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Launching

launch(ing) – стартовать (старт)

to boost = to fire – запустить

to carry out a flight

to circle, to orbit, to revolve

circuit – виток

escape velocity

attraction pull

Vocabulary from the texts:

astronauts

colonies

the center of human population

Earth type planets

Earth-like worlds

build cities on the Moon

habitations

gravity

refueling depots

way stations

orbiting star bases

space habitat, orbiting in free space

planetary home

pressurized with air

be landscaped

lunar materials

the asteroid belt

planet living

a solar society

a full scale solar economy

to power

go down to a planet

a gravity field

artifacts

beyond human comprehension

to construct space colonies

hightech living

bringing in extraterrestrial materials

energy rich or energy poor areas

the space colonization concept

to terraform

a breathable atmosphere

salubrious temperature

expansion into space

space travel

to survive the ultimate death of our sun

the possibility of our sun turning into a nova

a red giant

blow up our own planet

make it uninhabitable by means of nuclear disaster

biological warfare

the nuclear peril

be struck by an asteroid

using manned spacecraft where robots can serve

space colonization

cosmologist

spread into space

befall life on a single planet

reach out to the stars

technology to expand into space

public support of the space program

a world turned in on itself

the drive toward growth and expansion

colonize new ecological niches

space colonies

space settlements

colonizing inhabited planets

in the space context

support an expanding population

zero population growth

restriction on resources

reduced to a lower level of technology

Earthbound science fiction

a general trend toward dehumanization

The destruction of the world’s ecology

to conserve resources

give up a lot of the modern conveniences

Space humanization

high technology

full utilization of our world’s material resources

deplete the material resources of Earth

outgrown the ecological niche we presently occupy

evolutionary stage

from the evolutionary standpoint

a built-in factor for preservation of the species

exploratory instinct

expansion into space

interplanetary travel

to move heavy industry off Earth

extraterrestrial resources

space industrialization

space habitats

raw materials

build solar power satellites in orbit

space-based industries

space-dwellers

orbiting colonies

interstellar expeditions

with the living space on the inside of the sphere

complete biospheres

the future of space

orbiting colony concept

a space hotel in orbit

cost-effective

start utilizing the too-long-abandoned moon

the infinity of the universe

the colonization of Mars

gravity well

a fairly large-scale presence in Earth o

manned missions to Mars

near-Earth development

focus first on going to Mars

migration to the stars

to lay the foundations for a permanent human presence in space

the preservation of Earth

drawing on solar power to meet our energy needs

spreading beyond the limits of its home world

hiatus

large-scale settlement of space

launched

space station crew

to greet the returning heroes

wear suits for launch and landing

the engine exploded

onboard

went out of control

reliable engines

an orbital workshop

leftover Apollo boosters

a rough ride to orbit

rode up

short of power

the importance of having humans on the job

did a spacewalk

a solar array

crew members

space shuttles

docking ports

return/escape ship

visiting ships

unmanned cargo ships

take out the trash

manned ships

caused the Earth’s atmosphere to get hotter and expand

boosted it to a higher orbit

designed for expansion

to test new station procedures and equipment

to add more variety to their menus

fire erupted

donned oxygen masks

put the fire out

long-term damage

ground communications

supply ship crashed into

sealed the hatch

a total loss of the station

modular designs

a booster

to build and maintain a station

a permanent space station in orbit around Earth

to do cutting edge scientific research

crystals

semiconductors

pharmaceuticals

staging points

orbiting space stations

maintain a permanent human presence in space

establishing a space station

space exploration

outposts in orbit

envisioned as large rotating wheels that have gravity

to place a space station, called Salyut 1, in orbit

spacecraft systems

compartment

dining and recreation areas,

food and water storage

control stations

spacecraft

unmanned docking supply ships

conducted scientific experiments

logged some of the longest space flights

meteoroid shield

solar panels

ripped off

not fully stretched out

conducting scientific and biomedical research

moon rocket

Orbital Workshop

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