Chapter 21 Taiyuan Satellite Launch Base

When we arrived at Taiyuan Civil Airport in the Il-76 military plane, it was already nightfall, and after we got off the plane, there was a military off-road vehicle waiting for us on the tarmac. The five of us did not delay much and arrived directly at the tarmac where a Z-15 multi-purpose military helicopter was parked in an off-road vehicle. After we boarded the helicopter, the helicopter drove us to the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the vast night. The night view of Taiyuan is extremely beautiful, and the bustling area in the center of the city is brightly lit and neon flashing. The five of us were eating the famous Taiyuan food bought at the airport in the helicopter - Shen Guojian is a native of Taiyuan, he knows best what Taiyuan people like to eat, I saw him holding a lunch box of roasted wheat while eating while introducing us to the night scene under the helicopter: "The name of this place is Liuxiang, the willow lane of Liuxiang of Flower Street, there is Causeway Bay, clothing city ......"

Big Yellow Tooth listened to Shen Guojian's explanation with relish, and saw him holding a paper bag printed with the words roast duck of a certain building in one hand and gnawing violently, and holding the head of the string window with the other hand and trying to peek outside.

Colonel Tariq and I, as well as Luo Xiaoming, ignored them, eating and drinking, but from time to time we also looked at the enchanting night scene outside. Luo Xiaoming said: "My hometown is Henan, but I have never returned to our Central Plains since I was a soldier in Tibet. For me, a person who has never been out of the army, it feels like a prisoner who has been released from prison, relaxed! ”

Colonel Tariq answered: "I have heard that Shanxi is a large inland province that our country is about to develop in the next step of its strategy. I heard Colonel Tariq's generous words and nodded slightly, but Colonel Tariq suddenly pointed to a bowl of haggis in the bag and exclaimed, "Oh! May Allah forgive you! If you put blood clots in the haggis, Allah will not like you! ”

The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Base is located in Qilan County, Xinzhou City, which is one of China's strategically open satellite launch sites, so most of the places here are brightly lit, unlike some military secret occasions that we have seen before are hidden or built underground. When our helicopter arrived at the tarmac of the satellite launch site, it was night, so we didn't have a good idea of the situation, but we thought the atmosphere was spectacular. We were greeted by several cadres who looked like leaders, and Big Yellow Tooth said happily: "Look! It must be the mayor who came to greet us! However, one of the cadres stepped forward and held out his hand, as if to shake hands with us in welcome. Seeing this scene, Da Huangya hurriedly rolled up his sleeves and stretched out his hand to shake hands with the other party, but the cadre on the other side turned the direction to Shen Guojian, held Shen Guojian's hand and said deeply: "Comrade Shen Guojian, welcome to our Taiyuan Satellite Launch Site again!" ”

It seems that Shen Guojian is still a well-known figure in the field of astronomy, and looking at his young appearance, he can have such achievements, which really makes people admire him in their hearts. Several other cadres also came forward to shake hands with us one by one to welcome us. A very solemn-looking cadre held the hand of the big yellow tooth and said as if he remembered: "Sir, you are Chief of Staff Huang!" ”

Big Yellow Tooth said happily: "It's a lowly position, it's a lowly position!" I don't know how you recognized me, leader! "Oh? I have heard of a commander named Yellow Tooth and Yellow Staff Officer before, and today I also paid special attention to you, if you can be the person of Huang Staff, your dignity is none other than you! The leader said bluntly. In fact, it was not the leaders who received us, these people were all staff members here, and it is estimated that they heard that there will be several special people here who will perform special tasks, so they are all curious to see how a few of us are different from ordinary people.

In fact, we don't see the leader here at all, and they don't need to come to meet us, but there is a person in charge of our landing on Titan's operational training program, who is here to provide us with all kinds of training facilities and necessary materials, and this leader is surnamed Song, called Song Fumin. We had heard his name and position before, so as soon as we came here, under the banner of Song Leader, we had no scruples to ask the staff here for this and that, as if customers were enjoying star-rated service in a hotel. However, we don't mean to be cool, because there are always many unforeseen situations that are always taken into account during the training of this unconventional landing on an extraterrestrial object to ensure that nothing goes wrong.

