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Human curiositycuriosity (noun)A strong desire to learn or know something.≈ Synonym: inquisitiveness🇺🇿UZ: qiziquvchanlik🇷🇺RU: любопытство about spacespace (noun)The area beyond Earth's atmosphere.≈ Synonym: outer space🇺🇿UZ: kosmos🇷🇺RU: космос is far from new, but the ability to actually exploreexplore (verb)To travel through an unfamiliar area to learn about it.≈ Synonym: investigate🇺🇿UZ: o'rganmoq (izlanmoq)🇷🇺RU: исследовать it is remarkably recentrecent (adj)Happening a short time ago.≈ Synonym: new🇺🇿UZ: yaqinda bo'lgan🇷🇺RU: недавний. In 1969, the ApolloApollo (noun)The NASA programme that landed humans on the Moon.≈ Synonym: Apollo programme🇺🇿UZ: Apollon dasturi🇷🇺RU: программа Аполлон 11 missionmission (noun)An important assigned task, especially involving travel.≈ Synonym: task🇺🇿UZ: missiya🇷🇺RU: миссия made history when astronautsastronaut (noun)People trained to travel in space.≈ Synonym: spacefarers🇺🇿UZ: kosmonavtlar🇷🇺RU: космонавты became the first humans to walk on the Moon, a moment watched by hundreds of millions of people around the world. For decades afterwards, crewedcrewed (adj)Operated by a human crew, not automated.≈ Synonym: manned🇺🇿UZ: ekipajli🇷🇺RU: пилотируемый space exploration slowed, as attention shifted toward roboticrobotic (adj)Relating to or operated by robots.≈ Synonym: automated🇺🇿UZ: robotli🇷🇺RU: роботизированный missions and building space stationsspace station (noun)Structures in orbit designed for people to live and work.≈ Synonym: orbital stations🇺🇿UZ: kosmik stansiyalar🇷🇺RU: космические станции in Earth's orbit.
Robotic spacecraftspacecraft (noun)Vehicles designed to travel in space.≈ Synonym: space vehicles🇺🇿UZ: kosmik kemalar🇷🇺RU: космические аппараты have quietlyquietly (adverb)Without much attention or noise.≈ Synonym: unobtrusively🇺🇿UZ: sekin (e'tiborsiz)🇷🇺RU: незаметно achieved remarkable things during this time. Roversrover (noun)Vehicles designed to explore the surface of a planet.≈ Synonym: exploration vehicles🇺🇿UZ: roverlar🇷🇺RU: марсоходы (роверы) have driven across the surface of Mars, sending back detailed images and scientific data. Probesprobe (noun)Unmanned spacecraft sent to gather information.≈ Synonym: space probes🇺🇿UZ: zondlar🇷🇺RU: зонды have flown past every planet in our solar system, and some have even left it entirely, continuing to send signals from interstellarinterstellar (adj)Relating to the space between stars.≈ Synonym: between the stars🇺🇿UZ: yulduzlararo🇷🇺RU: межзвёздный space decades after launch. These unmannedunmanned (adj)Not having a human crew.≈ Synonym: uncrewed🇺🇿UZ: ekipajsiz🇷🇺RU: беспилотный missions are far cheaper and safer than sending humans, making them essential tools for scientific discoverydiscovery (noun)The act of finding something for the first time.≈ Synonym: finding🇺🇿UZ: kashfiyot🇷🇺RU: открытие.
In recent years, however, interest in sending humans back into deep space has returnedreturn (verb)Came back to a previous state or place.≈ Synonym: came back🇺🇿UZ: qaytdi🇷🇺RU: вернулся. Space agenciesagency (noun)Organisations providing a particular service.≈ Synonym: organisations🇺🇿UZ: agentliklar🇷🇺RU: агентства, alongside private companies, are now working toward returning astronauts to the Moon, this time with the goal of establishing a more permanentpermanent (adj)Lasting indefinitely; not temporary.≈ Synonym: lasting🇺🇿UZ: doimiy🇷🇺RU: постоянный presence rather than a brief visit. The long-term ambitionambition (noun)A strong desire to achieve something.≈ Synonym: aspiration🇺🇿UZ: orzu-intilish🇷🇺RU: амбиция for many in the space industry is even more distant: sending the first crewed mission to Mars.
A journey to Mars presents enormousenormous (adj)Extremely large.≈ Synonym: huge🇺🇿UZ: ulkan🇷🇺RU: огромный challengeschallenge (noun)Difficult tasks or situations.≈ Synonym: difficulties🇺🇿UZ: qiyinchiliklar🇷🇺RU: трудности. The trip alone would take many months each way, during which astronauts would be exposed to dangerous levels of radiationradiation (noun)Energy emitted as waves or particles, sometimes harmful.≈ Synonym: radioactive energy🇺🇿UZ: radiatsiya🇷🇺RU: радиация and the physical effects of weightlessnessweightlessness (noun)The condition of having no perceptible weight.≈ Synonym: zero gravity🇺🇿UZ: vaznsizlik🇷🇺RU: невесомость on the human body. Growing food, managing limited resourcesresource (noun)Materials or assets available for use.≈ Synonym: supplies🇺🇿UZ: resurslar🇷🇺RU: ресурсы, and simply staying mentally healthy during such a long, isolated journey all present serious obstaclesobstacle (noun)Things that block progress.≈ Synonym: barriers🇺🇿UZ: to'siqlar🇷🇺RU: препятствия that engineers and scientists are still working to solve.
Despite these difficulties, supporterssupporter (noun)People who favour or back something.≈ Synonym: advocates🇺🇿UZ: tarafdorlar🇷🇺RU: сторонники of space exploration argue that the benefits extend far beyond scientific curiositycuriosity (noun)A strong desire to learn or know something.≈ Synonym: inquisitiveness🇺🇿UZ: qiziquvchanlik🇷🇺RU: любопытство. Technologies originally developed for space missions have often found unexpected uses on Earth, and many believe that learning to live beyond our home planet could prove essential for humanity's long-term survivalsurvival (noun)The state of continuing to live or exist.≈ Synonym: continued existence🇺🇿UZ: omon qolish🇷🇺RU: выживание. Whether or not humans reach Mars within the coming decades, the renewed push into deep space marks a significant new chapterchapter (noun)A distinct period or stage in history.≈ Synonym: period🇺🇿UZ: bosqich (davr)🇷🇺RU: глава (этап) in our relationship with the universe.