Chapter 106: Running to the Moon

Space launch is not a simple matter, it requires the tacit cooperation of ground staff and astronauts. And the professionalism of the duty of an astronaut is no less professional than that of a stellar physicist. If Zhao Huasheng wants to successfully go to the moon and adapt to the environment on the moon, and live in the space base, it is very necessary to receive training.

After hearing the order conveyed by the soldier, Zhao Huasheng put down the book in his hand, then stood up and said, "Okay, please take me there." ”

The soldier took Zhao Huasheng into the car in silence, and a few hours later came to a huge building complex. This is the astronaut training base, where basically all the astronauts in human civilization have been trained, and only after passing the training can they carry out space missions. The crew of the original Crimson Heart spacecraft, as well as the astronauts who built Skylab and the moon base, were all trained here.

Zhao Huasheng will also spend two years here.

"Two years, ah......" Zhao Huasheng sighed silently in his heart, and then entered the astronaut training base. Zhao Huasheng knew that if there were no accidents, this would probably be his last two years on the earth.

There are many skills that a qualified astronaut needs. Instrument operation, machine control, simple medical and human body structure knowledge, propeller and engine knowledge, maintenance knowledge, as well as star positioning, navigation and other related knowledge must be mastered. In particular, the relevant knowledge of survival in weightlessness or microgravity environment must be firmly mastered.

Under the dim moonlight, Zhao Huasheng spent his first night in the astronaut training base. The facilities in the astronaut training base are very complete. All the necessities of life are readily available. In the next two years, if nothing happens, Zhao Huasheng probably won't leave here again.

The earth is cold again, and human civilization has begun to wait again in silence and silence. But what awaits us this time, no one knows. Zhao Huasheng didn't know. Zhao Huasheng just quietly did his own thing, extremely hard and seriously accepted the training of experts one by one, and time slipped away quietly in this silence.

It was only a few days since the first antifusion layer material appeared. It completely covers the sun. So the brief warmth was deprived, and the sun was once again plunged into low temperature and gloom. The climate above the Earth has also slowly decreased over a period of two months. and eventually reduced to the previous temperature level. Once again, the earth was covered with ice, and once again a thick ice cap appeared over the ocean, and all the crops died, and their remains stood on top of the frozen earth, shivering with the cold wind that blew through it. Everything on this earth exudes an air of death and slaughter.

Time passed slowly. One year and nine months after Zhao Huasheng began to train, the lunar base has been built as a whole, and the astronauts and a team of ground engineers have begun to conduct a series of work such as module testing and post-repair of the lunar base. It took several years and millions of brilliant minds to build this great building that is unprecedented in human history. And Zhao Huasheng will be the owner of this great building.

Zhao Huasheng has seen real-life images of the lunar base. To put it simply, it resembles a six-legged spider. Its main building is a long strip. From each side of this strip, three short strips appeared, and the different functional areas of the lunar base were distributed in different locations.

About a few hundred meters away from the main body of the building is a large field of solar panels. When sunlight shines, the light energy is converted into electricity and stored in the base, and when there is no sunlight, the lunar base relies on this electricity. and chemical fuels stored within the base to obtain energy. Based on the power generated by the solar panels and the amount of fuel in reserve, the lunar base could operate normally for at least 60 years without receiving supplies from the outside world. This can already be regarded as a veritable permanent survival base.

The human government completed the building according to Zhao Huasheng's request without discount. It also pinned the hope of the revival of human civilization on this building and on Zhao Huasheng.

The last three months at the astronaut training base were also quietly passed. Today. It is the fifth year since the outbreak of the solar crisis, and today is the last day of Zhao Huasheng's life on the earth. Zhao Huasheng is about to travel to Skylab on a new rocket. After arriving at Skylab, Zhao Huasheng will head to the moon with three astronauts and the last batch of supplies. After landing at the lunar base, the two astronauts who stayed at the lunar base and the three astronauts who came with Zhao Huasheng returned to the spacecraft in total, leaving Zhao Huasheng alone.

