At the same time, when the "Mars Express" began to return to Earth, the "Firefly" space station did not stop, and five astronauts began to leave the space station and walk in space to carry out space operations. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Next, they will let the "Firefly" space station officially start to operate in the high-altitude orbit of Mars, and the "Firefly" space station is about to start a gorgeous transformation from a "single".

I saw an astronaut suspended in the position of the No. 2 experimental module of the space station, and in front of him, the originally flat B230 inflatable space capsule began to slowly bulge, a large amount of nitrogen and oxygen equal to the earth's atmospheric environment of the air is converging into the inflatable space capsule, the air pressure inside the capsule is rising steadily, until it is consistent with the earth's atmosphere, and the internal space volume of the 'Firefly' space station officially increases by 230 cubic meters of space.

After the B230 inflatable capsule was safely opened and operated, the astronauts around him clicked a few times on the small display panel on the back of their wrists, only to see that the trusses on the main module of the space station began to change, and the two truss limbs moved with the pulleys, rotated and changed angles, and finally fixed the B230 and assembled a pair of interfaces on its tail.

At this time, the astronauts saw a bulging inflatable capsule, and the symbol on the exterior was B330, indicating that this independent inflatable capsule has a space capacity of 330 cubic meters.

Next, the slowly floating B330 will complete the manual rendezvous and docking with the B230.

After the astronaut took over the control of the B330, he was seen hovering around, with a miniature version of the control handle appearing in his hand, small but extremely complex, and an 11-inch screen in the middle, showing a green grid-like pattern of spatial distribution between the B330 and B230, and a large amount of live data changing on both sides.

The astronaut was engrossed, his eyes frequently exchanged between the space capsule and the 11-inch screen, and the surface of the B330 inflatable capsule spewed gas from time to time, flying slowly, getting brighter and brighter closer to the B230 counterpart.

Finally, in 18 minutes, the docking of the two space capsules was completed, and the astronaut in charge finally took a long breath when he saw the successful completion, hung the small control handles one by one on the thighs of the components and fixed them, and reported: "The No. 2 experimental module is operating normally." ”

As far as the eye can see, the entire "Firefly" space station continues to operate in outer space with five astronauts, and with the cooperation of the internal crew, the "Firefly" cocoon journey was completed in six and a half hours, and the six solar panels up to 100 meters long are extremely shocking, and the biggest role of these panels in addition to absorbing some solar energy is to cover up the fact that the core energy of the space station is provided by the high-energy storage amethyst brought from the earth.

Otherwise, such a large space station would be too incredible.

A few hours later, the "Firefly" space station established communication with the "Noah" of the United States for the first time, and was trapped in a lonely world hundreds of millions of kilometers. The moment Jones heard the voice of the same kind, he could no longer suppress the excitement in his heart, although he knew that the other party was Chinese, but here, it didn't matter at this moment.

After completing the establishment of the communication link, Duncan. Jones transferred the control of "Noah" to the "Firefly" space station according to the instructions, which was approved by the Houston Space Center, and the "Noah" must be consistent in order to complete the docking with the "Firefly" space station.

Luckily, although the two man-made objects come from different countries, they both have one thing in common, and that is that they both have products from Bigelow Aerospace, which means that they can match the two early.

At the same time, the "Mars Express" is embarking on the way back, three months later, as scheduled to reach the Earth's high-altitude orbit, the spacecraft was placed in the "Tiangong Orbit Starport" berth, in the "Mars Express" return of three months, the Earth CMSX and NASA are also rapidly starting to prepare.

The spacecraft entered the "Tiangong Orbital Star Port" berthing and began to replenish materials, especially energy supply, a round-trip journey consumed a lot of energy, but the energy supply was not very difficult, the amethyst crystals full of energy had already been prepared, and after the spacecraft entered the berthing port, it began to import energy into the internal energy storage warehouse to make the purple source crystals inside be replenished.

With the announcement of the safe return of Mars Express to Earth, the global perspective has gradually shifted from nuclear fusion energy to space exploration, and this time the cooperation between the world's two most powerful space powers has also attracted much attention.

Since CMSX and NASA reached a formal cooperation agreement, with the help of matrix technology in three months, NASA can finally send "Noah 2" into space in advance, when the "Noah 2" carrying a large number of supplies by the Americans will complete the docking with the "Mars Express" and arrive on Mars with the help of this spacecraft.

In October, the much-anticipated moment came again.

NASA's special plane arrived at Hainan International Airport with a team of armed tactical teams, astronauts and scientific researchers, a total of 12 armed tactical teams of 6 people, 4 astronauts and 2 scientific researchers.

In the afternoon, the group was in the head of NASA, Charles Murphy. Under the leadership of Bor as the team leader, he officially arrived at the headquarters of the CMSX space base.

After a day's rest, a small armed team sent by NASA was secretly sent to other areas, and the cooperation between the two sides was semi-public to the outside world, and only the two sides knew about the dispatch of the armed team to Mars, and it remained top secret.

Both sides have their own armed squads, and their mission is clear, that is, to take on the defense of the Martian outpost base, and the main enemy is the native creatures of Mars.

On the third day, Matrix Technology and NASA held a press conference again, in addition to the official representatives of the two sides, astronauts from the two countries also attended, NASA attended 6, and CMSX attended 3, a total of 9 astronauts attended the meeting.

