The viewing area is safe, but by the time the launch comes, in addition to the three astronauts, several others will be in danger: the crew of the base launch camera, plus two videographers from the United Television Network, will be filming a few hundred meters from the rocket launch pad.

During the Soviet era, there were several major accidents in the course of space engineering and the development of intercontinental missiles, which not only sacrificed the lives of many cosmonauts, but also more terrifying things: on October 24, 1960, in Baikonur, the first Soviet intercontinental missile, the R-16, had an ignition failure, which turned the scene into hell!

During the emergency troubleshooting, the missile exploded directly on the launch pad, and a total of 161 people were killed, including the commander of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces, the commander of the artillery Mitrovan Ivanovich Nederin, which was also the most tragic rocket explosion accident in the world!

In the following years, on October 24, the Baikonur Space Center suffered another tragic accident and many casualties, and since then there will be no more launches in Baikonur on October 24 every year.

Safety is only relatively speaking, and all seats in the viewing area are placed on one side of the GP-5 gas mask, which is not very advanced, but not outdated, or for safety.

Andre held one in his hand and walked to Zhang Nan's side, but before he could speak, Zhang Nan said, "I will use it." ”

The deputy captain of the Red Devil was probably worried that the boss would not use gas masks, and Zhang Nan saw through it - the famous "dead man's head" gas masks, which were produced from 1970 to 1989, were in huge stock in all the Soviet republics, and Baikonur also stocked a lot of these things.

The Proton rocket used highly toxic metadimethylhydrazine liquid fuel, toxic and corrosive nitrous tetroxide as an oxidizing agent, and it was loaded with hundreds of tons!

If the launch fails, it is very likely to cause serious pollution to the area around the launch site, and if it explodes on the launch pad and the wind direction happens to happen, even if it does not kill you, it can poison a large area!

Gas masks are indispensable at the launch site, and when the launch comes, the children will simply watch the launch through the extremely strong bulletproof glass inside the bunker.

The space center has only gas masks for adults, and the noise from the launch is too loud, and small children need protection.

Zhang Nan motioned for Andre to sit on the side and asked, "The photographer in front of him won't shoot naked, right?"

Of course, naked is not naked, Zhang Nan means that those brave guys have no means to save their lives, at least better than nothing.

When ordinary people watch the footage of the rocket launch on TV, the general feeling is that it is magnificent and shocking - those shots describe not only magnificence, but also a kind of blooming and perseverance of life!

But few people would have thought about whether the precious footage of the rocket launch was taken at the risk of someone's life, or whether it was the kind with the head tied to the waistband of the pants.

In general, the safe distance of a rocket launch is 2.5 kilometers, and the camera crew is often only a few hundred meters away from the rocket, and these brave photographers are the closest people to the rocket launch, except for the astronauts.

Here Andre heard the boss's question, and said: "There are still a few safety guarantees, there is a deep ditch behind the shooting platform, and you can jump into the ditch immediately at the critical moment, if you have time."

I also had a gas mask with me, and I had cotton stuffed in my ears, and I just saw that the photographer at the base had given some to the two guys in the company. ”

Rockets are noisy, and if you wear noise-canceling headphones and it is not convenient to operate the camera, cotton is the best choice, which is better than earplugs.

Not stuffed?

Beware of short-term deafness!

When Zhang Nan heard this, he seemed to think of something funny, and said with a smile: "I'll tell you a joke..."

Andre looked very interested in the jokes that the boss was going to tell, probably to help the boss relax, and I don't know if it was pretending to be - the Red Devils, all of whom are top actors.

"I heard from a friend that the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Huaxia is about 50 kilometers away from the city of Xichang, and once in the early morning, freshmen studying in Xichang were sleeping.

Suddenly, the whole earth was shaking, and the glass was shaking, and everyone thought it was an earthquake.

By the way, there were a lot of earthquakes in Xichuan Province, and a group of college students ran downstairs like crazy in shorts and vests, and a large group of people were still shouting: Earthquake, earthquake!

And then..

The young men and big girls who fled for their lives soon found that except for their own freshman dormitories, the nearby dormitory buildings were quiet.

After a while, someone leaned out of the window and scolded loudly: What a fuss, I haven't seen a rocket launch, what a bun!"

"Hehe," Andrei laughed.

Not only him, but also several people who heard the conversation on the side.

Zhang Nan didn't ask Andre if he knew about Xichang, a former veteran KGB should certainly know the location of the important space center in Huaxia.

When the rocket is launched, people who are 50 kilometers away can feel it, and now Zhang Nan and others are waiting less than three kilometers away from the launch pad, or facing a large-tonnage proton rocket, what will it be like to pass?

Zhang Nan has added a piece in his two lives, and today is the first time to watch the rocket launch on the spot, but he has heard a friend say how he feels about the rocket launch: In his last life, a friend and his sister and his family went to the northwest for a trip to Jiuquan, where a leader in the launch center was a college friend of his brother-in-law.

Originally, I wanted to get together and have a meal, but I didn't expect to run into an important launch mission, Shenzhou. Without violating the rules, the leader arranged for the two families, who had arrived from afar and had not seen each other for many years, to watch the rocket launch from a safe distance.

In the words of a friend: "The earth is shaking, the whole earth and the air are roaring, shaking, absolutely shaking! I'm numb from the top of my head to the soles of my feet!"

Nong Bosheng and several other experts were sitting behind Zhang Nan, and hearing the conversation between the two, Nong Bosheng sighed: "I don't know when we in Huaxia will be able to send astronauts to space." ”

Zhang Nan turned his head slightly, "I think it will be about the same in another ten years, very soon." ”

"We're already working on this research?"

"The project was established last year, but I didn't pay attention to the news?" Zhang Nan knew in his heart that there was no need to deliberately conceal that matter in China.

Nong Bosheng smiled slightly embarrassed: "I really didn't pay attention." ”

Zhang Nan turned his mind and said with a smile: "I remember, when the project was decided, you were probably starting the ancient Silk Road investigation, of course I don't know...

By the way, what's going on this trip to Almaty?"

Not to mention the launch of the spacecraft, talking nonsense about other things, Zhang Nan is decompressing himself.

But soon there was no more nonsense: a blackout shed was erected on the diagonal side, and a large television set was placed in it, which would turn on the signal - not an ordinary TV signal, but a surveillance video of the ship's interior from the command center.

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