In the last hour before the start of space travel, following Zhai Zhigang and Zheng Hai, Xu Chuan accompanied the two princes of the Middle East to the Xinghai that stayed on the runway.

For the sake of safety, in addition to the two astronauts Zhai Zhigang and Chen Dong, Zheng Hai, Tang Sijia and two other personnel in charge of security accompanied the sky this time.

After all, this is space travel, not plane travel or anything.

In outer space, hundreds of kilometers high, in case Xu Chuan or the two princes in the Middle East have an abnormality, with Tang Sijia here, there can also be first-hand medical preparations.

As for whether there will be any problems with boarding so many people, that's not a big deal.

Although the cargo compartment, fusion reactor, aerospace engine and other equipment occupy most of the space, the amount of space remaining is still relatively large compared to that of traditional spacecraft.

Not to mention a few people, even dozens of them are no problem.

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"This is the legendary Star Sea?"

On the runway, looking up at the huge space shuttle in front of him, Prince Faisal, who had seen all kinds of big scenes, couldn't help but feel a little emotional and a little excited.

He had his own private jet, but it wasn't as big as the one in front of him.

In terms of fuselage length and wingspan alone, this space shuttle can rank among the top batch of ordinary civil airliners.

Of course, what made him feel and excited was the purpose of the behemoth in front of him.

He had flown in an airplane many times, but this was the first time that he could fly directly to an alien space shuttle.

Xu Chuan nodded and introduced with a smile, "Yes, this is the Xinghai. Its fuselage length reaches 68.6 meters and its wingspan is 41.4 meters wide. It's the size of the Queen of the Air Boeing 747, but the wings are shorter."

He is still quite proud of this large aircraft that he personally controlled, designed and manufactured.

In particular, the engine power system and energy supply system can be said to be unprecedented, and there are no comers who do not know, but at least in this era, it is completely a proper black technology.

After staring at the Star Sea for a while, Prince Faisal suddenly asked.

"Professor Xu, are you selling your space shuttle? I want to customize one, the price is whatever you want!"

Hearing this, Xu Chuan shook his head and refused without thinking about it: "At present, the entire Xinghai Research Institute, no, there is only this one in the world, and we don't have enough of it ourselves, so it is impossible to sell it."

Prince Faisal: "It's okay, I can wait."

Xu Chuan glanced at him and said with a smile, "This is a forbidden item, not for sale."

Buying the Star Ocean? What do you think?

Money is everything.

Not to mention that this space shuttle has assembled the world's top aerospace technologies such as radiation protection systems, life support systems, and circulation systems, and the miniaturized and controllable nuclear fusion reactors and aerospace engines deployed on it alone are priceless.

Not to mention buying it with money, it is to exchange a city for it, and it is impossible for either him or Huaguo to trade.

At least for now, it is impossible to sell or exchange.

Hearing this, Prince Faisal smashed his mouth and looked at the behemoth in front of him with some envy.

I heard that the space shuttle deployed the legendary miniaturized controllable nuclear fusion reactor as an energy supply system, but I don't know if this is true.

If only I could buy one, it would be great.

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Landing on the Star Ocean, an hour of preparation time is not long.

After the replenishment of the Tiangong was completed, the hatch of the cargo hold of the fuselage of the Xinghai was slowly pulled up.

Inside the Xinghai, Zhai Zhigang, who was wearing a blue military uniform, walked out of the cockpit.

"Academician Xu, Mr. Prince Faisal, Mr. Ahmed."

After greeting the three heavyweight 'passengers' separately, he continued with a serious face: "This round of Xinghai will set sail on time in ten minutes, please be prepared for the three of you, please do not untie the fastening during takeoff

Customised seat belts."

Although he didn't understand the decision of the high-level, since he had reached this point, all he could do was to do his best to ensure the safety of this voyage.

Sitting on the chair, Xu Chuan pulled the buckle and seat belt that fixed him, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, these things have been taught during training, and we won't mess around."

