A week-long weightless training was a source of hardship for all the candidates, not only to adapt to life with their heads down, but also to learn to walk, eat, and even sleep in weightless conditions, all the instincts they learned as children on land.

That is, this brand-new domestic large aircraft can fully withstand such a toss, and I am afraid that it will be scrapped in a few laps if it is replaced by an ordinary aircraft.

And these are just aptitude tests, to check whether all candidates can adapt to life in space, once they become astronauts, then these trainings will be deeply ingrained in their bones, become their instincts.

After the elimination of seven candidates in the first round, the second round of elimination was followed by a taste of what it means to be cruel to the surviving astronaut candidates.

Nineteen candidates picked up their luggage, got their money home, and left the Fifth Space Training Center in silence.

The ruthless elimination system is a wake-up call for those who remain.

This is a real minute in the sky, a year in the ground.

Don't look at the surface of astronauts, even if they can be taken care of by the state for a lifetime, but who can know the huge price they have to pay for this.

The real hard work is yet to come.

A super merry-go-round, a devil's centrifuge, a loneliness test, a vibration training pod, a high-temperature living pod, take turns to torment the astronaut candidates who are being trained in the following time.

In the third week, the pressure of elimination was still high, and the twelve candidates had to leave the training center with their bags on their backs.

Group B was canceled because all the team leaders and team members were eliminated by the department, and the whole army was exhausted.

There are only one-third of the people left in Group A, and there are still 2 people left in Group C, but the team leader was also eliminated and had to be re-pushed up, and there are still 4 people left in Group E, Lin Mo and Meng Shinan both survived, and only half of Group F remained.

The second and third rounds of successive ferocious eliminations left only one-third of the people who came to report for duty, and these 21 people all felt the pressure deliberately created by the space training center.

Although I knew that it was the pressure deliberately given by the training center, all of them did not dare to relax in the slightest, and if there was any optimist who dared to participate in the training without heart and lungs, I am afraid that they would be eliminated halfway through the first time.

Wang Xuejun, who had just arrived at the Aerospace Training Center, had shown his arrogant and untamed character, but at this moment he had to succumb to such tremendous pressure, and his stiff edges and corners were worn off a lot.

The army is a steel-making furnace, and the aerospace training center is a special steel-making furnace, and all that is refined is full of good steel.

Wang Xuejun has no time to take care of anything else, and he just wants not to have him in the list of eliminations in the next round, and he is already very satisfied.

This is not as easy as kicking out the door, if you let your relatives, friends and your unit know that you were casually eliminated, I am afraid that you will never want to raise your head in this life.

The fourth round of training is not only physical training, but more towards psychological quality.

Troubleshooting emergency training courses.

No one would have imagined that a job similar to that of an explosion protection specialist would one day fall on their heads.

After two days of spacecraft indoctrination, they were placed in a calamity-ridden simulated space capsule, where random glitches and dangers would emerge and if they were not dealt with perfectly and calmly, they would be simulated and blown to pieces.

When the countdown to life begins, everyone will force themselves to burst out to their full potential.

Sometimes, luck has become a kind of strength, even if you don't believe in ghosts and gods, at this time, you have to pray to the gods and Buddhas to bless yourself to pass the test smoothly again.

"Number 1, do you still have the confidence to persevere? I couldn't hold on anymore. ”

Lin Mo, who was so attentive to deal with the computer malfunction in front of him, heard Wei Yunyi's voice in the headphones, and the two of them and the other three were randomly assigned to this simulated space capsule for emergency failure testing.

Their group was unfortunate enough to have just finished solving a "thruster control circuit board burnout." As a result, it didn't settle down for a minute when it encountered an accident of "being hit by floating objects in outer space".

If the leak cannot be found within 20 minutes and emergency treatment is carried out, it means that all members of the group are killed.

This calamitous capsule will erupt at any time with some unexpected fatal failures, and this group of five people must go all out to cooperate with each other and calmly solve them one by one in order to deal with the past, otherwise they will "hang up" in at least 120 failures that keep popping up.

However, according to their current capabilities, it is impossible to solve at least 120 faults at once perfectly, even real astronauts cannot do it, this is just a plan used by the training center to train candidates and official astronauts, in fact, real spacecraft cannot really be so troubled.

