The manned spacecraft of the Dragon Kingdom is currently in a state of no mission.

But want to solve their current dilemma.

It doesn't always work out.

The crux of the matter is that the interface standards on both sides are different.

The core module technology of the International Space Station, developed by Eagle Sauce.

In particular, the current node module-1 adopts their technical standards.

The Dragon Country Space Station is completely self-contained.

The two sides are not common in standard design.

"Their manned spacecraft is not compatible with your node module."

"How are you going to get their spacecraft connected to our space station?"

In an instant, the person in charge of Mao Zi discovered the unreliability of the other party's plan.

The standards of the interfaces are different, and it is not such an easy thing to solve.

Their spacecraft can't be docked directly in the core section when docked.

That's why.

To do this, they even launched a special docking module.

It is used to dock manned and cargo spacecraft.

"On the core module, there are spare connection ports, which can be used universally."

The NASA administrator said with a not very good-looking face.

The alternate universal interface is actually several ropes that can be rigidly attached.

I didn't want it to do anything.

But this is when it can do something unexpected.

"The spacecraft is not a problem with connectivity, but it can only provide power, not transport people and supplies."

Rigidly attached ropes are only able to provide a certain amount of power.

Because there is no direct connection between the cabins.

It is impossible to transfer people and supplies.

"Okay, then there's only one question left for now."

Since the other party said that there was no problem, the person in charge of Maozi spread his hands and said;

"How do you get the Dragon Kingdom to agree to use their manned spacecraft?"

Although, in accordance with the principle of international cooperation of the Outer Space Treaty, the signatories should cooperate and assist each other in their space activities.

In practice, however, this is limited by the relationship between countries.

Now, they want their families to use their own manned spacecraft to save the International Space Station that once rejected them.

The person in charge of Maozi already felt a strong sense of irony.

Of course, it was a lot of fun for him.

So he hugged his arms and started watching the play on the side.

"On this point, we will find a way to discuss it with the people of the Dragon Kingdom."

With a fluttering word, the NASA administrator ended the emergency meeting.

At this time, it was evening in the Dragon Kingdom.

"Today's mission objectives have been fully accomplished."

In the ground flight control center of the northern capital, the mission of the day was announced.

The rotation time of day and night on the space station is much faster than on the ground.

In less than an hour, they were able to fly around the Earth.

As a result, the biological clock that humans have evolved over tens of millions of years has completely failed.

They can only rely on ground time to make their own schedules.

After six o'clock, their day's work was finished.

After a light dinner, the trio went into after-dinner workout fun time.

During this time, they need to do a certain amount of physical exercise.

In order to ensure that there are no problems with your body after returning to Earth.

There have been lessons to be learned from this in history.

Astronauts in the early days of human history, after a long period of work in space.

After returning to the ground, it was difficult to even stand.

This is due to the fact that living in a zero-gravity environment for a long time causes the body to experience symptoms such as muscle atrophy and osteoporosis.

Therefore, now the space station.

Whether it's the International Space Station, or the Tiangong Space Station of the Dragon Country.

They all have a certain amount of fitness equipment to keep the astronauts muscular and skeletal healthy.

Jing Haipeng works out on a small treadmill.

The special magnetic running shoes allow him to run without floating too far away from the treadmill.

Liu Wang used an elastic band to exercise his arms.

The zero-gravity environment inside the space station renders traditional dumbbells useless.

You can only exercise with these specially made equipment.

Liu Yang was watching a movie.

This time the space mission was very long.

Taking into account the spiritual needs of the astronauts, a large amount of audio-visual entertainment was prepared for them.

Including hundreds of classic film and television dramas, and thousands of songs.

These are all chosen by the astronauts themselves before they go to space.

In addition to the entertainment, each of them has 10 minutes a day to talk to their families.

Compared to the International Space Station, which is now on the verge of a headache.

At this time, there was a calm scene in the Tiangong space station.

Several people are doing their own things, at most in their free time from exercising or watching dramas, chatting for a sentence or two.

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"What?"

"We want to use our manned spacecraft?"

In the flight control center, Zhang Xingyang, as the deputy commander-in-chief, was a little surprised.

"Can't they launch another one themselves?"

"Too late?"

"Okay, I got it."

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Xingyang propped his arms and elbows on the command platform, thinking about what to do about this matter.

In the phone call just now, he was told about the situation of the International Space Station in front of him.

If it is not possible to successfully complete the orbit lifting operation within 10 hours.

Then this space station, which carries the efforts of countless people, will crash.

Moreover, several astronauts on the space station were also killed.

Ten hours, no matter which country.

There is no guarantee that they will be able to successfully complete a series of tasks such as spacecraft assembly and rocket launch.

These work normally take days to complete.

Ten hours.

It's really impossible.

As for these astronauts, they really don't deserve to die.

In line with the principle of saving astronauts in the Outer Space Treaty.

They do have an obligation to save the lives of these astronauts.

But this thing is not so easy to do.

It's just communication and coordination between the two sides.

It's not an easy thing to solve.

"We've got a lot of trouble going into it."

After thinking for a while, Zhang Xingyang first announced the matter to the personnel in the ground flight control center.

"There are certain problems with the ISS.

Their orbital altitude is rapidly decreasing, and now it's time for us to save them!

Now the only people in the whole world who can save them are our people! ”

After announcing this to the ground personnel.

After arranging a few people, I was ready to dock with NASA.

Zhang Xingyang began to communicate with the astronauts in the Tiangong space station non-stop.

"There are problems with the ISS, and it is quite possible that our manned spacecraft will need to be used."

Zhang Xingyang said very seriously:

"At the moment our manual control docking technology has not been proven, so this time I will not let you manually operate the ship.

