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航天器带你去旅游 　　发展航天事业耗资巨大，但这丝毫没有阻止人类对太空技术的探索与创新。太空技术未来的发展方向不仅是要将宇航员送上天搞科研，而且要将普通人送上天去旅行。为了实现这个目标，胸怀航天梦的科学家与实干家们一直在努力，设计和制造了一系列针对太空旅行的航天器与运载火箭。相信在不久的未来，会有越来越多的普通人飞向太空，感受太空旅行的美妙。 　　In order for people to be able to travel economically to space， for space tourism and for other purposes， we need reusable launch vehicles. All commercial transport industries use reusable vehicles—and so will the commercial space transport industry. Luckily research aimed at developing low-cost reusable launch vehicles has increased recently. The following is a list of projects under way today. 　　Winner of the $10m Ansari X-Prize1）， this suborbital2） passenger-carrying spaceplane was designed by Burt Rutan3）’s Scaled Composites， famous for graphite4） composite and also the integrating contractor for the former Roton5）. Following their successful bid6） to win the X-Prize， Scaled Composites are now turning their eyes to the next step： the development of a commercially viable passenger-carrying suborbital space vehicle. 　　SpaceShipOne features a rubber-nitrous oxide7） hybrid rocket engine and cold gas attitude8） control thrusters9）； a graphite/epoxy10） primary structure； 3-place， sea-level， shirt-sleeve cabin environment； a low maintenance thermal protection system； and a unique feathered reentry system. 　　The spaceplane is carried under the belly of Scaled Composites’ White Knight carrier aircraft. The White Knight is a piloted， twin-turbojet11） research aircraft derived from the Proteus12） intended for high-altitude missions. Its first flight was on August 1， 2002. It provides a high-altitude airborne launch of SpaceShipOne. The White Knight is also equipped to flight-qualify13） all the SpaceShipOne systems except rocket propulsion. The aircraft’s cockpit14）， avionics15）， life support systems， pneumatics16）， trim servos， data system and electrical system components are identical to those installed in SpaceShipOne. 　　A passenger-carrying reusable SSTO17） VTOL18） rocket designed to carry 50