space taxi 太空的士

space taxi
繁：太空的士
简：太空的士

The company took over one of the hangars used by NASA´s now-retired space shuttles for a commercial space taxi that will ferry astronauts and potentially paying passengers to and from the International Space Station, a $100 billion research laboratory that flies about 250 miles (400 km) above Earth.

Prigg, M. (2017, May 25). The X-37b’s big brother gets the go ahead: Boeing to build XS-1 ‘Phantom Express’ hypersonic space plane that will allow short notice military satellite launches. Daily Mail. Retrieved from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4539610/The-military-s-XS-1-hypersonic-space-plane-revealed.html

美國太空總署（NASA）前日（周二）宣佈，將68億美元（530億港元）的載人太空船合約，外判給波音公司和私人航天公司SpaceX，預計「太空的士」2017年可首度升空，毋須再依賴俄羅斯的載人火箭「聯合號」（Soyuz）。

獲530億「太空的士」合約    SpaceX波音2017載人升空（2014年9月18日）。香港蘋果日報，取自http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/international/art/20140918/18869847