February 5, Tiangong space station.

Now, it's the 78th day since the six crew members went to heaven.

During this period, three of the crew members carried out a total of 5 out-of-cabin missions, did some activities that were not meaningful, and Progress carried out an unmanned supply mission.

The ground has been monitoring their mental state and physical condition, and they are all very good.

The only thing that is a little hard is Zhou Rui, who is old and not a professional astronaut, so he must spend 2 to 4 hours a day exercising, otherwise he is afraid that there will be problems with gravity when he returns to Earth.

There is a little problem, after several astronauts are used to living in the Yungong space station, it takes some time to adapt to entering the Tiangong-2 space station and the Shenzhou spacecraft, and they have a tendency to be claustrophobic.

Therefore, it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift~

Fortunately, the new X-62 equivalent level "Tianhe" core module jointly developed by the Fifth Academy and Xinyuan is about to be launched, and the Tianhe core module has a pair interface and a node module, so that after connection, it can have 9 pair ports in the future, and the scalability is MAX.

From April 2016 to April 2017, four modules, including a core module, a Tianzhou cargo spacecraft, and two experimental modules, will be launched to form a combination of seven cabins and a total weight of 280 tons in space.

The "Tianhe" core module, the "Wentian" experimental module, and the "Mengtian" experimental module were all launched using Xinyuan-2, with a diameter of 7.6 meters and a weight ranging from 38 tons to 43 tons.

At that time, the maximum number of people that can be accommodated at the same time will rise to 12 people, Tianhe and six people, three people in each of the two experimental modules, and the entire combination has 2040 cubic meters of space, which has surpassed the International Space Station.

Because of the launch of the Tianhe core module, the Yungong core module will be used as the module of Xinyuan's commercial operation, which will be open to the first batch of tourists who have completed their training.

From April 2017 to April 2018, the third phase of Tiangong will also be the final project, which will launch a "survey" space telescope, and the space hotel manufactured by Italian Liberia Space will also dock, and the overall mass is about 330 tons, which is already at the same level as the International Space Station.

The maximum capacity of the entire group at the same time is 27 people, and the ISS is only 13 people.

Such a huge space station plan has won unanimous praise from the space agency, but before that, the mission of the Tiangong space station is to pay New Year's greetings.

According to the process, the six astronauts will paste Spring Festival couplets together, and then greet the New Year in the live broadcast of the Spring Festival Gala, which is also to celebrate the first New Year of the Chinese in space.

Then on March 10, 112 days after they took to space, Unity launched again, sending six new astronauts into space while taking them next.

However, before watching the New Year's greetings outside the atmosphere, you can also look at the New Year's greetings inside the atmosphere.

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"Class 4, Zhuang Tao, out of the ranks!"

"Here!"

"Class 5, Zhao Weihao and Li Chenyang are out of the ranks!"

“……”

In the temporary flight school that was expanded and renovated in the hangar, 28 instructors took turns to select outstanding students who had obtained the junior flight certification in each teaching class.

Among the 28 instructors, 12 are retired pilots recruited by Xinyuan and are ready to be trained as professional astronauts, 8 are very good employees flying in Xinyuan Base, and 8 are sent by the Western Air Force.

Unlike the trainees, the employees of the B-level base can easily obtain flight hours, and they can get flight hours every month for workshop evaluation and technical assessment, and it is easy to get hundreds of hours of free time.

It can be said that as long as you don't want to go, you can fly as long as you have time in the base, and you don't need to worry about money at all.

Therefore, some talented engineers soon emerged, and flying around after work has become a leisure activity for employees of Xinyuan Company.

Every night after 5 p.m., nearby residents can hear the constant sound of V8 aero engines and propellers in the sky, and see swarms of colorful clouds descending from the sky, whirring against the bark of trees, leaving behind fallen leaves.

These aerospace engineers rely on their own technical skills to understand the performance of the beginner aircraft very well, and they are not conservative at all when they fly, and they fly every day just in time for the students to get out of school, so the primary and secondary school students have another reserved program: watching the plane.

Nearby primary and secondary schools are also actively contacting Xinyuan, hoping to let the flight team come to their school to carry out activities, so everyone is actually quite welcome to complain about the flight school disturbing the people.

The Air Force is much more interesting, nominally to ensure the safety of the training of a large number of cadets, sending people to supervise the field, and at the same time taking on the role of volunteer instructors, which seems to be quite enthusiastic.

In fact, these "instructors" flipped through the training records of the students all day long, specifically looking for good seedlings to pull relationships, and emotionally regarded Xinyuan as a talent pool.

The leaders of the Air Force originally felt that there were too many planes and regretted giving Xinyuan such a big power, but then they figured it out after thinking about it:

The basic students who come to the B-level base for training are aerospace-related majors, and the number of professional counterparts is close to 3,000, and it will definitely increase every year, so many people, even if there is an excellent pilot out of 20, it is not an exaggeration.

This is simply a reserve base for outstanding talents from white prostitutes, and they can also be selected in advance, digging a little bit every year, and reducing their own training costs.

However, they were a little disappointed that the effect of digging the foot of the wall was not as good as expected.

If the Air Force is willing to come to the university to recruit pilots, of course, it is welcome, but now the students of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics and other colleges and universities are different, not only can they enter the country and even the world's top aerospace enterprises after graduation, but also can drive the plane as a car, and there will be a chance to go to space in the future.

