夏说英语新闻晨读 第496期:NASA的火星任务竟然被前宇航员喷?（在线收听）

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Bill Anders, lunar module pilot of Apollo 8, the first human spaceflight to leave Earth's orbit, said sending crews to Mars was "almost ridiculous". Nasa is currently planning new human missions to the Moon, because it wants to learn the skills and develop the technology to enable a future human landing on Mars. But the former astronaut is scathing about how Nasa has evolved since the heady days. "Nasa couldn't get to the Moon today. They're so ossified... Nasa has turned into a jobs programme... many of the centres are mainly interested in keeping busy and you don't see the public support other than they get the workers their pay and their congressmen get re-elected." Said Bill.

lunar: adj. 月亮的
lunar module: 登月舱
orbit: n. 轨道；v. 绕……轨道而行
The earth orbits the sun. 地球围绕着太阳转。
crew: n. 全体船员；全体机务人员
ridiculous: adj. 荒唐的；荒诞的
scathing: adj. 严厉的；损伤的
scathe: v. 伤害，损害
heady: adj. 兴奋的；令人陶醉的
These good old days are really my heady days. 那些过往的日子真的是令我留恋。
ossified: adj. 僵化的
ossify: v. 固化；僵化
congressman: n. 众议员