The popular National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. has partly reopened. The museum had been closed for almost seven months.
华盛顿特区广受欢迎的国家航空航天博物馆已部分重新开放。博物馆已经关闭了将近七个月。
 
It now has eight new exhibitions, hundreds of new artifacts, and 50 digital interactive exhibits. Among the exhibits are The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age and Exploring the Planets.
它现在有 八个新展览，数百件新文物和50个数字互动展品。展品包括莱特兄弟和航空时代的发明和探索行星。
 
The museum built digital interactive exhibits to make it more modern and interesting for visitors.
博物馆建造了数字互动展品，使参观者更加现代和有趣。
 
"The planets gallery is a fully immersive journey through our solar system, stopping at different locations, and seeing what that looks like on a large scale," Kinney said. "You learn about the surface of different planets and asteroids. It almost feels like you're walking on them."
“这是一种反映21 世纪的体验，将人们带入数字时代，”杰里米·金尼 (Jeremy Kinney) 说。他是博物馆负责研究和策展事务的副主任，负责文物的保存和向公众展示。
 
Eighteen-year-old Taylor Brautigan recently visited the museum.
新展品包括太阳系的互动之旅。
 
"It was fantastic to see how different the planets are, and it made me want to find out more about them," she said.
“行星画廊是一次穿越我们太阳系的完全身临其境的旅程，在不同的地点停留，并在大范围内看到它的样子，”金尼说。“你了解不同行星和小行星的表面。感觉就像你在它们上面行走。”
 
Exhibits tell stories
十八岁的泰勒布劳蒂根最近参观了博物馆。
 
Visitors can see favorite object in new displays that tell interesting stories.
“看到这些行星有多么不同真是太棒了，这让我想了解更多关于它们的信息，”她说。
 
They include the 1903 Wright Flyer, the first powered and piloted mechanical aircraft.
其中包括 1903 年的 Wright Flyer，这是第一架有动力和有人驾驶的机械飞机。
 
Ahmed Chaudry had traveled from Pakistan to visit relatives in Washington. He said he had looked forward to seeing the aircraft.
Ahmed Chaudry 曾从巴基斯坦前往华盛顿探亲。他说他期待看到这架飞机。
 
 
"The exhibit explains the background behind the Wright Brothers and what they went through to build the plane," he said. "They only flew it for 12 seconds the first time, but it was incredible they were able to do that."
“展览解释了莱特兄弟背后的背景以及他们建造飞机的经历，”他说。“他们第一次只飞了 12 秒，但他们能够做到这一点令人难以置信。”
 
The Destination Moon exhibit shows well-known artifacts from space history, including the Apollo 11 command module, Columbia, and the spacesuit astronaut Neil Armstrong wore during the journey to the moon in 1969.
目的地月球展览展示了太空历史中的著名文物，包括阿波罗 11 号指挥舱、哥伦比亚号和 1969 年登月之旅中穿的宇航服宇航员尼尔·阿姆斯特朗。
 
Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon.
阿姆斯特朗是第一个在月球上行走的人。
 
Including more women and people of color
包括更多的女性和有色人种
 
More important work by women and people of color are presented than were in the past.
展示了比过去更重要的女性和有色人种的作品。
 
These include the air racer built by Neal Loving, the first African American to be licensed as a racing pilot, and a supersonic jet trainer flown by Jackie Cochran. She was the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound.
其中包括由 Neal Loving 制造的空中赛车，第一位获得赛车飞行员执照的非裔美国人，以及由 Jackie Cochran 驾驶的超音速喷气教练机。她是第一位飞行速度超过音速的女性。
 
The museum also describes the discrimination they faced, however.
然而，博物馆也描述了他们所面临的歧视。
 
"Our goal is to tell the whole history of air and space which also includes gender and race discrimination," said Kinney.
“我们的目标是讲述整个航空和太空的历史，其中还包括性别和种族歧视，”金尼说。
 
That includes women who qualified for but were denied entry into the space program. The museum also explains that Black people were permitted on commercial passenger planes but not in some airports because of the color of their skin.
这包括有资格但被拒绝进入太空计划的女性。博物馆还解释说，黑人被允许乘坐商用客机，但由于肤色原因，某些机场不允许他们乘坐。
 
The rest of the museum is set to open in 2025.
博物馆的其余部分将于 2025 年开放。