The King's Science and Technology Space City in Camel China is still undergoing preliminary system construction.

They want to build a complete set of aerospace science and technology and systems.

There is still a long, long way to go.

"Ready to take off?"

At the launch site in the early hours of the morning, the sky was still very dim.

The three astronauts who had just gotten up to finish their personal hygiene work had their last mobilization meeting before liftoff.

"Report to the commander-in-chief, all preparations for takeoff have been completed."

Jing Haipeng, as the commander, reported with a calm face.

Zhang Xingyang nodded, still reassuring to him.

Jing Haipeng, as the oldest one in the crew, is also the most stable one.

What made Zhang Xingyang feel at ease the most.

In fact, she was the only woman in the crew.

Liu Yang.

The space environment doesn't show the slightest pity for you just because you're a woman.

Even, female astronauts will actually have a lot of trouble in space.

Especially in bathing, excretion, personal hygiene, and so on.

But as the first crew to be stationed in the space station in China.

It was still after rounds of discussion that it was decided to have a female astronaut.

From a scientific point of view, this is a great quest for the future of female astronauts to work in space.

In the domestic astronaut training mechanism, there are also many female astronauts selected from female pilots.

So far, there are three women who have completed astronaut training and who are about to complete astronaut training.

That's a lot of money.

And from the point of view of crew matching, there is such a careful and gentle astronaut.

It allows everyone to do a good job.

"Report to the commander-in-chief, I have also made all the preparations."

Compared with the calm and experienced Jing Haipeng, Liu Yang's mentality seems to be slightly worse.

Zhang Xingyang could hear the chaos in her breathing.

As the commander-in-chief of the entire launch mission, of course.

Zhang Xingyang chose to believe her, and he was indeed ready for everything.

"I wish you all a safe return!"

Zhang Xingyang didn't say much flowery rhetoric, just plain blessings.

Among manned space missions, there are no more reassuring words than a safe return.

After a simple breakfast.

The three astronauts who are about to embark on the Shenzhou-6 rocket and go into space held a brief reception.

In the past few years, the number of manned space launch missions in China is relatively large.

Everyone basically doesn't feel new when they see too much of this kind of thing.

But this time, there are some differences.

Their activity space and activity time will be much larger and longer than before.

Photographers from several major media outlets took pictures of the astronauts who were already wearing spacesuits before the podium.

The spotlight is shining non-stop.

Take a picture of the smiling faces of the astronauts before they go to the sky.

After a brief remarks.

The crew of astronauts waved their hands under the gaze of everyone.

Say your final goodbyes to your friends and relatives on Earth.

The position of the three people in the spaceship has been fixed for a long time.

All this, they have been training for years.

You can't go wrong with your eyes closed.

Jing Haipeng sat in the middle as the commander, Liu Yang was on the left, and Liu Wang was on the right.

It took thirty minutes for the trio to complete the preparations before takeoff.

Taking into account the physiological characteristics of the only female astronaut, the spacecraft has added a special clothing spare bag, a special cabin pressure suit, a urine and urine collection device, and a special hygiene kit for women.

It can be said that everything that can be taken into account, has been taken into account.

There's really something I didn't expect, so I'll have to wait for the next cargo ship to replenish.

Carry it up together.

The waiting time for launch is still so difficult.

Especially for the three astronauts who sat quietly inside the spacecraft.

Inside the spaceship, you can almost hear each other's breathing.

Even the psychological quality of astronauts is far beyond that of normal people.

Emotionally stable like an electrocardiogram without any ups and downs.

At this time, there was some nervousness.

After Jing Haipeng saw this, he whispered a few words to everyone.

It can be regarded as barely relieving everyone's mood.

Begin to maintain a steady mood and wait for the moment of rocket launch.

Staying in the small spaceship, it seems that time flies very slowly.

It seems that after more than half a century, the countdown to the launch has finally arrived.

Accompanied by the timing to zero, and the shout of "launch" from the command center.

Before everyone in the spaceship could react.

