Within eight days starting tomorrow afternoon, Guan Xingquan's life will no longer be under his control, and for him, this situation has never happened before, and it is very different from the situation in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam and the Liangshan round war in 79!

In the days when bullets rained down, and even when it rained down with shells in the sky, Boss Guan could grasp his own destiny to a certain extent by relying on his extremely excellent military quality, but this trip was to space!

In his last life, Zhang Nan met a conductor surnamed Liu who ran the Lucheng Line in Jiangnan Province in his last life, and he said that "everything is difficult three feet above the ground", which is very reasonable.

And this Guan Xingquan is not facing the three-foot height of the train chassis, nor the 30,000 feet of the plane, or even more than 300 kilometers!

The lift-off stage of the Soyuz spacecraft is like lying on top of a giant bomb that is in danger of exploding at any time, and after docking, the environment in this space is fine, at least in Zhang Nan's memory, the Mir space station has not been smashed by a meteorite.

But when they return to Earth a week later, the return capsule will be a super fireball, and the astronauts will be able to take emergency measures against possible unexpected situations during the whole process from liftoff to return to the surface, but it is better than nothing.

To use a metaphor that is not entirely correct, from tomorrow onwards, Boss Guan will be a patient on the operating table, and his life will not be in his own hands after general anesthesia.

Although the ground staff of the space center can do not much more than the astronauts themselves, they can still intervene in the entire flight process to a certain extent.

Kwan Xingquan is family!

If your family wants to have a general anesthesia operation, if you don't stuff a red envelope of 3 or 5,000 yuan into the surgeon, can you rest assured?

Don't say nonsense like "doctors don't accept red envelopes", this bad habit may be banned in small places, but not in big places?

Don't be funny, Zhang Nan sent it in his last life, and he didn't know how many times he had rectified it at that time!

Do an operation and send a red envelope to the chief surgeon to ask for peace of mind, this trip Guan Xingquan went to space, dozens of measurement and control stations in Russia, the former few union republics, and people on ocean-going survey ships did not care about this Zhang Nan, but there were a lot of relevant experts on Baikonur's side.

Press the head, and you have to smash it around.

The people who came today are all heads and brains, everyone has a share, and the $500,000 will be shared by the family, Zhang Nan doesn't know how many other people are involved, who is important and which one plays soy sauce.

As for how to divide it and whether to divide it, Zhang Nan doesn't care.

It's not strange to have many people, but the question is whether this will be a group of commanders-in-chief, chief engineers or something?

A penny is hard to beat a hero, and now the ruble has depreciated at least hundreds of times, and the salary of specialists seems to have risen a lot, but the standard of living does not know how much it has fallen!

Five or six years ago, the fare for taking the subway back in Moscow was only 5 cents, but now it is 400 rubles, an increase of 8,000 times!

This will make the actual monthly salary level of the average skilled worker in Russia less than 100 US dollars, even the engineers here in the space city, it will not reach 200 US dollars, this 10,000 red envelopes...

The experts saw that there were no outsiders, and even the several middle and senior officers of the Russian army who accompanied them did not feel strange, and these people probably also accepted them.

That... Why don't you take it!

In the past two years, comrades have had a really difficult time!

In addition, the experts also understand the mentality of the guests and spend money to buy peace of mind. Give a reason to buy cigarettes, listen to the auspicious, auspicious red envelope, and ask for a lottery: Russians also pay attention to this, and the reason is reasonable.

Of course, a few non-technical officers would not object, they also took it, or the former KGB officer who arrived ahead of schedule gave it, and if you don't take it, you have to take it!

The money was sent out, and the two partners who went to space together in a room of people Guan Boss did not give it, but Alexander Stepanovich and Sergei Krykalyov were not at all blushing.

Boss Guan has been with these two for two months, and they have long been good friends.

Friends directly gave money customs before, and Guan Boss had already introduced two good jobs to the families of the two astronauts before.

In those days, the cosmonauts were not wealthy, and although their lives were secure, they were definitely not as comfortable as they were in the Soviet Union.

There were red envelopes, and the two private jets also randomly brought a large number of gifts, all of which were high-end Western sweets and fresh tropical fruits.

There is a shortage of fruit in Moscow in May, and tropical fruits are a luxury that only a few wealthy and high-ranking officials can eat, not to mention the fact that this is a semi-desert region in Kazakhstan, and logistics are already difficult.

