首次全女性太空行走取消竟因航天服“不合身”_BEC初级作文

首次全女性太空行走取消竟因航天服“不合身”

美国宇航局在资讯发布会上宣布，下一阶段的工作将由黑格和科赫完成。“麦克莱恩在第一次太空行走时发现，中号的硬壳内衣更适合她。因为3月29日（周五）只有一件现成的中号内衣，这件衣服将给科赫使用。”

The mission had originally planned for Koch, a former US Army aviator, to wear a large-size torso for her spacewalk with McClain, an aerospace engineer.

这次太空行走的任务原计划由前美军飞行员科赫穿着大号宇航内衣和航空工程师麦克莱恩一起完成。

The ISS only has one medium-sized hard upper spacesuit torso prepared for extra-vehicular activity (EVA), with the other acting as a spare. A NASA spokesperson told Quartz the station has two large torsos and one extra-large torso ready, plus a spare extra-large torso. Neither of the spares can be configured in time for the EVA planned for four days from now.

国际空间站只有一件中号的宇航硬壳内衣用于舱外活动，另外一件留着备用。美国宇航局的一名发言人告诉石英财经网说，国际空间站有两件大号和一件加大号的宇航内衣，还有一件加大号的备用内衣。这两件备用内衣都无法在四天内重新调整好尺寸用于舱外活动。

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"We do our best to anticipate the spacesuit sizes that each astronaut will need, based on the spacesuit size they wore in training on the ground, and in some cases astronauts train in multiple sizes,” NASA spokesperson Brandi Dean told Quartz in an email. "However, individuals’ sizing needs may change when they are on orbit, in response to the changes living in microgravity can bring about in a body. In addition, no one training environment can fully simulate performing a spacewalk in microgravity, and an individual may find that their sizing preferences change in space.”