After a delay of nearly ten hours due to medical examinations, Zhang Xingyang finally boarded the helicopter to the manufacturing base.

It was late at night, but the rocket manufacturing base was still brightly lit.

The engineers at the base are conducting a final inspection of the rocket body and various parts that will be packed and shipped.

Ensure that the rocket leaves the factory without any problems.

"The first-stage rocket has now been inspected and is ready to be loaded and transported."

Geng Bo earnestly reported on the progress of the current rocket inspection.

"The second-stage rocket and the escape tower will take about four hours to complete."

The electronic equipment and safety equipment used in the second-stage rocket and escape tower are very complex, and these equipment are not only related to the scientific research mission of the manned spacecraft in space, but also directly related to the life safety of astronauts.

There is no room for the slightest sloppiness and carelessness.

So even if Geng Bo verbally said that the inspection was completed, there was no problem with the rocket.

But Zhang Xingyang still carefully checked the rocket factory inspection report signed by multiple engineers.

The current production responsibility system in the manufacturing base will be strictly accountable if there is a problem with the parts you are responsible for producing or inspecting.

In serious cases, you may even go to jail.

Zhang Xingyang carefully checked the test report, and there was no problem from the above data.

It is already possible for the factory inspection to be able to do this.

And in fact, after the assembly of the rocket is completed at the assembly plant of the Jiuquan launch center, it will undergo a more rigorous inspection.

At that time, even the pin of an attitude control chip on the rocket will be tested for normality.

"It's not a big problem right now."

Zhang Xingyang closed the thick dozen reports in his hand and said to Geng Bo.

In front of the two men was a first-stage rocket that was slowly making a transfer.

Although the rocket can reach speeds of tens of Mach when launched, it is slow to transport on land.

For example, now, a first-stage rocket with a length of nearly 50 meters and a weight of nearly 100 tons without refueling is lying on a transfer cart with a huge chassis and can only move at a speed of about five kilometers per hour.

From the first stage of the rocket leaving the assembly plant to transporting it to a special train, although it is only less than eight kilometers away.

But just such a little distance, the transfer cart also traveled for nearly two hours.

And there is a large team of engineers throughout the whole process to carry out support work next to the rocket transporter.

As soon as any problems arise with the rocket on its way to transport, they are able to deal with it in a timely manner.

This time, the rocket launch site was deep inland, which was different from the seaside launch base they were familiar with before.

It is not possible to carry out overall transportation by sea with a large transportation capacity.

Therefore, the engineers worked hard for this transportation work, and strived to ensure that the rocket did not have any problems during transportation.

Fortunately, there were no surprises during the two-hour transfer.

The huge first-stage rocket, still at the scheduled time, arrived at the platform that was waiting for it.

The railway station itself was set up as a rocket manufacturing base, and there is no passenger service in normal times.

And this time, in order to ensure that there would be no accidents in the process of transportation, in the process of loading the first-stage rocket, all places were searched within a kilometer of the railway station.

"Geng Bo, the escort of the first-stage rocket will be handed over to you!"

After a few hours, the first stage of the rocket finally completed the task of loading it onto the train and completed the installation work to prevent tumbling during transportation.

At the same time, in order to ensure the safety of rocket transportation, Geng Bo will take this train as the person in charge.

Before the train departed, Zhang Xingyang told Geng Bo very seriously in advance:

"If you encounter any problems that cannot be solved, remember to ensure the safety of the rocket first, everything else is secondary, call me if there is a problem."

Although the probability of problems in train transportation is extremely low compared to other modes of transportation, Zhang Xingyang is still not very assured.

After all, the probability of any accident is not zero.

The first is natural disasters, such as flash floods and mudslides.

The second scenario is a train collision.

Flash floods and mudslides are relatively easy to deal with, and it is difficult to directly cause damage to the rockets on the train, and the biggest danger is that the train may be blocked.

Train collision accidents are much more troublesome, not only can cause casualties, but also can cause damage to rockets under the huge impact force.

However, even if Zhang Xingyang was worried, the train carrying the rocket still set off at the scheduled time.

