英语新闻丨神舟二十三号航天员乘组顺利进驻“天宫”

The Shenzhou XXIII crew has entered the Tiangong space station and met with the outgoing Shenzhou XXI astronauts.神舟二十三号乘组已进驻天宫空间站，与即将轮换的神舟二十一号航天员完成会面。The new arrivals — mission commander and spaceflight engineer Colonel Zhu Yangzhu, spacecraft pilot Colonel Zhang Zhiyuan, and science payload specialist Lai Ka-ying — were launched by a Long March 2F carrier rocket at 11:08 pm Sunday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China.此次抵达的航天员分别为指令长兼飞行工程师朱杨柱上校、飞船驾驶员张志远上校以及载荷专家黎家盈。他们于周日晚间 11 时 08 分，搭乘长征二号 F 运载火箭，在中国西北部酒泉卫星发射中心升空。After flying about three and a half hours, their spaceship docked with the front port on the Tianhe core module, the central piece of the Chinese space station, at 2:45 am Monday, according to the China Manned Space Agency.中国载人航天工程办公室表示，飞船在轨飞行约三个半小时后，于周一凌晨 2 时 45 分对接至中国空间站天和核心舱前端端口。Zhu and his teammates then started making preparatory work to enter the space station, which included changing into intravehicular suits from their pressure suits and configuring their spaceship.随后朱杨柱一行人开展进舱准备工作，先后完成舱内航天服更换、飞船状态设置等操作。Meanwhile, their peers in the Shenzhou XXI — mission commander Senior Colonel Zhang Lu, spaceflight engineer Major Wu Fei and payload specialist Zhang Hongzhang — waited inside the connection cabin.与此同时，在轨值守的神舟二十一号乘组 —— 指令长张陆大校、飞行工程师武飞少校、载荷专家张洪章，已在对接舱内等候。After all preparations were done, the Shenzhou XXI team opened a hatch in the connection cabin at 5:13 am to welcome the new team of astronauts, the space agency said in a statement.官方通报称，全部准备工作就绪后，神舟二十一号乘组于清晨 5 时 13 分开启舱门，迎接新一批航天员入驻。The two crews hugged and exchanged greetings before taking a group photo.两组航天员相互致意拥抱，并一同合影留念。This has become the eighth in-orbit gathering of Chinese astronauts, and marks a historic moment for Lai, the nation's first female civilian astronaut and also the first orbital traveller from Hong Kong.这是中国航天员第八次在轨会师，同时也见证历史性一刻：黎家盈成为我国首位平民女性航天员，亦是首位进驻空间站的香港航天员。crew /kruː/n. 全体机组人员dock /dɒk/v. （航天器）对接hatch /hætʃ/n. 舱门civilian /səˈvɪliən/adj. 民间的，平民身份的