Of course, these are astronauts or scientific researchers announced to the public, and the armed tactical teams on both sides have already been sent into space yesterday through the "Arc Eagle 9", and the personnel who send the armed team to Mars must not appear in the public eye, and if the armed forces are known to the outside world, it will not blow up the pot, and NASA has more astronauts than CMSX because the other party has to make up for the people lost on Mars.

A group photo of 20 people quickly made the headlines of major media and newspapers, with 9 astronauts at the forefront, and the rest were official representatives of CMSX and NASA, Liu Yuliang and Charles. Bor is also prominently listed, and the background of the photo is the flags representing the two countries, and it is worth mentioning that this time Ren Hong did not attend the meeting.

After the regular reception, the astronauts will also board the ship and leave Earth.

The next day, in the attic area outside the runway of the CMSX space base, a large number of reporters set up cameras here at dawn, and the "Arc Eagle 9" had already docked on the runway, which was the first time for the media that CMSX had allowed them to take a close-up shot of the runway with the arc tower.

The Martian is attracting worldwide attention.

Today is the day of the joint expedition, which naturally ushered in global attention, major media and newspapers are reporting live, and Google satellites in outer space are also ready.

At 7:37, the appearance of a group of people immediately let countless cameras lock on them, and it was the figure of 9 astronauts, they appeared on the runway and waved to the camera, under the lock of the camera, the cabin door of the "Arc Eagle 9" slowly opened, and the staff immediately pushed the ladder frame, and under the focus of the global vision, 9 astronauts boarded the ship one after another.

At 8:21, the staff on the track were evacuated one after another.

"Hello, I'm a paleontologist. Yutun, it's a pleasure to meet you. ”

"Hello, Liu Peng."

"Liu, you're also going to Mars?"

"Yes."

"Wow, to be honest, I'm your fan, I guess there will be many people wailing, and the space anchor is gone."

"My name is Feiqi. Franklin. ”

"Jing Tian."

In the cabin, the two sides introduced each other and began to chat, getting acquainted with each other, and the next time to get along will be at least more than 100 days, although the array is different, but after all, this is the period of cooperation, this time Jing Tian and Ai Sling are also in the spotlight, because their first batch of female astronaut representatives who landed on Mars are destined to go down in history.

"Attention units, the spacecraft is about to start......" The voice announcer in the engine room sounded in English instead of Chinese, no way, several foreigners don't know much Chinese, but all Chinese astronauts understand English.

Everyone began to check the seat belt to confirm all the safety issues, and one of the astronauts said with a little excitement: "It's a completely different feeling, it feels like doing an Airbus plane, haha." ”

This is indeed the case for this group of old Americans, the "Arc Eagle Nine" is completely designed to carry personnel, and the maximum load can carry 29 people into space at the same time, and the car fixed on the rocket is different, in the "Arc Eagle Nine" cabin is completely like taking an Airbus plane, and the comfort is naturally not comparable to the spacecraft on the rocket.

Lao Mei, who experienced China's aerospace transport aircraft for the first time, was very curious and excited about the next affairs, and everything was the first experience for them.

“…… 2…… 1 ignition ......"

The nine astronauts in the cabin were moving at high speed on the transport plane, and the high acceleration made everyone's backs seem to stick to their seats at the same time.

"It's still that familiar feeling, uncomfortable!"

Outside the runway, countless cameras locked on the "Arc Eagle 9" moving at high speed in an arc track, and in less than 10 seconds, the spacecraft separated from the launch tower, and finally soared into the sky, heading towards the sky.

The heat wave on the runway impressed the reporters, and the camera captured the orbital area that the spacecraft skimmed, and the air in the scene in the picture was clearly rippling, which showed how frightening the temperature on the runway was at the moment.

After the spacecraft left the runway, the staff wearing special heat-insulating protective clothing immediately poured into the runway to start artificial cooling and maintenance, and the reporters wanted to stay longer to get more information, such as the special clothing of those staff, first-hand information on the maintenance of the runway, etc., but the main owner has already gone to the sky, and the security personnel of the CMSX space base have begun to forcibly evict these reporters.

Earth's high-altitude orbit.

"Oh my God!!"

"Although it is not the first time I have seen 'Heavenly Palace', the first time I have seen her true face so closely, I am still shocked, I can't believe it, I am on my way to board the ship!!"

"How did you do this miracle?" Aisling looked back at the Chinese astronaut behind her and asked in surprise. At this moment, 9 astronauts grabbed a white cable at the same time, and were being dragged to the Starport boarding hatch, all of them appeared in outer space in spacesuits, and 6 Americans looked around curiously, some were looking at the huge centrifugal cabin of Starport, some were looking at the "Tianyan 2" and so on, this behemoth in front of them, this sky fortress is currently the largest space station in human history - Tiangong Orbit Starport.

The straightforward Esslyn chatted during the spacewalk, unabashedly expressing envy, and all kinds of exclamations were endless, and it could be seen that this was from the heart, without the slightest fraud. When several Chinese astronauts heard her words of admiration, their hearts also inexplicably revealed a kind of joy and pride.

The Tiangong Orbital Starport is undoubtedly the crystallization of this country's space technology, and has become a symbol of this country's super strength in the field of space technology, and any citizen will probably be proud.

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