Listening to Xu Chuan's assurance, Zhai Zhigang's heart also relaxed a little.

Nodding, he helped check the trio's gear and straps before turning back into the cockpit.

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Ten minutes was not a long time, and soon, in the passenger compartment, there was a command from the driver's seat.

"The Star Ocean is about to set sail, please stay seated and do not unfasten the safety fixtures."

This is a word that was not in the original voyage, it was added by Zhai Zhigang temporarily, and it was also a reminder to the ancestors in the crew cabin behind not to mess around.

And with Zhai Zhigang's voice coming, under the soles of his feet, a slight tremor accompanied by a piercing low-frequency resonance sound came, which made Prince Faisal, who was sitting in the position, swallow his saliva, and looked at Xu Chuan on the side with a little nervousness and expectation.

"I heard that the energy system used by Xinghai is the legendary miniaturized controllable nuclear fusion reactor, is this ignition?"

Xu Chuan smiled and explained, "No, it's some low-frequency resonance when the engine starts, don't worry, it will disappear soon."

Although this is also the first time he has taken the Xinghai to the sky, it does not mean that he has not taken the Xinghai.

Flying in the atmosphere, Xu Chuan still tried it.

After all, it was a space shuttle that I built myself, and everyone would want to try out what it was like to fly.

Prince Faisal nodded, carefully feeling the movement in the cabin.

On the side, Ahmad Abdulrahman, the representative of the United Arab Emirates, who had not spoken much, spoke after feeling the movement of take-off for a while.

"Seemingly, this is no different from a normal airliner? Can it really fly out of the atmosphere?"

Although he had seen the news about Xinghai many times on the news, when he sat on the shuttle himself and felt its take-off, Ahmad Abdelrahman still had some doubts in his heart.

Without him, during the take-off stage, this flight mode is too similar to that of a traditional civil airliner.

Xu Chuan didn't care about Ahmed's questioning, and said with a smile: "Of course, this is only the first stage of the Xinghai flight, and you will know in two hours."

With that, he unbuckled his body, stood up, and walked towards the cabin where the astronauts lived in space.

On the side, Prince Faisal and Ahmed also got up and entered the space habitation module.

"Would you like something to drink?" The conditions are rudimentary, with coffee, water, tea, lemonade and orange juice."

In front of the special incubator fixed on the wall, Xu Chuan turned his head to the two people behind him and asked, and at the same time skillfully took out a few sealed bags from it and handed them over.

Prince Faisal took it with some curiosity and looked at it, although he couldn't read the words on the sealed bag, but the picture could easily help him identify what kind of drink was in his hand.

Ahmed Abdulrahman from the United Arab Emirates looked at the bag of drink in his hand, unscrewed the hose and tried it without disgust, smashed his mouth and asked curiously.

"Is this what astronauts drink? Why is there no freshly ground coffee? I'm able to make coffee now."

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "But you can't make coffee in outer space, and it's very good to have a bag."

On the side, Prince Faisal smiled and said, "Then you should go and take my private jet, let alone freshly ground coffee, you can have everything you want, and you can even take a bath on it."

"But it can't fly into outer space, can it?" Xu Chuan replied with a smile.

As soon as these words came out, Tian was directly talked to death by him, and he lived in the cabin

It was quiet for two seconds.

However, Prince Faisal reacted quickly and said with a smile, "If I could own a space shuttle, I would definitely transform it into the most luxurious private jet." Then you can take a bath and drink hand-ground coffee and go to outer space."

Xu Chuan shrugged his shoulders, this group of bearded people would really enjoy it.

However, only if he can get a space shuttle.

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The climb of gravity wells in the atmosphere was not long, and after a two-hour flight, the door to the habitation module opened.

Outside, Chen Dong, the co-pilot of the Xinghai, walked in and said, "Academician Xu, Prince Faisal, our altitude is currently approaching a critical point, and we are about to switch flight modes, please put on your in-cabin spacesuits now."

