There is a day in heaven, and a thousand years on earth.

Although the time difference between the Earth and Kanxing is not so large, there are also "one day on the Earth and ten days on Kanxing".

Coming to Kan Star again, there are already several moons in the space orbit of Kan Star, which allows the little green people to better observe and study their familiar and unfamiliar home star.

This time it was the evening of Kanxing, close to the daily meal time, but because a space shuttle was about to land, their meal time was postponed.

Tang Chao watched the landing of the space shuttle from the roof of the assembly building.

It's shocking.

There was no fuel, and the whole process was gliding and landing.

When the shuttle appeared at the end of the run and confirmed that it was landing in a correct manner, the little green people cheered.

Their cheers are always early.

With a whistling sound, the rear wheels of the space shuttle landed on the runway, and the rubber and the runway instantly rubbed to produce a lot of smoke, and the parachute opened, slowing down the aircraft.

Soon, after taxiing for a while, the shuttle threw a parachute and slowly stopped.

I saw a large number of vehicles surround me, and many little green men jumped out of the car and began to jump around the space shuttle and cheer.

This atmosphere, I don't have to say!

He also wanted to go to the scene and watch.

Before, because the underground warehouse was too big, he returned to the surface before he could transfer to the space shuttle's warehouse, only knowing that the space center had this thing.

Later, he caught up with the assembly process of the space shuttle, but he was busy with other things that time, so he hurriedly glanced at it.

Now that he is not busy, he has at least a few days on Earth for one night, and he has enough time to watch the miracle of Earth spaceflight on Kanxing.

The shuttle is 100% Earth in size, unreduced, 37.24 meters long, 17.27 meters high, and has a wingspan of 29.79 meters.

Big guys like this, such as tanks, fighter jets, warships, etc., are often found in wastelands, skies, and seas, and it is difficult to determine their size when looking at videos and pictures without references.

If you catch up with some of the summer photographers, their size changes can make you doubt life.

Only by actually standing next to them will you know how big they really are.

Just like the space shuttle in front of you, from the ground to the top of the vertical tail, almost five stories high, what kind of concept is this.

Tang Chao circled around it, looked at the heat-proof tile up close, but didn't dare to touch it.

Because these things had just experienced a high temperature of more than 1,000 degrees Celsius, and even radiation, he didn't dare to joke with his own life.

Finally, looking at the three large, two small and five big chrysanthemums in the back, Tang Chao entered the interior excitedly.

Interior of the cabin.

Its front section is the astronaut cockpit, which is divided into three levels: upper, middle and lower.

The upper deck is the main cabin, with a flight control room, bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, gym and storage room, which can accommodate 8 people.

The middle deck is the middle cabin, which is also a place for astronauts to work and rest.

The lower floor is the bilge, which is a place where air-conditioning ducts, fans, water pumps, oil pumps, and waste are stored.

In the middle of it is the cargo bay, where artificial earth satellites, probes, and large experimental equipment are housed, and a remote-controlled robotic arm is installed in it to deploy and retrieve the equipment.

The cargo compartment is 18.3 meters long and 4.6 meters in diameter, which can carry more than 20 tons of goods into space, and can also carry small 20 tons of materials back to the ground from space.

After looking inside and out, and even sitting in the cockpit full of displays and buttons, Tang Chao could think of the expressions of other countries on the earth at that time.

No way, it's really advanced.

But it also ended up being "too advanced".

The idea is very good, but unfortunately because of the limitations of the times, the hardware is not good, and it can be called a "premature baby" in the aerospace field.

After stepping out of the space shuttle, being blown by the sea breeze outside, Tang Chao felt a little bored.

The space shuttle could also be called an orbital shuttle, but it was not the kind of orbital shuttle he wanted.

Without him, too backward.

Advanced and backward are relative.

Even the second-generation space shuttle has begun to appear on Earth, not to mention the more advanced aerospace technology.

There are now many second-generation space shuttles on the Earth's side, such as the "spaceship" launched from the sky of the real galaxy, the mini space shuttle "Dream Chaser" of the Mountain Company, and the official X-37B of Merrican.

They are all second-generation space shuttles, and they take the path of miniaturization or unmanned, making the shape of the spacecraft more compact, so Tang Chao has a question mark on his face every time he hears someone say that they are aerospace aircraft.

He didn't dare to say that the first spacecraft he wanted to produce was an aerospace plane, but only admitted that it was a single-stage orbital shuttle that could take off horizontally from the runway and land horizontally.

You can only simply enter orbit and return home, you can't wave in the atmosphere casually, there is not such a good aerodynamic layout, and there is not so much fuel.

He summoned Werner and several other five-star rocket engineers to the conference room of the R&D center and asked them to use their existing technology to design a vehicle that could take off horizontally from the runway and achieve single-stage orbit entry in the shortest possible time.

It is best to carry 5~10 people, and people of his size are not the size of small green men.

His purpose is space orbital tourism, so the cabin should be comfortable.

The on-orbit time will not be very long, only a few hours, so it is necessary to pay attention to the balance of activity space, viewing windows, life service facilities, etc.

"BOSS, this is very simple, we have some aerospace vehicles designed before the 'big change', based on them, and then refer to the current Kanxing environment, you can design an aerospace vehicle that meets your requirements in a few months." Werner said confidently.

After that, he also found some materials and displayed them on the big screen in the conference room.

Tang Chao saw that they were all aerospace planes designed when he was playing games.

It's just that they are all real aerospace planes, which made him frown, "How can they all use R.A.P.I.E.R intelligent aerospace engines, this technology is too advanced to meet my requirements, it is best to use the 'dart' annular rocket engine SSTO aircraft as a reference blueprint." ”

"BOSS, is this still advanced?"

Werner said with a puzzled expression: "In order to deal with the situation of the new Kanxing, we all want to study more advanced aerospace engines, as long as you give a licensing order." ”

"Of course, in order to cope with the new environment, new aerospace engines can be developed, but advanced has advanced usage, and backward has backward value, I have my own plan, let's do what I say first."

"Well, you're the boss, you say it."

Tang Chao took out the boss's style and gave an order, and the little green people could only execute it.

But they soon got excited again, because using old technology to develop a new vehicle to fly in the orbit of a new home planet is also a novel experience.

Anyway, for them, it doesn't matter what they use to make a spaceship, even if it's a physical body into orbit.

They are happy as long as they can fly, and the farther they fly, the happier they are.

And Tang Chao is also very happy, these technologies are nothing to Kanxing, but getting to the earth is different.

The reason why the first orbiter used a ring-stop rocket engine is only because this engine is relatively advanced on Earth but not so advanced, and the aircraft is shocking when it comes out, but it does not make people despair.

When his aircraft began to be commercialized, others would step up research into similar engines.

It's just that after they have researched the corresponding engine and supporting spacecraft, not to mention that his aircraft has occupied a considerable share of the market, allowing his company to grow and develop.

At the same time, he can also sell the aircraft to allow more companies to enter the market.

After receiving the second wave of benefits, he can launch a new generation of new products - aerospace aircraft.

At that time, his company already had a certain scale and status, and it would not be easily handled, and it was no problem to produce a real aerospace aircraft.

Although its technology lags behind in Kanxing, it can reap several waves of benefits on Earth to maximize benefits.

This is the reason why some companies obviously have more complete technology, but they just don't take it out all at once, but first release a working and more advanced version of 1.0, and then upgrade it to 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3.