This simulated space capsule is located in an extremely large low-pressure sealed chamber, although the atmospheric pressure is relatively low, but the low-pressure sealed chamber that can accommodate the next submarine is filled with helium and oxygen, and there will be no real danger to life due to high-simulation simulated accidents.

The air pressure readings in the cabin are constantly decreasing, this reading is half real and half virtual, and the computer in the cabin is similar to a virtual system, which is controlled by the staff of the work center outside, who are in the training area like characters in a role-playing game.

"Persistence, as long as there is still a breath left, we must persevere, if we give up easily, we will come in vain."

Abandon?

Lin Mo never had the word "give up" in his dictionary, and if he did, he would have starved to death in some garbage heap when he was a child.

While constantly tapping on the keyboard quickly, calling the capsule system for compensation and individual testing, Lin Mo habitually glanced at his left wrist, the gold dragon in the computer is an expert, but it is not allowed to carry his own electronic products casually in the training center, even after passing the security check.

This guy can only stay in Lin Mo's dormitory honestly, and he can't even connect to the Internet, so he can only do some small experiments with low resource requirements, such as circuit design experiments.

"I, I'm afraid I won't get past this! Damn, leak, where are you? ”

Wei Yunyi's panting voice came from the radio, a heavy simulated spacesuit was moving outside the simulated space capsule, which was extremely physically exerting on her, and although the air circulation and temperature and humidity control system tried its best to control the environment inside her spacesuit, it still couldn't control her sweating profusely.

"Why don't we isolate the cabin and delay it for a while?"

No. 15, of the same temporary group, is checking the operation of the system without relaxing for a second, cooperating with Lin Mo to use the system of the space capsule for emergency treatment.

The other 45 and 51 are looking for leaks inside the capsule.

The entire simulated space capsule completely simulated the real scale of the capsule, Wei Yunyi was wearing a space suit hanging outside looking for leaks, and the elastic safety rope to prevent detachment was playing a real role, but instead of preventing her from falling into the infinite outer space, it was to prevent her from falling.

After all, this simulated space capsule uses thousands of high-energy magnetic field nodes to use the same polar repulsion effect of the magnetic field to suspend in the air, supporting a 35-ton simulated space capsule, as if it is really in outer space, slowly tumbling.

One moment with your feet on top and one moment with your feet down, although you can't really eliminate gravity, it's not much easier to move inside than in outer space.

"Don't mess around, everyone, be confident, I'm about to confirm the leak area, No. 4, don't stop, keep looking, you can improve our progress outside."

Lin Mo, who had fixed himself on the seat with a seat belt, frowned, the examiner did not have the authority to tell them the leakage point, and it was not easy to find the leakage point from the surface of such a large cabin.

There were no technical experts in the group, and Lin Mo could only make a temporary cameo, perhaps the base took this into account and did not assign a technical expert group member to their group.

If the object hit was a large object, they would have been doomed long ago, and it was impossible to have 20 minutes of holding out, which means that it was just a very small object that hit the capsule and caused a small leak.

This test is not without purpose.

According to NASA, there are currently about 4,000 operating or scrapped satellites and rocket debris in Earth orbit, in addition to about 6,000 space junk debris that can be seen and tracked; There are more than 200,000 pieces of space junk with a diameter of more than one centimeter.

Most of these objects travel at speeds of more than 20,000 kilometers per hour.

This shows that the space station that rises to outer space may be attacked by these debris at any time, and this test is also targeted, even if it is a grain of rice, at a speed of 20,000 kilometers per hour, which is equivalent to 16 times the speed of sound, even a plastic foam particle will have a very terrifying lethality.

Even at the moment of hitting the surface of the object, instead of explosion and combustion, there is direct gasification.

"I found it, in the S558 area, in a corner, I need tools, I need to take it apart."

The voice of surprise from 51 came from the passage of the cabin.

"No, no, that's not, that's just a cooling cavity!" Linmer quickly adjusted the control system to inspect the S558 area, but was disappointed that it was not really a leak area.

There are 5 minutes left.

"Keep looking, No. 51, we need to hurry!"

"Okay, I've been looking, leak point, leak point! Where are you, come out obediently. ”

During the earth-shaking rotation, the people in the simulated capsule had to constantly change their position and center of gravity in order to adapt to the constantly rolling capsule.

"I found it! Here it is!"

"I found it! There it is!"

Almost simultaneously, the exclamations of Number 1 and Number 4 rang out on the radio.

(To be continued)