BBC Learning English - Space Tourism 太空旅游

　　Tim: I would pay maximum 20,000 pounds but I still couldn't afford that.

　　Will: If I were a rich man, I’d pay probably £50,000, or something like that I would say would be worth it.

　　Oliver: 我们听到了各种不同的回答，人们可以接受的到太空旅游的费用在免费到五万英镑之间。

　　Helen: Well，we have already seen a number of space tourists making the trip into space. Have you got any idea how much they paid for their trip, Oliver?

　　Oliver: No, but I guess £50,000 isn’t enough.

　　Helen: Well, you’re right. Denis Tito is an American billionaire, and on the 28th April 2001, he became the first fee paying space tourist.

　　Oliver: 2001 年，美国的大富豪 Denis Tito 成为第一个付费的 fee-paying 太空游客。 How much did he pay?

　　Helen: He paid a staggering 20 million US dollars for the trip.

　　Oliver: 天哪，真是太贵了，七天的行程付了两千万美金。

　　Helen: Recently in the UK, a prize to win a trip to space was launched by New Scientist magazine and car giant Audi. Oliver: 看来真的有幸运儿可能会得到免费太空游的机会了。

　　Helen: How did the idea come about? Here is Jeremy Webb, the editor of New Scientist Magazine.

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　　Like many people, I’d love to go to space, and we were looking for a fantastic prize to give away on the magazine, and somebody said it would be nice if we could send somebody into space, and since 2004, that started to become a reality.