When Lin Ju knew that TMA-17M had crashed, he was at the airport preparing to fly to the capital.

NAPE, because it is sensitive and extremely advanced, went directly to the leadership, and finally agreed in principle.

However, due to the advanced nuclear technology involved, NAPE's research sites need to be separated, and the whole process of transportation, use, and scrapping of key nuclear materials needs to be negotiated, which has to be carefully finalized with the approved Huaguo Power Investment.

But when TMA17M had an accident, Lin Ju was rerouted to Qiongzhou, and the Il-76 took off in 20 minutes with the route specially approved by the Air Force.

At the same time, at the astronaut training center in Beijing, Captain Li summoned all the trained astronauts, as well as Deng Lei, who was also here, with a serious expression.

After a brief report on the accident with the TMA-17M, he got straight to the point:

"Now according to the plan jointly formulated by various countries, two or three astronauts need to fly the Unity to carry out the rescue mission, and the pilot will be Deng Lei, and then choose one or two partners, and the helicopter will arrive in 15 minutes, who will go to the mission?"

Who goes? Of course I want to go!

One or two partners? That's two.

Except for Deng Lei, who is the only one who has H1 actual piloting experience, the rest of the candidates can only be professional astronauts because they want to serve as rescue missions, and they can obviously only be selected from the team.

More than 20 astronauts, all of whom had never been to the sky, raised their hands and shouted for themselves to go up.

Captain Li was also very embarrassed, in fact, he originally explained to his superiors that he had been the deputy commander of H1, had hundreds of hours of simulator driving experience, and had also gone to heaven, and his physical condition allowed him to go again, but his superiors did not agree.

Look at the passionate players again:

"It's not child's play, it's probably the most dangerous mission in the history of astronautics, have you all figured it out?"

He questioned loudly, but no one flinched, and one of the people with a Chinese face stepped out.

It was Zhang Zhiguang, as soon as he stepped forward, everyone gave him his place.

Zhang Zhiguang looked at everyone and said to Captain Li sincerely:

"Let me go, only I have the experience of spacewalking, anyway, I can't shirk it."

Captain Li wanted to say something, but he still nodded: "Lao Zhang is one." ”

Then another figure also walked in front of Zhang Zhiguang, it was Li Sheng.

"I'll go too, it's too dangerous for comrades with no space experience to go, it's easy to do things with multiple people."

There were still people who wanted to continue to say something, but Captain Li couldn't wait, and after signaling silence, he stepped forward and patted the shoulders of the two, and then pulled Deng Lei over.

"It's up to you, whether you finish the task or not, remember to come back alive!"

Five minutes later, the astronauts of the brigade watched as three people climbed onto the helicopter suspended one meter above the ground and quickly disappeared from view.

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Since the incident happened in the morning, the mobile Internet has not yet fully flourished, and the spread of information is slow, ordinary people do not understand what kind of thrilling danger is being staged in space now, and only a few people have time to discuss it.

However, astronauts in Qiongzhou and around the world are working non-stop, hoping to increase the success rate through various means.

NACA proposed that they have an experienced astronaut who is on vacation in the island country and can rush to Qiongzhou within 3 hours to carry out a rescue mission together.

The space agency refused on the grounds that the astronaut was out of training and not professional enough, and said that the astronauts who had conducted a spacewalk in Huaguo were about to fly to Qiongzhou, and that the extravehicular spacesuit was not suitable, so we could do it ourselves.

There are now four extravehicular spacesuits in China, one is the "Feitian" spacesuit used as a reserve, that is, the one used for the first spacewalk, and then there are three extravehicular spacesuits customized by Xinyuan.

After a brief discussion, the space agency and Xinyuan engineers both believed that it was best to use three new extravehicular spacesuits, and the size was not a problem.

In order to save time, the four astronauts did not take the passenger plane, because it takes four hours to fly from the capital to Qiongzhou, which is too time-consuming.

The Air Force has approved three two-seat versions of the J11BS fighter jets, allowing astronauts to sit in the back seat and fly over to save more than half of the time.

The preparations and materials of all parties are converging in Qiongzhou, and Lin Ju is also holding a meeting with the system engineers on the plane to study.

Anderov drew a map on the floor of the cabin, and Guo Shen marked the parameters little by little according to the data provided by Baikonur, and after flying for more than an hour, they finally came up with what they thought was the most feasible plan.

"We launched at 12:22, just enough to catch up with TMA-17M, and then approached, the astronauts went out of the capsule to hook the Soyuz spacecraft with a manipulator to get it out of the spin state, and then let three astronauts climb in along the manipulator and enter the three seats that were just left.

The whole process will not take more than 90 minutes, and it is also implemented in the closest place to low earth orbit, with sufficient time and stable trajectory, and the second-stage rocket of Xinyuan-2 has a lot of surplus fuel, which can be constantly adjusted. ”

Guo Shen roughly wrote out the task process, which is similar to what experts from various countries discussed, and it is the optimal solution in the current situation.

Anderov: "The most time-consuming part is to approach the TMA-17M and adjust the orbit to accompany the flight, and the second is the transfer of astronauts, these two parts are the most time-consuming and dangerous, and we need to consider the possibility of the Soyuz spacecraft returning to the cabin door getting stuck, and we need to consider the violent dismantling of the robotic arm. ”

Guo Shen: "No matter what, they can't be allowed to stay in TMA-17M and return to Earth, and that return capsule can't be used anymore." ”

Lin Ju fully trusted the judgment of his system engineer, and then directly connected to Baikonur through the satellite antenna on the military plane, and told them all about their plan.

This is the first time that the space agencies of various countries have come into contact with the head and chief designer of Xinyuan Aerospace Power, and they still have great respect for it, and at the same time, they basically agree with the plan.

The link close to TMA-17M in the program can be precisely controlled by the satellite-ground monitoring system of various countries, and the problem is not big, and the main link is the transfer of astronauts.

The three astronauts in the Soyuz spacecraft are all wearing in-cabin spacesuits, which can move outside the cabin for a short time, but the time is very short, and the longer they stay, the more dangerous it becomes, and two of them have no experience in spacewalking.

However, at this time, the despair in the TMA-17M spacecraft, which was in contact with the ground, had been quickly diluted with the imminent launch of Unity.

After listening to the entire rescue plan together, Oleg Kononenko immediately expressed his abilities:

"Please rest assured that Davarich of Huaguo will cooperate with the rescue work, and I went to space 7 years ago, so I know what to do outside the vehicular area, Lindgren and Keimi Arii I will take them with me, and they will definitely not cause you any trouble."

Lindgren seemed to be the aftermath of the catastrophe, and his heart palpitated on the heavy spacesuit:

"I know, I know that the Space Shuttle is always the most reliable, and it's all to blame on the senators, even if there is still one of the Endeavour and Atlantis on standby, it can easily load the entire ship we are sitting in and bring it back to Earth!

And you, Youjing, stop singing that damn song of the Nuclear Restoration, the Chinese will throw you out of space when they know about it. ”