Exiting the launch center, the bus from the gate to the junction is lined with almost all the empty seats of journalists and media, and only the guardrailed passage in the middle is passable.

It only took more than ten seconds to walk in this short 20 meters, but Lin Ju felt that the sound in his ears had become noisy and blurred, and he was moving away from him at a very high speed like a background sound.

That, he thought, should be the first cosmic velocity.

Although the trio in the camera are all smiling, holding a small air conditioner in one hand and greeting each side with the other, Lin Ju knows that his steps have begun to become lighter.

The electric buses in the venue, sponsored by Nanfang Motor and Xin'an Automobile, use the latest generation of batteries and integrated chassis control technology, which is very comfortable and gentle, and you can't feel it even over speed bumps.

Nearly 80 years ago, Howard Hughes, the founder of Hughes Aircraft, demanded that his driver control the speed of a speed bump because of obsessive-compulsive disorder, because he thought that violent bumps could destroy his lover's chest shape.

But this electric bus can use the heavy adaptive terrain to achieve speeds of up to 50 kilometers per hour over speed bumps without even making people feel like they are in the car.

Lin Ju leaned against the window, and he saw a crowd of people in overalls on both sides, with the logo of Xinyuan Company on their chests.

More than 200 engineers and related personnel from Xinyuan in Qiongzhou came here early to see him off, and in fact, many more came but were politely rejected by the latter.

In just a few minutes, the bus arrived at the launch tower with the crew and crew, and it was now 6.40 minutes, and the sun had fully risen, reflecting the sparkling sea in a fiery red.

Lin Ju took one last look at the beach, took a deep breath, suppressed the urge to tremble his legs, and followed Hu Dong and Li Wei to the elevator.

The height of the Xinyuan-2-Progress combination is about 90 meters, and it takes one minute for the elevator to go up, which is an extraordinarily long time.

The elevator in the launch tower is semi-open, and Lin Ju is facing the white rocket.

He was quite familiar with the Xinyuan 2, starting with the engine and rising all the way up, past the first, second, rectifier connected escapes, and then to the dark belly of the Progress.

The Progress's silver-grey insulating tiles glow in the diffused sunlight, and the dark blue portholes are colourful patterns.

The feet of the three sank, and the elevator stopped.

Li Weiwei strode towards the corridor, which was completely enclosed, but the vibration from the light step told them that they were a hundred meters in the air under their feet.

Hu Dong and Lin Ju followed, and after watching Li Wei and Hu Dong climb in with the help of the staff, Lin Ju also bent down, asked the staff to take off their small air conditioner, and carefully grabbed the temporary fixed bracket inside the Progress.

He barely moved, and the staff, who had practiced many times, put Lin Ju on the seat perfectly, confirmed that the three of them were in the right position, connected the life-sustaining system pipeline, quickly packed up his things, and climbed out of the crew cabin.

Lin Ju couldn't see the back at all...... To be precise, it was the situation below, and sitting upwards like this made him feel a little uncomfortable and wanted to look up, and as soon as he moved, the seat began to track his behavior, and it also rose a little with his head.

The two C-shaped structures stuck in the legs began to tighten, pressing the spacesuit and Lin Ju's legs tightly, although this fixation was to assist in the preparation of load resistance, but it made Lin Ju feel much more at ease.

"Bang!"

The door of the Progress was closed from the outside, and the staff pulled down the manual valve in the open operation port hard, and after the indicator light turned green, carefully closed the operation opening, and made an OK gesture behind him after confirming that it was seamless.

Once everyone had exited the passage, the steel corridor slowly retracted and moved away, leaving only the three cable harness connectors that controlled the rocket attached to the rocket's various stages and the space shuttle.

The screen in front of Lin Ju, that is, behind Hu Dong, lit up, and he saw Guo Shen, Anderov, the big guy, and many people from the Space Bureau, Shuchuan Provincial and Municipal Government, and cooperative schools standing in front of the console, waving at Lin Ju.

There were too many old acquaintances, and Lin Ju couldn't say hello one by one, so he could only wave with a smile on his face.

Guo Shen: "Boss, how about the spacesuit we made?" The version of this mission has been improved again, 7% lighter weight and better fit, no sweating, right? ”

"No, I feel very good, you can ask how 01 and 02 are."

"01 Report: Feeling good, no anomalies."

"02 report, I feel good too."

Big guy: "01, how does it feel to fly again?" It hasn't started live yet, so let's talk about it. ”

Li Wei: "I have 600 hours of experience flying the H1 simulator, but I still have to say that it is very good to sit in the Progress, and I feel like I'm really flying a spaceship now, the kind in the cartoon, you can fly into the sky with just a push of the accelerator." ”

A few chuckles rang out from the launch control center, and Anderov stepped forward:

"Captain Li, the Progress-Xinyuan-2 combination can indeed be launched manually in special emergencies, but I don't recommend that you do this, maybe in the future you can really fly such a spacecraft from the ground into space."

"Haha, I'm afraid I won't be able to wait for that day."

Li Wei rarely laughed at himself, and the rest of the people only thought that Anderov was watching a joke, as long as Lin Ju knew it himself, it was not a joke.

Work on the design of the XN-90 spacecraft has been underway, and Anderov is almost complete with the original design of the spacecraft and is about to enter the concrete design stage.

The design work was ready to be completed in less than a year, followed by about a year to build the spacecraft.

XN-90 Flying Boat ...... I don't know if Li Wei and the people present still remember today's events on the day they really appeared in front of the world, and they must invite Li Wei to come over and witness it in person.

Then Lin Ju and his old acquaintances said a few words, and when it was 7.30 o'clock, the live news broadcast and the live webcast started at the same time.

The launch is expected at 9 o'clock, with an hour and a half to go.

Li Wei remembers this special time, 12 years, 10 months and 10 days ago, he also took Shenzhou 5 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center into space at this time.

Nearly thirteen years have passed, and the excitement in my heart has not diminished in the slightest.

He gently held the rudder and closed his eyes and took a deep breath, barely changing his heart rate.

The screen in front of Lin Ju switched the influence, and this time the signal came from the sky.

The second batch of 6 crew members of the Tiangong space station connected to the Progress, and Lin Ju saw system engineers Ke Yun and Deng Lei.

After the three of them greeted each other, Deng Lei floated to the camera alone and skillfully fixed his position.

"Boss, in fact, I regretted a little when I came up and heard that you were going to come up in July, I would have waited for you if I had known, and I would have been the driver."

Lin Ju: If it weren't for the cracks in the corners of your mouth, I would have believed in your evil!

Who heard that he was going to be stationed in space for a long time and excitedly missed the Nth blind date?

Netizens who have poured into the live broadcast on the online platform followed Lin Ju to issue the same condemnation, criticizing this anti-bone worker.

The anti-bone boy was gently pulled to the back, and the front of the lens was replaced by Liu Ming, who picked up the camera in his hand and pointed the display at the camera.

"Progress crew, this is a photo I took 10 minutes ago when I passed over my country, I saw Qiongzhou, and I hope to share this scenery with you immediately."

(End of chapter)