This still feels like an ordinary day for Zhao Huasheng. In the morning, Zhao Huasheng got up, washed his face, brushed his teeth, combed his hair, and left his residence after breakfast. There were already several staff members waiting for him outside.

Different from the grand occasion when the Crimson Heart spacecraft was launched, Zhao Huasheng's trip to the moon was unusually low-key. The human government did not publicize the launch, on the contrary, it was kept strictly secret. So most of the people in Equatorial City didn't know about this incident. There is no media, no audience, and no spotlight. Zhao Huasheng came to the launch base calmly, and after the last inspection, he took the elevator in the launch tower to the head of the rocket, and then lay there, fixing his body to the seat.

Wang Tang, Li Wei, Meng Zhuo, the Führer, as well as some scientists, and a few staff members were the only spectators of the launch. Zhao Huasheng was lying expressionless in the launch module, and several astronauts around him did not make any movements except for operating some instruments.

Cameras in the launch bay broadcast the scene to the control hall in real time. Looking at Zhao Huasheng's expressionless face, Li Wei's eyes suddenly overflowed with tears.

Although she didn't know what Zhao Huasheng's plan was, Li Wei could probably feel that this would be the last time that she and Zhao Huasheng would be on the same planet. After that, the distance between the two will no longer be described as the ends of the earth. Even if it is the end of the world, it is on the same land after all.

The atmosphere in the control hall was silent and serious. The staff shuttled between different instruments, busy, confirming the information of each module of the rocket, and finally, Wang Tang, the launch commander, spit out a sentence from his mouth: "Launch countdown, thirty seconds." ”

There was already something like white mist emerging at the tail of the rocket, and the cold wind blew over to blow the white fog away, but then more white mist appeared, always covering the tail of the rocket in the mist. Zhao Huasheng calmly looked at the numbers that were constantly beating in the launch module, and there was still no expression on his face.

Zhao Huasheng felt the weight of his body, felt the pressure brought by the gravity of the earth, and felt a sense of loss in his heart. Zhao Huasheng knew that after he left the earth, he might not be able to feel this feeling again. Because there is no gravity in space, and the gravity on the moon is only one-sixth of that of the earth.

A slight tremor reached Zhao Huasheng's body. It was faint at first, but after only a few seconds, the tremor grew to the point of panic. Zhao Huasheng clearly heard the words spoken by Wang Tang in the ground control base: "...... One...... Zero. Ignition, launch! ”

The astronauts who traveled with Zhao Huasheng had obviously had many launch experiences, and they had also experienced this tremor many times at this moment. Compared with Zhao Huasheng, they are more sophisticated and calmer. Although Zhao Huasheng has undergone up to two years of training, he has no practical experience after all.

Zhao Huasheng felt like a big stone had been pressed on his chest. Not only that, but his limbs, head, etc., were as if they were being pressed on the floor by a powerful big hand, and he couldn't move at all. It was an irresistible force, the inertial force brought about by the acceleration of the rocket, and at the same time, it was also the earth's retention of Zhao Huasheng.

But the retention of the earth cannot keep Zhao Huasheng after all. The power of the rocket is too great, and the acceleration is too fast. Zhao Huasheng glanced at the number on the dashboard, which was 17,800 meters. In this short period of time, he has risen to an altitude of 17.8 kilometers. This height is more than twice that of the Himalayas.

In this last moment of leaving the earth, many images flashed through Zhao Huasheng's mind. There are pictures of himself and Li Qi having dinner together, pictures of himself and Li Wei meeting for the first time, and the first hug and kiss...... Every person he met on the earth, everything that happened, was so clear in Zhao Huasheng's mind at this moment.

The rocket is still flying at high speed. Its speed had already broken through the sound barrier, the body of the arrow pierced the atmosphere, and the gas left a white line in the sky. But at night, the white line is probably not visible. All that could be seen from above the ground was the bright glow of the rocket's tail.

Li Wei left the control hall at this time and walked outside. She looked up, looked at the starry rocket tail flame in the sky, silently folded her hands, and closed her eyes.

The tail flame finally disappeared from the sky, and I don't know where it went. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. For mobile phone users, please go to M. to read. )

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