Edofu.

In a remote urban area, a second-floor balcony facing the street is ajar, and if someone happens to pass directly below, they can hear the sound of swearing and collision coming from above.

Four men who looked to be over fifty years old were kneeling on tatami mats in rags, with bottles scattered next to them.

One of them picked up the yakiniku on the table, took a small bite, and then poured down half a bottle of sake.

"Bang!"

His hand slammed on the table, and then a voice filled the room with resentment:

"Worms, they're all worms! They are all insects that succumb to rice animals! ”

"Gentlemen, look at them, although there are countless street speeches, but when have you really heard the voice of the people? How can such insects govern the country well? ”

He raised his hand a little weakly, shook it a few times, and pointed out the window.

"How great and wonderful the universe is, but in their eyes it is just a perfunctory face-saving project for the people, and they actually cooperate with the Indians and invest billions of dollars, which is a crime against the people!"

The other three people reacted and nodded, Yamamoto Kazuki had the best amount of alcohol and the ability to complain, they were already in a state of drunkenness.

Kazuki Yamamoto couldn't help but feel a little sad when he looked at these colleagues who often drank with him, he was already so old, and he was just a low-level social animal, how could he revitalize the country?

On the other hand, Dieter Hatoji Nakayama, who is one of the few good people who is sober and has always considered the people, has been trying to broker space cooperation with the other side, but unfortunately the enemy is in Nagata Town, and he has repeatedly failed to pass.

Kazuki Yamamoto, who was slowly starting to drink, also began to be confused in front of his eyes, and accidentally fell on the remote control, and the TV suddenly turned on and sounded:

“…… Kyoto TV reports for you...... Urgent News...... Storm Nuka-powered Spaceflight Flight to the Moon ......"

Kazuki Yamamoto, who vaguely grasped a few key words, struggled to open his eyes, and then saw the image of the storm number appearing in the picture and the scrolling news.

As the information entered the brain little by little, the drunkenness was quickly expelled by shock, and Kazuki Yamamoto stared at the hostess incredulously, wondering if he was drunk and entered the illusion.

Shaking his head vigorously, he turned on his phone again, and several videos on the YouTube cover were the eye-catching body of the Storm.

A few minutes later, a half-naked figure suddenly appeared in the street, standing in the center screaming, dancing and shouting something.

The nearby patrol policeman hurriedly ran over, but heard the latter pointing to the sky and repeating excitedly:

"黄人種が月に向かっています,アジア人が月に向かっています!"

……

"Welcome to the evening news ......"

As soon as Zhou Qingfeng entered the door, he heard the sound on the TV, and after throwing his schoolbag on the table, he simply lay down on the sofa.

Grandpa wasn't there, but he probably just went out, probably to buy something.

After lying on the ground for a few minutes, Zhou Qingfeng touched the remote control and was ready to change the channel, there is no good-looking animation at this time now, but it is much better than watching the central news.

“…… On today's special day, China's aerospace industry has taken another step of great significance......"

Space flight? You can listen to this, Zhou Qingfeng let go of the fingers on the buttons.

"At 10:38 a.m., the Space Shuttle Storm detached from the space station for a planned flight test and entered the Earth-Moon transfer orbit at about 4 p.m., preparing to test its long-range flight capabilities with the Moon as the target.

It is reported that the storm carried enough supplies for seven astronauts to live for more than 20 days, and had a stronger ability to prevent radiation to cope with high-energy radiation from lunar orbit.

This will be China's first manned exploration of the moon, and it will also be the fastest lunar exploration operation in the world so far, CCTV will broadcast the live flight of Storm from 5 am to 9 am tomorrow.

The following is the statement of Zhao Liang, a member of the Aviation Development Commission, in an interview with the media......"

Zhou Qingfeng: "! ”

No wonder today's teachers feel weird, they didn't even delay the class and let them go to the playground to kick the ball for two hours, I didn't expect to miss such a big event!

He rushed to his room and turned on his computer, and expertly logged into the forums, the front page full of Storm related content, and even a link to share it everywhere.

Click in to see that it is the official website of Xinyuan, and at this time there is already an additional "real-time task" section, and in the center are a few lines of eye-catching large characters:

"Storm is still 319,000 kilometers from the Moon

There are still 9 hours and 33 minutes until the start of the live broadcast

Current speed: 12.74 km/s"

Below the text is a progress bar with a zoomed-out pattern of the Earth and the Moon at both ends, and a small dot at the left end of the progress bar that slowly flickers at a certain frequency, slowly crawling towards the right end in the breath.

