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NASA says it mistakenly banned Chinese scientists from attending a science conference next month, blaming the mix-up on a 'misinterpretation of the agency's policy.' 美国国家航空航天局(NASA)说，它误禁中国籍科学家参加将于下个月召开的一个科学大会，将这一乌龙事件归咎于“对该机构政策的错误解读”。 It was reported earlier this month that NASA had decided to exclude Chinese nationals from the Kepler Science Conference taking place at the Ames research center in California next month. The ban provoked outrage from U.S. scientists and an angry letter from a U.S. congressman who said Congress had never authorized such a policy. 本月早些时候，有报道称NASA已决定不准中国籍人员参加将于下个月在加州艾姆斯研究中心(Ames Research Center)召开的开普勒科学大会(Kepler Science Conference)。此举引发了美国科学家们的强烈不满，一位美国国会议员甚至致信表达了愤怒之情，这位议员说，国会从未批准过这样一项政策。 | 
