Chapter 1: My Chance

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In 2102, I was born in an ordinary family in North City, Guoping, China.

In this year, a major event happened to the earth. With the advent of stellar-class motherships that can reach 0.5 times the speed of light, mankind's exploration of the universe has taken a new step.

However, none of this has much to do with me. I was just a baby waiting to be fed.

After I was born, my parents named me Xiang Tianlei. My father is a native of Xishan, Huaxia, and when he was young, he ran out to do business, and then met my mother in Pingbei City.

Maybe it's because of love, or maybe it's because the prosperity of Pingbei City attracted my father. After they got married, my father moved to Pingbei City with the whole family.

I have an older brother and a younger brother. Parents are very troubled by the fact that their three children are all boys.

My eldest brother's name is Xiang Tianwu, three years older than me, his academic performance has always been very good, in my high school year, he was admitted to the Kunling Air Force Academy with excellent grades, and his major is an emerging, unpopular major - astronautic-class warship piloting.

Later, I went to a random university. And the eldest brother got his wish and became a captain in the new branch of the Chinese Aerospace Army.

As a military man, and a military man in space. I am afraid that the word "gathering less and leaving more" can no longer be described, in short, the eldest brother has not returned home for six years after graduation.

My younger brother's name is Xiang Tiange, and his academic performance is also very good. Therefore, as an elder-2 of the chicken-standing cranes, I naturally don't like it at home.

After college, it was time for me to look for a job. In Huaxia, there is a lot of pressure to find employment, and I have never been able to find a suitable job.

During that time, I stayed at home every day. The whole person's heart is in a mess, and he can't be interested in doing anything. Coupled with the constant haunting of my father and my mother's nagging in my ears, I was even more irritable.

By chance, I found a suitable job. At the company "Headwind Express", I worked as a courier.

In this era of explosive productivity, it is still very popular to be a courier and delivery person. As a delivery person, I enjoy even more benefits than most white-collar workers. Five insurances and one housing fund, including accommodation and food, the company is equipped with a house, and a small aircraft.

On this day, as usual, I was flying a plane to deliver a delivery. When I pressed the one-button delivery button and drones flew to the target with the delivery, I received a phone call.

The call came from my mother, who told me that my eldest brother had returned. Six years, I haven't seen my big brother for six years.

I was very excited. I rushed home after the delivery was finished.

When I met my eldest brother, I almost didn't recognize him. He grew taller and stronger, and his skin was not as dark as I had imagined, but rather an indescribably fair.

The whole family had dinner together, and after some shouting, the eldest brother went to rest early. According to the eldest brother, he is used to living in the low-gravity environment of space, and when he returns home all of a sudden, he is still a little uncomfortable.

The eldest brother had a long vacation and could stay at home for three months, and during those three months, I would go to my eldest brother almost whenever I had free time. Listen to him talk about him, how he flew a warship in space, how he saw the majesty of the universe, and how he landed on one planet after another.

During this period, the eldest brother also took out a lot of photos, which are some distant planets. The eldest brother said that there are also close-up photos, as well as photos of alien minerals. It's just that these photos are related to confidentiality regulations, so they can't be shown to me.

Three months is a short time. The eldest brother left home again and went back to the Aerospace Army. During these three months, he planted a seed in my heart, and I also wanted to go to the vast and gorgeous space.

"Opportunity" is always unexpected. As a strong enterprise, "Headwind Express" adheres to the concept of "reaching against the wind" and quickly develops the space transportation business.

If you want to carry out the business of space transportation, you must have an aerospace-class transport ship and related personnel.

Space-class transport ships are not difficult to solve, but related personnel, such as captains, navigators, strategic analysts, medical personnel, small ship pilots, etc., are very scarce.

Direct recruitment can't recruit people, so "Headwind Express" directly faces the company and recruits people from all over the world.

I didn't hesitate and signed up for the selection directly.

If you want to go to space, there is an almost demanding requirement for physical fitness. The selection subjects include clinical examination, physiological function selection, endurance and adaptability selection in special environments, etc.

The high elimination rate is scary. It is said that only one out of every 10,000 people will pass the selection.

I'm lucky to be one of the best. Even though I passed the selection, it didn't mean that I could go to space. I and the others had to undergo even more brutal training. So, I came to a training base of the Aerospace Force.

The training was hard and hard. Eight categories, fifty-eight majors, we all have to study. From basic theoretical training, to aerospace professional and technical training, flight procedure and mission simulation training, to inhuman aerospace environment adaptation training, more and more people are giving up.

In the face of all kinds of difficulties, I unexpectedly carried all of them. In the space environment adaptation training, the most trained is the centrifuge, through the high-speed rotation of the centrifuge, to adapt to the overload caused by acceleration, which is the most difficult subject for me.

Every time I trained, I could feel my facial muscles deformed, it was very difficult to breathe, and tears flowed uncontrollably.

Every time I finish training, I always think of my big brother. Everything I've been through, he's been through, it's really not easy.

After a year of training like this, I passed the exam and eventually became a brigami pilot of a small ship in the Department of Astronautics.

After the completion of the assessment, I will take the "Headwind-1" large carrier rocket to space with my colleagues who have passed the examination, and the "Headwind" space-class transport ship will also be lifted into space.

The "Headwind-1" carrier rocket and the "Headwind" transport ship will be launched at the same time, and after successful liftoff, the "Windwind-1" carrying capsule will carry out orbital rendezvous and space docking with the "Headwind" transport ship. After the docking is completed, we can enter the "Headwind" transport ship and maneuver it.

The launch of the "Headwind" used six launch vehicles, which carried the various parts of the "Headwind" after liftoff. These six parts will first rendezvous and dock to form a complete "Headwind", and then the complete "Headwind" will then rendezvous and dock with the carrier compartment containing us.

Because of their different functions, the structure of these launch vehicles carrying the "Headwind" is different from the "Headwind-1" we are riding, and the stability and safety are slightly lower than that of the "Headwind-1" launch vehicle.

I cherish the fifteen-day vacation, because after the rocket lifts off, I can't go home as much as I used to. I'm going home, maybe a year, three years, six years like a big brother, or even more.

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