欢迎NASA最新的宇航员

NASA welcomed 11 new astronauts to its ranks Friday, increasing the number of those eligible for spaceflight assignments that will expand humanity’s horizons in space for generations to come. The new astronauts successfully completed more than two years of required basic training and are the first to graduate since the agency announced its Artemis program.

The new graduates may be assigned to missions destined for the International Space Station, the Moon, and ultimately, Mars. With a goal of sustainable lunar exploration later this decade, NASA will send the first woman and next man to the surface on the Moon by 2024. Additional lunar missions are planned once a year thereafter and human exploration of Mars is targeted for the mid-2030s.

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NASA周五迎来了11名新宇航员，这增加了有资格执行太空飞行任务的人数，这些任务将为未来几代人拓展人类在太空的视野。这些新宇航员成功地完成了两年多的基本训练，是该机构宣布其Artemis项目以来的第一批毕业生。

这些新毕业生可能会被分配到国际空间站、月球以及最终的火星任务。NASA的目标是在本世纪末实现对月球的可持续探索，到2024年，他们将把第一位女性宇航员和第二位男性宇航员送上月球表面。此后，他们每年还计划执行一次额外的月球任务，并计划在本世纪30年代中期对火星进行人类探索。

来源：NASA