范文：In April 1970, Apollo 13 was scheduled to land on the moon in NASA's bid to further explore the lunar surface. Instead, an in-flight explosion rocked the spacecraft, preventing astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise from landing on the moon.
Their weeklong ordeal in space captivated the world. Now, NASA and the Adler Planetarium in Chicago are celebrating what many call the "successful failure."
By April 1970, man had already landed on the moon and the public's interest in the space program began to wane.
1970年4月，阿波罗13号计划在美国宇航局的努力下登陆月球，进一步探索月球表面。相反，一次飞行中的爆炸震动了宇宙飞船，阻止了宇航员吉姆·洛维尔、杰克·斯威格特和弗雷德·海斯登上月球。
他们在太空中经历了一周的磨难，全世界都为之着迷。现在，美国宇航局和芝加哥阿德勒天文馆正在庆祝许多人所说的“成功失败”，到1970年4月，人类已经登上月球，公众对太空计划的兴趣开始减弱。
英语翻译技巧：
第一、省略翻译法
这与最开始提到的增译法相反，就是要求你把不符合汉语，或者英语的表达的方式、思维的习惯或者语言的习惯的部分删去，以免使所翻译出的句子沉杂累赘。
第二、合并法
合并翻译法就是把多个短句子或者简单句合并到一起，形成一个复合句或者说复杂句，多出现在汉译英的题目里出现，比如最后会翻译成定语从句、状语从句、宾语从句等等。
这是因为汉语句子里面喜欢所谓的“形散神不散”，即句子结构松散，但其中的语意又是紧密相连的，所以为了表达出这种感觉，汉语多用简单句进行写作。而英语则不同，它比较强调形式，结构严谨，所以会多用复杂句、长句。因此，汉译英时还需要注意介词、连词、分词的使用。
第三、拆分法
当然，英译汉的时候，就要采取完全相反的战术——拆分法，即把一个长难句细细拆分为一个个小短句、简单句，并适当补充词语，是句子通顺。最后，注意还需要按照汉语习惯调整语序，达到不仅能看懂而且不拗口的目标。
Their weeklong ordeal in space captivated the world. Now, NASA and the Adler Planetarium in Chicago are celebrating what many call the "successful failure."
By April 1970, man had already landed on the moon and the public's interest in the space program began to wane.
The Apollo 13 mission was slated to be the third lunar landing. But many news organizations initially overlooked it.
"The enthusiasm for lunar flights had diminished greatly," explained Lovell.
When Jim Lovell took command of Apollo 13, with astronauts Fred Haise and Jack Swigert, he was about to realize his dream to land on the moon.
But the dream faded two days into the mission. An explosion crippled the spacecraft soon after the crew wrapped up a lengthy live television broadcast.
"After that explosion, of course everyone was riveted as to what's going to happen," he added. "Can we get these guys back?"
With the world watching, flight controllers at NASA and the astronauts frantically worked to find a way to get them safely back to Earth.
For five days, through one crisis after another, the Apollo 13 crew and mission specialists on the ground worked through each difficulty. The astronauts survived by rationing water and food while using the lunar lander as a lifeboat before returning to the command module for re-entry to Earth.
Their efforts ended with splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. All three astronauts survived, and Apollo 13 became known as a "successful failure."
"It was a failure with regards to its initial mission, a success to the triumph of the people that suddenly were thrust upon a problem that they never anticipated, they never planned for, they never trained for, and were able to pull off successfully a successful recovery," said Lovell.
The ordeal was the basis of the 1995 movie Apollo 13. Tom Hanks starred as Jim Lovell.
Lovell never returned to space or landed on the moon, yet the movie made him a household name.
"I think it regenerated a whole new generation of young Americans about the space program," he said.
For the 40th anniversary of Apollo 13, events are planned at the Adler Planetarium near Lovell's home in Chicago, and at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Lovell will join fellow astronaut Fred Haise to mark the occasion. Jack Swigert died in 1982.
"I look at the 40th anniversary of Apollo 13 as the last anniversary of Apollo 13. The last anniversary probably of Apollo flights. I think we have to go forward now," Lovell noted.
But NASA's Space Shuttle program is scheduled to end in September, a move Lovell opposes because he says the United States will not be able to support the International Space Station.
Lovell says NASA currently lacks goals for the space program. He favors a project to send people to Mars, but he also wants to see American astronauts return to the one place he never reached, the surface of the moon.
阿波罗13号（发射于1947年4月11日,4月17日安全返回地球）是阿波罗计划（Project Apollo）中的第三次载人登月任务。发射后两天，服务舱的氧气罐发生的爆炸严重损坏了航天器，使其大量损失氧气和电力；三位宇航员使用航天器的登月舱作为太空中的救生艇。指令舱系统并没有损坏，但是为了节省电力在返回地球大气层之前都被关闭。三位宇航员在太空中经历了缺少电力、正常温度以及饮用水的问题，但仍然成功返回了地球。本回答被网友采纳