In comparison, pilots are not so attractive.

Think about it when you flirt with your sister in the future: "Do you want to fly?" Brother will fly with you. "It's just not too cool.

Although Xinyuan's salary level is not particularly outstanding, the cost of raising a huge fleet is very exaggerated, and the average engineer's monthly salary may not be able to afford to fly for one or two hours a day.

On February 6, 28 instructors and 14 outstanding students piloted 18 Feilong intermediate training planes and 24 Caiyun junior training planes, which took off from the airport one after another, and then converged into a formation, and a helicopter on the side was responsible for taking pictures.

The first batch of flight trainees has not yet graduated, but the first batch of Wyvern trainers have successfully rolled off the assembly line.

As for the Meteor High Education Machine, it has to wait for the company to resume work, and the first batch can be assembled in March.

Forty-two planes pulled colorful smoke and were even specially approved to perform air shows over the city, making various fancy maneuvers over the entire city area, and the performance took 40 minutes before leaving.

But this has not helped the protests of residents on the outskirts of Xinyuan, where the number of planes is increasing day by day, and the government has had to move away a small group of residents closer to the airport.

However, the province strongly supports this, and Xinyuan has only ordered a little plane, and they say that they want to build an aviation city......

Someone uploaded the flight show to the Internet, and then the acquired company Westland was surprised to find that Xinyuan's "Flying Dragon" was surprisingly similar to its own "Flying Dragon", if it hadn't been sixty or seventy years later, the prosecution period would have already passed, and I am afraid that the other party would have to sue for infringement.

February 7, Chinese New Year's Eve.

The Spring Festival Gala came to an end, and there was one more place when connecting places: Tiangong Space Station.

Six astronauts in dark blue civilian clothes, including men and women, old and young, pasted Spring Festival couplets on the intersection of the square area and the circular area of the core module of the Cloud Palace.

In addition to worshipping the New Year together, due to the particularity of the Yungong space station, you can also surround the viewing cabin and use the ground to try your best to preserve the moist dumpling skin and wrap dumplings.

It is impossible for astronauts to make peace in space, flour is a flammable and explosive substance, and it is too uncomfortable to float into a small gap to get into, and it is not good to be inhaled into the human body.

After wrapping these dumplings, it is a bit difficult to cook and eat, and they need to be steamed in a specially modified microwave oven.

Just for astronauts to eat freshly wrapped and "cooked" dumplings in space, the ground consumes a huge amount of effort~

However, the effect is still obvious and worthwhile, Chinese people have a special obsession with freshly made and hot food, including astronauts, only when they have cooked on the space station, they can feel a sense of belonging to "home", otherwise they always eat fast food, although it is also delicious, but it always feels like they are on a business trip.

And then there is the scene of the Spring Festival Gala in various regions, this time the scene in Qiongzhou is still the same, it is still a characteristic song and dance 2 kilometers in front of the rocket launch tower, but the misty Xinyuan 2 is much larger than last year's small Xinyuan 1, occupying the entire height of the picture.

Thanks to the ban on fireworks, it has not been strictly enforced, so when the Spring Festival Gala talked about the next program being a large-scale fireworks show, the host didn't have much to fear.

At the beginning of the program, a huge background screen appeared on the launch site of Xinyuan-2.

Due to the high-frequency launch of Xinyuan-2 this year, many people have seen such a scene, but this is the first time that the night launch is carried out.

Viewers who had experience with last year's fireworks already understood what was going to happen.

The launch center hears the signal from the director and immediately gives the launch order.

Throughout the Spring Festival Gala and in front of the TV, countless people across the country, and even overseas, had many people counting down together.

After all, this kind of program, which is about to be desperately attacked by environmental protection groups as soon as you hear it, is only Huaguo can now carry out it without interference, and it is such a big rocket, who doesn't want to see the excitement?

The countdown was reset to zero, and Xinyuan-2 ignited 1 second early, and then quickly dragged the tail flame up.

Under the dark moonless night sky, the light of seven M220 liquid oxygen methane engines lit up the sky, and the scene was much more spectacular than last year.

After 60 seconds, the fifteen fireworks canisters of the second stage reached a predetermined height of separation, and the first stage rocket deflected to one side to land.

In the camera's footage, there are suddenly eight more meteors in the sky, which are eight fireworks canisters that have spread out in all directions under the action of solid rockets.

In Qiongzhou, many people either walk out of their homes or stand on the balcony, and they can already see a few bright lines in the sky.

Then, eight bright spots exploded at the same time, producing countless violently burning metals that covered the sky, and spread rapidly, like a sea of stars expanding.

At the same time, the most central flare Pluuus version exploded.

There was a flash of extreme brightness in the darkness, and then the entire cloud was illuminated, and everyone on the ground was shadowed by the white light.

That's 15 tons of flares that burn wildly at the most insane speed!

The soldiers at the nearby military base were in a trance, remembering that during the joint exercise, the blue army troops fired hundreds of flares into the sky, which were not as bright as this one, which was the switch that triggered the sun!

Since there was no rehearsal, the Xinyuan engineers at the launch center were also a little surprised, it was too bright and had already overshadowed the rest of the fireworks!

At the Spring Festival Gala, a group of viewers were dumbfounded, regardless of the ornamentation and artistry for the time being, but this scene comparable to a nuclear bomb explosion is really impressive.

The complete departure of 2015 ended with a shining new star.

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