December 11, Qiongzhou, level 3 wind.

Deng Lei and Zhang Zhiguang wore H2-specific new-generation spacesuits, smiled and waved to the media, and then strode up to the transfer vehicle in the venue to the launch tower.

On the same day that the Pioneer returned, the Glorious completed the final assembly of the aircraft and rocket at Station 1 at the Xinyuan Launch Site, and was ready for launch.

This year's weather was very good, with much less rain than usual, but it also made it more suitable for rocket launches.

It's 10 o'clock in the morning, and the strong sun makes Deng Lei a little unable to open his eyes, but he still enjoys the sunshine.

"Boom!"

With a muffled sound of steel structure, the elevator stopped.

The two walked down the long corridor and burrowed into the belly of the Glory.

The structure inside was already very familiar to the two, and the Glory had done quite a bit of flight training with a jet engine, but it had now been dismantled.

Unlike the H1 series, the H2M is much taller, so the hatch can't be opened so low, the H1 door is opened, and the astronaut will be careful and get down directly, and the H2M must have a boarding staircase.

The space inside is also quite large, the outer fuselage is 10.8 meters wide, and the inside is enough to accommodate three columns on each side, and four columns are all in a row, which is already larger than the XS-62 series space station.

The interior space of the Glory is divided into two parts, the front is the crew cabin of the conical nose part, the internal height is more than 6 meters and is divided into two floors, the upper floor is the cockpit and the toilet, and the lower floor is a 12-square-meter living room, in which 5 astronauts can live very comfortably, and the space is much larger than that of Tiangong-2.

15 meters of the 50-meter-long trapezoidal cross-sectional fuselage behind the nose is allocated to fuel storage tanks, while the remaining is a 35-meter-long and 8.4-meter-wide extra-large cargo compartment.

How the crew compartment enters the cargo compartment and exits the cabin through the airlock compartment and the 1.5 m diameter circular counterpart.

If you want to dock with the space station, you can put an adapter module in the cargo compartment to connect to the 1.5-meter circular opening, and then use the 2.5-meter circular opening of the adapter module to dock with the space station.

The reason why there is no direct interface on the surface of the aircraft like the H1 is that the smooth surface is given to the cargo compartment, and the crew compartment is designed inside the fuselage because of the complex shape of the nose part and is not easy to design.

Another advantage of the design in the airframe is that it can accommodate more people to survive longer by adding cabins through interfaces in the cargo hold, and it can be flexibly adjusted.

In the future nuclear-powered version, a living module can be added, and the remaining space in the cargo compartment will be used for the lunar lander to complete the lunar landing operation.

However, Deng Lei feels that he may still prefer to drive more XN90, although the latter will not officially confirm the basic design to enter the manufacturing stage until next year.

Climb into the seat and pull the seat belt, and the wide chair immediately intelligently adjusts its posture and adjusts the field of view to the best position by tracking the occupant's eyeballs.

Zhang Zhiguang enjoyed this process very much, because the width of the Glory was about the same as that of the An-1250, so the wheelhouse was also extraordinarily wide, and the ergonomics were to the extreme, and it was a pleasure to sit on such a space shuttle.

"01, 02, the hatch is about to close, please manually open the internal air circulation system to confirm that the system is working properly!"

"Yes!"

Inside the command center, Ichiri and the French astronauts, Luca Christopher and Alain Duras also watched with envy the images transmitted back from inside the Glory.

The two are part of a trilateral lunar and space station cooperation program, and one astronaut from Hair and Italy each sent an astronaut to China for training, and according to the plan, it may be launched into space around 2017 after the launch of the space hotel of Italian Liberia Space Company to dock with the Tiangong space station.

The cooperation plan of the three countries' lunar scientific research station has not been affected, although ESA has launched the Selene program, but there must always be a follower, right?

The exchange of patents and technology in some fields, as well as the construction of a lunar scientific experiment and exploration chamber by each of the two countries, will be sent to space at the cost of patents and technology exchanges in some fields.

This deal is very acceptable to both parties, and the purpose of the space agency is not to strengthen its control over Europe through the Artemis program like Aramco, but to try to win over, and it would be nice to get some more good things.

Lukka and Alain didn't think much of it, though, they were just drooling over the Glory.

Luca: "The plan is that we're supposed to go into space with Alenia's space station around June next year, and we really want to fly on a giant like the H2." ”

Alain: "It would be nice if we had it ourselves, Hermes of the Hip Country will not be able to fly until at least 2018, and it is much more beautiful than the Glorious." ”

Luca: "ESA, maybe we'll fly to the moon on it?" ”

Alain: "Then I'm going to go to Armstrong's footsteps and step on mine next to him." ”

Luca: "I'd rather try to see if I could lie on my stomach, it's much more fun to make a footprint alone." ”

……

"The world's first space shuttle was launched."

"The smart unloading chair on the Glory has 10 functions, and the weight is so high."

"The Artemis One mission is about to launch."

After the successful launch of the Glory, the object of much attention was the two seats of the main and co-pilot.

The two seats have integrated some control functions, and because of the large cockpit space, they are also very comfortable, like a single sofa, which is very comfortable to look at.

In addition, the HUD display function of the new spacesuit, which can directly use the laser to project the data onto the mask during the driving stage, is a small achievement of the laser laboratory of the base, and has now been authorized to Xin'an Automobile for use in the front windshield.

After the Glory was put into orbit, Deng Lei and Zhang Zhiguang both told the ground that the biggest feeling of this flight was "very comfortable".

The H2, which has a slower ascent rate, has a maximum overload of only slightly more than 3G in the atmosphere, and most of the time it is above 2G, which is simply no pressure for astronauts, and with the unloading chair and pressurized spacesuit, the overload is almost not felt.

Even the take-off and landing of civil airliners may exceed this number, which is enough to show that H2M has reduced the physical condition requirements of astronauts to an extremely low level.

For ordinary people, there is no need for anti-overload training, and they only need to learn the essentials of action in weightlessness to easily go to space, and the barriers of physical factors have also been broken.

Glory will operate in orbit for about two days, mainly to test the space shuttle itself, not docking with the space station, and then return to the ground to fully prepare for next year's Enforward component launch and installation mission.

However, the date of the launch of the Glory is relatively coincidental, or December is another intensive space launch month.

Kennedy Space Center, launch pad 39B, SLS rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft of the Artemis I mission is ready, and there are 19 hours to go.

There are too many things to do today...... During the day, I will try to make up two shifts

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