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Celebrity entrepreneur Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 with one not so simple mission: Establishing a human foothold on Mars.
知名企业家伊隆·马斯克在2002年创立了太空探索技术公司，其目的不简单：即在火星上建立人类落脚点。
Musk believed that people needed to see life reach Mars in order to get excited about the idea.
他觉得为了对这个想法感到兴奋，就要有人登陆火星。
He explained to Wired, "The real reason we weren't going to Mars wasn't a lack of national will;
他向“Wired”解释道，“我们没有登上火星的真正原因不是国家意志的欠缺；
it was that we didn't have cheap enough rocket technology to get there on a reasonable budget."
而是在合理的预算下，我们没有足够廉价的火箭技术抵达那里”。
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词语解释
1.celebrity n. 名流；知名人士
例句：Although now a celebrity in her own right, actress Lynn Redgrave knows the difficulties of living in the shadow of her famous older sister.
虽然女演员琳恩·雷德格雷夫现在依靠自己的能力出了名，但她明白生活在大名鼎鼎的姐姐的阴影里有多不容易。
2.foothold n. 据点；立足处
例句：I hung there, scrabbling with my feet to find a foothold.
我吊在那儿，两脚乱蹬着寻找落脚点。
