Since the Titanic vanished beneath the frigid waters of the North Atlantic 85 years ago, nothing in the hundreds of books and films about the ship has ever hinted at a connection to Japan -- until now. Director James Cameron’s’ 200 million epic Titanic premiered at the Tokyo International Film Festival last Saturday. Among the audience for a glimpse of Hollywood’s costliest film ever descendants of the liner’s only Japanese survivor.
The newly rediscovered diary of Masabumi Hosono has Titanic enthusiasts in a frenzy. The document is scrawled in 4,300 Japanese character on a rare piece of RMS Titanic stationery. Written as the Japanese bureaucrat steamed to safety in New York aboard the ocean liner Carpathia, which rescued 706 survivors, the account and other documents released by his grandchildren last week offer a fresh -- and poignant -- reminder of the emotional wreckage left by the tragedy.
Hosono, then 42 and an official at Japan&rsquo
A. Masabumi Hosono.
B. Yuriko.
C. Cameron.
D. RMS.
Since ancient times, people have
dreamed of leaving their home planet and exploring other worlds. In the later
half of the 20th century, that dream became reality. The space age began with
the launch of the first artificial satellites in 1963. A human first went into
space in 1963. Since then, astronauts and cosmonauts have ventured into space
for ever greater lengths of time, even living aboard orbiting space stations for
months on end. Two dozen people have circled the moon or walked on its surface.
At the same time, robotic explorers have journeyed where humans could not go,
visiting all but one of the solar system’s major worlds. Unpiloted spacecraft
have also visited a host of minor bodies such as moons, comets, and asteroids.
These explorations have sparked the advance of new technologies, from rockets t A. The challenge was developing rockets powerful enough and reliable enough to boost a satellite into orbit. B. The challenge was building the satellites themselves. C. Engineers also had to build tracking stations to maintain radio communications with these artificial "moons" as they circled the planet. D. The development of rockets and satellites. 我来回答: 提交
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