At the Federal Space Launch Center, everyone is ready for the astronauts to take a carrier rocket into space to rendezvous with the "Archangel", and then start a new journey of human exploration of space.

This time, a more traditional launch vehicle was used, not a manned spacecraft in the style of a space shuttle, but a manned spacecraft similar to a warhead.

Considering Europa's complex surface environment, this relatively safe spacecraft was used, which is both a manned spacecraft and a landing spacecraft, and one step less is one step less anyway.

The huge bills have already made the people in Congress have an opinion, and they are now purely saving a little bit of money.

Although private companies should be brought in to reduce costs at this time, the federal government must ensure enough officialdom for this kind of "first" task, even if private companies are involved in the process, but in the end, it must be carried out by official agencies.

While it was bustling outside, in the astronauts' lounge, six astronauts who were about to embark on their journey were taking their final rest.

Sidney took a rare paper photograph and kissed a beautiful white woman, and he whispered, "Jenny, wait, when I come back from this trip to Europa, I will marry you as a hero." ”

Hearing his words, Captain Gordon, who was sitting next to him, chuckled in his heart and said to him: "Man, your sentence is not suitable for the current occasion, and it is usually counterproductive in movies." ”

"Hahaha, Captain, you also said that it was a movie, we are really going to Europa, but it is not a movie." Sidney was completely unimpressed.

When he smiled, everyone laughed together, and the atmosphere in the lounge immediately relaxed a lot.

Seeing this scene, Gordon also laughed, in fact, he said it on purpose, in order to liven up the atmosphere.

Not to mention the length of the test time after the completion of the spacecraft, it is not easy to endure the round-trip journey of more than two years, and the longer they stay in space, the greater the chance of danger.

Since they participated in this mission, they also know the situation here, although the official words are good and guarantee 100% safety, but they are not children, they have their own judgments, so they are naturally a little nervous

After a moment of rejoicing, they were notified that they were going to board the ship, and they immediately tidied up and walked out with their chests raised and smiling.

During the time they came out, the live video was also interspersed with clips of their previous talk shows to fill the time in the middle, otherwise the camera was always at the door, but there was no one, it would be too boring.

“…… Look, this is our captain Gordon, a mature middle-aged white man, he is equivalent to the great captain of the Great Voyage, but he is more powerful, because he is about to conquer the cosmic sea of stars......"

“…… Mario, a white man more mature than the captain, he's our best engineer, and without him on the ship, our ladies and gentlemen probably won't even fix the broken toilet, hell, I don't want to see that......"

“…… This beautiful lady, Elsa, she is like a beautiful black pearl, an angel, our doctor, without her, our crew would probably be sick and uncomfortable and unable to eat, haha......"

“…… Beth, another beautiful lady, look, look, she's smiling like a beautiful white lily, the aliens on Europa are going to be smitten, don't stay there to be their princess, our home planet needs you too......"

“…… Our Liu Yi, a botanist, his ancestral home is the Alliance, what he is best at is studying plants, and also ensuring that our crew can eat fresh vegetables at any time, think about it, eating fresh vegetables on the way to the expedition, my saliva will stay......"

“…… The last one, our humorous black guy Sidney, an expert in computer and information observation, came to tell us where to find aliens, and his rap can also bring joy to the crew, audience, your luck is coming, do you want to listen to our space explorers sing a ......"

After the highlight was played, the six astronauts also happened to come out, seeing them smiling and waving, both the reporters on the scene and the audience before the live broadcast were excited.

Of course, it is the Federation people who are the most, after all, they are their heroes, and those in other countries who are excited are excited about the homeland star.

Finally, Homestar is about to expand the range of human activities in space.

The launch vehicle has safely docked with the "Archangel", and the six astronauts will cooperate with the Federal Space Agency to conduct a final comprehensive inspection of the spacecraft, and then it will be officially ignited and set sail tomorrow.

And tomorrow is the time for the Soyuz astronauts to board the "Glowing Confusion".

They were just going to be a day ahead of the Alliance.

But no one cares about this anymore, the Union itself doesn't care, and now the Federation and the Union simply represent two forms.

One is constantly moving forward, while the other is growing and growing, both of them are expanding the universe for human beings, and they happened to meet each other, which makes people extremely excited.

Soon the day of the "Archangel" set sail.

Its powertrain is also a two-in-one, with a chemical engine providing muzzle velocity and an ion engine providing late acceleration and long-lasting range.

However, there is a difference in that it does not have a separate rotating simulation gravity chamber, it is the rotation of the entire hull to generate gravity.

And because it is one, so every time you want to start the main engine to accelerate or modify the orbit, the "Archangel" must stop the rotation first, and the astronauts in the early acceleration stage must first spend two months in the state of gravity, and only during the acceleration period can they feel the gravity generated by the acceleration.

Finally, under the attention of the world, the "Archangel" ignited and slowly left the orbit of the home star and flew towards Europa in deep space.

As soon as they left, it was time for the alliance to perform, and compared to the six-person Europa expedition, the second phase of the alliance's Mars mission was called crowded.

At the beginning, the number of people was not finalized, and after the trial was over and the performance of the "Glow" was fully understood, the number of people on this mission was set at twenty.

Twenty astronauts wearing sci-fi "adventurer" spacesuits stood there waving at the camera, and the momentum was different, and by the way, it gave a wave of hard space technology.

Dong Qingchen watched the three-day live broadcast with the researchers of the space vehicle department, and when he saw his company's spacesuit appear, the people behind him also applauded with cheers, and when the "Yingchao" slowly left its home star and sailed towards Mars, they were even more excited to cheer.

It wasn't until the end of the live broadcast that Dong Qingchen turned his head to them and said, "Okay, the live broadcast is over." ”

"Everyone should have seen that the two major countries of the homeland star have gone to deep space, which represents the official beginning of the era of human starry sky exploration, although we are a private enterprise, but we cannot lag behind."

The company's name "Deep Space" represents my deepest ideal, in such a big era, we must break out of our own name, find our own new world, do you have confidence? ”

"Yes!" Everyone said in unison.