The surging propulsion came from under the seat.

A securely locked five-point harness secures everyone to their seats.

At this time, they don't have any problems even if they don't wear seat belts.

The huge inertia will press them hard against the chair.

"The rocket launch is more exciting than expected."

Liu Yang said to the other two with a slight smile.

"It's kind of cool!"

Jing Haipeng, who has always been calm and serious, couldn't help but moan slightly.

The high-speed flying rocket stimulates the dopamine secretion of everyone in the spacecraft.

It's a thrilling experience you've never had before.

Although in the training base, I have also experienced this kind of acceleration training I don't know how many times.

But compared to a real rocket launch.

Only then did I realize that the training was still a lot worse.

It is always impossible to achieve the effect of real launches.

During the rocket's ascent, there is really very little that astronauts can do.

All they can do is be inside the ship and so on.

Waiting for the rocket to reach the predetermined altitude.

Staring at the altimeter in the cabin, the three of them fell silent after an initial brief exchange.

The altimeter goes up almost one gear per second.

In just over a hundred seconds, it has risen to the edge of the earth's atmosphere.

At this time, if you look out from the rocket.

You can even see the outline of the Earth's semicircle, as well as the bluish-whitish atmosphere.

The ship experienced its first slight tremors.

With that comes another force.

The astronauts present all knew that the first-stage rocket had been separated and the second-stage rocket had been successfully started.

After getting rid of the first-stage rocket, there will basically be no more major space accidents.

Even if something goes wrong, it can save their lives.

The Tiangong-1 space station has been waiting for them in space for dozens of days.

Since 21 days before the launch of the spacecraft, Tiangong-1 has begun to lower its orbital altitude in preparation for docking with the spacecraft.

After several days of de-orbit operations, Tiangong-1 has entered a near-circular docking orbit at an altitude of about 343 kilometers.

Dozens of minutes after launch, the Shenzhou-6 spacecraft successfully entered the predetermined orbit.

Inside the spaceship, the three of them clearly felt as if the gravity that had bound them for decades was no longer there.

His own spine seems to be easier than ever.

Entering the predetermined orbit is only the first step for the Shen VI spacecraft.

So, after a brief experience of the space environment.

Several people began their respective work.

Liu Yang loosened his seat belt and subconsciously glanced at the earth through the porthole of the spaceship.

From space, the towering mountain seems to be nothing more than a small mound.

The two large rivers that are thousands of meters long are nothing but two small snakes.

In my own mind, after thinking about this, I started my own work.

The first thing you do when you go into space is to raise your orbital altitude.

The Shen-6 spacecraft was in an elliptical orbit at this time.

The perigee altitude is less than 200 km.

I want to complete the docking with the Tiangong-1 space station.

The altitude of the spacecraft must be raised to 343 kilometers where Tiangong-1 is currently located.

That's to say the least, it takes a whole day.

"You're all busy, let's get ready for dinner."

As the leader of the three-person team, seeing that the scheduled time had arrived, Jing Haipeng said.

During the first manned space flight, astronauts could only eat cold meals and self-heating food.

During the second manned spaceflight, they brought a small microwave oven into space.

Finally, I had a hot meal for the first time.

This time, their eating affair escalated again.

Even on cargo ships, there are two small pots.

You can let them finish some simple stir-fries and stews in the space station.

This is a dimensionality reduction blow to the current aerospace food industry!

Eating a hot stir-fry in space is no less than a popsicle on a hot day, or a sip of sweet milk tea in the middle of a winter night.

"We won't have any good food today."

Jing Haipeng floated in the cabin, took out a few bags of self-heating rice and said:

"But it's not bad to have a hot meal."

The spacecraft has not yet docked with the space station, and they are not yet able to cook for themselves.

You can only eat the self-heating rice carried by the ship.

In fact, there are a lot of these things on the spaceship.

That's enough for them to eat three meals a day for 120 days.

And their mission time is only 90 days.

It's just too rich!

