"Old Sun, go on!"

Semyon grabbed a piece of sugar cane and threw it through the feeding window, a sugar-rich food that Gorilla 7 loved.

The researcher, who is usually tasked with raising and caring for the subjects, is standing next to him and preparing for today's dinner.

After the injection of 304 injections, due to the sharp increase in physical fitness, the demand for external nutrient intake will also increase significantly.

Having to inject two bottles of glucose and saline a week or even every day before the injection, gorillas are not human beings who can understand human speech, and their biggest concern is to rip off the needle.

For this reason, the researchers had to use the sedative carefully, not only for fear of the orangutan not cooperating, but also for fear that the sedative would affect the performance of the 304 injection, and the dosage was very strict.

He saw that Xie Miao, the director of the laboratory, was paying more attention when he was feeding No. 7 there, and excessive food intake may lead to diarrhea, and there is still a gap between the physical fitness of these experimental subjects and the gorillas in the wild, and it will affect the effect of the injection.

If these gorillas don't die in the experiment, the final destination is to be retired and sent to the zoo to die of old age, not to mention the inhumane, but Semyon is obviously not the kind of person who treats the test subject purely as an object.

"Xiao Zhang, how do you say Lao Sun's physical fitness compares to humans?"

"Director Xie, before the No. 7 medication, it was a 140-kilogram male gorilla, its physical fitness is at least two to three times that of humans, and it is amazing that 304 injections can still achieve the expected effect.

Its mechanism of action is more advanced than that of today's drugs, and it would be nice if we could master this means of controlling the effects of action according to the genes of living organisms. ”

Semyon nodded, looking thoughtfully into the eyes of the "old grandson".

……

On April 22, a number of private aerospace companies, space agencies, and some technology companies in China received different numbers of invitation letters.

The invitation was sent by Xinyuan Aerospace Power Company, and the content was the first flight of the space shuttle "Storm" in Qiongzhou, the day before Labor Day, on April 30.

The Storm will carry seven people on its first flight, and will also be on a mission.

Because according to the launch plan, the launch on April 26 is the second living module of the Qianqian space station, so naturally it is also necessary to launch an H2 to carry out the truss installation work.

This is a repeat of the first flight of the Storm, and after a simple assessment, the base abandoned the original Pioneer launch mission and handed over the mission to the first flight of the nuclear-powered space shuttle H2N Storm.

It's a bit risky according to the traditional idea, but after all, the H2 body has flown several times and is theoretically reliable.

However, the Storm's fuselage has changed somewhat, and compared to the H2M, the Storm's three A100 engines can provide an unprecedented 30MW of power, which is unimaginable for any spacecraft.

With this high level of power, the Storm alone could not be used up completely, and she could power other spacecraft and support extremely energy-hungry equipment.

Abundant energy support has also made its body a little longer, the materials in the nose living module alone can accommodate seven astronauts to live comfortably for 15 days, and 12 tons of liquid hydrogen fuel can allow it to start the nuclear engine flight without impunity.

Whether unladen or fully loaded, Storm can complete the required incremental acceleration from low Earth orbit to lunar orbit in less than four hours, consume no more than 1.3 tons of liquid hydrogen, and reach the moon in about 20 hours.

Just being launched into low-Earth orbit and maneuvering to the Endeavor space station does not consume much fuel at all, and the main concern of Storm during its entire work is the escape of liquid hydrogen.

Selev's zero-evaporation liquid hydrogen storage technology is still in a PPT state for the time being, and in order to prevent damage to the tank, the Storm is releasing gasified hydrogen every minute and every second, which consumes even more than the engine uses......

But no matter what, it can't change the epoch-making fact of Storm, as long as the astronauts of Storm want to, they can drive her to the moon for a spin and back.

Of course, none of these plans are in the CDC's memorandum for the time being, and even before Xinyuan sent the invitation letter, there were very few people who could be sure that the Storm was a nuclear-powered space shuttle.

……

Lincolnshire, Southern Nevada.

Jackass（jack ass？ Flats Proving Ground, where the JFT team is stationed.

Freeman kept a close eye on everything about the Fits rival, the H2N Space Shuttle, but now he learned the name of the Storm.

"A storm, it is indeed a storm."

The launch plan of the Storm has been disclosed by the Aviation Development Commission and has been filed internationally, and the nuclear-powered spacecraft must abide by this rule, and the same will be the case when Endeavour returns to service in the future.

Many people have already taken photos of the An-1250 Transport Storm, which is in transit with the three nuclear engines in the tail tightly wrapped around anything, but Freeman can still roughly guess the reason for the changes in its body and the general layout.

There is no doubt that the A100 has passed XAP acceptance and has been mass-produced on the space shuttle, and they must have thought the A100 was quite reliable before they crammed seven astronauts on its first flight.

In contrast, Endeavour's nuclear engine is only now being manufactured......

Endeavour was shortly powered by the NERVA A6 as a modification of the NERVA A105 (Endeavour was codenamed OV-105), abbreviated as the A105 engine.

THE A105 ENGINE IS A MODERNIZATION OF THE NERVA A6, AND THERE IS A LOT OF ROOM FOR OPTIMIZATION DUE TO THE RAPID ADVANCES IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND COMPUTER DESIGN.

The A105 will have a maximum thrust of 35 tons, which is larger than the three A100s, and the maximum power will exceed 700MW.

The specific impulse of the rocket also exceeded 1,145 seconds, the flow rate of the combustion chamber was 24 kilograms per second, and the maximum power would last for 90 minutes.

The total weight of the A105 will be controlled to less than 10 tons, but the mass of the heat dissipation part will need to be calculated, but Freeman is confident that it will be controlled.

It's just that because the project has been stalled for half a century, it is difficult to restore the manufacturing capacity of the engine, but fortunately, Endeavour only needs one engine.

The bad news is that it's now close to May, and the engine will be built and installed in July...... There is also the test process, this is a nuclear engine, Freeman expects it to be completed around October, but the Hexagon will never be satisfied.

If you are not satisfied, you can't do it, you can't let the astronauts sit on the reactor that may explode at any time, if you die because of this, a few astronauts are afraid that it will take a year to investigate.

Freeman now cares about the technical specifications of the A100, and the published content has almost no real value, and it was written in PPT before manufacturing, and the real parameters Freeman estimates that they are close to the level of NERVA A6 at most.

According to the mission description, the Storm will also carry a truss to carry out the space station installation mission, which will have a maximum of 10 tons of fuel, but in fact, it will not be able to go to the moon if it flies in near-earth orbit, unless it is a little possible to go back.

(End of chapter)