1、(A hearing is held to discuss Farmer’s space-going plan.)

1、Judge A: Who’s your personnel at Mission Control?

2、Farmer: Shepard Farmer, my son.

3、Judge A: Does he have any experience?

4、Farmer: ①Sure does. Fifteen years.

5、Judge A: Is this a joke to you, Mr. Farmer? A 15-year-old will be the head of your Mission Control?

6、Farmer: He’s perfectly capable of launching his dad into space. Don’t 1)underestimate what my child can do.

7、Judge B: Come on. He’s 15 years old.

8、Colonel: We also have an 2)evaluation that was done recently by a Dr. Beth Goode.

9、Lawyer: Nurse Goode?

10、Colonel: These are alarming comments made by the doctor. She said that Mr. Farmer is angry.unstable.

11、3)delusional.and that his overall mental health is in question. Charlie, ②your father took his own life, is that correct?

12、Farmer: Don’t go there, colonel.

13、Judges: I can tell you right now, ③what you have built here.is a one-way ticket to the afterlife. A facility in which Mr. Farmer could get himself into space. The U.S. government has a space program, Mr. Farmer. Why don’t you just leave this to the professionals?

14、Farmer: In 1960 they started a space race. By 1969 we were on the moon. Now, in that short period of time, look what we 4)accomplished. And in my opinion, I believe that if some other country.wanted to go to the moon and live there.we’d get in a war with them because we think the moon is ours. Well, it’s not. Just like it’s not your right to tell me whether or not I can launch into space.

15、Judge B: Mr. Farmer, we have laws.

16、Farmer: I know we have laws. We got all kind of laws. We got more laws to tell us what we can’t do than anything else. We got laws to protect us from other laws.

17、Judge B: Comments like that do not help.

18、Farmer: Listen, I…I…you’ve been talking all morning. Let me talk for a minute. Okay? I won’t take long. You see, when I was a kid, they used to tell me that I could be anything I wanted to be. No matter what. And maybe I am

19、5)insane, I don’t know, but I still believe that. I believe it with all my heart. ④Somewhere along the line.we stopped believing that we could do anything. And if we don’t have our dreams, we have nothing.

20、Judge B: ⑤You’ll be informed of our decision.

21、（专家小组就法默要上太空的决定召开听证会。