As for sweets and chocolates, the Russian people are particularly fond of them.

There are also hundreds of cases of wine from famous wineries on the Pacific coast of North America, which are now as high as Bordeaux;

Dozens of boxes of 53-degree Moutai, these are the goods on Moscow, last year's goods, good things transported to Russia by the Eurasian railway.

If you can drink it, you can drink it tonight, Moutai's famous Maozi know that the aroma of wine is not comparable to vodka with a clear alcohol atmosphere, but most Maozi are difficult to adapt to the alcohol content of 53 degrees, and they will drink high if they are not careful.

Moutai is easy to eat, and it doesn't have a headache when drunk, but it is much stronger than 40-degree standard vodka!

After the meeting, a large group of people had a meal together, and even the three astronauts ate together in the magnificent banquet hall.

However, Guan Xingquan and the three of them can't let go of eating casually, let alone drinking, and they have to break up until six o'clock in the evening, and the astronauts need to rest.

Zhang Nan sat with Guan Xingquan, and on the other side of Guan Boss sat Xiang Weirong's family.

The traditional Russian diet, served with wine, but no one drinks much today.

There was a lot of wine on one side of the banquet hall, and Guan Xingquan, who had drunk some apple juice, called a waiter halfway through the meal and said a few words in Russian, and the latter nodded in understanding.

Zhang Nangang had a drink with the commander-in-chief comrade here, and when he saw Guan Xingquan's actions, he asked casually: "Is there something?"

Guan Xingquan grinned, and said in the password-like Yanxian dialect: "When we finish this meal, the extra will be divided, and I will ask the waiter to leave me two boxes of Moutai." ”

Zhang Nan thought that he was going to take it to the astronaut dormitory to give it away, but he didn't think much about it.

However, I didn't expect Boss Guan to lower his voice for a rare time in a thousand years, and said mysteriously: "We have to take the Mir up, Alexander said that the strategic reserves above have long been out of stock, and the few guys who were resident before are going crazy when they want to drink!"

Zhang Nan's eyes widened, and his face was incredulous: I had heard that Soviet cosmonauts had brought spirits into space before, but...

The conditioned reflex generally turned to look at the place where the wine was put - the Feitian Moutai sent this time was a large box of 500 ml and 12 bottles!

24 bottles, 12,000 ml!

"Can you bring it?" Zhang Nan wondered, couldn't help but ask, and compared the volume of the box.

"Of course, you can't use boxes, where is there a place to stuff, the bottles are dead heavy. If you let those on the other side know, they'll be crazy..."

On the other side, the command staff on the ground. Obviously, the astronauts have their own small group, an invisible gulf between them and the people on the ground, and there are also secrets that only "their own people" keep.

"Take half of it, and the other half as a cover to send people away.

With a plastic bag for drinking water, 500 ml, there is a place to hide.

When I go back, I will fill it, and one bottle and one bag will be just right. ”

Regarding Guan Boss's words, Zhang Nan said that he had to accept - all the things brought on this trip are Feitian Moutai, and Feitian Moutai goes to space, which is suitable for the situation!

"But... You can fit in your spacesuit? Also, that's about 6 kilograms more, no problem, right?" Zhang Nan still has questions and worries.

Guan Xingquan smiled "hehe", "If there is a margin, 16 kilograms is no problem."

We don't have to hide ourselves, we'll take a helicopter to the space center tomorrow morning, and in the morning Commander Alexander will have to do one last simple entry check, and then we will be able to put it in the return capsule.

The launch window is in the afternoon and evening, and that's how it works. ”

After speaking, Guan Xingquan ate the rest of the food on his plate in a few bites, got up and said, "Squad leader, Anan, everyone, see you at noon tomorrow." ”

The astronauts are going to rest, and there is still canned "work" to do at night, so let's go.

After noon tomorrow, they will enter the spaceship in advance, and then Zhang Nan and the others will be able to meet the warriors who set off once.

It is a warrior, no matter when and in which country, those who dare to go to space are real warriors!

The three astronauts left, and the banquet had no point in continuing to open, and everyone ate hastily.

Go to the hotel next door, go to the space center overnight, tomorrow will be the highlight.

When arriving at the hotel, Zhang Nan met Nong Bosheng and his apprentice Chen Jianghua, who had arrived in Lenin City because of the delay of the plane.

