"Mr. Lin, you sit here."

"Uh, thank you."

In the launch center, Lin Ju sat in the VIP viewing seat as a bystander for the first time.

In Qiongzhou before, Xinyuan had always launched all kinds of rockets on the road, and he was in front of the console, but now it was finally reversed.

It's 6.30 a.m., and the Long March 10 rocket has been brought to the launch station by the mobile launch pad, ready to launch at 9 a.m. that day.

As the core of the Dawning Project, the launch of the Long March 10 has received the largest publicity resources, with four CCTV broadcasts starting at 6 o'clock, and the online channels of major official media have also opened live broadcasts.

By 7 o'clock in the morning, the cumulative number of viewers on various platforms had exceeded 130 million, reaching about 10% of the country's population.

Globally, it is estimated that at least 300 million people watch through online platforms.

If it is an SLS rocket launch, there may not be so many people watching it, but the space agency comes with some kind of spiritual BUFF bonus, after all, people have the impression that the distance between CASA and NACA is quite huge.

As a result, CASA's moon rocket flew first? Hey, it doesn't seem right.

Huaguo Aerospace is actually ahead of Ami!

In just 10 months, the Long March 10 has gone from project approval to its first flight, will it suddenly explode?

With all kinds of questions and expectations, the number of people watching the first flight of the Long March 10 broke a record, even exceeding the live broadcast of the Apollo program on the moon back then, of course, the current media cannot be generalized from decades ago.

Of course, in addition to the online line, the number of foreigners who come to the site in person is also increasing linearly.

Mike Griffin accompanied Aldrin to the beach again.

Last time, Xinyuan No. 2 made its first flight, Buzz Aldrin didn't leave after coming to Huaguo, and continued to wait for Xinyuan No. 3 to make its first flight.

Griffin had nothing to do anyway, so he accompanied the old man to eat and drink on the mainland, and was ready to go back at the end of July, and heard that the Long March 10 was going to fly.

This could not be missed, so the two stayed for a while, until today.

Looking at the crowd on the beach that was even larger than the previous two times, Aldrin stood on the balcony of the small attic they had rented in advance, and said with emotion:

"In May, June, and August, the Chinese will launch three rockets capable of carrying out lunar missions in a row this year, which is more powerful than Aramco during the Apollo program."

Griffin: "Now they're the number one industrial nation in the world, and the value of industrial output is a third of the world's, which is unprecedented. ”

Griffin has been numb from shock by the three giant rocket launches in Qiongzhou, but this time he is the most worried, because the Long March 10 is the main force in the competition, and if the first flight of the Long March 10 is successful, it means that NACA is behind in fact.

His tenure was at the turn of the century, and although NACA had already been cut off by then, Yu Wei was still there, and proposed a continuation of the "Constellation" program.

NACA's weakness is obvious to all, but there is a Chinese proverb that says it? Emaciated elephants are bigger than horses, and such backwardness should not be for NACA.

"素晴らしいです,素晴らしいです"

"Universe Bureau 万歳です!"

"長征10号が一一すごいです"

"アジア人の月面着陸です"

Griffin and his thoughts were interrupted by a sudden louder shout, then looked down in disgust.

I don't know when a large number of island people gathered here, and they held banners there to bless the Long March 10, mixed with a few words of Chinese from time to time, and the noise made people feel irritated.

Aldrin didn't bother with anything, and his less sensitive ear, for his 80s, could filter out most of the noise.

He just slowly lowered his body and leaned closer to the rented telescope to aim at the rocket at the launch station.

"Yuanwang No. 3 has arrived at the designated location, the communication is normal, please instruct!"

"Keep watching, keep it going!"

"Yes!"

Yun Hongjun wore headphones and propped his hands on the console, as the deputy commander-in-chief of this launch mission, he continued to confirm the status of the rocket and telemetry system, and fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

There was still more than an hour before the launch, and Yun Hongjun, who had only slept for more than two hours, had red eyes, but he still carried out various procedures in an orderly manner.

On the huge screen in front of him, the Long March 10 has filled more than 3,000 tons of fuel, and the fuel tank that stores liquid oxygen is relieved by a small opening, and the vaporized liquid oxygen freezes the water vapor in the air, which looks as if there are several more holes in the arrow body, constantly spewing out white gas.

The big guy and Lin Ju stood not far away, clearly seeing the state of Yun Hongjun, but did not step forward.

The former sighed:

"The Long March 10 mission is too tight, and the proportion of new technologies is more than 75%, so theoretically it should not be done...... He was also ordered to build a rocket at a time of crisis, which is already remarkable.

If I had been asked to evaluate this rocket before, it would have been a success if it didn't explode at the launch pad. ”

Lin Ju: "But the Long March 10 can't help but succeed. ”

"yes, it can't help but succeed."

The big guy clenched his hands, and he could already feel that his palms were filled with sweat.

With half an hour to go before the launch, Lin Ju and the overly young Seryov stepped out of the range of the live broadcast camera and quietly discussed the launch of the Long March 10.

Lin Ju: "How high do you think the success rate of the Long March 10 is for the first launch?" ”

Seryov: "If it was my time, it would have been too short, only 10 months, and this was a rocket with a take-off thrust of 5,100 tons, and if I were forced to design and build a rocket of this size in a year, then I would rather be demoted to teach." ”

Lin Ju: "By the way, what did you think about N1 back then?" ”

The N1 rocket, as a rocket carrying the dream of the alliance to the moon, was completely shattered by the catastrophic accident of four consecutive bombings.

Seryov also learned about the development of Soyuz Aerospace after his death, and he could know what happened even if some places were unknown, and at this time he only shook his head when it came to N1:

"I didn't like big polluting propellants, so I designed N1, but when I died, N1 was just a draft, far from being able to be officially implemented, and now it seems that with the technology at that time, N1 is really unlikely to succeed.

But now I feel that my thinking was too limited at the time, and it was not correct to design a single-arrow rocket modeled after the Saturn V, and it was right to stick to our tradition of strapping.

Although NK15 only has 150 tons of thrust, it is not necessary to arrange so much on the same rocket body, if you let each booster install four NK15, and then bundle six, plus four core stages, so that although there are still 28 engines a lot, but the vibration is far less intense.

In this way, the low-earth orbit capacity is also about 100 tons, which is enough for us to land on the moon. ”

Lin Ju nodded, it is true that the rocket ideas of the alliance and Huaguo and Aramco are quite different, the former two like to bundle high-thrust liquid boosters, while the latter is either single-core level high-thrust or bundled high-thrust fixed thrust.

If N1 also bundled multiple boosters, at least it wasn't that bad.

"As for the Long March 10, it should be fine if I evaluate it with the manufacturing capacity of our base, but from the perspective of traditional astronautics, even if they do enough safety redundancy, I still think there will be some problems."

(End of chapter)