They still carried out their tasks according to the predetermined plan.

No matter what, we're not going to let anything happen to you.

We've got your back! ”

The reason why Zhang Xingyang said this.

It's because of the plan proposed by NASA.

I want the astronauts of the Tiangong space station to manually pilot the manned spacecraft and dock with their space station.

The reason for this is that manual docking is more accurate.

was rejected by Zhang Xingyang on the spot!

Not to mention that their manual docking technology has not been proven at the moment.

Even if it was verified, he wouldn't agree.

Manned spacecraft in this case is very risky.

He couldn't let his own people take that risk.

On the spot, he said: "Either let the spaceship dock automatically, or don't use our spaceship!" ”

Now it's NASA begging itself not to get used to their stinky problems!

Moreover, the relationship between the two parties is still competitive to a large extent.

Saving them is all for the sake of saving astronauts.

Otherwise, Zhang Xingyang would definitely watch their space station crash into the atmosphere.

Not to mention a few people, but hundreds of thousands.

In the midst of the later wars.

A war of annihilation in space will kill and wound tens of thousands of people.

That's what a person is.

But now is not the war years, after all.

For the sake of international image, Zhang Xingyang still restrained his desire to see them lively.

Begin to find a way to save these humans who have nothing to do with you.

This does not mean that he can tolerate the other party's desire to give as much as he wants.

After less than an hour of intense meetings.

Zhang Xingyang successfully seized the command of this mission from the white man opposite.

They even got a whole bunch of real-time data transmissions from the space station.

This is also to allow the manned spacecraft to successfully complete the docking when the time comes.

No data, direct docking.

That's a disaster.

And it is impossible for Zhang Xingyang to let the other party get control of the manned spacecraft.

Anyway, the current dominance is in their own hands.

They don't have any options to choose from other than the Dragon Kingdom.

No one can complete a rocket that loads a spaceship and launches it.

Now all they can ask for is the manned spacecraft of the Dragon Kingdom.

After the end of the meeting.

Zhang Xingyang said to the staff in the ground flight control center:

"It's a test and an opportunity for us."

"Whether our automatic docking technology can play a stronger role depends on this time."

NASA has sent them a lot of data.

Including the position information, speed information, attitude information and so on of the International Space Station.

Every piece of information is detailed.

It is impossible not to go into detail, unless NASA deliberately wants to let their people die.

However, Zhang Xingyang believes that this is unlikely.

Because these people are really dead, the negative impact on them is even greater!

The Beidu flight control center quickly got busy.

All the personnel who had already left work were also recalled.

Start working overnight.

The ground-based flight control center began to command manned spacecraft through space communication satellites.

The manned spacecraft began to carry out autonomous detachment.

The three astronauts inside the space station all stood in front of the porthole and watched the manned spacecraft gradually moving away from the spacecraft.

"I don't know, can they save a few people on the ISS?"

"I believe that they have their own natural appearance and should be able to survive."

"It's time, get ready to rest."

They have a clear schedule, and it's bedtime now.

Several of them got into their sleeping bags hanging from the bulkheads.

At this time, the construction of the space station has not yet been completed, and they do not have a special sleeping module.

Every time you go to bed, you have to sleep in a sleeping bag fixed to the wall.

Otherwise, it's easy to drift around in the cabin while sleeping.

Just as they fell asleep.

In the ground flight control center, everyone was busy.

This time, their task is unprecedentedly arduous.

The main reason is that they are not familiar with the target parameters of docking.

Although NASA has tried its best to transmit all kinds of data in real time.

However, there are still some delays and errors.

"We need to keep the relative velocity of the ship at zero, that's the most important thing!"

Zhang Xingyang said after reading the connection plan given by the other party.

As for the relative distance requirements, it is not so high.

Between 0.2 meters and 2 meters, they can meet their docking requirements.

Manned spacecraft, under the operation of the flight control center.

Soon it entered a huge elliptical orbit.

The highest point is 300 km, and the lowest point is 180 km.

After that, the ship will cut into a near-circular orbit at its lowest point.

Keep up with the International Space Station.

"Watch the slowdown!"

Zhang Xingyang looked at a series of data on the big screen while directing the operators to control the spacecraft's propulsion system.

The speed of the manned spacecraft is high.

In order to rendezvous with the ISS as soon as possible.

Manned spacecraft have begun to use valuable fuel that was originally intended for return to Earth.

After this mission, this manned spacecraft will definitely be unusable.

When the time comes, another manned spacecraft will be launched.

All of these additional expenses will be covered by the ISS project team.

In this matter, Zhang Xingyang was not polite to them.

Directly threw an incomparably huge number for the other party to accept.

This money is almost the expenditure of the International Space Station project for a whole year.

But at this time, they can't help it.

can only accept Zhang Xingyang's conditions.

This is also one of the prerequisites of rescue.

After less than two hours of changing tracks.

The Shenzhou manned spacecraft finally reached the orbit of the International Space Station and began to slow down in preparation for the rendezvous.

In space, deceleration can only be achieved by thrust reversers.

It also consumes a lot of fuel.

But no one cares about it at this time.

Everyone wants to be able to dock with the International Space Station as soon as possible.

Their time is running out, less than 6 hours left.

These 6 hours, if you can't successfully raise the orbit altitude.

That's really, you can only fall into the atmosphere.

Fortunately, the thrust system of the manned spacecraft is not bad.

The accuracy is also high enough.

Even in the case of data latency.

After two adjustments, the flight speed is in line with that of the International Space Station.

Then slowly approached less than half a meter from the International Space Station.

Next comes the most important step.

Astronauts on the International Space Station need to do a spacewalk.

Rigidly connected ropes are attached to the space station and the manned spacecraft.

(End of chapter)