2006年01月13日
ENS巴西,巴西利亞報導;翁綉盈編譯;蔡麗伶審校
巴西空軍中校邦第斯(Marco Pontes)將成為巴西史上第一位太空人,他將在太空著手進行九項科學實驗,其中一項實驗是由巴西農業研究組織籌備,試圖研究熱帶植物的種子在太空站會產生什麼樣的作用。
Tropical Plant Will Orbit Earth With Brazil's First Astronaut
Brazil will, for the first time, send an astronaut, Lt. Col. Marco Pontes of the Brazilian Air Force, on a mission into space. Pontes will be taking nine Brazilian scientific experiments with him. One of them, prepared by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Company, is intended to evaluate how a seed from a tropical tree behaves aboard a space station.