To: NASA Administrator
Jim Bridenstine
Dear Jim!
50 years ago Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins put themselves into the world’s space exploration history books. They joined the crew of the great pioneers, who dared to set off on a journey to the unknown in order to push the boundaries of the reachable world for the humanity.
We should also pay tribute to all NASAengineering personnel having passed through a series of failures and tragedies managed to create "Saturn-5", the world’s first super heavy-lift launch vehicle, as well as the "Apollo" spacecraft.Their joint efforts, skills and knowledge turned into a reliable rocket and space system, which allowed implementing the "Soyuz-Apollo"projectin the following years.
I do believe that our common goal is to be worthy of our great predecessors, to enrich their heritage and overcome all the difficulties on the Earth in order to continue the expansion of the humanity into space.
As Konstantin Tsiolkovskyputit, "The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever!"
Sincerely,
Dr. Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of the "Roscosmos" State Space Corporation, Russian Presidential Envoy for International Space Cooperation
致：美国宇航局局长
Jim Bridenstine
亲爱的吉姆！
50年前，尼尔阿姆斯特朗，巴兹奥尔德林和迈克尔柯林斯将自己置身于世界太空探索史书中。他们加入了伟大先驱者的工作人员，他们敢于踏上未知之旅，为人类推动可达世界的界限。
我们还应该向所有经过一系列失败和悲剧的NASA工程人员致敬，他们设法创造了世界上第一辆超级重型运载火箭“土星5号”，以及“阿波罗”号太空船。他们共同努力，技能和知识变成了一个可靠的火箭和太空系统，允许在接下来的几年中实施“联盟 - 阿波罗”项目。
我确实相信，我们的共同目标是配得上我们伟大的前辈，丰富他们的遗产，克服地球上的所有困难，以便继续将人类扩展到太空。
正如Konstantin Tsiolkovskyputit所说，“地球是人类的摇篮，但人们 永远不能生活在摇篮中！”
此致
俄罗斯国际空间合作特使 “俄罗斯国家空间公司” 总干事德米特里·罗戈津博士
转载自：http://en.roscosmos.ru/20817/
