Eight o'clock in the morning.

Today's weather is very good, the sun is shining, the sky is cloudless, the atmospheric wind is less than three degrees, although the temperature is very high, close to 36 degrees, but everyone's hearts, than this hot weather.

"Comrade Zhang Tiancong, can you persist in this journey and complete the sacred mission?"

Before leaving, Qin Tianhe, director of the National Space Administration of H, said to one of the eight astronauts who had already put on spacesuits and carried boxes in their hands, standing in a row and getting ready.

This astronaut's face is a little old compared to the other seven young astronauts with a little immaturity on their faces, but his eyes are resolute, invisibly, and there is a tenacious and unyielding, tenacious will like steel, and the people around him will involuntarily be infected by it and look moved.

"Report chief, I am ready to fulfill the sacred mission entrusted to me by the motherland and persist until the last moment when the task is completed!"

Zhang Tiancong raised his hand and saluted.

Originally, Zhang Tiancong was not on the list of the first batch of astronauts to take the space shuttle to the moon.

The purpose of this arrangement by the superior leaders was mainly to take care of Zhang Tiancong's physical condition and worry about what would happen to his heart in the process of performing the task.

Zhang Tiancong did not want to let go of this opportunity, because in the two-month intense training process, he led his team members, excellent completion of all the tasks, last time, in the space shuttle and the space station docking official mission, although Zhang Tiancong did not directly participate in this mission, but in the whole process, he also played a great role on the ground, and even like a reassuring pill, to the team members who carried out the mission in space with great confidence.

This space shuttle mission to the moon will take one day to travel from the earth to the moon, stay for about a week to build a base on the moon, and return to the earth for another day. The total task cycle is around nine to ten days, so long. It's fine if it's on Earth, but it's on the Space Shuttle or the Moon. Once there is any problem with Zhang Tiancong's heart, he may not even have a way to treat it, and it is very likely that he will be in space and become the first astronaut in country H to die in space.

This sounds tragic, but human life is the most important thing after all, even if Zhang Tiancong wrote three application reports in a row and tried his best to apply, the superior leaders considered his body. Applications for expeditions to the moon will not be granted.

In the end, Zhang Tiancong wrote a long letter of 10,000 words and personally sent it to Qin Tianhe, director of the Space Administration.

"Comrade Chang, when I left the Air Force, walked into the astronaut training center, and participated in the astronaut selection training, my heart began to beat for the aerospace industry of country H, since 1998. By 2o19, starting from Shenzhou 1, to today's Wentian era. Twenty-one years have passed, and this heart has never stopped and continues to beat......

Two months ago, on the space shuttle Feitian-1, this heart fulfilled its dream of going into space, when it was lying in front of the window of the space shuttle, looking through the glass, looking at the earth and stars in the depths of space, to tell the truth. More beautiful and more real than what I've seen countless times in my dreams. At that moment, this heart burst into tears. Tears flowed, these were tears of joy......

Twenty-one years have passed, seeing the country's growing strength, the vigorous development of the aerospace industry, I have also realized the dream of entering space, it stands to reason that there are no regrets in this life, but the pursuit of people is endless, for astronauts, it is shameful to only stay in the high-level space of the planet where they live, the value of people lies in constantly breaking through the limits of what they can break through, astronauts are even more so, I bet my life's time and energy on this cause, is to hope that before death, can go further for mankindThis is my belief.

Comrade Chang, before writing this letter, I went to the hospital for a comprehensive physical examination, and the doctor told me that except for the heart, which has 12% of the cardiomyocytes in a state of old damage, all other parts are functioning well, and as long as the heart beats at a rate of no more than 12o times per minute, there will be no major danger. Believe me, with my more than 20 years of hard training, I guarantee that after entering space, no matter what happens, this heart will not beat more than 11o times per minute! I can be absolutely calm! ”

After reading this long letter, Qin Tianhe couldn't help but wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes, in the entire space agency, Zhang Tiancong is a person that everyone admires, and in the past 20 years, Qin Tianhe, who has also watched Zhang Tiancong come step by step, every time it is time to select astronauts for the mission, looking at Zhang Tiancong's eager eyes, he doesn't dare to look at him, every time he excludes him, Qin Tianhe is a little unbearable, and his heart falls into deep self-blame and guilt......

Give him a chance!

Qin Tianhe took the list of expedition personnel, used a pen, and added the words "Zhang Tiancong" to it.

