At 6 a.m. on November 19, Qiongzhou Cosmodrome.

The six astronauts took the oath at the departure ceremony, wearing Xinyuan's in-cabin spacesuits, each carrying a small air conditioner through the red carpet of the media mezzanine, and sat on the Coaster.

The spacesuit commissioned by Xinyuan Company is more advanced and lightweight, and the Space Bureau will use Xinyuan's standard spacesuit in this Tuanjie mission after consideration.

Anyway, they are all using private rockets and private space shuttles, so there is no need to insist on embarrassing people with their bulky spacesuits, and the Unity is a space shuttle, and if the commander wears too heavy, it is not very convenient to manually control it, and it may be touched by mistake.

When the Shenzhou 11 spacecraft was launched before, the space bureau also had a discussion on whether to use the Shenzhou spacecraft to send three astronauts, but in the end it was vetoed.

The three parts of the first phase of Tiangong are just right to accommodate 6 astronauts, and the Shenzhou spacecraft sent three Unity space shuttles to send three figures, and simply stuffed Shenzhou 11 as a cargo spacecraft with a lot of supplies.

In the future, the Shenzhou spacecraft will mainly serve as an emergency escape ship and provide power and power for the combination, and it will also be convenient for the space shuttle to pick up astronauts and return to the ground when it is inconvenient.

The six men got inside Unity four hours before launch, and after they were stationed, they waited for repeated self-tests and chatted with each other.

The scientific research flavor of this mission is not strong, except for Zhou Rui, who is a real payload expert, the rest belong to the professional astronaut type.

There are three space agencies, one Xinyuan, four newcomers, and two experienced astronauts who have to live in space for 30 to 90 days in the sky, and after they come down, they all become experienced astronauts.

The reason why the fluctuation is so large is that the maximum time that the space agency has stayed in astronauts for only 15 days before, although the first phase of Tiangong is enough to support astronauts to live for a long time, but whether it can adapt depends on the actual situation.

In the entire space shuttle cabin, Zhou Rui is the most relaxed, anyway, every flight is a wonderful enjoyment for him, and the devil knows if there will be one in the future.

Zhao Xiaowen was ready to come but was pulled to engage in lasers, Xinyuan pushed him out, and Deng Lei was trained as a rookie for the company on the ground because of three consecutive "high-intensity" flights, and the next batch of rotations arrived at him.

"Liu Ming, commander, how does it feel to fly the Unity?"

"Awesome, haha." Liu Ming had already set the self-inspection procedure at this time, and stretched out his hand to give Zhou Rui a thumbs up below.

Liu Ming carried out the third manned mission of the space agency, and he remembers the situation at that time, it was Huaguo's first spacewalk mission, first the hatch could not be opened and was pried open by Zhang Zhiguang, and then the orbital module reported the fire alarm, and both of them thought that they could not come back.

And the extravehicular spacesuit is too crowded, and two people have to be careful when moving in the spaceship, where is it like Unity? There are large portholes next to each seat, and only two of the crew compartments that can accommodate four seats are loosely placed, and it is difficult for the side-by-side occupants to reach each other with their arms outstretched.

He is now very glad that when Xinyuan Company and the Space Agency carried out joint training, he went to the Ulan Hashan base to rub nearly 200 hours of simulators, and when he selected the Unity Yao-4 mission, the whole team ranked second in terms of his simulation time, and was elected commander.

First? Captain Li was held down by the Manned Space Office, and he said that he would not be allowed to go.

Unity is now quite famous, and after saving three ISS astronauts on the Yao-2 mission, Progress was also awarded the title of "Heroic Space Shuttle" by the government, and a red star was specially painted on the tail.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the Xinyuan-5 rocket carrying the Unity space shuttle was launched at station 03 of the Qiongzhou Cosmodrome, sending six astronauts into the Tiangong space station in a 400KM orbit.

Two hours after entering low-earth orbit, Tuanjie approached the Tiangong space station and used the interface on the back of the aircraft to align with the round mouth under the node module of the Yungong core module.

At this time, the Tiangong space station is a "D" shape, Tiangong-2 and Shenzhou-11 are docked with each other in a straight line, occupying two 0.9-meter round mouths, and the node module still has a 2.5-meter square mouth in the axial direction, and a 0.9-meter round mouth docked with Tuanjie.

The docking procedure is completely automatic, and Liu Ming's task is only to play a backup role, at this time, he and the co-pilot Xinyuan professional astronaut Hu Dong looked nervously at the interface camera.

Under the influence of the RCS, the Unity continued to move, and finally went up gently after the laser alignment, and after a small light shock, it was steadily caught by the node module.

The indicator light on the overhead hatch turns green, indicating that the nodal cabin has the same air pressure as inside Tuanjieha, and the door can be opened.

The six began to unbuckle their seat belts, and Hu Dong pressed the electric switch on the console, and the hatch made a humming sound of motor action, and then opened outward.

Liu Ming grabbed the inner wall of the interface, and with a slight force, he floated to the node cabin, and then couldn't help but suck in the circulating air of the space station.

The length of the node cabin is 6 meters, the width is 7 meters, and the internal square space of the docking channel is 3x3x4 meters, which is 36 cubic meters of space! It's about the same as the 40 cubic meters of Tiangong-2!

And because the bulkhead is a soft white color, it looks greater, and it feels like a normal large bedroom.

Then the other five people also entered the node cabin one by one, and they also sighed.

It's just a node cabin, and it doesn't feel crowded to accommodate 6 people!

However, unlike them, in the ground command center and the routine live news broadcast, the astronauts in the picture were stunned in the node cabin for a long time, and the ground thought something was wrong.

Fortunately, it was just a false alarm, and after the six people came to their senses, they entered the core cabin first, the XS-62 tourist cabin "Cloud Palace", according to the scheduled procedure.

The 2.5x2.5-meter super-large square mouth is much larger than the narrow counterpart of the previous Shenzhou spacecraft, but it may not seem like it, but when the three astronauts passed side by side almost at the same time, it gave all the audience a huge shock.

It was a 2.5-meter square opening, and the average height of the astronauts was only about 1.7 meters, and they could pass through it standing instead of climbing out of the passage as carefully as climbing into the sewer.

The first one to come in was Zhou Rui, what he saw was the interior of the core cabin of the Cloud Palace, and what he saw was a square cabin with a width and height of 4.7 meters.

The shape of the core module of the cloud palace has two parts, next to the core cabin is a cube section space with a width of 4.7 meters, and the rear part is a circular space with a diameter of 6.8 meters.

Thanks to the conversion to six single bedrooms and the addition of service facilities, the space has been reduced from 620 cubic meters to 560 cubic meters, but it is still too large to believe that this is a pleasure that can be obtained in space.

And in front of the main live broadcast group TV on the ground, there are also countless people who shouted "wow".

They had the impression that the capsule was just a stuffy jar, small and narrow, but the spaciousness turned the old idea upside down.

Just by calculating the area of the square space, the area is 96 square meters, and the three-bedroom living room is so large if it is not shared.

The circular space also offers 360 cubic meters of space!

However, compared to the exclamation of "wow" from the audience on the ground, natural people pay more attention to others.

For example, the astronauts of the ISS International Space Station, they are also watching the live broadcast.

The size of the Cloud Palace space station is indeed enviable, but the most eye-catching thing is that in the picture, Zhou Rui casually opened a hatch, which is an independent toilet with an area of 4 square meters equipped with a toilet and bathroom, or one of the two.

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