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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - A Soyuz rocket carrying an American astronaut Lu and Russian cosmonaut Malenchenko blasted off for the international space station on Saturday.
拜科努尔，哈萨克斯坦―本周六，美国宇航员卢和俄罗斯宇航员马伦岑科乘坐Soyuz宇宙飞船飞往国际空间站。
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peggy whitson Peggy Whitson, the American astronaut spending her 130th day in space, said on Sunday that she was happy in orbit, but maybe she brought along too much shrimp.
到2002年10月13日为止，美国女宇航员佩吉·惠特森已经在太空度过了漫长的130天。她对自己的太空生活感到愉快而满意，如果真的要问有什么麻烦的话，也许是她带上了太多的虾到太空来。
Peggy Whitson, the American astronaut spending her 130th day in space, said on Sunday that she was happy in orbit, but maybe she brought along too much shrimp.
佩吉·惠特森已经在太空度过了漫长的130天。她对自己的太空生活感到愉快而满意，如果真的要问有什么麻烦的话，也许是她带上了太多的虾到太空来。

The fire was so big that American astronaut John Glenn could see it from space as he orbited Earth.
For example, one American astronaut on a four-month long mission on the Russian space station Mir saw a vision of his dead father.
Much work had to be done before Project Mercury could put an American astronaut into space.

American astronaut visitations to the Russian MIR space station extended this spirit of cooperation and diplomacy.
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