From the manufacturing base to the Jiuquan launch center, it almost crosses a small half of the country.

Even if this trip is a special train, it will hardly stop on the way, except for the necessary work of adding water and sand.

But most of today's trains will not exceed 140KM/h, and for the safety of transportation, the maximum speed of this train will not exceed 100KM/h.

Therefore, it takes at least 35 hours to transport to the Jiuquan launch center.

Zhang Xingyang is responsible for the more complex parts of the two-stage rocket and the escape tower.

These two parts will be transported by road due to the sensitivity of the parts.

The whole journey is more than 4,000 kilometers!

The length of the second-stage rocket is less than twenty meters, and although it is also a behemoth, it is a small guy compared to the first-stage rocket, which is almost twice as long.

The extra-long rocket delivery truck can be parked directly at the door of the factory building of the manufacturing base.

A large crane with a capacity of 120 tons was then lifted to slowly lift the two-stage rocket onto the truck.

The rocket is firmly fixed inside the compartment by means of special tenons and fixing bolts.

After completing the outermost camouflage with the ancestral three-color plastic sheeting, the unremarkable-looking rocket transporter, even a little dirty, was loaded.

As for the escape tower, it is even more convenient to transport, because it is the smallest in the area, less than five meters, and can fit even an ordinary truck.

By the time the sun was on the third pole, the two important components of the rocket had all completed the preparations before transportation.

This transport is very important, so there are two jeeps in front of and behind the transporter that are responsible for road opening and safety work.

In case of any special situation, they will come down to guard the rocket transporter.

But they don't have any special situations.

After all, at the front of the convoy, there will be two police cars with flashing lights to coordinate traffic.

The 4,000 km road transport takes far more than the 35 hours required for rail transport.

Although each car is equipped with three drivers, one can not rest and the car cannot but run all the way up to 4,000 kilometers.

So in the end, the convoy led by Zhang Xingyang was almost 28 hours later than Geng Bo by rail.

It took almost three days and three nights on the road to finally reach the destination.

"Thank you for your hard work!"

Now the commander-in-chief in charge of the Shenzhou-3 manned project is Zhao Tianming.

After Zhang Xingyang escorted the two-stage rocket and the escape tower to the Jiuquan Launch Center assembly plant, he waited at the assembly plant as soon as possible.

"Nothing hard, Commander Zhao."

After Zhang Xingyang got out of the car, although he felt a little unwell, he didn't say much.

In this year, the construction of highways has not yet begun on a large scale.

In many places, there are only asphalt roads to walk, but because there are so many vehicles walking, there are potholes on these asphalt roads.

When walking this path, you can feel the bumps almost all the time.

Even Zhang Xingyang, who has always had good physical fitness, felt a wave of nausea and wanted to vomit.

However, fortunately, the last section of the road leading to the Jiuquan launch base was repaired well, which eased the people in the convoy a lot.

Otherwise, Zhao Tianming would be able to see the scene of everyone who arrived at the first time, collectively jumping out of the car and vomiting.

"The two-stage rocket has already begun to work vertically."

Zhao Tianming is obviously also a straightforward person, and he didn't talk too much about Zhang Xingyang, who had just gotten out of the car, and directly talked about the work of rocket assembly.

In the process of transporting the rocket, it is all flat for transportation, so when the final assembly is carried out, the first thing is to erect the rocket that was originally flattened.

Coming to the rocket plant, the first-stage rocket, which is more than 40 meters high, has completed the vertical work.

Now the engineers of the final assembly plant are conducting a preliminary inspection of the first-stage rocket.

Look at the first stage of the rocket, whether there are any problems in the process of transportation.

"Now that the first-stage rocket has completed the vertical work, let's also hurry up and check the second-stage rocket!"

After a few minutes of relaxation, Zhang Xingyang felt that he had come out of his uncomfortable state, so he couldn't wait to get to work.

"Doesn't Dean Zhang need to rest?"

Zhao Tianming looked at Zhang Xingyang, who seemed to be very full of energy, and said.

"I don't have to rest."

