Cape Canaveral launch site, 1971.

In the main control room, NASA scientists looked at the space shuttle marked with the iron cross, the fuel tank with the Star-Spangled Banner, and the booster rocket, and their expressions were quite complicated.

"I never thought we would launch a German spacecraft." Chief Engineer Jeffrey? Rantis spoke his mind on behalf of everyone, and he glanced at the German scientists in the same control room, and saw that they were also looking at him with a mixture of wariness and curiosity.

Jeffrey began to wonder if he should go to the other party for a cup of tea or something after the launch, he remembered that there were many people on the other side who could speak English, although the accent was a bit heavy, but in Jeffrey's ears, there was no difference between speaking British English and the British, anyway, he could understand it.

Jeffrey wanted to find a German with a good face as an invite, when his old friend next to him poked him in the waist and whispered: "Don't look at it, you may be targeted by the German spy agency, they are so powerful, they will arrest you and torture you, and then send you to the notorious Marduk agency to be a human body." ”

In the propaganda of the West over the years, the Marduk agency has been shaped into a terrible demon cave, and it is said that some mothers will threaten to "send you to the Maduk agency if they are disobedient" when their children are disobedient, and it will work immediately.

Instead of replying, Jeffrey turned his attention back to preparing for the launch.

However, in fact, as the chief engineer, there is not much he can do in the final inspection stage, and if he really wants to take the idea, it means that the launch has encountered a big problem.

So Jeffrey still prefers to be like now, watching his subordinates busy with nothing to do, which at least shows that Rocket is normal.

In fact, Jeffrey was quite worried about whether the launch would be successful, because the space shuttle was made in Germany, and the booster rocket and fuel tank assembly were American products, although the two countries had carried out a lot of exchange work to solve the problem of compatibility between the two countries in all aspects of computer systems, but Jeffrey did not feel that he could sit back and relax now.

At NASA, there is a famous law: if something is likely to fail, then it is bound to fail. NASA has used this phrase to spur its scientists and engineers to keep a problem out of the "possibility" stage, but this has now become a strange belief.

Now Jeffrey, under the influence of this belief, is extremely worried about the rocket.

If the launch fails, the United States and Germany estimate that it will take five months to produce the same cable, while the loss of the space shuttle and astronauts may take longer to make up for it, and more importantly, the entire flight schedule will have to be adjusted.

Jeffrey wanted the launch to be successful, not just to reduce the hassle for himself, the chief engineer.

As an astronaut scientist, Jeffrey was eager to see Babylon built, and he knew all too well how important that thing was to human spaceflight. However, it seems that many people do not want the Tower of Babylon to be built, and the reason why the Germans transferred the launch of the space shuttle to Cape Canaveral is because Christian fundamentalists in Germany are very disgusted with the construction of the Tower of Babylon, and there have been several radical acts of sabotage.

Especially now that the United States joined the program and the construction of the entire Tower of Babylon accelerated, the density of raids increased suddenly, once reaching a month.

Later, the German military and secret police declared martial law throughout the country, forcibly closed many churches, and arrested a large number of people involved, which stabilized the situation. But Lin Youde has ordered the transfer of key scientific research projects to the non-Christian Xinming, and several groups of experts have voluntarily left the increasingly dangerous mainland of Germany for Xinming via the Persian Gulf.

If it weren't for the fact that Xinming's rocket launch site conditions were not as good as Cape Canaveral, perhaps the launch plan of the space shuttle would have been transferred to Xinming as well.

Jeffrey sighed as he thought about it.

There is always a part of humanity that is ignorant and convinced of its own rightness, who undoubtedly hinders the progress of humanity, but who, on the basis of humanitarian principles, cannot be subjected to any drastic action. Geoffrey was ambivalent in that he resented the Christian extremists on the one hand, and on the other hand, he was dissatisfied with the German government's hard-line approach, believing that they must have wrongly arrested many innocent people.

Jeffrey knew that he was wrong, and occasionally he thought that the German government was doing a good job, but the kindness or weakness of the scientist still held him back.

At this time, the dispatcher's voice came from the loudspeaker: "Prepare one minute before launch." ”

Jeffrey took a deep breath, and in a minute, it was time to verify the results of his work and that of his German colleagues over the past six months, and if that failed, the Christian extremists would surely have declared it a divine punishment from God. Jeffrey sincerely hoped that this would not happen.

At this moment, the Germans heard the command, and then the scientists and engineers in white coats all stood up, and the soldier-like behavior jumped Geoffrey.

Immediately afterwards, the Germans began to stomp their right feet in uniform motion, while singing in unison in German. Of course, Jeffrey didn't understand what the song was, but he had an impression of the melody of the song, and he thought about it intently, and when the Germans first sang the chorus, he finally remembered: it was a song written by Lin Youde to his aerospace scientists, as if it was called "The Motherland Will Not Forget Jì".

Jeffrey remembered that its lyrics seemed to have sentences like "In the army that conquered the universe, I am the one who silently dedicated", to be honest, Jeffrey was still a little touched when he first saw the lyrics, but at that time, singing German songs would be targeted by the non-American committee, maybe Jeffrey will have to say goodbye to NASA from now on.

This time, Jeffrey hummed along to the melody as he watched the shuttle fly higher and higher on the home screen.

He felt the same way he remembered hearing the song for the first time.

Lin Youde is really a great person, even if he is only famous as a musician, it is enough to leave a name in history.

At the end of the song, the Germans sat down, and the atmosphere was very relaxed.

Jeffrey had finally made up his mind that he would go to the chief engineer of the Germans for a cup of tea later.