The small letters of "acceleration section" and "taxiing section" have turned gray, and the "deceleration section" is highlighted.

The background of the page is space painted, but if you slide the wheel, you can see a ground photo of the seven Storm astronauts and the huge "Tiancanop-1 Manned Lunar Mission" mission badge on the blue background behind them.

Apparently, this is a photo that was secretly taken before departure but has not been released until now.

"That's bad!"

Zhou Qingfeng didn't expect that he was actually stabbed by his own aerospace division, such an important action was unexpected, wouldn't he have to regret it for several years if he missed it?

Fortunately, tomorrow is Sunday, and Zhou Qingfeng, who is still in junior high school, only has to make up classes on Saturday, and the live broadcast on Sunday morning can be completely timed.

Returning to the forum again, the heat is higher today than ever, and every time you refresh it, you can see a new post that has been topped.

"Shoot the moon at night! Have you ever speculated on when you will be able to photograph the Storm at the moon? Can you photograph the space shuttle? ”

Second floor: "Sofa, the landlord Xiaobai is exposed, it's night now, our position can no longer be observed, and even if it can be observed theoretically, it can't be observed, hundreds of thousands of kilometers, ordinary telescopes will definitely not work, let's wait for the live broadcast honestly." ”

Third floor: "Why don't you start the live broadcast now?" Now that the communication bandwidth is so strong, the signal must be fine. ”

Fourth floor: "Upstairs, this is flying to the moon, all kinds of tracking and control signals are estimated to be all over space, and now the space shuttle sends its own signals, and it can only be signaled through the relay satellites there and the lunar orbit after crossing the Lagrange point, and the bandwidth is still very valuable." ”

Fifth floor: "I thought it would take until August to orbit the moon on Dawn 3, and I was still worried about whether it would be overtaken by Artemis II, but now we are the absolute first!" ”

Sixth floor: "Hey, since we're orbiting the moon now, can Dawn 3 go directly to the moon?" ”

……

The Storm action was sudden, and the lunar test was only conceived in early April when the A100 engines were ready to be loaded on the space shuttle, and the Aviation Development Commission had not previously scheduled it.

In the space agency's view, the H2 nuclear-powered version will have to wait until the second half of the year, and until the eve of the launch of the Storm, it is also hesitant to carry out this operation, after all, the A100 is the first time to enter space, and flying in deep space like this is a severe test of engine quality.

Before the launch, the seven astronauts were organized to take a group photo of the "Sky Dome" mission and each brought a "Sky Dome" mission badge, which may be taken back to the ground as a souvenir, or it may be glued to the spacesuit to go to the moon together.

On May 13, the crew of the Storm completed the installation of the space station, and then received a request from the Xinyuan base to sort out the internal materials of the space shuttle, count fresh water and food, and check the working condition of the oxygen concentrator.

On May 15, Hu Dong routinely checked the flight control of the space shuttle and found an update sent from the base, which was a flight plan.

It was also on that day that after a fierce controversy, the Aviation Development Commission was persuaded by Lin Ju to take the various analysis reports of the base and decided to start the "Sky Curtain" plan.

Then the astronauts on the Tiangong space station received the news of the Storm's separation, and waited for more than two hours before they came to take away the domestic garbage, only to know that these 7 lucky guys were already on the way to the moon.

Especially Deng Lei, who brought new people to Tiangong again, his resentful emotions broke through the atmosphere and spread to the ground, and according to the schedule, his glorious mission was at the end of July.

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……

Capital.

"Zhang Zhiguang, he has a lot of experience, why isn't he the commander of Mission No. 4?"

Lin Ju finally got the crew list of the Dawning No. 3 mission, and he was too familiar with the command elder Zhang, but at the same time, he was a little confused.

The crew of the Dawning 4 mission is all newcomers who only went to space last year, as if they had done something wrong.

Academician She: "The task arrangement is like this, it is not that the higher the seniority, you must go, in fact, the third task is more risky, and it is more reasonable to arrange the elderly to go." ”

Lin Ju: "However, I think the third mission should be to go to the moon.

