Forward.

At an altitude of 540 kilometers above the ground, the massive combination of the Endeavour space station and the two space shuttles is hidden in the shadows of the far side of the Earth, and the small part of it is even more majestic.

Li Sheng, the commander of the space shuttle Storm, is now hovering 100 meters away from the space station, with only a seat belt attached to a centrifugal module of the Advance.

In order to be able to stay here, his spacesuit accidentally hung a jet device.

He's waiting for a perfect sunrise while 11 other astronauts maneuver the shuttle's two robotic arms to install the last service module.

Perhaps because of the last space station installation mission, the two crews this time were extremely enthusiastic about their work, and they completed the installation of a module section and all the trusses of the entire space station ahead of schedule, plus the two space shuttles, and the mass of the combination was close to 1,700 tons.

The ground command center wanted to record this historic moment, and finally decided to install the last "dog" module at sunrise.

"Today is November 5th, it's time to move to a new house, comrades, we will soon be able to live in a brand new space station and take a hot shower comfortably."

"Brother Li, it may take next year for the official operation."

“……”

After the launch of the first two service modules of the Advance, it has begun to supply power to the entire space station, and has steadily output 5MW of power for more than two months, completely solving the "power shortage" of the space station.

The ground also took this opportunity to start testing each module, after all, the earliest modules have been in orbit for nearly a year, and many equipment has not been in space due to lack of power.

After the entire space station is assembled, it will take at least two months or so for the Endeavor to carry out detailed inspection work on the 14 main modules and 19 structural modules before it can consider turning to generate gravity, and may even have to wait until the Spring Festival.

After all, this is a super man-made object that costs hundreds of billions of dollars and has unprecedented size and weight, and it is an irreversible loss in case of an accident during operation.

"Hongbo, if you want to take a bath so much, why don't you sign up to work for United Mining, you will definitely be able to take a bath on the moon, and they can make water, and the bath water does not need to be recycled."

Another somewhat vicissitudes of voice on the radio immediately resonated with others, and while the circulation systems on both the space station and the space shuttle were extremely advanced, the circulating water ...... Even if you are professionally trained to use it, you can't help but feel a little nervous.

The mere fact that there is no need to use recycled water is enough for the astronauts to stay for half the time.

Li Sheng: "You two don't talk, the sun is still a few minutes away, I see that it is a little blocked from this angle, you move the dog cabin a little to the left, I will shine it out more layered." ”

From his point of view, the Advance has shown a complete large ring, and because the layout of the 12 modules is very full, there is no sense of thinness of a traditional space station.

Soon the sun was rising over one side of the horizon, and Li Sheng immediately adjusted the camera and pressed the shutter when the entire front of the space station was almost completely illuminated.

It took dozens of photos before he started to have people recover the safety rope.

His relative position now is the "Mao Rabbit" module in the direction of 6 o'clock in the direction of Advance, which is like a skyscraper standing tall in the sky, with an indescribable sense of inclusion in the dark background of space.

It took four hours to install the "Dog", which basically used up all the work time of the astronauts today.

From now on, the "Forward" is officially completed.

All 12 astronauts eventually entered the space station, 6 remained in the pilot module and the function module, and the other 6 were responsible for a service module and a living module.

At this time, the flight computer of the pilot module finally detected all the bodies, began to self-test the electrical systems of each module, and at the same time connected the power of the six service modules to the grid.

The process also took two hours, and at the same time, a separate computer was used on the ground to carry out an inspection, and all of them passed.

At 6:10 p.m., Li Sheng activated all the equipment of the entire space station.

As a large power consumer, the living cabin facilities were finally able to start at full power, and the decibel level of the background sound rose a little, and it was no longer the absolute silence that was a little frightening before.

The white modules on the laser holographic display all turned green, and Li Sheng gently flicked it with his fingers, and immediately showed the direction of the earth below.

It is an intrasolar system navigation system on board a flying computer that can zoom in and out to display the coordinates of almost any celestial object known to man, but it can only provide precise navigation services between the Earth and the Moon.

"Report to the command center, the advance space station has been assembled and is operating well overall!"

"The command center understands! It's time for a commemorative event! ”

"Yes!"

Li Sheng immediately floated to the "Zi Mouse" cabin with the camera fixed on his chest, and he will take the camera through a circle more than 460 meters long according to the order of the zodiac, and finally return to the starting point, the whole process is expected to take about 5 minutes.

It's a physically demanding process, but it's very rewarding.

In the ground command, Shen Zuozhou looked at Li Sheng, who was striding along the bulkhead, and said regretfully:

"Chairman Lin is not here, otherwise he would definitely say that he will hold a sports meeting in space, at least there is a track and field event."

Big guy: "He is probably thinking about how to arrange for those more than 100 scientists to go to space, do you know how those foreign scientific research institutions and schools reacted when this news leaked out?" ”

"Against? After all, there are so many elite physicists. ”

Big Guy: "No, we have received more applications for membership, and many people want to take the opportunity to go around space, and there are already more than 1,000 applications. ”

Shen Zuozhou: "......"

"Then they're not afraid that something will happen to these scientists? That's a big loss. ”

Big guy: "If it's an applied technology elite, of course they can't get so close to us, but these are people who are very famous and have relatively little practical significance, and they must know that the people who are more afraid of accidents are us."

And you see, Xinyuan is going to spend a lot of money again, Lao She is also at their base now, the Jiuzhang spacecraft has been offline for testing, and the moon plan will usher in explosive growth next year. ”

Shen Zuozhou: "Then we also have to be ready, the nuclear power service module manufactured by Xinyuan has been transported to Qiongzhou, urging our command module." ”

Big guy: "It's not a problem, the new ferry command cabin has been improved a lot, and in the future, we will be able to carry out a lunar mission every four or five days, and if we launch three ships, we can even send a lunar flight every day." ”

Shen Zuozhou: "That's great, can we transport more instruments to build a cosmic observation center on the moon?" ”

(End of chapter)