At the press conference, Claire, as the top authority of NACA, came forward to explain the cause of the Dream Chaser accident a few days ago and answer information about the follow-up space program.

First of all, the accident investigation report of Dream Chaser came out, and after the analysis of Loma's engineers, when Dream Chaser asked for weight reduction, the interface also put forward technical requirements, which was 20% lower than the original quality.

In order to achieve the goal, the engineers have simplified the internal structure to a certain extent, resulting in a place where the strength is a little out of line, and the location of the design is relatively coincidental, and there is a probability of deformation due to pressure problems in a vacuum environment.

The solution is also very simple: switch back to the original mature design.

The Dream Chaser is not bad at the quality of the more than ten kilograms of the interface, and it doesn't take too long to transform it, but the Dream Chaser still needs to be inspected by the whole aircraft, so the next unmanned test flight is around the beginning of March, and then the manned flight will be carried out.

As for the nine astronauts on rotation......

Claire: "After internal deliberation within the ISS, it will not be ruled out that the use of vehicles other than Dream Chasers will be used for subsequent personnel rotation missions. ”

Reporter: "Is it Lucia's Soyuz spacecraft or Xinyuan's space shuttle?" ”

Claire: "Task tenders are a commercial activity, and we can't reveal more information at this time. ”

Reporter: "Will the accident on the Dream Chaser affect the follow-up mission of the Artemis Project?" ”

Claire: "Project Artemis is progressing well at the moment and is well on track with NACA's plan. ”

Reporter: "So the Artemis 2 mission will still take place in October 2017, carrying astronauts around the moon?" ”

Claire: "Yes, no later than that. ”

In fact, Claire was a little happy at this time, everyone thought that SLS could only make one shot a year, but who knew that the next SLS was expected to be launched in August?

According to their manufacturing schedule, the Long March 10 will be from June to July at the earliest, and with the addition of the Heavy Falcon rocket to the Artemis program, the launch time will be shorter, and the actual progress will only be faster, and NACA will soon overtake it!

In front of the return to the moon, the little setbacks that Dream Chasers encountered were insignificant, and although they were a bit of a face-wrenching to John, they did not actually have a catastrophic effect.

The follow-up Dream Chaser II and III are also about to enter final assembly, and the miniature space shuttle can be built much faster than the old space shuttle, which can only build one in a few years.

However, when he thought of the large space shuttle, his face was a little dark, and the speed of two H2Ms in service at the same time by a private space company in Xinyuan seemed to him to be incredible, and they were both giants weighing more than 100 tons.

Wait, today seems to be the Chinese New Year's Eve of Huaguo? He seems to have also made an appointment for the first stationing of the Advance space station and the New Year's Eve live broadcast.

What does the interior of the 14-meter-diameter super-large cabin look like and how spacious should it be?

I heard that they also innovatively use a concentric circle structure, is this because of the optimized design made by centrifugal rotation? No, it's important to have people look at and analyze it, and gain experience with NACA's centrifugal space station.

……

"Come on, Deng Lei!"

"Li Sheng, lay down the road, go down the road!"

In the pilot cabin of the Advance, a friendly New Year's Eve match is underway.

Thanks to the large diameter of 14 meters, even if the center of the pilot cabin is occupied by equipment, the space left for personnel to be divided into two parts is very wide, which is wider than the living room of ordinary people, and the length of more than 40 meters makes the activity space too spacious.

In addition to trusses and supplies, the Pioneer also brought sports equipment such as badminton, table tennis tables and darts.

Due to the loss of gravity, Deng Lei and Li Sheng not only need to pay extra attention to the correction trajectory that is completely different from the one on Earth when playing badminton matches, but also need to stabilize themselves at all times.

Deng Lei caught the ball in the air with too much force, lost his focus point and began to roll in place irregularly, but he still took the time to catch the ball in a handstand posture that was impossible on earth.

The other three were preparing materials at Li Sheng's feet, that is, in the other half of the space, and they only installed less than 10% of the trusses in the two days they entered space, and they would not enter the rapid construction stage until after Chinese New Year's Eve.

Of course, from tomorrow to the sixth day of the first lunar month, we will receive five times the salary according to the overtime work on holidays, as well as a special subsidy for the New Year.

No one has any complaints about overtime, because the astronauts on the Tiangong space station, thousands of kilometers away, have repeatedly expressed a strong desire to work on the ground, and they can not be paid overtime.

Compared with doing a small experiment on the Tiangong space station, driving H2M to build a centrifugal space station looks much more interesting, but unfortunately they don't have an H2M driver's license at the moment, so they have to rotate to get a chance.

The ground has already sent several H2M flight manuals to the Tiangong space station during the latest replenishment mission, and aspiring astronauts are nibbling on the 5-centimeter-thick flight manuals and the same thick emergency repair index directory......

……

"Can't you really use a three?"

"Mr. Lin really can't do it...... Let the No. 3 rocket come to thousands of tons, what kind of fireworks is this, this is a small nuclear bomb......"

Director Huang was resolute, and Lin Ju could only look disappointed at the Long March 7 on the launch tower.

According to Xinyuan's tradition, this year it was originally planned to use the Xinyuan-3 rocket to launch fireworks, but the latter's first-class capacity can send almost 2,000 tons of mass to tens of thousands of meters in the air.

2,000 tons of fireworks, if it is TNT equivalent, can wipe out the city center, no, no, this is too exaggerated.

Of course, it is not that the fireworks show has been canceled, but the fireworks manufacturer has become a space agency, and they have taken out a Long March 7 to send a special 50-ton fireworks canister to the altitude to detonate.

Different from the rough Xinyuan, after the successful reuse of the Long March 7, the space agency secretly asked manufacturers to customize it, and presented it as a gift for the Spring Festival a few months in advance, which is said to be able to blow up a rooster that can be observed across the strait, which is much richer than last year's super flare artistic connotation.

But Lin Ju was still a little unconvinced, Xinyuan's New Year's gift was that the mechanical arm of the Pioneer grabbed a truss to perform traditional martial arts, although it was also quite creative, but he couldn't watch it on the ground!

However, Ye Changsi felt that it didn't matter, he felt that it was enough luxury to build a spiritual culture with the rockets that had to be launched every time they were launched in that era, and when he saw that the space bureau was also damaged and wanted to amplify the fireworks, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion:

"If Lao Qian could see this scene when he was alive, I am afraid he would be very happy."

Lin Ju: "If it was Qian Lao, would he think it would be more interesting to blow up a hydrogen bomb in outer space?" It's just an artificial little sun. ”

Ye Changsi raised his head and thought about it seriously: "The effect is definitely better, but it may affect the communication system of satellites and aircraft, and if you don't know it, you will lose a lot of money, forget it."

We can't make artificial small suns yet, but artificial small moons are still possible. ”

Lin Ju: "What? Moon? ”

Ye Changsi: "Some time ago, the Shuchuan government set up a city that never sleeps, and planned to launch a mirror into space to cover the urban area to achieve high-brightness lighting to save electricity and create characteristic IP. ”

“……”

The network is stuck......

(End of chapter)