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今回、本文は短いしわかりやすいので、訳しません。
07 July 2011
Space shuttle's final mission
Report and vocabulary
The US space shuttle Atlantis will blast off for the last time on Friday 8 July ending NASA's 30-year programme.
Four crew members will be dropping off a year's worth of supplies at the International Space Station. They'll be in orbit for 12-days and travel 6.5 million kilometres during the sortie.
In total, 355 astronauts will have flown on the shuttle since the inaugural mission in 1981.
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blast off: launch, take off like a rocket
dropping off: delivering
in orbit: in a position in space, travelling around the earth
sortie: mission ［フランス語 ‘going out' の意］ 軍事用語的ですね
inaugural: the first in a series of important events or activities 行動を起こす準備をするさま(serving to set in motion) 語源：French inaugurer (“to invest”) ← Latin augurare (“to take omens”).