"Comrade Zhang Tiancong, after you go up, your main task is to be responsible for guiding the work of the other seven astronauts, making overall plans, and assigning tasks. Xie Yanan, Zhao Hui, Li Xiaotian, Jing Yapeng, Guan Qingsong, Zhang Jing, Xia Liping, the task of several of you is to obey the command of Comrade Zhang Tiancong and complete the tasks assigned by him. ”

"Yes!" The seven astronauts replied loudly.

"It's like a little old man on crutches and seven nannies, am I so unreliable?" Zhang Tiancong complained quietly.

"Hahaha." Everyone laughed in unison, and the atmosphere that had been a little tense before the expedition became much more relaxed.

"Alright, it's almost time, out!"

……

8:35 a.m

The place where the astronauts rested was in the Moon Pavilion of Jiuquan Space City, where eight astronauts changed into spacesuits, carried silver and white toolboxes, got on the bus, and went to the venue of the departure ceremony.

At this time, the live TV broadcast has begun, from the Mochizuki Pavilion to the place where the departure ceremony was held, the short road of less than 1,300 meters, there are countless people wearing bright costumes of various nationalities standing next to the side, there are workers, some students, some intellectuals, desperately waving the small national flag in their hands, throwing colorful flowers, shouting loudly, "Salute to the astronauts!" "Salute to the national heroes who went to the moon!" Among them, there was an elderly man, dancing the national flag, while crying like a child, shouting loudly, "The child is safe, all the way is smooth!" ”

Click, countless reporters with cameras pressed the shutter, the strong light flashed wildly, recording any picture of this historical moment, and dozens of high-altitude cameras set up on both sides of the road also kept rotating their armsticks, so that the live broadcast picture, the focus was always in the center, always aimed at the bus.

At this moment, the focus of attention of people across the country is on the astronauts sitting in this bus.

Plopping and plopping, just seeing such a warm scene, Zhang Tiancong felt that his heartbeat accelerated.

After getting out of the car, the eight astronauts stood in a row in turn, with a neat row of microphones in front of them, and in front of them, the national leader X Da, 1 Da and others had already stood there waiting for a long time.

The departure ceremony was simple, there was no rostrum, no flowers, not even a small stool for the leaders who came to see them off, and only two simple microphones were placed on the ground.

Because the weather was relatively hot and the sun was strong, X was big, and there was a lot of fine sweat on the heads of the 1 big people, and for this solemn scene, they didn't have their hands free to wipe it.

"Hello comrade!" Zhang Tiancong led the other seven astronauts to salute.

"Hello astronauts!"

Captain No. 1 X Da looked into the microphone and said to six men, two women and eight astronauts:

"Today, at this important historical moment, in my heart, I have a lot to say, I want to talk about our country, I want to talk about our nation, I want to talk about our history and the past, but these long tirades that may have to be said for an hour or two have come to this, I can't say it, comrades, the history of more than 5,000 years, the history of the new H country for 70 years, there have been glories, there have been downfalls, but there has never been such a thing as today! Having reached such a glorious moment, the outstanding sons and daughters of the H nation have officially embarked on the pace of conquering the sea of stars from today! This peace-loving nation will never fall like the stars in the sky! ”

After a pause, X Da continued: "Astronaut comrades, let's go on the expedition!" The motherland and the people are waiting for your good news to come, and I will also set up a banquet on earth, and when you return in triumph, you will not be drunk and will not return! ”

X Major, 1 Major, and others raised their hands and saluted.

"Comrade Chang, I promise to fulfill the tasks entrusted by the motherland and the people!"

Zhang Tiancong and others also raised their hands in salute and shouted loudly.

At 1o:25 a.m., under the cheers of the crowd, the bus carried eight astronauts and came to the Sky Bird Base, which is 40 kilometers away from the space city.

After a little preparation and rest, at 11 o5 o'clock, the astronauts boarded the shuttle and entered a state of pre-takeoff readiness.

"Activating the energy system"

"Motivation ignition, warm-up"

"Increase the power output and enter the running state"

"Slide and run, start taking off!"

According to the command center's orders one by one, the tail of Feitian-1 erupted a blazing white air current, humming noise, with the continuous increase of thrust, the degree of the space shuttle became faster and faster, after reaching the critical point, the nose of the plane was raised suddenly! The behemoth-like Feitian No. 1 left the ground, dragging a white dazzling stream of light at the tail, boom! Let out a roar of rage, shooting straight into the dome sky...... This scene was instantly frozen by the camera and became a classic picture as a cover in the history textbook of country H.

…… (To be continued)

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