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招宇航员要开太空旅馆

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招宇航员要开太空旅馆
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美国一家名为“毕格罗宇宙空间”的私人太空度假游公司日前首开先河，对外公开刊登一则广告招聘专业宇航员。这家公司表示，他们计划将来在太空中开设“太空旅馆”，招聘来的宇航员则是旅馆的导游和服务人员。这家公司的创始人明确表示，他们只想要真正在太空中作业过的专业宇航员，满足这一点的人选在全球范围内只有500名。目前，该公司已经发射了2个实验性太空气闸舱至地球轨道。他们表示，未来把旅馆开到太空中，要为客户提供真正“远离尘世”的服务，月球和火星都在他们的计划蓝图之内。

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An American space holiday firm, Bigelow Aerospace, has become the first commercial company to advertise for professional astronauts.

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The firm, founded by Bob Bigelow, the head of a budget motel chain in the US, wants experienced spacemen working in orbit and on the ground.

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Only professionals with space flight experience need apply, which limits the pool of possible applicants worldwide to little more than 500.

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Applicants must also have completed a training program with a government or recognized space agency, such as NASA, and to have flown a space mission.

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Mr Bigelow, from Las Vegas, already has two test models of his inflatable space modules in orbit around the Earth, launched by Russian rockets.

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He plans to build orbiting hotels to provide out-of-this-world holidays and has his sights set on the Moon and even Mars too.

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Bigelow's modules, which can be linked together sausage-style to form a space station, are launched in compact form and then expanded to full size.

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Space duties spelt out in the job offer include:

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* Performing as a professional astronaut aboard the Bigelow Aerospace Station Complex;

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* Managing all on-board aspects of employee and customer astronaut personal safety;

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* Maintaining the space stations inside but with some spacewalks too; and

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* Helping clients with payloads or experiments.

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On Earth the spacemen will train new astronauts and operate mission control.

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Mr Bigelow, who made his fortune from Budget Suites of America, is aiming to bring the cost of a ticket to space down to £30,000-£60,000.

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His other big ideas include a cruise ship to carry 100 passengers and 50 crew on a trip around the moon.

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As well as the unspecified number of astronauts' positions the company has 44 other job offers on its website.

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They are likely to appeal to NASA staff uncertain about the future after President Obama cancelled any return to the Moon.

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With NASA's shuttle fleet scheduled to be retired at the end of this year and no successor craft on the near horizon, thousands of workers expect to lose their jobs.

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