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原文：

The US military has always been part of NASA’s human spaceflight program. The first astronauts were nearly all military pilots, and two of the four crew members on Artemis II mission were Navy test pilots.

The mission will depart from NASA property on Florida’s Space Coast, but the Space Force will play an important role in the launch. An Air Force rescue team is on standby to rapidly deploy and retrieve astronauts if there’s an in-flight abort.　The Navy scooped up the Apollo astronauts when they returned from the Moon more than 50 years ago.

The Space Force is in the final stages of developing a roadmap for the next 15 years, identifying where the service needs to grow and evolve to respond to changing threats and priorities. It will address the possibility of the Moon or cislunar space, the region of space around the Moon, becoming a theater for military operations.

中譯：

美國軍方一直是美國國家航空暨太空總署（NASA）載人太空飛行計畫的一部分。首批太空人幾乎全是軍事飛行員，而在「阿提米絲2號」任務中，4名機組人員裡有2人曾是海軍試飛員。

任務將從佛羅里達太空海岸的NASA設施出發，但太空軍在發射過程中將扮演重要角色；空軍救援隊隨時待命，若飛行途中需要中止任務，將迅速出動並接回太空人。早在50多年前，海軍就曾在「阿波羅」太空人從月球返回時，負責將他們接回。

太空軍正處於制定未來15年發展藍圖的最後階段；該藍圖將界定其為應對不斷變化的威脅與優先事項所需的成長與轉型方向。其中將討論月球或地月空間可能成為軍事行動戰區的可能性。