every day for decades, engineer phil pressel would come home from work and be unable to tell his wife what he「d been doing all day.
十几年中的每一天,工程师philpressel下班回家后,却不能告诉他的妻子他整天在忙些什么。
「it permitted president nixon, in the early 1970s, to sign the salt-1 treaty, the strategic arms limitation treaty, 」 pressel says.
「最开始是在20世纪70年代,为了签订salt-1条约,限制战略武器协议,尼克松总统批準这个计划的,」pressel说。
pressel says that even 40 years after its original launch, hexagon is still one of the most complicated vehicles ever to orbit the earth because it used film.
pressel说甚至在它发射四十年后,hexagon仍然是地球轨道上最复杂的卫星之一,因为它使用胶卷。
pressel says he」s immensely proud of the work he and his colleagues did on hexagon.
pressel说他对自己和他的同事所做的事情感到很自豪。
evian-les-bains, france (ap) morgan pressel of the united states birdied the first three holes and finished with a 6-under 66 thursday to lead after the first round of the evian masters.
周四依云大师赛的第一轮,美国的摩根·普雷塞尔(morganpressel)在前三洞连续抓鸟,最终打出了66桿(-6)。
pressel started on the back nine and her birdie streak ended with a bogey on no. 13.
普雷塞尔从后九出发,连续三个小鸟之后,她在第13洞打出一个柏忌。
「the challenge for this satellite, to design it, was to survey the whole globe, 」 pressel tells weekends on all things considered host guy raz.
「设计这个卫星的目的就是要调查整个地球。」pressel周末告诉《allthingsconsidered》的主持人guyraz。
「it was a very solid day,」 pressel said. 「the only fairway i missed was on the last hole, and it was because it kind of got a weird bounce.
「今天一天我的发挥都很稳定,」普雷塞尔说道,「我唯一没有上球道的是最后一洞,因为那个球的弹跳非常奇怪。
」and then at around 50, 000 feet, a parachute would slow it down, and a c-130 airplane caught it in midair over the pacific, " pressel says.
“然后大概在50000英尺高度时,一个降落伞将会使它减速,一个c-130飞机会在太平洋的半空中将它捕获,」pressel说道。