This time, the Qiming aerospace plane took off almost with full load, and it only skied a distance of less than 1,000 meters to reach the speed requirement for take-off. Captain Cheng Ziming decisively pulled the joystick, and the aerospace plane raised its head, left the ground directly, and flew into the air.

After the Qiming Aerospace Plane flew into the sky, it did not climb the altitude for the first time, leave the earth, and enter space, but circled twice over the space base. During this period, the Keming made a variety of difficult maneuvers to test whether the moving parts of the fuselage and the auxiliary engines were working properly.

The huge Qiming aerospace plane, after flying into the air, looks very light, turning around, pulling up and leveling, very freely. It's about the design of the fuselage and the aerodynamic layout, but it's more about the fact that it has two powerful engines. In the aerospace world, there has always been a saying that "as long as the thrust is enough, even a brick can fly into the sky." "The aerodynamic layout of the Qiming is much better than that of the bricks, and with the previous second-level engine, it is naturally like a tiger with wings.

After the test was correct, the Qiming did not hesitate, pulled up the nose and shot straight into the sky. In the live broadcast room, after the ground camera could no longer capture the figure of the aerospace aircraft, the ground live broadcast disappeared, and the picture in the cabin returned to its original size.

Zhihe adjusted the angle of view of the virtual camera to allow everyone to see more of the scenery outside the porthole. I saw that outside the cabin, the huge Sahara space base was shrunk to the size of a palm, and the surrounding huge Sahara Desert was nothing more than a yellow sand beach in this corner and height.

The camera is adjusted again, and the sea level and the arc-shaped boundary of the earth appear on the screen. Zhihe interjected at the right time and explained: "The flight method of the aerospace plane is completely different from that of a rocket, and it will not do too drastic acceleration maneuvers. The whole acceleration process is slower and smoother, and the astronauts are more comfortable to ride, and the requirements for physical fitness are much smaller.

Of course, in this way, the entire flight process from the ground to space will take much longer. If you take a rocket into space, it will take more than 100 seconds to enter space, and if you take an aerospace plane, this process will last half an hour. In the next period of time, Zhihe will take you to appreciate the beautiful scenery of the earth that can be seen during the flight of the aerospace aircraft. ”

"666666, I didn't expect that the earth would be so beautiful when I shot it from a high altitude! Look at the ocean, it's as beautiful as blue jade. Is that green over there the African savannah, it looks bare in the documentary, but I didn't expect that a rich green can still be seen from the air. ”

"I just want to know when Xingchen International will open a space tourism route. Judging from the live broadcast, it seems that it is quite comfortable to take an aerospace plane, and ordinary people should be able to bear it without professional training. Didn't you see Jiao Bai and Zhihe in the video, they are also ordinary people, and now they are in no condition, and they are still alive. ”

"Space tourism is a good idea, if Xingchen International really wants to do it, I will definitely be the first to sign up. Many astronauts who have come back from space say that in this life, you must see the earth from space once, and your life will feel very different from then on. I wanted to go to space and see for myself what it was like to make that big difference. ”

"The two upstairs are real tyrants, even if space tourism really becomes a reality, the cost must be sky-high, in the short term, it must have nothing to do with people like me."

"Now that the space planes are out, the cost of space tourism is not necessarily that high. Did you hear what the anchor said before, Qiming uses a plasma engine, which means that such a huge aerospace plane is actually electric. Then it will consume nothing more than some electricity to travel to space, and the cost will be very, very low, perhaps less than the cost of an ordinary civil aircraft to do an intercontinental flight. ”

"No, if the cost is really that low, then the traditional launch vehicle will not be eliminated soon. Then Musk didn't cry to death, spent so much money, researched into a recyclable Falcon rocket, and as a result, you told people that the rocket has fallen behind, and it will be the era of aerospace aircraft in the future. If you ask for Musk's psychological shadow area at this moment, I estimate that it must be larger than the Sahara Desert. ”

"Isn't there a saying, 'The wheels of the times are rolling forward, if you can't adapt to the development of the times, and you want to use your mantis arm as a car, you can only be crushed into powder by the wheels'. In front of the space plane, the Falcon rocket counts as a fart. As long as Xingchen International is not afraid of technology diffusion, the sale of aerospace aircraft and the elimination of launch vehicles to foreign countries is already a sure thing. However, I estimate that it is unlikely that Xingchen International will sell the aerospace aircraft, after all, the research and development cost of this thing must not be low, how can it be sold to others if it does not make enough money. It's a pity that Xingchen International has set up its space base in Africa, not in China. ”

"Who let Xingchen Group invest abroad in the first place, it really shouldn't be, and they should have been persuaded to establish a space base in China."

"There are no private space bases in China, and the only few private aerospace companies are also researching and researching small rockets and launching microsatellites, and they can't even launch a normal-sized satellite, and they really can't hit a single one. Besides, the population density in our country is too high, and it is difficult to find an open space base as large as the Sahara in Africa. ”

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After more than 20 minutes of flight, the Qiming space plane finally reached the first cosmic velocity, escaped the shackles of the earth's gravity, and entered space. At that moment, many things in the cabin floated up, such as the straps on the spacesuit, the astronauts' notebook and special pressurized ballpoint pens tied together, and some exposed connection lines. Even Jiao Bai and the others themselves had a tendency to float upward, but they were just pulled by the seat belts tied around their waists.

After confirming that all the instruments and meters on the aerospace aircraft were in good working condition, Cheng Ziming reported to the ground flight control center: "Ground flight control center, ground flight control center, this is Qiming, our plane has successfully entered space, and it is currently in good condition!" ”

"Congratulations, four brave astronauts, you have opened the space age of space planes for hundreds of millions of compatriots on Earth."

In the communicator, Zhu Jun's calm voice and a burst of warm applause in the ground flight control center were heard, and the four astronauts of Jiao Bai and a group of netizens in the live broadcast room also applauded and celebrated. ：，，，