THE WORLD'S attention turned to space missions in May. That's when two NASA astronauts were the first to be launched into space by an entity other than a nation-state. They're also the first to travel from the United States to the International Space Station (ISS) since 2011, when the space shuttle program ended. But while most of us weren't looking, the important work aboard the space station was continuing apace. Weeks before the SpaceX launch, U.S. astronaut Andrew Morgan, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka, and U.S. astronaut Jessica Meir-pictured here inside their Soyuz MS-5 landing capsule-returned to Earth after a few months-long ISS missions. The trio risked their lives traveling millions of miles while conducting off-planet experiments and space walks, only to touch down in April amid a global pandemic.

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与此同时，回到地球” - 新闻


五月份，世界的注意力转向了太空任务。就在那时，两名美国宇航局宇航员首次被民族国家以外的实体发射到太空。他们也是自 2011 年航天飞机计划结束以来第一批从美国飞往国际空间站 (ISS) 的航天器。但是，尽管我们大多数人都没有注意，空间站上的重要工作仍在快速进行。在 SpaceX 发射前几周，美国宇航员安德鲁·摩根、俄罗斯宇航员奥列格·斯克里波奇卡和美国宇航员杰西卡·梅尔（图中为联盟号 MS-5 着陆舱）在完成几个月的国际空间站任务后返回地球。三人冒着生命危险旅行了数百万英里，同时进行地外实验和太空行走，直到四月在全球大流行期间着陆。