Skillfully tying the plate to their laps, several people picked up their self-heating rice and shook it, hoping that it would mix more evenly.

"When we get to the space station, I'll give you a taste of my craft." Liu Wang, who had the least words among the three, said at this time.

In fact, several people can cook.

However, several people did not go into details, and made a very detailed plan for this matter.

The original plan was that you would be one day at a time.

Now, though, it seems that someone wants to show off their hand.

The remaining two are naturally indispensable.

After eating the simple self-heating rice, a few people ate a little bit of dessert.

Mainly all kinds of freeze-dried vegetables and fruits.

It is more difficult for their manned spacecraft to preserve all kinds of fresh vegetables.

However, it is said that a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables can be stored on cargo ships.

After a day of time changing tracks.

The Shen-6 manned spacecraft finally came to the same altitude as Tiangong-1.

When both are located at approximately the same height.

Shenzhou-6 flew in front, and Tiangong-1 flew in the rear.

The two began to complete the automatic docking according to the predetermined procedure.

Taking into account the effect of light on the automatic docking, the entire process is carried out within the sunlight zone.

Because the dimness of light and shadow will affect the accuracy of the optical camera.

In the all-sunny area, there are more clutter in the universe.

For the degree of automatic docking.

It's a big test.

After the automatic rendezvous and docking procedure began, the three people inside the spaceship were again locked in waiting.

As the first docking of the space station and spacecraft in China, the automatic control program is more reliable than that of people.

Only in the second docking experiment will they use manual docking.

to gain some experience.

As time wore on, the three people inside the spaceship barely felt anything.

The docking is already over.

Not even the slightest reaction force was felt!

This is mainly due to the fact that both are floating in the air, and the little force generated by the docking has almost no effect.

After the docking was completed, Shenzhou 6 and Tiangong-1 formed a larger combination.

Astronauts are about to work in Tiangong-1.

And to get in, there are only two gates left in front of them.

After putting on the spacesuits, the three of them lined up like elementary school students.

began to take turns to enter Tiangong No. 1.

Jing Haipeng opened the road in front and was responsible for opening the door.

Liu Wang was at the end of the team and was responsible for closing the two gates.

Of course, the three astronauts did not enter the space station completely empty-handed.

It is still necessary to transfer some of the supplies for life and scientific research from the spacecraft to the space station.

Inside the space station, carbon dioxide purification equipment, microbial control equipment, and life support equipment have been turned on for several hours.

So after a few people entered, the first thing they smelled was the air with a smell of grass and trees.

Liu Yang was a little surprised.

No one has been in for months, but it is still possible to maintain this environment.

It is enough to prove how advanced the air circulation technology of this space station is.

This time, important supplies that were transferred to the space station.

It was a small survey telescope.

This telescope will accompany Tiangong-1 in the form of a companion flight.

This is also a good start for the domestic astronomical industry, which wants to find its own path.

The Sky Survey Telescope can not only reveal many scenes of the interior of galaxies and the deep space of the universe.

It also gives us a better understanding of the planets in our solar system.

Survey telescopes are designed to be expensive, even as expensive as an entire rocket with a manned spacecraft.

This kind of investment in basic areas is very easy to not recover the cost.

Fortunately, Zhang Xingyang came forward and talked to a lot of bigwigs.

It was only then that they agreed to invest in this huge telescope project.

"Oh, I'm exhausted."

After completing the preliminary cargo transfer and sorting, Liu Wang felt that he was sweating a lot.

This sweat is sucked away through a water circulation system on the space station's bulkhead.

Then he took a big sip of water from the water bag to replenish the water.

"Shall we take a group photo?"

Jing Haipeng said after completing his work.

Liu Wang and Liu Yang are also willing to leave their own images.

From a camera on the bulkhead, some parameters were adjusted.

Jing Haipeng hurriedly beckoned the two of them over.

The three of them took a more serious pose.

Smiled and left, the first photo of the interior of the Dragon Country Space Station!

(End of chapter)