Chapter 342: Simulated Spaceship

For spaceship simulation training.

After the discussion of the Space Development Committee, they gave up the plan to be an all-round astronaut, after all, human energy is limited, and if you train an all-round astronaut, it will not only take too long, but also be too cost-effective.

In the near future, Dongtang will open the era of space exploration, large-scale space operations, if all train all-round astronauts, it will not only cause the training time to be too long, but also the number of astronauts will be greatly reduced.

After many discussions and meetings, they finally decided to subdivide the astronaut profession again, and set up pilots, maintenance personnel, outer space operators, communicators, doctors, logistics personnel, technicians and other subdivisions.

Ma Wu chose the profession of transport spacecraft pilot, and as for Liao Qingsong, he chose an outer space operator.

These professional astronauts are necessary for a spacecraft, after all, the Space Development Commission intends to carry out outer space colonization activities for a long time, and these standing astronauts are indispensable.

After the division of majors again.

Ma Wu was training in the anti-load of the life support chamber and participated in the pilot training of the spacecraft.

And Liao Qingsong is also anti-load training, as well as outer space operation training.

A11 training area.

This is a one-to-one model of a Qinglong-class manned spaceship, in fact, except that it can't fly, all the configurations in this model are exactly the same as the real Qinglong-class.

Of course, Ma Wu knew some basic data about the Qinglong-class manned projection spacecraft.

The hexagonal cylinder, with a side length of 3 meters, a height of 12 meters, a volume of 280 cubic meters, the weight of the ship's hull and equipment is 21 tons, and a total of 18 tons of fuel oxidizer.

There are a total of 8 astronaut survival compartments, a total of 40 tons, and about 21 tons of supplies.

However, he was very puzzled about this matter, after all, the Jianmu Project is now half-dead and unfinished, why is the spaceship they trained still a Qinglong-class manned spaceship? He couldn't figure out what to do.

Could it be that the Qinglong-class manned spacecraft will be transformed into a carrier rocket and transported to outer space?

Suddenly, a hand slapped on his shoulder, Ma Wu was startled, and turned his head to turn out to be another roommate Jiang Shui, who also chose the driver's major.

"What do you think?"

"No, it's just that I'm surprised why I used the Qinglong level as a simulation training object." Ma Wu said as he took the Qinglong-level instruction manual and familiarized himself with it.

"It turned out to be this question, and I also had a lot of questions." Jiang Shui is also familiar with the Qinglong level.

"Forget it, the Space Development Committee may have to consider it for itself, let's get familiar with it first!"

Jiang Shui nodded and said, "Maybe they plan to transform the Qinglong class into a launch vehicle model." ”

"Who knows." Ma Wu stall spreads his hands.

However, a few of them were quite interested in the Qinglong-class manned spaceship.

Ma Wu looked at the Qinglong-level interior that looked like a future spaceship, it would be a pity if the mass projector succeeded.

The simulated cockpit of the Blue Dragon class is in the third stage of the cabin (the third level when it is upright), and the pilot's life support cabin is in the second stage of the cabin.

The first stage is the fuel and main engine, while the fourth and third sections are part of the supply compartment.

The cab is not too big, it can accommodate four people to move in it, but according to the staffing settings of the Qinglong level, there are three people in the cab, the main driver, the co-pilot, the communicator, and others are not allowed to enter the cab at will.

As future spaceship pilots, both Ma Wu and Jiang Shui are familiar with those buttons and operating systems.

"What's this red button?" Jiang Shui asked as he flipped through the manual.

Ma Wu looked at it and replied: "It's an emergency ejection button, which can start the life-sustaining chamber to eject the spaceship." ”

"What's the use of this thing? Can the life support chamber be used directly in outer space?" Jiang Shui asked speechlessly.

"Yes, the life support chamber itself is a design of the escape chamber in one, and the life support device inside can maintain the human body in outer space for about 60 hours." Ma Wu pointed to the manual and explained.

"Even so, I don't think this thing has much effect, unless there is cryonics technology, which can allow people to freeze in the living chamber for a few years, otherwise in the vast universe, the possibility of being rescued is similar to winning the welfare lottery." Jiang Shui is not optimistic about the design of this escape warehouse.

"At least near low earth orbit, this thing is still quite useful, and it's better to have than nothing." Ma Wu said with a smile.

A few of them spoke while comparing the manual, and the Qinglong-level cab adopted a large number of new designs, such as touch screens, holographic projections, and so on.

These designs have a lot of buttons, which greatly reduces the difficulty of driving for the driver, and during the acceleration and deceleration phases, the artificial intelligence is operating the spacecraft, and the driver is assisted in the life support chamber.

However, just in case, a few mechanical buttons were retained to prevent the electronic system from malfunctioning, and although the ship's electronic system is triple redundant, this is not foolproof.

After all, spaceships fly in outer space for a long time, as the saying goes, how can you walk by the river without getting your shoes wet, and electronic equipment will be destroyed by the accumulation of cosmic rays, and there will be more or less problems.

Although the cosmic ray protection measures of the Qinglong-class spacecraft are very comprehensive, there are no absolutes in everything, and if you are too superstitious about yourself, it is easy to capsize in the gutter.

After Ma Wu and the others were initially familiar with the cockpit, they wore the spacesuit in the cabin and simulated training.

The in-cabin spacesuit is different from the extravehicular spacesuit, of course, the material science of Galaxy Technology is very powerful, although it is an in-cabin spacesuit, but the quality is still leveraged, comparable to NASA's extravehicular spacesuit.

The performance and protection are strong, but the volume and weight are not too heavy and bulky, just like wearing a thin down jacket from the Lingnan region.

In addition, the design of the spacesuit in this cabin is very convenient, and the astronauts can put it on directly after coming out of the life support cabin.

If you want to go out of the spacecraft and enter outer space, you don't need to change the spacesuit, you can just put on the extravehicular spacesuit.

So in order to simulate the training, Ma Wu and they had to wear an in-cabin spacesuit to move around the cockpit, but fortunately, the cockpit's constant temperature system was not an impostor.

After all, in Zhangzhou in October, the weather is still very hot, and it will not slowly cool down until November.

Inside the wheelhouse, Ma Wu operated a spaceship to simulate flight.

[Student Ma Wu, there were eleven mistakes in your operation just now, the first place: 14:42:12 repeatedly pressed the left auxiliary engine start button twice...... ]

The artificial intelligence that Zhong separated gave Ma Wu a list of his mistakes in the operation process.

Looking at the data in front of him, Ma Wu was also very embarrassed, and hurriedly looked at his mistakes carefully, striving not to repeat the mistakes just now next time.

If you do not get a perfect score more than 10 times in a row during the spaceship pilot simulator training, you are not eligible to obtain a spaceship pilot license.

And the driver's license is the first step to becoming a spaceship pilot, after all, everyone wants to be the first person to go to outer space, and the success rate in simulation training is the key data.

In the case of the same driver's license, it is definitely the astronaut with a high success rate as the first people to go to outer space.