Apollo 11 Goodwill Messages

Apollo 11 Goodwill Messages阿波罗 11 号友好信息#

NASA Release No. 69-83F. For release Sunday, July 13, 1969.

美国国家航空航天局新闻稿第 69-83F 号。1969 年 7 月 13 日（星期日）发布。

A small disc carrying statements by Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon and messages of goodwill from leaders of 73 countries around the world will be left on the Moon by the Apollo 11 astronauts.

一枚小圆片将由阿波罗 11 号的宇航员留在月球上。圆片上载有艾森豪威尔、肯尼迪、约翰逊和尼克松四位总统的声明，以及世界各地 73 个国家领导人的友好信息。

The disc also carries a listing of the leadership of the Congress and a listing of members of the four committees of the House and Senate responsible for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration legislation. Additionally, the names of NASA's top management, including past Administrators and Deputy Administrators, and the present NASA management are included.

圆片上还列有国会领导层的名单，以及参众两院负责国家航空航天局立法的四个委员会的成员名单。此外，国家航空航天局最高管理层的名字也收录其中，包括历任局长、副局长和现任管理层。

These include NASA's first Administrator, Dr. T. Keith Glennan; its long-time Deputy Administrator, the late Dr. Hugh L. Dryden; former Administrator James E. Webb; and former Deputy Administrator, Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr., present Secretary of the Air Force.

其中有国家航空航天局首任局长 T. 基思·格伦南博士；长期担任副局长、已故的休·L. 德莱登博士；前任局长詹姆斯·E. 韦伯；以及前任副局长、现任空军部长小罗伯特·C. 西曼斯博士。

Dr. Thomas O. Paine is the present NASA Administrator.

现任局长是托马斯·O. 佩恩博士。

The disc, about the size of a 50-cent piece, is made of silicon — a non-metallic chemical element found abundantly in nature and used widely in modern electronics.

圆片大约有一枚五十美分硬币那么大，用硅制成。硅是一种非金属化学元素，在自然界中储量丰富，在现代电子技术中用途广泛。

Through a process used to make microminiature electronic circuits, the statements, the messages, and names were etched on the grey-colored disc. Each message was reduced 200 times to a size much smaller than the head of a pin (0.0425 x 0.055 inches) and appears on the disc as a barely visible dot.

这些声明、信息和名字，是用制造微型电子电路的工艺蚀刻在这枚灰色圆片上的。每一份信息都缩小了 200 倍，比针头还小得多（0.0425 × 0.055 英寸），在圆片上只是一个几乎看不见的小点。

NASA's Electronics Research Center at Cambridge, Mass., was assisted by the Sprague Electric Company's Semi-Conductor Division, Worcester, Mass., in preparing the historic disc.

国家航空航天局设在马萨诸塞州剑桥的电子研究中心，在马萨诸塞州伍斯特的斯普拉格电气公司半导体分部协助下，制作了这枚具有历史意义的圆片。

In addition to the disc, Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., will also leave on the lunar surface an American flag and a plaque inscribed "Here men from the planet Earth/First set foot upon the Moon/July 1969 A.D./We came in peace for all mankind." The plaque will bear the names of Armstrong, Aldrin, the third Apollo astronaut, Michael Collins, and President Nixon, and will be attached to a leg of the descent stage of the lunar module.

除了这枚圆片，宇航员尼尔·A. 阿姆斯特朗和小埃德温·E. 奥尔德林还将在月面上留下一面美国国旗和一块铭牌，上面刻着：“来自行星地球的人类／在这里第一次踏上月球／公元 1969 年 7 月／我们为全人类，和平而来。”铭牌上将有阿姆斯特朗、奥尔德林、第三位阿波罗宇航员迈克尔·柯林斯和尼克松总统的名字，并将固定在登月舱下降级的一条支腿上。

At the top of the disc is the incription: "Goodwill messages from around the world brought to the Moon by the astronauts of Apollo 11." Around the rim is the statement: "From Planet Earth — July 1969."

圆片顶端的铭文是：“来自世界各地的友好信息，由阿波罗 11 号宇航员带到月球。”沿圆片边缘写着：“来自行星地球——1969 年 7 月。”

The messages from foreign leaders congratulate the United States and its astronauts and also express hope for peace to all nations of the world. Some are handwritten, others typed and many are in native language. A highly decorative message from the Vatican is signed by Pope Paul.

各国领导人的信息向美国和它的宇航员表示祝贺，也表达了对世界各国和平的希望。有的是手写的，有的是打字的，许多用的是各自的本国语言。一份装饰华美的信息来自梵蒂冈，由教宗保禄签名。

Silicon, which first came into general use during World War II in the production of diodes, was chosen to bear the miniaturized messages for its ability to withstand the extreme temperatures of the Moon which range from 250 degrees to minus 280 Fahrenheit.

硅最早在第二次世界大战期间被普遍用于制造二极管。选用硅来承载这些缩微信息，是因为它经得住月球上的极端温度——从华氏 250 度到零下 280 度。

Because of its purity and stability, silicon is used extensively today in production of tiny integrated circuits by a process that permits hundreds of devices to be formed at one time within the thin silicon disc.

由于纯度高、性质稳定，硅如今被大量用于制造微小的集成电路：这种工艺可以在一片薄薄的硅片上一次做出成百个器件。

The same process used in making integrated circuits produced the message chip. First, the messages were photographed and the photo reduced 200 times.

这枚信息芯片，正是用制造集成电路的同一种工艺做成的。先把信息拍成照片，再把照片缩小 200 倍。

The resulting image was transferred to glass which was used as a mask through which ultra-violet light was beamed onto a photo-sensitive film on the silicon disc. After a photo-development step, the disc was washed with hydroflouric acid which accomplished the final etching.

得到的图像被转印到玻璃上，作为掩模；紫外光透过掩模，照在硅片表面的感光膜上。经过显影之后，再用氢氟酸冲洗圆片，完成最后的蚀刻。

The disc itself is fragile and will be transported by the astronauts in an aluminum capsule and will remain in the capsule on the lunar surface.

圆片本身很易碎，宇航员会把它装在一个铝制小盒里带去，它也将留在盒中，放在月面上。

The words on the disc, although not visible to the naked eye, will remain readable through a microscope.

圆片上的字虽然肉眼看不见，但用显微镜仍然可以读出来。