[Chapter 549: "Noah" departs]
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At the moment, the National Space Center, where Washington, the capital of the United States, is located, NASA headquarters. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Countless special correspondents from major media outlets, mainstream media and science magazines from all over the world gather here.
Charles. At the reception, Ball officially unveiled a series of charters for NASA's "Mars Program" to the world. Among them, Charles announced the exact date of the departure of "Noah" for the first time at the press conference, that is: five days later, "Noah" will officially leave the Earth's orbit.
As soon as the news came out of the world, the United States was boiling.
"The United States of America will usher in a new era for mankind, and the great space age will officially begin, and as the saying goes, the goal of our human race is to ...... the stars and the sea" -- The New York Times.
"We live in a magnificent and great era, if the SA and NASA opened a new era and a new pattern of the post-US-Soviet space race, then the 'Noah' officially pushed this era to the highest peak, perhaps we can announce that the great space age has officially arrived......" - "Nature" magazine.
"I have to say that space exploration is a real super gold-swallowing monster, not to mention that the 'twin projects' of the SA or CMSX, which are not afraid of running out of money, cost nearly $600 billion. Even NASA's 'mission to Mars' is more than $100 billion. Space exploration is a competition for a country's economic strength, scientific and technological level and comprehensive national strength, obviously, this will only appear in the hands of superpowers, and there are only two countries that can satisfy this series of demanding to the extreme, namely China and the United States. -- The Times
"The wrestling between superpowers is no longer limited to one planet, but the entire universe, and in this Martian contest, it is still unknown who will die, and we will wait and see......"
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All of a sudden, the global media rushed to report the news, both online and on television, at different times. The United States is even more boiling, because the team that started the journey to Mars for the first time is from the Americans, which is extremely proud, and the media in North America is even more praised for it, and the words are full of excitement and pride.
The whole United States spent the next day in such excitement, counting minutes and seconds waiting for the arrival of the final journey, and the global vision focused on the "Noah". This time, the "Noah" spacecraft will have five astronauts, and the entire spacecraft, including the "Orion" spacecraft and its Martian outpost base, will have a staggering volume of more than 700 tons and a full load of 970 tons, almost breaking four figures.
Five days later, the world's most anticipated moment is officially here, and the most exciting moment in the United States is coming, and all eyes are gathered.
In the sky, "Noah", which is 589.7 kilometers away from the earth's surface, is about to represent the first human journey to Mars.
Through the high-definition cameras equipped on Google satellites, the world saw the true face of "Noah" for the first time.
The true face of "Noah" is like a huge gyro-shaped object, the highest diameter is up to 180 meters, the central part of the huge annular object seems to be a giant rocket fixed in the center, with a total length of 132 meters, six trusses are fixed with a cylindrical body in the middle, so that the ring structure with a diameter of 180 meters is connected later, among the six trusses, three of them play a fixed role, a typical triangular stability design, and the other three are channel cabins, and the outer rings with a diameter of 180 meters are centrifugal cabins. That is, the centrifugal gravity manufacturing chamber, where artificial gravity can be generated.
In the center, there are three large balls bulging out of the end of the "cylindrical rocket", which are the fuel storage depot and propulsion engine, and there is also a nuclear reactor, and at the very end there is a super-large engine vent with a diameter of more than 17 meters.
At the foremost is a 37-meter-long bullet-shaped object, which is the "Orion" spacecraft, which is a manned landing vehicle on Mars.
"Noah" is composed of five main parts: the central core module, the centrifugal module fixed to the core module, the "Orion" spacecraft at the front, the outpost base and the propulsion system at its end. The entire outline resembles a top-shaped object, and it looks like a large tire with a shaft interspersed in between.
At this moment, when the "Noah" is departing, the Google satellite is maintaining a relatively consistent speed and stable distance with the aircraft, and is conducting live broadcast coverage of the "Noah" around the world.
Soon, people on Earth saw that the centrifuge chamber of the "Noah" began to move, and gradually began to rotate in a clockwise direction, and the speed became faster and faster, and after the rotation, the outermost area of the centrifuge chamber would produce a relatively maximum artificial gravity.
"3 g......"
People watching the live broadcast heard the sound of the astronauts on the "Noah" report in the video, and the centrifugal gravitational pull is getting stronger.
"7 g......"
When the gravity in the centrifugal chamber reached the same level as the gravity on Earth, the "Noah" stopped the accelerated rotational propulsion against the centrifugal chamber.
I saw an astronaut floating in the passage of the core module, slowly flying to a cabin interface and opening the hatch, where he was located is one of the three passages leading to the centrifugal cabin, he adjusted his body, his legs entered the passage cabin first instead of his head, in the straight passage of 78 meters, there was a ladder of the same length, and the astronaut held both ends of the ladder with both hands.
When he entered the passage, he could clearly feel the gravity anomaly, typical lightheadedness, and could feel that there was a force that was "sucking him in" downward, and after a while, he grabbed the smooth pillars at both ends of the ladder with both hands, and the whole person descended to the bottom of the passage, and the speed became faster and faster.
The more he went down, the higher the centrifugal force, the faster the descent, and when he came to the halfway point of the passage, he could no longer feel weightlessness, his body could no longer float, and it was time for his feet to step on the ladder, step by step.
When he stepped onto the floor of the centrifuge chamber, he felt the same gravity as the earth, and he was able to walk freely on it.
"Skovo, I see you~!"
At the front of the vehicle, in the central control module, another astronaut looked through the window, and he saw the circular centrifugal cabin behind him, and his colleague was standing there in the upper window, but, in his eyes, the colleague was upside down at the moment, with his head down, as if he was being hoisted, and the other party was waving at him, but soon the rotating centrifugal cabin made the two sides disappear from each other's field of vision.
"The course is complete!"
"Thrusters ready!"
“…… Report complete, Houston! ”
"This is Houston, permission to go! I wish you all the best! ”
"Let's go!"
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… (To be continued.) )