2021-07-21 16:57:13
Вы точно слышали новость о полете Безоса в космос! А читали ли ее на английском?
Не очень сложный текст, который можно разбирать даже на уроках со студентами невысоких уровней:
Billionaire Jeff Bezos has made a short journey to space, in the first crewed flight of his rocket ship, New Shepard.
He was accompanied by Mark Bezos, his brother, Wally Funk, an 82-year-old pioneer of the space race, and an 18-year-old student.
They travelled in a capsule with the biggest windows flown in space, offering stunning views of the Earth. When the capsule touched back down after the 10-minute, 10-second flight, Jeff Bezos exclaimed: "Best day ever!"
New Shepard, built by Bezos' company Blue Origin, is designed to serve the burgeoning market for space tourism. Amazon founder Mr Bezos - and other participants in the "billionaire space race" - have been criticised for offering what some see as joy rides for the super-wealthy. Critics say the money could be spent on pay rises for employees or fighting climate change. However, Mr Bezos insists he has an environmental vision: "We need to take all heavy industry, all polluting industry and move it into space, and keep Earth as this beautiful gem of a planet that it is. It's going to take decades and decades to achieve, but you have to start, and big things start with small steps... that's what this sub-orbital tourism mission allows us to do, it allows us to practice over and over"
The spacecraft lifted off at 14:12 from a private launch site near Van Horn, Texas. At a post-launch news briefing, Jeff Bezos said: "My expectations were high and they were dramatically exceeded." Two minutes into the flight, the capsule separated from its rocket and continued upwards towards the Karman Line - the most widely recognised boundary of space, that lies 100km up. The newly minted-astronauts shouted "wow!" and cheered.
The capsule reached a maximum altitude of around 107km before starting its descent, parachuting down to a soft landing in the West Texas desert.
WORDS:
accompany — сопровождать
stunning views — завораживающие виды
burgeoning market — бурно растущий рынок
wealthy — богатый
heavy industry — тяжёлая промышленность
exceed — превосходить
newly minted-astronauts — новоиспеченные астронавты
altitude — высота
descent — снижение
Полет Безоса установил множество рекордов, среди них «самый молодой и самый старый человек в космосе», почитать подробнее об экипаже можно здесь: https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-spaceflight-crew-mark-bezos-wally-funk-oliver-daemen-2021-7
Здесь можно посмотреть Live updates этого события: https://www.space.com/news/live/blue-origin-jeff-bezos-launch-updates
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