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美国东部时间6月2日清晨6时零9分,在发射架上等了整整一个月的美国“发现”号航天飞机终于在火箭的推动下腾空而起,开始了为时11天的太空之旅。这是航天飞机的第91次发射。此行的重要使命有三:一是接回在严重老化的“和平”号太空站上工作4个多月的美国航天员安德鲁·托马斯;二是试验为今年底组装阿尔法空间站使用的新式燃料箱;第三项任务则是搭载中、美等国共
US Eastern Time At 6:09 on the morning of June 2, the U.S. space shuttle Discovery, which waited a full month on the launch pad, finally made its spacecraft launch with the help of the rocket and began a space of 11 days trip. This is the 91st launch of the space shuttle. There are three important missions in this trip: one is to take back the astronaut Andrew Thomas of the United States for more than four months on the severely aging “Peace” space station; the second is to experiment with a new type of fuel tank to be used for assembling the Alfa space station by the end of this year; The third task is to carry China, the United States and other countries