The "Starry Sky 3" heavy-lift carrier rocket carried seven astronauts, including Tang Feng, and successfully entered the predetermined orbit, and then a few hours later, the return capsule successfully docked with the huge Martian spacecraft, and the seven astronauts successfully entered the Martian spacecraft.

This is the first mission of the Martian spacecraft since it was built. Prior to that, the massive $82.8 billion Mars spacecraft had been floating in geosynchronous transfer orbit for nearly four years.

Of course, during this period, more than 40 astronauts have carried out the assembly and construction tasks of the Mars spacecraft on the Mars spacecraft, and it is the hard work of these astronauts that has made this huge Mars spacecraft from a small "Starry Sky One" functional warehouse to this behemoth that is no smaller than the International Space Station.

The commander of the lunar landing operation was Han Murphy. Big Brother Zheng, as the pacesetter of the new generation of Chinese astronauts, Han. It was the first Chinese male to land on the moon, and in the first moon landing operation, Han. He is still the commander of the lunar module. Later, during the construction of the Martian spacecraft, Han. Zheng also landed on the Martian spacecraft twice, staying on the Martian spacecraft for a total of eight months.

Therefore, among the seven astronauts of this moon landing operation, Han . It is the oldest and most experienced astronauts. Therefore, the position of commander of this moon landing operation fell to Han . Straight underneath the ass.

In the previous landing operation, the person who served as the commander could not follow the landing team to land. As the commander, he must sit on the mother ship and remotely direct the landing and recovery tasks of the landing warehouse. Therefore, don't look at the commander who is the supreme commander of the moon landing operation, but the commander cannot personally land on the moon.

So, in the past, it was a great honor to be the commander of the command, but it was an extremely cruel thing for the individual. It's definitely frustrating to see the moon dangling beneath you, and not being able to land on the moon because of your mission.

But the new Martian spacecraft are different. The new Mars spacecraft adopts the most advanced computer technology, and with the support of today's computer technology, the computer system on the Mars spacecraft can completely control the entire spacecraft, which undoubtedly greatly liberates the commander, so that the commander can even leave the mother ship for landing

Whether it's the Moon or Mars!

The reason why this time Han. is pulling up, Tang Feng's purpose is very simple, if nothing else, a year later, the trip to Mars. It is a well-deserved commander. This moon landing operation made Han. is serving as the commander, which is also a test and training for him.

And in this moon landing operation, there is another acquaintance, that is, the Russian cosmonaut Alexander . Comrade Borisov. This time, Borisov is still the communications expert for the Mars spacecraft.

As for the other four astronauts, one is an astronaut trained in-house by Star Discovery, and she is a Canadian female astronaut named Emily. Singh, 33, is an electronics expert.

The astronaut from the United States was named Bob. Arnold, 35, is a power expert; The astronaut from France has an extremely loud name, Jean. Renaud, who has the same name and surname as the famous French movie star; The astronaut from England was named Jimmy. Johnson, 31, is the youngest on the team, three months younger than Tang

Among these seven people, except for Tang Feng and Han. With the exception of Borisov, the other four were on the moon for the first time. Even the three of them were on the Martian spacecraft for the first time, so when the seven people entered the Martian spacecraft from the narrow return capsule, they were immediately overwhelmed by the spaciousness and luxury inside.

The completed Martian spacecraft is not comparable to the small lunar spacecraft of the past, because the Martian spacecraft has been completely built, so this spacecraft is now from beginning to end, including the wheel cabin composed of twelve life function cabins, all of which are now interoperable.

These functional cabins and rim cabins originally had airtight doors, but now a miniature ecosystem has been formed inside the entire Mars spacecraft, so all the airtight doors are now open, and Tang Feng and the seven of them can freely enter any cabin.

The construction specifications of the Martian spacecraft are almost the same, at least the diameter of each compartment is 4.4 meters, maybe there is a difference in length, but because of the same diameter, the whole spacecraft is exceptionally neat. This is also incomparable to the International Space Station.

Before Tang Feng landed on the Mars spacecraft, the oxygen generation equipment on the Mars spacecraft was remotely turned on. The small but powerful oxygen concentrator is always providing sufficient oxygen and appropriate air pressure for the interior of the Mars spacecraft, so that astronauts can live comfortably inside the Mars spacecraft.

When Tang Feng and the others landed on the Martian spacecraft and made all the preparations, in Han. At Zheng's command, the 100-megawatt nuclear reactor in the main reactor chamber at the tail of the spacecraft began to increase its output, and soon, driven by a strong current, the originally stationary wheel chamber began to rotate slowly.

Immediately after that, Comrade Borisov began to follow the orders of Han . The positive command turned on the start switch of the main engine one by one, and the nozzles of the three ion thrusters arranged in the tail of the spacecraft in a zigzag shape immediately spewed out blue ion flames, and the huge Martian spacecraft suddenly shook and began to accelerate slowly

The new ion thruster was developed and has a caliber of 1,800 millimeters, which is nearly double the caliber of the one used on the original Mars spacecraft.

Because of the increase in caliber, only three of these new ion thrusters can be installed, but even these three new ion thrusters produce far more propulsion than the original design of the eight main and four auxiliary total of twelve old ion thrusters.

According to the conclusions of the laboratory, although the caliber of this new ion thruster is only twice as large as that of the old 900 mm ion thruster, the thrust of a single machine is 23 times that of the old ion thruster, so even if only one of this new thruster is installed on the Mars spacecraft, its propulsion force exceeds the thrust generated by the original twelve old thrusters.

The thrust generated by the three new ion thrusters is still considerable, although it is far less than the thrust generated by the recoil rocket, but this ion thruster is the future of human spaceflight.

Driven by three new ion thrusters, the huge Martian spacecraft began to slowly accelerate along the geosynchronous transfer orbit, and when the speed reached a certain level, with the help of the Earth's gravity, the Martian spacecraft was "catapulted" out of orbit by the Earth's gravity like a slingshot, and quickly headed towards the Moon. (To be continued.) )