The purpose of circumferring the moon is to obtain accurate lunar orbit data, and in fact, the Tianmu program can basically complete these tasks, which can fully support the landing of the third mission on the moon. ”

Academician She: "But this is still too risky, the Long March 10 only made its first flight in August last year, and it will send people there after a year, which is much faster than manned spaceflight." ”

"What about this time and that time......"

"Hmm......"

Now the position of the two of them is the ground command center, and no one here is destined to sleep peacefully tonight, waiting for good news from the Storm.

Through the window, the moon hung high in the sky obscured by a light layer of mist, and the world watched the little worm slowly wriggling towards it.

18 hours, is the limit of the A100.

After the loss of gravity, space becomes an ideal physical testing ground, which can not only superimpose high speed with small accelerations, but also make the spacecraft face the momentum that needs to be faced when decelerating.

Lin Ju remembered the stellar-class battleship in "The Three-Body Problem", its tail flame was as bright as a star when the engine was started in the solar system, and if it was in low earth orbit, there would be an extra round of small suns during the day.

What kind of powerful engine must it be to present such a grand scene?

"What do you want Kobayashi? I'll go rest for a while, I'm old, but I don't move like you young people. ”

Lin Ju: "Elder She, where is the EAST in our country?" ”

“EAST？ I don't know much about that, but I met with people from Hefei two months ago and said something.

In any case, EAST is certainly the most leading project in the world, and it is expected to build a commercial fusion reactor by 2050.

Do you want to get a hand in this? Don't blame me for speaking ugly, this thing is at least an order of magnitude higher than the level of nuclear fission technology, it is useless to have money, and it is very difficult for the whole country to do it. ”

Academician She really didn't know much about EAST, but he was curious why Lin Ju asked about this.

Lin Ju: "Do you know Cheng Nankai, isn't he a nuclear expert, he happens to be very good at fusion, and he has some theoretical achievements recently, and if he wants to communicate with his peers, the EAST project team should be able to understand it."

I heard him say that this is a valuable theoretical conjecture, and perhaps EAST has the potential to test it. ”

"This ...... You let him go to the Academy of Sciences, his ability must be fine, I'll say hello to you. ”

……

"We're faster than we thought."

Hu Dong rotated the seat 180 degrees and faced the porthole again.

The seven astronauts have taken turns sleeping for more than ten hours, and the seats have to be rotated 180 degrees during the deceleration in the back section, otherwise the slight backward acceleration will still cause the body to feel uncomfortable and the face will be congested too much.

Now just over 20,000 kilometers from the moon, the journey is 90% complete, and he just passed the Lagrange point before going to sleep.

The Earth has gradually shrunk from a behemoth to occupy the huge front window of the Storm.

The Earth is 49 times the size of the Moon, and when viewed from the Moon, the Earth is 4 times the diameter of the Earth, but it is almost the same from their position.

The moon is not yet visible from the rear camera, and it will take a while for the sun to cross the horizon, but Hu Dong can imagine its general outline.

On more than one occasion, he had observed the moon with an astronomical telescope from the ground and from the space station, a flickering sphere with scars on its surface, mountains higher than Mount Everest, and endless resources waiting to be exploited, desolate but destined to fly.

The earth outside the porthole looks like it has lost its three-dimensional sense at the moment, most of the sphere is hidden in the darkness, and the illuminated half of the sphere is larger than the blue part of the land, which should be the Indian Ocean.

360,000 kilometers above the ground, and the bond with the blue planet has been left for the first time, Hu Dong felt lonely for the first time.

It is a kind of loneliness that comes from the heart, as if you are alone in the middle of the night without seeing your fingers, everything is unknowable, and your mood does not fluctuate.

In the past flight time, the seven people were still interested in chatting at first, but soon fewer and fewer people spoke, and they were immersed in this loneliness except for the necessary instructions, and sometimes it seemed as if they were all alone.

"Beep-·-beep—·-beep—"

The signal prompt woke Hu Dong up from his third loss of consciousness and felt the temperature again.

It was a request for video communication, and he roughly guessed who was connected.

After the other six quickly adjusted their status, he clicked answer.

"Storm crew, this is the capital, and I'm here to say hello to you."

Hu Dong: "Report to the commander-in-chief, the Storm is in good condition, and the mission is ongoing!" ”

Because it was in the process of deceleration, the seven people did not stand up, but the superiors looked at the astronauts in their positions and really felt a calm mood that crossed time and space, and they were closer to space than Tiangong and Shenzhou.

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