The five of us had a brief understanding of what we were going to be training here, and after a short period of rectification, we began to enter the formal training program. Before we were about to enter the training ground, Song Fumin made a special trip to find us, and he asked the four of us: "I heard that you have all dealt with aliens on the battlefield, I wonder if any of you have seen the true face of aliens up close?" Me and Colonel Tariq, you look at me, I'll look at you, Luo Xiaoming also stayed where he was and spread his hands to show that it was fruitless. Finally, Colonel Tariq took Big Yellow Fang's arm and said, "Our Yellow Chief of Staff has been on an alien fighter, you can ask our Chief of Staff!" Big Yellow Fang knew in his heart that Colonel Tariq was making fun of him, and after he got on the alien fighter at that time, it could be said that he was hiding in the landing gear of someone's saucer fighter like a mouse, because he was unarmed and couldn't fight the aliens. But now in front of Leader Song, he can't say that he was hiding from the pursuit of aliens, which is too undignified as a chief of staff, so Big Yellow Tooth straightened his waist and said solemnly in a low voice: "I have been in close contact with aliens!" When Leader Song heard Big Yellow Fang say that he had been in close contact with aliens, he said excitedly: "Chief of Staff Huang, now you are going to make meritorious service!" The equipment department and the weapons research team of our space department are still ignorant of all the information about aliens! It just so happens that Chief of Staff Huang, you have had close contact with the enemy, so please come with me to the scientific research group and explain what you have seen to our research team, so that we can prepare the most complete space equipment for our landing operation team......

Big Yellow Tooth then followed Song Leader in an off-road vehicle with a high spirit. The rest of us looked at me blankly, and I looked at you. Colonel Tariq couldn't help but speak: "Haven't all three of us been in contact with aliens?" As far as Staff Officer Huang is concerned, has he ever seen aliens? Oh! I knew I was going too! ”

Shen Guojian comforted on the side: "Colonel, why didn't you just say that you had also been in close contact with aliens!" Now you see, you are a colonel here, right? We arrived at the training ground and began formal training, and there have been many qualified astronauts in this training ground, but most of them have not been lucky enough to become astronauts who will go down in the history of China's aerospace history. Thinking of this, I am secretly glad for myself that I am finally fortunate to be able to sit on a rocket and walk around the outer sky, but I don't have that feeling of excitement or excitement, because after all, we are going to war, not to engage in scientific research and exploration, so my heart is always very dull. The staff at the training ground told us that Big Yellow Tooth wouldn't be able to come back for a while, so let's start weightlessness training first. So a few of us boarded the weightlessness simulator. The weightlessness simulator is designed to fully simulate the gravitational conditions of space. The simulator resembles a tall tower crane with a room-sized simulation room at the end of the boom. The staff told us that the conventional simulation room is for a single person, but our current simulation room is specially built to accommodate five or six people in order to complete the training in a short time, and this kind of aerospace training conditions are only available in China. Looking at the structure of this simulation room and its operating procedures, we can see that this is supported by a high tower base, and the high-speed rotating boom is driven by several electric motors, which rotate clockwise in the working state; The simulation room is suspended at the end of the boom, which rotates at high speed along the boom and rotates at high speed, so that the astronauts inside can feel the weightlessness effect as real as outer space.

Because Da Huangya and Song leaders went to the aerospace equipment department to carry out equipment design, they didn't rush back for a while, so we left him under the condition of tight time, and started weightlessness training, we had previously piloted a fighter plane, and it has always been commonplace to flip the fighter in the cabin of the fighter jet, and today somehow, I feel that this simulation room is no different from the fighter jet, maybe because of the pressure in my heart, so I don't think this weightless practice is so difficult as ordinary students say. I'm worried about Shen Guojian at this time, because as a staff member of the observatory, he has never been exposed to this kind of military equipment training, so I am worried that he will not be able to support it, thus delaying our plan to land on Titan. I glanced at Shen Guojian next to me worriedly, but I didn't know that he was in better shape than anyone else at this time, and it could be said that he was in the best state, which couldn't help but surprise me.

Shen Guojian noticed that I had been watching him, and I also felt that his own abnormal state surprised us, so he smiled and explained to us: "Don't be surprised, sir, I often stay in such training grounds, and I come up to play whenever I have time, and I am used to it. We first trained in weightlessness, then simulated the environment in the crew compartment during the launch of the rocket, then simulated the control of the landing module after entering space, and so on that many of us could not have imagined super difficult projects, and finally trained how to fight the enemy in extraterrestrial object mode after arriving at Titan. In so many training programs, each of us is trying our best to learn the professional knowledge of this extraordinary operation, but because Big Yellow Fang has to conduct a series of equipment seminars and material design with the Aerospace Equipment Department, etc., during the training time, he sometimes arrives, sometimes does not exist, or sometimes is called away in a hurry in the middle of the training, so he misses a lot of precious learning content.