commercial - adj. related to or used in the buying and selling of goods and services

role - n. a part that someone or something has in an activity or situation

view - n. a way of thinking about something; the things that can be seen from a given area or place

1 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

2 Soviet   

adj.苏联的，苏维埃的；n.苏维埃

参考例句：

• Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
• Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。