Chapter 163: Space
This scene, I don't know how many people have been touched, and the real-life scene without any embellishment can give people a sense of substitution and touch people's souls.
The twenty-minute farewell ceremony ended in a hurry, and five hundred lunar engineers put on their helmets and lined up in several lines according to the instructions.
The space carrier began to slowly descend in altitude, and soon broke through the clouds and appeared over the space launch center.
The members of the missions of various countries looked up at the slowly descending space carriers, and their expressions were extremely solemn, because they did not know how many such air carriers were still on the earth.
The number 4 engraved on the side of this aircraft carrier means that it is not the No. 3 aerospace carrier that was originally monitored by various countries and suddenly disappeared.
That Helicarrier has been taken to the Killer World by Duncan, so naturally it will not appear here again, so far, the Helicarrier still has a certain role.
It is very useful as a deterrent weapon, and the anti-gravity engine uses clean energy without worrying about air pollution, and the emissions are much smaller than that of airplanes.
When the real starships are out, these space carriers can still be sold for use in other worlds, and if you want to eliminate them, you should wait for the Umbrella Company to get off the starships like dumplings.
How long will it take?
It may only take ten years, because most of the technology used to build a starship can be put together in the three known worlds.
However, what can be built is only the kind of small starship of five or six hundred meters, and it is an ordinary aircraft without space jump technology, and it is a backward spaceship that will continue to accelerate for several years when it goes to a place five light years away.
In the eyes of modern people, the sci-fi space carrier slowly enters the entrance hatch close to the lunar spacecraft, the 10-centimeter distance between the deck and the entrance hatch is quite well controlled, and the camera also gives a close-up of the astronauts crossing the gap as they enter the hatch.
The navigation status and ability of the aerospace carrier are clearly displayed, the error is less than one centimeter, and the precise control represents high precision, and high precision represents powerful technology.
The astronauts enter the spacecraft and wave goodbye to the camera.
Leaving the earth and entering the endless deep space to reach the moon, which is extremely far away from the earth, is a very difficult thing to test the mental endurance.
You can go and watch the live video of the Apollo astronauts landing on the moon, and the loneliness and horror of watching the earth gradually disappear in the dark can be felt clearly even if you stand on the earth through the screen, let alone feel it yourself.
The earth is the cradle of life, and when human beings step out of this cradle and enter the unknown starry sky, everyone will be shocked by the vastness of the universe, and at the same time will feel the fear of the unknown.
Five hundred astronauts successfully entered the moon, and the spacecraft entered a sealed state, and after arriving in the deep space environment, the spacecraft will be pressurized to ensure the astronauts' survival on the moon.
There wasn't much lengthy commentary on this exciting moment, there was originally one, but it was all cut out by Duncan.
At this moment, a piece of ground in the corner of the space launch center suddenly opened from both sides, and a hydraulic push device slowly lifted a replica of the Valkyrie space shuttle hidden in the underground hangar.
The huge flying machine with a width of 80.3 meters, a length of 101.73 meters and a height of 8 meters attracted the attention of countless people as soon as it was unveiled.
The mission personnel who were on the ground were also watching, but they were suddenly asked to get into a car and go to the space shuttle Valkyrie to have a look.
Several ground crews carried the missions of various countries, as well as News TV reporters who were fortunate enough to participate in the filming, to the interior of the space shuttle Valkyrie.
Before entering the shuttle, Duncan took out his phone to check if Tony had arrived, but saw a message that he could not participate, so he could only shake his head and walk into the space shuttle Valkyrie to continue the ceremony.
The space inside the space shuttle is very large, in the Avatar world, this aircraft is used for outer orbital navigation and the interior of the atmosphere to carry cargo, but here, it has no cargo needs for the time being.
Before the establishment of the lunar base, the Valkyrie space shuttle could only be used as a space sightseeing aircraft, so the interior of the cabin has some less practical horizontal seats, allowing people to see the outside of the plane through the glass of the cockpit.
The two pilots were putting the finishing touches on the plane, and the mission and journalists were seated and seatbelts fastened.
The countdown to the moon spacecraft began, and in the countdown that people all over the world were expecting, the button representing the launch was pressed, and the engine at the bottom of the moon spacecraft sprayed blue plasma, and under the force of the anti-gravity engine, the huge spacecraft gradually broke free from the shackles of gravity and began to lift off, and the speed was unexpectedly fast.
After reaching an altitude of 500 meters, the four high-power thrusters at the bottom of the lunar spacecraft began to exert force, allowing the spacecraft to fly towards space under the huge reaction force.
The space shuttle Valkyrie was also activated at this time, and four jet propulsions lifted the huge shuttle into the air, and with the twin fusion engines in the tail of the plane, the shuttle chased straight into the sky for the moon landing spacecraft.
The footage of the live broadcast has also changed from a ground shot to an interior shot of the space shuttle Valkyrie.
Countless people watched in confusion as the footage of the Valkyrie space shuttle chased the moon landing spacecraft, and finally reached the final atmosphere flush with the moon landing spacecraft.
Ordinary rockets need to fly around the Earth for a while to break through the constraints of gravity, but the moon landing spacecraft and the space shuttle Valkyrie are so powerful that even a square house can go up into the sky as long as the thrust is sufficient.
The spacecraft and the airplane drove side by side, out of gravity, out of outer orbit, into deep space flight mode, and flew towards the moon together.
Looking at the moon from the earth, it is like a small dot, the real moon is not gray-white, and it does not emit golden light, it looks brown, more desolate than many people think.
The sun is not orange-red, but white, shining brightly.
There are no twinkling stars in space, there is only death-like silence, only the moving spaceship, and the earth behind the spacecraft, there is the rhythm of life.
Duncan sat in the space shuttle, feeling his fluttering body, but also a little dazed.
Is this what it feels like to go into space......
Compared to his feelings, the members of the mission and the journalists who were lucky enough to be invited to space to record the content were too shocked to put into words.
They thought that they were on this plane to take the final picture of the lunar spacecraft up close, but they didn't expect to chase the lunar spacecraft directly to the moon for a walk!
The Valkyrie space shuttle and the lunar spacecraft have enough energy, and in less than 3 hours, they have reached the moon, flying in a straight line, accelerating propulsion, and after arriving at the moon, they can directly use thrusters to reverse thrust to slow down, without slowing down and flying around the moon at all.
Eventually, the lunar spacecraft arrived on the moon with the eyes of countless earthlings, landed at the selected place, and 20 minutes later, the bottom hatch of the lunar spacecraft opened, and one after another engineering vehicles fell to the moon from the mechanical sliding device, exploring in all directions.
Fifteen engineering vehicles, six drill rigs, and sixty purpose-built engineering robots are all there is on the ship.
One by one, the engineers in spacesuits reached the moon via a slide, and in addition to their spacesuits, they wore more elaborate metal spacesuits, much lighter than bulky ones.