Since someone took them to their rooms and dined, they won't talk tonight, and we'll talk about it tomorrow after it's over, and then there will be time.

At nine o'clock in the morning of the next day, Zhang Nan and his large group took several buses to the Baikonur Space Center, which was dozens of kilometers away.

The space center is very large, with a total of about 6,000 square kilometers, divided into multiple areas and launch points, and it is very desolate from the car window.

And it's not just desolate, it's even a bit "dirty" and old-fashioned, because you can occasionally see some buildings and facilities that were abandoned in the early years on the roadside.

The Russians have been operating here for nearly 40 years, and many outdated facilities have been abandoned, but there is a place for reconstruction.

As for "dirty", it is because many places in this large area have been polluted by toxic fuels and other chemicals because of thousands of rocket launches over the past few decades!

It took about an hour for the car to get there, and I first visited one of the command centers for a short visit, because Russia now has the intention and negotiation to cooperate with the United States in the development of space technology, and even the staff of the United Television Network, which came with it, were allowed to enter it for restricted filming.

The busy staff were very friendly to this group of big guys from China and the United States, and it could be seen on their faces that it seemed that the 500,000 red envelopes had played a role.

Simple Chinese food, after two o'clock in the afternoon, the astronauts set out for the expedition.

In the distance, there is a towering proton rocket against the Soyuz spacecraft, and the departure ceremony is very simple, to put it bluntly, Guan Xingquan and Zhang Nan and others standing in front of a white line are a few high.

Because he was wearing an indoor spacesuit with a helmet, Guan Xingquan's head was slightly tilted forward, and it was not the usual straight feeling.

The astronauts said a few words, "The Soyuz TM-17 spacecraft is ready to depart, the astronauts are who", there are smiles here, but most of them have serious faces, like Zhang Hui, Chariz Theron and Alice, and even their eyes are red.

There is a national flag on the left chest of the spacesuit, and Zhang Nan saw that Guan Xingquan's clothes were covered with a five-star red flag!

No matter what Huaxia thinks in China, Boss Guan is wearing it anyway.

The three astronauts simply finished their speeches in turn and saluted!

"Huh", not only almost all the Russians on the scene (the experts are actually soldiers, at least with a technical rank), but there are also a group of men on Zhang Nan's side who returned the salute at the same time.

is discharged from the army, but Guan Xingquan still salutes the standard Chinese military strength, and Xiang Weirong, Alyosha, Lin Ming, Andre and others also reflexively return the salute.

Among the people around Zhang Nan are Chinese-style and Soviet-style military salutes: several red devils present are also returning the salute.

However, there are not only two kinds of military forces at the scene: Chinese-style and Russian-style, but also two other ones: Paul, Randy, Linman and others are American-style military salutes, as for Davis and Zack, it is an American police salute, which is slightly different from the salute of the US military.

No one will think that the four salutes look chaotic, very formal, very solemn!

Xiang Weirong lowered his arm and said loudly to Guan Xingquan in front of him: "Guan Xingquan, listen to my orders!"

Guan Xingquan's whole body reflexively stood up again: how many years have I not heard such an order.

"Come back alive!" Xiang Weirong ordered.

Guan Xingquan, who had already finished saluting, saluted again and said loudly: "Yes!

At this moment, Zhang Nan felt that his brother-in-law and Guan Xingquan were simply cool!

No, it's not cool, it's hard to describe.

The astronauts got into the car and headed to the launch pad, which was nearly 3 kilometers away. As for Zhang Nan and the others, they walked more than 100 meters in the direction of the launch pad, where there was an audience seat, and behind it was a row of cement trenches similar to bullet shelters, and there was an open door in the ditch, and there was a solid bunker when they entered.

In the event of an accident, those watching the launch can get into cover as quickly as possible: the rocket is not a nuclear bomb, and in the event of an explosion, it will not have the power to destroy it for nearly three kilometers.

But what if the launch gets out of control in the middle of the launch and smashes down?

It's not like nothing like this has ever happened.

Aerospace engineering, especially manned space engineering, is absolutely high-risk!

There is a lounge on the side, where the women and children go to relax temporarily and relieve the depression and tension caused by the previous departure ceremony.

As for Zhang Nan and other men, they were all standing or sitting in the viewing area, and Zhang Nan even smoked two cigarettes in a row, which relieved his somewhat depressed mentality.

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