Chapter 309: Everyone is an "Astronaut"
Because of the successful test flight of the Merrican Adventure Star "Aerospace Aircraft", people's attention has shifted again.
From the space station to the space vehicle.
Yes, the average person's attention is so easy to divert.
Just a little bootstrapping is all it takes.
And it has to be said that airplane-type space vehicles are more attractive than rockets.
Professionals are analyzed from many aspects, and will make some trade-offs in terms of technological advancement and practicality, and then draw conclusions.
But the majority of netizens and laymen are not so troublesome, just look at the appearance.
In their simple judgment, the adventurous star "Aerospace Plane" is better than a rocket!
It is worth noting that this refers to "any rocket", and the new Long March 9, which can carry up to 200 tons of serial load and can be recovered, will not work.
This is the "information" they get from science fiction movies and science fiction games.
After all, not everyone can understand professional information, but it is much easier to understand science fiction film and television dramas and science fiction games that are facing ordinary people.
Often because of the definition of science fiction and visual needs, airplane-type aircraft are more handsome than round flying machines.
And because Merrican's science fiction industry is the most developed, the most powerful flying machines in various science fiction works are Merriken's, and now it is reasonable for Merrican to have a "true-most powerful" flying machine, and people basically have no sense of disobedience when they accept it.
After all, in science fiction films, Renmei Riken even fights aliens all over the ground looking for teeth.
Even if the Navigator's dart-class orbital shuttle is already in service, its small size and small load are the "original sin".
Now the only thing that outsiders recognize, and even Merrican's high-intensity propaganda can't hide, is that Tang Chao, as the company's BOSS, personally drove the orbital shuttle to carry passengers to space.
This is indeed a bull batch!
Adventure Star is very good, but it is only in an experimental state, and no equipment has been transported.
It seems that Merrican also noticed this, or they had planned it for a long time, and immediately after the successful return of the Adventure Star to the ground and the successful first test flight of NASA was announced, a new plan was announced.
"The next launch, we'll carry some of the equipment from the inflatable space station."
The plan is clear, but somewhat vague.
The clear goal is well understood, the next launch will not be empty, to be loaded, it also shows that they are very confident in the adventure star, one test flight is enough.
And in the previous competition, part of the reason why the inflatable space station could not be directly crushed was that there was nothing inside, not even the "partition wall" in the demonstration design, it was really a big empty space.
With some equipment shipped over this time, the value of the inflatable space station will definitely increase a little.
But herein lies the ambiguity.
There is no one in the inflatable space station, and it is said that the adventure star will transport the equipment up, who will carry and install it?
"Robots" experimented on the International Space Station?
No, that thing can't do the mission on its own.
Or simply dock with the ISS and let the astronauts on the ISS work as installers?
No, neither of the two space stations is in the same orbit, and I haven't heard of the International Space Station docking such a big thing.
Or is it that this time the adventure star will not only have to deliver the goods, but even the people will have to be transported together?
If that's the case, that's too bold, right? Search
The inflatable space station is fine, it has been in space for several days, and various data and tests have shown that it is completely fine, and it can be used for astronauts, but there is no food supply and there is not much air to breathe.
If Adventure Star could send these things in passing, it could be turned into a construction site for the first space workers to work for a long time.
There is no need to install a space toilet, there are original ones in the empty inflatable space station, maybe they are thinking about it.
A lot of people noticed this, and as a result, they searched through the information released by NASA and couldn't find the corresponding information.
The space agency did not say that there were people for this launch.
But people felt that NASA would not let the Adventure Star take those devices around space and then fly back untouched.
It's just mentally retarded to do that.
"There's no information at all, it's not like Merrican's style, what are you doing?"
"I don't know, just wait, I'll know when the equipment from Gro arrives at the launch center, and when the Adventure Star is launched for the second time."
"I feel like the adventure star is so good, has it been maintained as soon as it returns to the ground? The new assignment was immediately accepted, and it took less time than the Navigator's dart-class orbital shuttle to maintain. ”
"I'm afraid you don't know what it means to be carried out at the same time, even if it is the finished cattle batch of the Adventure Star, but how can its test machine be maintained for five minutes after the first launch and return, the transportation of the inflatable space station equipment takes time, it just uses this time difference to do maintenance and upgrades, so that you can look like it doesn't need to be repaired and upgraded."
"Well, it's very river, Merrican's propaganda is so powerful that it makes me ignore that."
"I think so...... Hey, there's new news on the shore of Merrican, I'm ...... Damn, they really want to make this launch manned, the bull pen is big!! ”
"What? I'm going to check it out too! ”
Indeed, although some people speculated that it would be manned, when the official message of the Merriken space agency really said that it would be manned, people were shocked.
After all, speculation is speculation, and many times speculation is not responsible, it is pure blind guessing.
But now that Merrican Space is really playing, has their technology really reached this point?
I think that the dart-class orbital shuttle flew many times before it carried people, and then carried people, and with the development of Navigator, people realized how good Navigator's technology was, and even it had to be tested many times before it was manned, and Merriken came to ...... Isn't it sloppy?
It's a sloppy approach to standard security procedures, but it's not too hasty from a technical point of view.
How to say it, I have the taste of the last space race,
It's just that the technical support is still much stronger now than it was then, and the astronauts of the national team also have this awareness, and two astronauts have signed an agreement to go into space on the adventure star.
However, this time they are not pilots, just a cargo handler and assembler who flies on a ship, and the flight of the adventure star is all automated.
This topic has already been provoked, but before it can ferment, the Navigator company will start a development conference.
"The official opening time of the space tourism project has been confirmed, January 25."
As soon as this news comes out, who cares if Merriken can't get on the astronauts!
From January 25th, everyone can become an astronaut!!
"Damn, I'm shocked, our chance has come, I'm going to space too!"
"Ah, I've waited too long for a day! Take me one! ”
"Space, I'm coming!"
"I found that a lot of well-known space experts have posted articles saying that they want to take the orbital shuttle to space and see the places they have been studying but have not actually touched."
"Some space research institutes have allocated funds, tens of millions of dollars are reluctant, and a million dollars are still reluctant, and because the Navigator Space Company stipulates that passengers have a 20-kilogram baggage allowance, they can bring some experimental equipment to space! Absolutely! ”
"It's all good, but you have to grab a ticket, there are only 8 places on a shuttle!"