（双语文稿）最年长的太空旅行者

The American space travel company Blue Origin announced that it sent 90-year-old Ed Dwight into space, making him the oldest space traveler.
美国太空旅行公司蓝色起源宣布，它将90岁的埃德•德怀特送入太空，使他成为最年长的太空旅行者。
The company said Dwight was the first Black astronaut candidate and was picked personally by President John F. Kennedy in 1961. But it said Dwight was not chosen to be among the next group of astronauts.
该公司表示，德怀特是第一位黑人宇航员候选人，1961年由约翰•F•肯尼迪总统亲自挑选，但该公司表示，德怀特没有被选为下一批宇航员。
Dwight spent a few minutes of weightlessness with five other passengers on the Blue Origin spacecraft. It reached the edge of space for about 10 minutes. Dwight called the flight "a life changing experience."
德怀特和其他五名乘客在蓝色起源飞船上度过了几分钟的失重状态。它在太空边缘停留了大约10分钟。德怀特称这次飞行是“一次改变人生的经历”。
With the flight, Dwight passed Star Trek actor William Shatner as the oldest person to reach space. Shatner's flight took place in 2021.
随着这次飞行，德怀特超越了《星际迷航》演员威廉•夏特纳，成为到达太空的最年长的人。夏特纳于2021年飞入太空。
Dwight joined four businessmen from the U.S. and France. The cost of the trip for each was not released. Blue Origin said Dwight's flight was paid for by Space for Humanity, a nonprofit group based in Denver, Colorado. The group aims to send people of many different backgrounds into space as "citizen astronauts."
来自美国和法国的四位商人与德怀特一起进行了太空旅行，旅行费用没有公布。蓝色起源公司表示，德怀特的飞行费用是由科罗拉多州丹佛市的非营利组织“太空为人类”支付的。该组织旨在将不同背景的人作为“公民宇航员”送入太空。
Dwight was in a test pilot program at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The program called "The Right Stuff" was the training ground for early astronauts. After being passed over, he retired from the military in 1966.
德怀特参加了加州爱德华兹空军基地的试飞员项目。这个名为“The Right Stuff”的项目是早期宇航员的训练场。被淘汰后，他于1966年从军队退役。
He later became a sculptor who made statues of Civil Rights leaders including Martin Luther King, Jr., Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and others.
他后来成为一名雕刻家，为马丁•路德•金、弗雷德里克•道格拉斯、哈丽特•塔布曼等民权领袖制作雕像。
The U.S. space agency NASA announced Guion Bluford as the first Black astronaut in 1978, Bluford first reached space in 1983. The former Soviet Union placed the first person with African and Cuban ancestry, Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez, into orbit in 1980.
1978年，美国宇航局宣布圭恩•布鲁福德为首位黑人宇航员，布鲁福德于1983年首次进入太空。1980年，拥有非洲和古巴血统的人——阿纳尔多•塔马约•门德斯成为前苏联送入太空轨道的第一人。
The stories of Dwight and Bluford are among those told in the documentary movie from National Geographic called The Space Race. It is about Black astronauts.
《国家地理》的纪录片《太空竞赛》是关于黑人宇航员的，讲述了德怀特和布鲁福德的故事。
Dwight's flight on May 19 was the first launch with a crew for Blue Origin in nearly two years. All flights were grounded after an accident in 2022. Flights without a crew restarted last December. Sunday's flight was the seventh to carry space tourists.
德怀特在5月19日的飞行是蓝色起源公司近两年来首次与机组人员一起发射。2022年发生事故后，所有飞行都停止了。去年12月，没有机组人员的飞行重新启动。周日的飞行是第七次搭载太空游客。
Businessman and founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos also started Blue Origin, a company that seeks to make space tourism popular.
商人兼亚马逊创始人杰夫•贝索斯还创办了蓝色起源公司，这家公司旨在普及太空旅游。
After completing his flight on Blue Origin's spacecraft, Dwight said, "I thought I really didn't need this in my life," but added, "But now, I need it in my life...I am ecstatic."
在完成蓝色起源飞船的飞行后，德怀特说:“我以为我的生活中真的不需要这个，”但他补充说，“但现在，我的生活中需要它……我欣喜若狂。”
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