For the Star Ocean, its acceleration was not very high during the climb of the gravity well. So theoretically, the protection of the cabin spacesuit is not actually required during the take-off and voyage phases.

In the double-digit flight, Zhai Zhigang and Chen Dong actually tried to enter outer space without wearing a spacesuit, and there were no problems.

However, the situation of Xu Chuan and the three is different, on the one hand, they are not professional astronauts, and their physical fitness is definitely not as strong as that of astronauts, even if they have made sufficient preparations, there are still many uncertainties.

On the other hand, after switching flight attitudes, the acceleration will be increased to more than 3 G, just in case, it is safer to reduce the influencing factors by using the cabin spacesuit.

After waiting for the official orbit into outer space, you can move freely out of the spacesuit.

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Getting from the surface to space is a long journey and a fantastic one.

At least for Xu Chuan and Prince Faisal, who took the space shuttle for the first time, and Zheng Hai, Tang Sijia and others who accompanied them up.

The first half of the journey was not much different from the traditional flight, but when Xinghai arrived at the critical point to change its flight attitude and officially entered outer space, it was a completely different feeling.

Several people sitting in the crew compartment clearly felt the rise in gravity and the acceleration brought by climbing the gravity well with the engine power at full power.

However, this increase in gravity and acceleration is almost imperceptible compared to conventional chemical-fueled launch vehicles. Whether it is Xu Chuan, Prince Faisal and others, they can easily adapt to this rising environment.

With the passage of time, the Xinghai continued to climb upward, fifty kilometers, eighty kilometers, one hundred kilometers, and one hundred and sixty kilometers......

When the space shuttle arrived in low-earth orbit, the spacecraft was canceled out by gravity and centrifugal force, and in the space module, Xu Chuan and others, who were half-lying on a chair and waiting to enter orbit and officially enter outer space, clearly felt that they were floating.

Weightlessness!

One of the most common phenomena in space!

As if swimming in the Dead Sea, the gravity beneath them had lost its effect on their bodies at this moment, and the whole person was floating in the water.

Only at this moment they were not in the Dead Sea, but hundreds of kilometers away in outer space.

It is not the water of the Dead Sea that has a very high concentration of salt that supports the body, but the most ordinary air.

In the passenger compartment, the wonderful Prince Faisal, who was fastened to the seat by the safety buckle and felt his body float out of the seat, lost the influence of gravity, his eyes widened and his face was full of shock.

Although he had experienced the feeling of artificial weightlessness when he had been training at that space base before.

But when he went into outer space and felt the wonderful feeling for himself, he was still blown away by the wonderful experience.

And what shocked him even more was that they actually entered outer space so easily?

He didn't even feel anything out of the ordinary, and he didn't feel the discomfort of the legendary space shuttle flight.

If you put aside the process of wearing a spacesuit in the second half of the journey, he even feels that it is lighter than riding an ordinary civil airliner

Pine.

It's unimaginable!

"*** above, have we already arrived in outer space?"

Feeling the weightlessness of his body, the expression on the face of Abdul Rahman, the representative of the United Arab Emirates, also lost control, and he looked at Xu Chuan with shocked eyes and asked in horror.

Coming back from the experience, Xu Chuan smiled and said, "That's right, now we have reached an altitude of at least one hundred and sixty kilometers, but there is still a while before our destination."

"At that time, we will be able to stand at least 400 kilometers in outer space and look down on the earth and see the most beautiful scenery in the world."

Recovering from the shock, Prince Faisal couldn't help but ask, "Unbelievable, how did you do it?"

"Space travel is so gentle, I feel like I'm sitting on my private jet, without any of the legendary feelings of spaceflight, any acceleration, any gravity, all of them have disappeared?"

Xu Chuan smiled slightly, and replied with pride and pride, "This is the power of technology!"

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pS: There's another chapter later, it's going to be late, everyone will get up in the morning and watch it.

In addition, at the end of the month, I begged for a monthly pass, and the monthly pass in the hands of the bigwigs begged (●"?) ●)

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