If you want to talk about the most exciting news on this New Year's Day, I am afraid it is not the New Year's Eve wedding of a certain star, nor the official grid-connected power generation of Xihedui in Daya Bay, but a series of events from the launch of the Xiangrui to the successful return.

From the successful launch of the Xiangrui, to the 25-second video, to the report of the New York Times, until the final safe return of the Xiangrui, every moment can be said to have earned enough eyeballs.

It is not for nothing that there are people who make rockets.

But the person who dares to ride the rocket he built into the sky is probably the only one at present.

Even Musk, who has always been called the Iron Man of Silicon Valley, has never said that he would ride the Falcon 9 rocket into the sky.

There is also the sensational and innovative way of propulsion, which completely subverts people's understanding of spaceflight.

It seems that this New Year's Day spans not just the year 2020, but the entire era.

From the old era, to the new era.

From the past to the future......

In fact, it is actually quite interesting to talk about this matter, if it were not for the news released by NASA through Columbia TV, perhaps most people would not know that Xiangrui uses an electric propulsion system.

After the news came out, neither Star Technology nor Huaguo officials seemed to have any intention of denying it, but they did not give a positive answer to the news. For the vast majority of people, this has been equated with a tacit approval that has not been publicly acknowledged.

And it is precisely this kind of silence that faintly shows the power that makes those who silently pray for the auspicious blessing when they return to the voyage, raise their eyebrows fiercely in their hearts.

For a long time, in the field of aerospace, China has been immersed in catching up with the footsteps of the United States and Russia, and in the design of high-thrust rockets and outer space spacecraft, it is even more deficient than Europe and Japan, which are slightly inferior to the United States and Russia. Now that Xiangrui has achieved corner overtaking through electric propulsion technology, Huaguo has advanced at least five years and has a low-earth orbit delivery capacity of 50 tons of load.

The first steps of the lunar program have already been achieved.

All that's left is how the study can get people safely......

Distant things aside, these things are not something that ordinary people will pay attention to, no matter how the safe return of the Xiangrui is, it has hurt and swollen the faces of a considerable number of people.

Especially on Lu Zhou's side.

After learning the whole story from the senior sister, he also sent a scarf without worrying about it, with the photo that the system asked him to take, and attached a line of text below.

[I heard someone say I can't come back? (funny)]

Less than half a minute after the scarf was issued, hundreds of comments were swiped.

[Haha, what about NASA experts?] What about those crooked nuts? Why didn't you come out and disintegrate? 】

[What the hell is the New York Times, spreading rumors all day long! ] It's not a big deal! 】

[I just want to say that the land god is awesome!! 】

[In fact, the Xiangrui was originally going to disintegrate, but it was given a mouthful of poisoned milk by NASA. (funny)]

[Haha, does your face hurt? ] I knew that there could be nothing wrong with the land god! 】

[Lu Shen, I want to have a little monkey with you in space~~ (shy) (shy)]

[The above H-related report has been reported! ] 】

[After looking around, no one has praised Lu Shen for being handsome, I'll praise it, brothers, go through the process, send me up! ] (Dog's Head)】

【……】

In less than half an hour, the number of reprints of this scarf exceeded 10,000, and it was reprinted and liked by a large number of media such as CTV and Renren Daily. Its heat quickly spread from the scarf to the entire network, and from inside the wall to outside the wall.

Many people posted screenshots of Lu Zhou's scarf on Twitter, and Aite the New York Times account.

Interestingly, however, it was not the New York Times that responded, but NASA's official account.

On its official account, NASA quickly clarified that it had never published news that the Lucky Ray might disintegrate in the atmosphere, that the content of the New York Times report was a misinterpretation of the content of the press conference, and that the entire report was a gimmick that could not be trusted.

As soon as this news came out, it also caused a lot of repercussions on Twitter, and it also discredited the New York Times for a while.

At this point, Lu Zhou originally thought that this matter would end like this, after all, in his opinion, it was just a test flight, and it was not a particularly important event, but he didn't expect it to be over so simply.

After interviewing the two astronauts, CTV combined the previously collected materials to make a documentary about the launch of Xiangrui.

In this documentary, the consistent shooting style of the central media is adopted, highlighting the difficulties of research and development and the dangers in the launch process. As the focus of attention, Lu Zhou, who went to the sky with the two astronauts, was also rendered as a hero who challenged space with his life......

even added a line for him in a generous and righteous tone.

"I'm the chief designer and I have the first-hand information I need! If I don't go up, who will go up? ”

It didn't seem like he was going to test spacecraft, as if he was going to fight aliens......

“…… What a pig teammate. ”

In the special ward of 301 Hospital, Lu Zhou threw the newspaper he hadn't finished reading on the table, sat on the bed and shook his head.

The reason why he was in the ward was not because he was sick, but because he was required to undergo routine check-ups after space activities, just like the two astronauts.

Although he has repeatedly said that his health can no longer be healthy, he really can't beat the old experts in 301 Hospital.

Of course, Lu Zhou also understood that they were kind, for fear that he would leave a little hidden danger on him.

Therefore, he was not so resistant.

"I look pretty good......"

Wang Peng glanced at Lu Zhou with a strange expression.

Why haven't I seen you humble before, but this time I don't like to write about it......

Yan Yan leaned over and glanced at it, coughed lightly and said.

"A pertinent evaluation, it's actually quite touching."

"You don't understand." Lu Zhou shook his head.

Chen Yushan, who was standing on the edge of the hospital bed, bent the corners of her mouth and said, "Can I guess?" ”

Lu Zhou sighed and said. "Whatever."

After that hug on the day of his return, his relationship with his senior sister became a little delicate.

But where is the subtlety, if you really want Lu Zhou to say it, he doesn't know how to describe it.

Anyway, since then, neither of them has mentioned that incident, as if nothing had happened.

And so it became what it is now.

How so?

Lu Zhou didn't quite know what this feeling was.

This may be the so-called knowledge blind spot......

"Hmm...... Do you want to use this launch to show people that space travel in the not-too-distant future is not fundamentally different from ordinary travel, or that it is not as dangerous as imagined? ”

Lu Zhou was silent for a while, and his gaze drifted to the side.

“…… Well, I'll count you in half. ”

In fact, only a quarter of them were correct.

At least half of this is due in part to the system mission, and the other quarter is simply trying to see what their plane is really like in the air, and only by understanding it can he know exactly what needs to be improved, rather than just studying some pale data and pilots' dictations.

Although she only got half of her answer right, Chen Yushan still curled the corners of her mouth happily.

Yan Yan, who was standing next to her, pursed her lips unhappily, picked up the test sheet in her hand without saying a word, and went outside the ward.

However, Lu Zhou didn't notice these subtle details, and his attention was completely attracted by the snowflakes flying outside the window.

Speaking of which, before you know it, it's winter again.

It seems that the STAR-2 experimental reactor was successfully ignited at about this time.

Time flies......