After Zhang Xingyang finished speaking, he seemed to think of something, and looked at the others behind him who were not in a very good state:

"But they should need a day off, please ask Commander-in-Chief Zhao to arrange it."

Not everyone has the same energy as Zhang Xingyang, especially the on-board engineers who work almost three shifts, although in transportation engineering, there is no situation that requires them to work at high intensity.

However, they are still in the process of transportation, always vigilant, which also leads to a lot of energy loss.

Now many people are crumbling.

Zhao Tianming: They had also expected such a situation for a long time.

This is also the reason why he was so surprised after seeing Zhang Xingyang as if he had nothing to do.

The engineers of the final assembly plant carefully removed the various tenons and fixing bolts used to fix the transporter.

Then, through a crane in the workshop, the second stage rocket is gently unloaded.

The upright operation of the second-stage rocket is simpler than that of the first-stage rocket, which takes several hours, due to the relatively small height.

But it also took two hours of the engineers in the final assembly plant.

However, after the second-stage rocket is erected, it will not be assembled with the first-stage rocket for the first time.

Instead, the final assembly will begin after the initial inspection has been completed.

This is also considered for the follow-up inspection of the rocket.

If you check out the problem after completing the final assembly, it will be much more difficult to solve it because of the height of the rocket.

And now the hoisting has not begun, even if some problems are found, they can be solved in time.

This saves time for follow-up and facilitates inspections.

Just when the engineers were in full swing about their work.

Zhao Tianming found Zhang Xingyang, who looked like Optimus Prime under the rocket.

"It is expected that the final assembly will be completed in three days."

"If everything is fine, then the launch of Shenzhou-3 will be ready to begin in a month."

Zhao Tianming also looked at the Shenzhou 3 manned spacecraft and said with some emotion.

This day, how many years has the domestic astronauts been waiting for, and finally come to this day that is about to be realized!

The people of the Dragon Kingdom are finally going to sit in the spaceship they designed and built and enter the vast space.

This mysterious place, which once belonged only to those developed countries, is finally about to lift its mysterious veil to the hard-working and capable people.

Although they have been facing various suppressions from Eagle Sauce, domestic astronauts have grown up strongly.

"What was the weather like that day, did the weather department make a forecast?"

Zhang Xingyang asked with some concern.

Because the climate is strange this year, it is almost September, but in the Pacific Ocean near the waters of our country, two typhoon embryos have been generated.

Although these two typhoon embryos are unlikely to develop into super typhoons, they may still have a more drastic impact on the subtropical high.

If a large amount of water vapor is indeed transported inland, although it is a good thing for many areas that are relatively dry this year, it is not good news for rocket launches.

"The supercomputer of the meteorological department made a special prediction, and they believe that the two typhoon embryos currently in the Pacific Ocean will be difficult to upgrade to typhoon level."

"But if they continue to move now, it is possible to send a lot of water vapor to the northwest of our country, and they made a special explanation of this with us."

When Zhao Tianming talked about this, he didn't feel particularly optimistic.

Because judging from the current atmospheric situation, it is almost a sure thing that a large amount of water vapor will enter the northwest.

It's just that I don't know how much water vapor can have, so I came to the Jiuquan launch center in the northwest.

Zhao Tianming is still relatively optimistic:

"The Pacific Ocean is far away from us, and even if the water vapor can penetrate inland, it will only reach the Qinling Mountains at most, not us."

Zhang Xingyang is more conservative, after all, in his opinion, as long as there is a chance, then such a situation must be taken into account.

"We'd better be a little more prepared."

At this time, Zhang Xingyang was a little nostalgic for an invention of later generations.

Ultra-long-range microwave transmission technology.

This technology, when first invented, was used to transmit electrical energy generated by space power stations to the ground.

But then it turned out that it had other uses.

Under certain frequency bands, it can change the situation of the atmosphere.

For example, it is possible to adjust the formation of typhoon embryos by microwaves, and upgrade a typhoon that would have been a tropical storm to a super typhoon.

Similarly, a super typhoon can be downgraded to a tropical storm.

After more in-depth research and experimentation, it came to be known by a more well-known name, the Weather Controller! (End of chapter)