Chapter 62: July 16th, the Day Comes

If Zhang Heng is not mistaken, the wireless Bluetooth headset of AirPods should be released in 2016.

A copy of Apollo was made in 1969, seven years later when Steve Jobs co-founded Apple with Steve Wozniak and Roe Wayne, and Bluetooth technology was created in 1994 by the telecommunications giant Ericsson.

In other words, the wireless Bluetooth headset of the airpods in front of you is a product that does not belong to this era, no matter how you look at it.

So what about that guy named Einstein, and where is it sacred?

The other party obviously didn't really meet him because the life in Area 51 was too boring, and he came to see the astronauts preparing to land on the moon, not to mention that he didn't go to see Jia Lai and Bruno except Zhang Heng, Zhang Heng can't even be sure if the other party is an engineer in Area 51 now, let alone why the other party gave him this Bluetooth headset.

And the most important thing is that Einstein only gave one earphone in his left ear.

But even so, Zhang Heng still put it with those other game props.

Because the entire moon landing mission will last for eight days, and Zhang Heng's remaining copy time is not so long, which means that he will most likely not return to Earth when the copy is over, so he must prepare to pack in advance.

The good thing is that NASA allows astronauts to bring a small amount of personal belongings into space, but they need to be on the list.

During the quarantine period, Zhang Heng also had visitors, and four days after the sandstorm, the captain also returned to the space center, and also brought back the results of the initial search and rescue.

After three days and three nights of joint search by Area 51 and NASA, Jalai's body has been found, and it is confirmed that the latter died of sand and dust suffocation, but the other person is still nowhere to be found.

The sudden dust storm moved millions of tons of sand hundreds of kilometers away, enough to hide all biological activity, and the desert's characteristic heat and dryness made search and rescue efforts extremely difficult.

However, the captain said that the search would continue until Bruno's body was found.

In fact, no one believed that Bruno would survive, and the press office was the first to inform the media of the sad news, and President Nixon also expressed his condolences for the lost candidate in the training camp, while also having a brief phone call with Zhang Heng, the sole survivor.

In addition, because of this accident, Zhang Heng failed to catch up with the press conference before the moon landing.

But that's not a bad thing for him.

Although this is not the first time he has dealt with the media, with his almost blank family and background, he doesn't like to be bombarded by reporters to get to the bottom of it, and unlike Armstrong and Collins, he is just a passerby to the world after all, Zhang Heng only cares about whether he can complete the main task, and he doesn't care whether he is famous or not.

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After a six-day quarantine period, Zhang Heng adjusted his physical and mental state to make the final preparations for the moon landing, and before that, he had cleared all the threats and obstacles in front of him as much as possible, and basically did everything he could, but even so, this was still a journey full of dangers and unknowns for him.

The time soon came on July 16th.

Eight years of preparation (starting with the Apollo program), 400,000 people, tens of billions of dollars spent, and the nation's top scientists and engineers working around the clock to overcome technical difficulties...... It basically represents the greatest investment that a country can provide in peacetime, and all this is to welcome the day.

On this day, the eyes of the whole world are focused on the Kennedy Space Center, waiting to witness the great journey of mankind to explore another world for the first time without its own planet.

Armstrong, Collins, and Zhang Heng woke up from their beds at four o'clock in the morning, dressed up, packed up their personal belongings, said their final goodbyes to their families and friends, and then took a black Lincoln to the Space Center's 39A launch base at Cape Canaveral.

Here they ate their last breakfast on Earth, after which they were dressed in the A7L spacesuits they had used for the mission, and finally put on the round fish tank helmets to ensure that everyone was dressed and in good condition.

During the process, two or three photographers were always by their side, pressing the shutter on them awkwardly.

To be honest, it didn't feel too good, especially the click of the shutter, as if it was some kind of weird ritual, and the three of them were sacrifices in the ceremony, and at the same time, more than half of the NASA executives and representatives of the White House came to shake hands and hug them one by one, and everyone's expressions were solemn.

It must be admitted that it is indeed a very miraculous thing that the three people on Apollo 11 were able to successfully return to Earth under such a full flag.

Fortunately, this process did not take too long, and as everything was ready, the ground control center also issued a command to go to the spacecraft.

Armstrong took the lead and pushed open the door to the equipment room.

At this time, the staff of the launch base who had completed the work at hand spontaneously stood in the corridor, applauded the three people, and wished them a smooth journey, and the media reporters had already waited outside the gate, setting up long guns and short cannons, as soon as the three appeared, they were immediately captured by the camera, and the magnesium lights began to flicker wildly, and everyone was scrambling to leave a historic moment with the camera in their hands.

However, the three did not stay in front of the camera as many as Hollywood's movie stars on the red carpet, but just waved to the long-awaited reporters, and then got into the van prepared for them by NASA and drove towards the mobile launch platform.

Prior to this, Zhang Heng had already had the privilege of seeing the assembled Saturn 5 launch vehicle, a behemoth that cost up to $185 million (more than $1 billion today), designed by Werner von Braun, and held the record as the most powerful rocket in mankind for 50 years.

The total height of the rocket is 110.6 meters, which is more than the Statue of Liberty standing in New York, and the weight of the fuel reaches a staggering 2,883,900 kg, and the spacecraft assembly building built to assemble it and the Apollo spacecraft was completed in 1966 and is still the largest single space building in the world today, with four doors leading to each area 139 meters high, and it takes 45 minutes to open or close it once.

Already a few days ago, the Saturn V rocket was pulled to the launch site.

At night, the Saturn 5 launch vehicle, fixed to a mobile launch platform, looks like a giant sword made of gods.

Looking up from below, it's hard not to be struck by the crystallization that represents the highest level of science and technology of mankind. 166 Reading Network