Sir Richard Branson is unveiling the rocket plane he will use to take fare-paying passengers into space.

理查德·布兰森爵士将要揭幕一架喷气式客机，他将驾驶此飞机收费将乘客送往太空。

The rocket plane may fulfil some of its goals before it even gets off the ground, by whipping up interest in commercial space flight.

这艘火箭飞机（rocket plane）可能会激起人们对商业太空飞行的兴趣，因此甚至在它飞离地面之前，就可以实现自己的一些目标。

This will use an American rocket plane developed by California's Scaled Composites company to send fare-paying passengers on sub-orbital trips.

这个项目将使用一个是由加利福尼亚的Scaled Composites公司发明的美国火箭飞船将付费乘客送往太空亚轨道旅行。

The advantage of the balloon is that it will be cheaper than a space plane or rocket.

气球的优点是它比航天飞机或火箭便宜。

It was to take off and land like a plane, but soar into outer space like a rocket.

它像一架飞机一样起飞和着陆，也可以向火箭一样飞进外层空间。

The low-pollution plane to carry between 50 and 100 passengers will take off using normal engines powered by biofuel made from seaweed before switching on its rocket engines at altitude.

该低污染的飞机可以搭载50到100名乘客，起飞时飞机使用从海藻中提炼的生物燃料驱动的常规引擎，当爬升到特定高度时，飞机会切换到火箭引擎。

Rocket Men: Saturn V, which carried the Apollo 11 Moon mission, climbs toward orbit after lift-off in a photograph taken from a plane monitoring the launch.

执行阿波罗11号登月任务的土星5号正在飞向自己运行的轨道，此照片由负责监测发射的飞机拍摄。

And NASA used a plane and a Pegasus rocket to launch a satellite. The satellite will observe the sun, in hopes of improving space weather forecasting.

美国国家航空和宇宙航行局利用一架飞机和一枚飞马火箭发射了一枚卫星。这枚卫星将要探测太阳，并有望提高太空天气预测能力。

The plane was blown to atoms by the rocket.

飞机被火箭炸得粉碎。

The rocket blasted the plane into pieces.

火箭把飞机炸成了碎片。