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Divers looking for the wreckage of a World War II airplane last spring actually found part of the destroyed space shuttle Challenger.
去年春天，搜尋二戰飛機殘骸的潛水員實際上發現了被摧毀的挑戰者號航天飛機的部分殘骸。
A large piece of the spacecraft was discovered at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida.
在佛羅里達州海岸附近的大西洋海底發現了該航天器的一大塊殘骸。
The site is not far from the U.S. space agency NASA’s Cape Canaveral launch area.
該地距離美國航空航天局的卡納維拉爾角發射場不遠。
NASA confirmed the discovery on November 10.
美國航空航天局于11月10日證實了這一發現。
The piece is from the space shuttle that exploded shortly after liftoff from Cape Canaveral on January 28, 1986.
這塊碎片來自1986年1月28日從卡納維拉爾角發射升空后不久爆炸的航天飛機。
The last time anyone found part of the Challenger was in 1996.
上一次有人發現挑戰者號殘骸是在1996年。
Seven people died when the Challenger exploded.
挑戰者號航天飛機爆炸造成7人死亡。
Christa McAuliffe, a school teacher from New Hampshire, was part of the crew.
來自新罕布什爾州的學校老師克里斯塔·麥考利夫是宇航員之一。
An investigation of the accident found a faulty part in the right rocket booster caused the Challenger explosion.
事故調查發現，挑戰者號航天飛機爆炸的原因是右側火箭助推器的一個零件有問題。
Michael Ciannilli is a NASA official who confirmed that the newly discovered piece was real.
美國航空航天局官員邁克爾·錢尼利證實了新發現的碎片是真的。
He told The Associated Press when he first saw video of the space shuttle piece, “my heart skipped a beat … and it brought me right back to 1986 … and what we all went through as a nation.”
他告訴美聯社，當他第一次看到這架航天飛機碎片的視頻時，“我的心跳都快停了……這讓我回想起1986年……我們作為一個國家所經歷的一切?！?/p>
Ciannilli said the piece appears to be at least 4.5 meters long and 4.5 meters wide.
錢尼利說，這塊碎片看起來至少有4.5米長，4.5米寬。
It could be larger, though, because some of it was covered by sand.
不過，它可能更大，因為有些地方被沙子覆蓋了。
He said he thinks the piece may have been from the underside, or belly, of the shuttle.
他說，他認為這塊碎片可能來自航天飛機的底部。
NASA said it is still thinking about whether to launch a recovery operation to get the shuttle piece or to leave it in the ocean.
美國航空航天局表示，其仍在考慮是啟動回收行動，打撈出航天飛機碎片，還是將其留在海洋中。
“We want to make sure … we do the right thing for the legacy of the crew,” Ciannilli said.
錢尼利說：“我們想確?！覀冋_處理機組人員留下的遺產?！?/p>
About 47 percent of the Challenger shuttle has been recovered since the accident.
自事故發生以來，約47%的挑戰者號航天飛機殘骸已經被找回。
Much of it is buried in unused sites at Cape Canaveral.
其中大部分被埋在卡納維拉爾角的閑置地點。
Some of it is shown at a NASA visitor’s center, next to a piece from the Columbia space shuttle.
其中一些在美國航空航天局游客中心展出，旁邊是哥倫比亞號航天飛機的碎片。
Columbia broke apart on its way back to Earth over Texas in 2003, killing all seven astronauts on board.
2003年，哥倫比亞號航天飛機在返回地球的途中在得克薩斯州上空解體，機上7名宇航員全部遇難。
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