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Several bigwigs of the space agency watched the citizens send off the Xinyuan 2 sample arrow in the middle of the road, and the scene of the Il-76 on the airport carrying a 6-meter-wide core stage that was too long and exceeded the nose section of the plane, and commented after a long silence:

"The low-earth orbit carrying capacity is 45 tons, and if they adopt their favorite CBC configuration for private aerospace, and then bundle two cores to go up, the low-earth orbit capacity will be 140 tons, which can fully carry out the lunar landing mission."

"6 meters in diameter, overall processing, Xinyuan company's equipment is amazing, I don't know where to find a machine that can process such a large diameter."

The white-haired Academician She called up the rocket imagination map of Xinyuan's official website, and his face was full of disbelief.

"The Xinyuan-1 they launched last year was a small rocket with a take-off weight of 100 tons, but the second one is already a giant rocket, and it is built so fast!

This capacity is more than 1.5 times that of the Long March 5, and it can be reused! ”

The big guy also smiled bitterly: "At the last exchange meeting, Lin Ju asked me for the qualification certificate to enter the national project, and I originally thought that losing some small satellites in the past would allow the space agency to focus on its own business, but this ...... If we also use Xinyuan-2, we will be able to go to the moon in a manned manner. ”

Academician She thought for a while, and suddenly said:

"I don't think the people of Xinyuan are several times smarter than us, I want to go to Xinyuan Company to see how they create such miracles."

"That's a good idea, and you can go to the Ulan Hashan base first, I heard that the H1 space shuttle in full state has been built, and it has been notified to let the Tu-154 fly over to pick it up."

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"Hole 5, hole 6, please check the connector status."

"Hole Five received." "Cave Six received."

A Tu-154 rests quietly at the take-off point of Ulan Hasan Airport, carrying on her back a full-state, manned space shuttle.

At this time, the two pilots are ready, Commander 05 (Hole 5) Deng Lei, Deputy Commander 06 (Hole 6) Li Wei, 01 to 04 are the crew members of Figure 154.

Zhao Xiaowen and Zhou Rui are still circling in the centrifuge of the 507 training center, and they have no need or ability to learn how to operate the space shuttle in a short period of time, just obediently use it as a payload.

As for why there is one more deputy commander, Li Wei? According to himself, he was worried that Deng Lei would not be safe to manipulate alone, and as the captain of the brigade, he had the responsibility to escort the trainees.

Of course, Xinyuan is also continuing to look for pilots who can fly the space shuttle, and has contacted four excellent pilots who are about to retire but are in good health and willing to come, but they will have to wait until September to retire for training.

It is said that the H1 simulation cabin placed by Xinyuan in Ulanha Mountain is not idle because there is only one commander Deng Lei, on the contrary, in addition to 3 hours of shutdown and maintenance every day, there are people using it almost at any time.

First of all, the pension pilots in Ulan Hashan, some of them are relegated, and some can fly planes but work as ground crews on the ground, and the Il-76 crew rented by Lin Ju also wants to go up and try it at the first opportunity.

There are also many brothers in the astronaut brigade, who have to find a way to move the weightless training site to Ulanha Mountain, and every time they come down, they have to fly the simulator first.

The new high light has paid nearly 100 million dollars for this simulation cabin, the degree of restoration can reach almost 100%, and even the tremor of the fuselage is simulated, and the screen is also Sony's latest and most expensive high-resolution display, which is almost indistinguishable from the actual machine in a dim environment, which can make people unforgettable.

Thanks to the fact that everyone is a senior intellectual, Deng Lei's training time has not been squeezed out, but people's love for the space shuttle is still beyond imagination.

This is the first manned flight test of H1, which will be launched by the Tu-154 at an altitude of 12,000 meters, and will be controlled by the pilot to land at the airport.

Knowing that Deng Lei was still short of a deputy commander, the team members rushed to say that they wanted to come to help sit in the town, but they were grabbed by Captain Li one by one on the grounds that "the space shuttle is too deep, you can't grasp it, so let the old astronaut come".

Although there are still 2 vacant seats in H1, it is not safe to bring so many people at one time, and it is not allowed to go up again.

In the past few months, Li Wei has long been familiar with the internal structure of H1, and he has spent a little more time drilling the simulation cabin than Deng Leidu.

At this time, he was wearing a gray and white lightweight cabin pressurized spacesuit, a helmet with a large observation window, and he flicked the electrical switch with his fingers, and worked with Deng Lei to do the flight control and the status check of the connection point with Figure 154.

"Dongyi, I've checked it out, everything is normal, I can take off, I can take off."

"Dong Mi received, the tower, Dong Mi asked to take off."

"The tower received, allowed to take off, allowed to take off, pay attention to the rate of climb, avoid insufficient flow in the back air intake, over."

"Cave, understood."

Wang Zhi slowly increased the throttle valve, released the wheel brakes, and Tu 154 began to taxi on the ground, until the end of the airport, he gently raised the nose of the plane and entered the large spiral route to fly to the predetermined altitude.

Well, he took off so gently to ensure engine intake, and by no means because Captain Lee was right above him.

On the ground, the members of the astronaut brigade looked at the Tu-154 with envy.

Academician She also blocked the sunlight with one hand, looking up at the H1 space shuttle, whose outline had been almost covered by Figure 154.

The employees of the ground part of Xinyuan ran over and invited him to the ground control room to observe the H1's flight attitude.

Academician She nodded in agreement, and then found that this person was a little familiar.

"You...... It's Xiao Ai, I only saw you in the Sixth Academy last year, and it seems that you have taken the lead in making a technological breakthrough in turbopumps, right? ”

"Well, I didn't expect you to remember me, She Lao, I am now the deputy director of the liquid power department of Xinyuan, and I am working on several engines."

Ai Yuanwei was a little embarrassed, Academician She broke him down at that time, but he jumped ship a few months later, and he was inexplicably ashamed.

Academician She comforted him with relief: "It's okay, they are all enterprises in China, now they are different from before, private enterprises are also a big stage, Xinyuan is doing a very good job now."

If you take me to see it, will it involve your company secrets? ”

"Of course not, you're here as a guide, where would you do that kind of thing."

Looking at Ai Yuanwei's sincere expression, She Lao was in a complicated mood, and he didn't know how to tell Ai Yuanwei.

Can he say that the small space shuttle program of the 90s has been turned out and re-demonstrated?

When H1 successfully returns to the ground and can indeed prove the cost-effectiveness ratio, the new generation of manned spacecraft will be completely backward and will lose the need for research.

Now he is already preparing to resurrect the original small space shuttle program, and when the time comes, he will be able to launch it as soon as it is more useful.