回到太空（2022）

It was a small team.
但当你们都能团结在一个项目上时
But when you can all
rally around one project,
就会产生魔法
magic can happen.
我们当时全都专注于同一件事
We were all focused
on exactly the same thing,
那就是猎鹰一号♥进入轨道
getting Falcon 1 to orbit.
在燃料方面 我们只需要加一个气孔
而不是乱搞阀门
On the fuel side, we’re gonna add
a port rather than mess with the valve.
所以我们只要…
So we’ll just…
设计轨道火箭
Designing an orbital rocket,
不是某个疯狂的科学家说
“对 我有主意了” 而是…
it’s… it’s not the mad scientist,
like, “Yeah, I’ve got the idea.” It’s…
这是巨大的工作量
It’s just a monumental amount of work.
所有的东西 引擎
Everything, the engines,
软件、硬件 就连螺母和螺栓
software, hardware,
down to the nuts and bolts,
都为现代重新设计了
was redesigned for the modern era.
从零开始建造火箭是极其困难的
It’s extremely difficult
to build a rocket from scratch.
猎鹰一号♥是二级火箭
Falcon 1 is a two-stage rocket.
基本上火箭发射后 第一级燃烧殆尽
Basically, the rocket launches,
and the first stage burns out.
两级火箭分离
The two stages separate,
第二级点火进入轨道
and the second stage ignites
to get to orbit.
火箭是无情的
And rockets are unforgiving.
一个设计错误 那一切都完了
One design error,
and… and everything is… is over.
在那个时候
我都不确定是否有可能成功
At that point, I was not sure
whether success was even possible.
我告诉团队 我有足够的钱飞行三次
I told the team
I’d have enough money for three flights,
然后就这样了 你知道的
and then that’ll be it, you know.
如果我们三次飞行都没成功
那就结束吧
Curtains if we didn’t make it
in three flights.
我们知道这一系列都会是什么
We understood what was on the line.
所以我们花了四年的时间努力
So we worked on it for four years.
我从来没有怀疑过
I had no doubts ever.
我就是非常专注于建立公♥司♥
I was just so focused
on building the company
让火箭飞起来
and… and getting…
getting the rocket to fly.
五、四、三、二、一、零
Five, four, three, two, one, zero.
加一、加二、加三、加四
Plus one, plus two, plus three, plus four,
加五、加六、加七
plus five, plus six, plus seven,
加八、加九、加十
plus eight, plus nine, plus ten.
这是倒计时网上的发射控制
This is the LC on the countdown net.
猎鹰一号♥正在空中飞行
Falcon 1 is airborne at this time.
我们的讯号♥消失了
We have a loss of signal there.
起飞约30秒后 引擎自动关闭
About 30 seconds after liftoff,
the engine shut itself off.
真正困难的部分是第二天收集碎片
The really hard part
was collecting the pieces the next day.
我们为之努力了好几年
突然间一切都结束了
We’d worked on it for years,
and suddenly everything was over.
几天后我回到家
I came back home after a couple days,
我妻子告诉我
我有两个月没在家说话了
and my wife told me
I did not talk at home for two months.
我当时…我花了很长时间
才从这件事中恢复过来
I had… It took me… It took me so long to just get over this
and… and… and collect myself
然后继续研究二号♥火箭
and then continue working
on… on rocket number two.
五、四、三、二、一
Five, four, three, two, one.
一年后 我们的第二次尝试失败了
A year later,
our second attempt failed.
第二次尝试的下一年
我们的第三次发射失败了
And the year after our second attempt,
our third launch failed,
我们知道公♥司♥的处境很糟糕
and we knew the company
was in a bad place.
那时候我们已经快没燃料了
我们几乎没有钱
We were running on fumes
at that point. We had virtually no money.
那是我人生中最糟糕的一年
Uh, that was… that was definitely
the worst year of my life.
我从没想过自己会有
And I never thought
I was someone who could ever
精神崩溃的时候
be capable of a nervous breakdown,
但我觉得那是我
最接近精神崩溃的时候
but I… I felt this is the closest
I’ve ever come,
因为那时的情况看起来极其黑暗
’cause it… it seemed pretty, pretty dark.
我当时很沮丧
I was pretty depressed at the time.
你知道 连续三次失败
You know, three failures in a row,
并不是伟大工程的真正证明
um, wasn’t really a testament
of… of great engineering.
埃隆把我们叫进了一间大会议室
Elon pulled us in a big conference room,
我以为他会说：“你们真糟糕”
and I expected him to say,
“You guys suck,”
然后在那时终止计划
and stop it at this point,
但他恰恰相反
but he was just the opposite.
他实际上说
He was actually saying,
“我想要你们把一切都修好
“I want you guys to fix everything
以最快的速度再发射另一枚火箭”
and launch another rocket
as fast as you can.”
他把所有的钱都投入了
太空探索技术公♥司♥
He put all the money
that he had into SpaceX
并且在这上面下了双倍的赌注
and was doubling down,
basically, on… on… on this.
我当时真的：“哇 好吧 这是…”
And… and I was really,
“Whoa, okay, that’s, uh…”
我没有想到会是那样
I didn’t expect that.
倒计时30秒
T-minus 30 seconds.
一号♥舱被触发
Deck one is triggered.
我知道美国宇航局
一直在关注我们的飞行
I knew NASA
was watching our flights,
所以我们需要让猎鹰一号♥进入轨道
and so we needed to get Falcon 1 to orbit
来证明我们有权利与他们合作
to prove that we could earn the right
to work with them.
我觉得埃隆比我还紧张
I think Elon
was even more nervous, um, than I was.
十、九、八、七、六、五
Ten, nine,
eight, seven, six, five,
四、三、二、一
four, three, two, one.
我们已经升空了
We have liftoff.
该死
Oh fuck.
加油 宝贝
Come on, baby.
拜托告诉我那是二级灯光
Please tell me that’s second-stage lights.
-靠 多谢
-我们已经进入2B
-Fuck. Thanks.
-We’re already 2B.
谢天谢地
Thank fucking God.
我是说 不管了
I mean, whatever.
感谢所有人 靠
-Thank whoever. Fuck.
加油 坚持住吧 该死的
Come on. Just fucking hold, you fucker.
进入轨道很困难
但我们在第一次飞行中学到了很多
It’s hard getting to orbit,
but we learned a lot on flight one,
我们在第二次飞行中学到了很多
we learned a lot on flight two,
我们在第三次飞行中也学到了很多
and we learned a huge amount
on flight three.
我们已经准备好飞行了
And we were ready to fly.
第二级接近发动机关闭
-Second stage approaching SECO.
那就是名义上的发动机关闭
-And that would be a nominal SECO…
也就是说猎鹰一号♥
是第一艘私人研发的运载火箭
…which means Falcon 1’s the first
privately developed launch vehicle
从地面到达地球轨道
to reach Earth orbit from the ground.
这是我人生中最美好的一天
This is one of the greatest days of my life,
我想对在座的大多数人来说也都是
and I think probably
for… for most people here.
我们已经向人们展示了
我们可以做到这一点 而这只是
We’ve shown people we can do it,
and this is just the first step of many,
最终到达火星的第一步
ultimately getting to Mars.
我认为太空探索技术公♥司♥的未来
会无限光明
And I think the future of SpaceX
is really great.
在宇宙飞行的历史上
In the history of spaceflight,
只有四个存在将太空舱送入轨道
only four entities
have launched a space capsule into orbit
并成功地又回到了地球