Ivan, this is a typical Russian man's name, just as Hans corresponds to Germany and Henry corresponds to England. In the whole of Russia, there are not ten million but millions of men with this name, and Alexander the Great. Konstantinovich. Ivan is one of those millions.

Now, at the age of 42, Ivan is sitting quietly in the living room, he is a soldier and his sitting posture is very standard, coupled with a handsome appearance and maintaining good body proportions, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a beautiful man, if there is a flaw, Ivan is slightly shorter than the average person, only 5.54 feet he is a veritable short man among the tall Russian race.

However, this did not prevent Ivan from becoming an officer, and also a colonel officer with no lower rank. Because the reason is simple, he is short and serves in the Russian Federal Space Agency and is an extremely good cosmonaut.

"Colonel, Director, please come in." The door inside opened, revealing him as a man in a suit nodded to Ivan with a smile.

Ivan got up, straightened his military uniform, put on his military cap, and walked into the office with impeccable steps.

"Alexander. Konstantinovich. Ivan reports to you! ”

Enter, stand upright and salute a balding man sitting behind a desk. The man who was holding a pen and didn't know what to write looked up and saw Ivan smile and stood up from behind his desk.

"Dear Ivan, I'm really sorry to keep you waiting, I have urgent business to deal with just now." Sergey, head of the Russian Federal Space Agency, hugged Ivan with a spring breeze on his face, and then patted him on the back enthusiastically and vigorously: "There is no need to be restrained here, come, sit down." ”

Sitting down on the sofa next to him, Sergei asked Ivan about the situation in a friendly manner. As Russia's most famous cosmonaut, Ivan has been to space many times, and even set a record for the longest stay in space on the International Space Station. Before him, this record has been recorded by his compatriot Sergei? Krikalev and Sergey? Avdeev held the records for 803 days, 9 hours and 39 minutes and 747 days, 14 hours, 14 minutes and 11 seconds, respectively, thus extending this record to 818 days, 21 hours, 9 minutes and 34 seconds.

A few years ago. Ivan returned to Earth after his last space mission and became the director of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center of the Russian Federal Space Agency, where his job was mainly to select and train cosmonauts for the Russian Federal Space Agency. It has to be said that Ivan is not only an extremely good astronaut, but also a very competent instructor, and over the years, the astronauts he has personally trained have become the pride of the Federal Space Agency.

After a few pleasantries, Sergei got to the point, and he handed a copy of the text to Ivan. After taking the text, Ivan opened it suspiciously, looked at it, and was stunned after a few glances.

"It's ...... Spaceship program? ”

Ivan looked up at Sergei in shock, and a look of disbelief appeared on his face.

Although Ivan's status in the Russian Federal Space Agency is not low, the nature of his work is different, not to mention that the base for training cosmonauts is not at the headquarters of the Federal Space Agency, so some secrets within the Federal Space Agency are not clear. However, when he saw this article, the surprised Ivan quickly remembered an order given to him by the Federal Space Agency three years ago. The content of the order is to ask Ivan to increase the training of astronauts in the short term, including increasing the number of astronauts to be trained. All the time. Ivan only thought that this was related to Russia's publicly announced rebuilding of the Mir space station, but he never expected that behind the Qiē was actually the spacecraft program.

"Yes, the Russian spacecraft program, which Mr. President named the Star Program." Sergei was able to come up with this top-secret document to Ivan, of course, he had already been authorized by the Kremlin. At present, the star program is nearing completion, Russia has invested a huge amount of $190 billion in this plan, and the Zeus program of the United States, which has been concerned by Russia, is also coming to an end, and this new space competition has reached the point of imminence.

For Russia, the Star Program is a recipe for success, not failure. In the same way that the Americans used the joint space structure space station project as a cover to implement the Zeus program, the Russians also used the pretext of rebuilding the Mir space station, and even went further, using the resources of the International Space Station to serve the star program.

In terms of speed, although the Americans are one step ahead, the Russians are behind. Of course, this is not that the United States' science and technology are not as developed as Russia's, and still less that the United States does not invest as much as Russia's, but the key lies in the difference in the direction of science and technology and the means of implementation between the two countries.

Compared to the more sophisticated, perfectionist and cutting-edge Americans, the Russians are notoriously rough, direct, and simple. In the eyes of the Russians, as long as the goal can be achieved, there is no need to strive for excellence in some details, not to mention the fact that there is never such an idiom as excellence in the Russian dictionary.

In addition, the Russians are also thick-skinned, and they do not consider what is absolutely safe when they do their work. There have been many accidents in the implementation of the entire star plan, the most serious of which also caused two Russian cosmonauts to die in space, if this incident was put on the Americans, I am afraid that the plan would have been suspended for rectification, but don't forget that the Russians have never had this habit, so the Russian star plan stumbled and paid a huge price at the same time, it gradually caught up with the progress of the Americans.

"In order to ensure the ultimate success of the plan, Mr. President, I want you to take the position of captain of this ship." After explaining the situation of the Star Project in detail for Ivan, Sergei finally said what he really meant by calling Ivan.

When he heard this, Ivan's heart stopped beating instantly, and then the whole person was extremely excited. As an excellent astronaut, Ivan can say that he has devoted his entire life to astronautics. Traveling in space was his childhood pursuit and dream, and it was precisely because of this pursuit and dream that Ivan became such a great astronaut.

Over the years, he left his favorite front-line work and returned to the ground to be only responsible for training in the center every day, and these cookie-cutter jobs have long been tired of Ivan in his heart. He is only 42 years old this year, which is no longer the best prime time for an astronaut, but it is still the age when he can continue to make a career. You know, before him, his compatriot Sergei? Krikalev, the former Soviet Union and Russian astronaut hero, his predecessor at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, still made a record on the space station at the age of 46, and now he is only 42 years old, why can't he create a new miracle?

Thinking of this, Ivan only felt like he had been filled with a bottle of fine vodka, and the blood in his whole body couldn't help but boil. (To be continued......)

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