Son of the Stars

Chapter 154 Dawn Project

Thirty-two million kilometers away from the earth and 23 million kilometers away from Mars, a huge manned spacecraft is flying quickly and quietly.

Although it is said to be a spaceship, in fact, from the appearance point of view, the appearance of Shuguang 7 is closer to the traditional impression of a space station. There is less need to consider air resistance in space, and the huge volume helps to set up large solar sails to provide more acceleration for the entire spacecraft.

At the same time, the huge size is also a key factor for astronauts to survive 32 million kilometers away from the earth. Its cabin is a full 22 meters in diameter, and the total volume of the six front and rear cabins is as high as 79,800 cubic meters.

If all the cabins of Shuguang 7 are used to hold water, Shuguang 7 can hold nearly all the water in 32 standard Olympic swimming pools without considering the huge mass and directly breaking through the warehouse wall. The cabin size of 22 meters in diameter and 32 meters in length has far exceeded the limit of human low-Earth orbit launch capabilities. In order to complete the manufacturing, the engineers of the space agency used their imagination to build a Dawn Project assembly space station in geostationary orbit. Materials are sent up from low-Earth orbit, and assembly robots weld in orbit day and night.

In order to promote the Dawn Project, the space agency specially set up a number of cameras on the assembly space station to broadcast the welding process live 24 hours a day without any blind spots. As a result, no one watched the live broadcast for more than half a month - but suddenly a group of unlucky people with epilepsy suddenly appeared in various places.

After Shuguang 27 left the Earth's orbit, the space station temporarily entered a dormant state. The originally bulging inflatable truss structure has now been deflated. The -meter-long assembly plant is now compressed to a size of cubic meters, and continues to hang on the stationary orbit, shining brightly.

Letting eight people live on the huge Dawn manned landing ship may seem wasteful, but it is actually a forced compromise. When the launch plan was finalized, the coalition government and the academic committee were still trying their best to carry out archaeological excavation-style scientific and technological rescue. It turned out that it was not easy to preserve the research results of various countries and institutions.

The coalition government itself does not have the ability or resources to study the "human hibernation system". This means that during the more than two years of flight, the astronauts in the spacecraft were in a conscious state. They have to eat, drink, sleep, and spend a lot of time passing the experience.

They are like prisoners in a prison. Once they leave the prison, they will die. In order to keep the astronauts in a better mental state for more than a year... Dawn 7 specially designed such a large space.

With 72 cubic meters of air fully circulated, even if the carbon dioxide capture system fails, it can last for at least 24 hours. The redundant carbon dioxide capture system equipped in the cabin can be activated and deployed in about hours.

Space can not only ensure that the eight astronauts do not go crazy during the flight, but also ensure that their lives are adequately protected.

"Commander, the time has come." In the command module of Dawn 7, the flight engineer floated into the connection port and said, "I will take over - you go and rest."

The commander is a young and middle-aged woman who looks very reliable. She turned her head from the driver's seat to look at the engineer, smiled and asked, "How did you sleep?"

The engineer brought his left arm to his chest and showed the monitoring watch on his wrist to the commander station. "I feel like I slept well, but the system score said it was only 45 points - a full score of 120."

The commander unbuckled his seat belt and asked after watching the engineer take his seat, "Why don't you try sleeping pills? You wake up seven or eight times this time. It's okay for a day or two, but you won't be able to handle it after a long time." "

"Sister Yan, I feel pretty good anyway." The engineer said with two huge panda eyes, "I really can't sleep well in the cabin. I slept for five minutes when I got out of the cabin last time. The effect was amazing. !”

"You have the nerve to say that." Zheng Yan rolled her eyes at him, "You can still sleep after being out of the cabin and floating in outer space! Half of Field's body was in the spacesuit at that time. If you snore even half a minute later, he will be in emergency Do you know that you have left the cabin?"

Nakamura Takuya said with a smile, "The bureau's instructions are clear. Space walking is now considered a health care project - just take a nap, it won't be a problem."

Zheng Yan slapped Nakamura on the head, and with his deductive cry of "It hurts!" Zheng Yan slowly floated towards the living cabin.

There were two people in the living cabin - co-pilot Stephen and payload expert Jin Yuzhe. The two of them were floating in the middle of the living cabin, floating cross-legged in mid-air. One was holding a black hand and the other was holding a white hand, playing chess across a chessboard that was also floating in mid-air.

This set of chessboards was made by the astronauts, and the chess pieces on it are also very crude - but in the words of these two people, playing chess like this feels "extremely high", and there is a feeling that you can even go to the avenue and wipe it out.     When I listen to them speak, I don't feel "strong" at all.

"Double live three, where else can you go?" Jin Yuzhe said triumphantly, "I won again, it's really boring!"

The co-pilot Stephen frowned and looked at the chessboard again and again, and then he suddenly realized, "The position of your chess piece is crooked! It should be at the bottom!"

Seeing that his ploy was exposed, Jin Yuzhe could only throw up his hands and admit defeat, "Hey Gu, why did you, a foreign devil, suddenly become smarter?"

Stephen wasn't angry either. He happily took out the pulled plastic string from his pocket, dipped it in saliva and put it on Jin Yuzhe's face, "I found out that you were cheating, so I'm going to stick four more strings!"

When Zheng Yan was flying over at low altitude, she couldn't bear to see such a scene. She suppressed a smile and asked Jin Yuzhe, "If you succeed in cheating, Stephen will have one extra sliver on his face. If you are caught cheating, you will have five more slivers on your face at once - Stephen will let you succeed twice every time." times, and then suddenly 'discovered' that you were cheating..." She couldn't hold it in any longer, and simply asked with a smile, "Now do the math, who will suffer the loss?"

Stephen looked at Zheng Yan and protested very solemnly, "Commander, you can't reveal my trump card. The only honest person left in our crew is Jin Yuzhe. If you reveal my trump card, I Who are you going to lie to next?"

Jin Yuzhe listened clearly and said "Hey" for a long time, and finally replaced "古" with "西". "Foreign devils have no good intentions, I won't play anymore!"

"If you don't want to play, don't play." Stephen put away the homemade chessboard. He glanced at his watch and then said to Zheng Yan, "Commander, it's time for you to take your medicine."

"Well, I'm going to eat now." Zheng Yan also looked at the time and found that there were still a few minutes until the reminder time she set. "Is your cough feeling better? How about eating something together?"

"Then let's go together." Stephen nodded, and he followed Zheng Yan towards the material warehouse. "The synthesis machine reported an error two hours ago. It seems that the nitrogen cycle has reached the warning line."

Jin Yuzhe, who was floating behind the two of them, shouted, "I'm already dealing with the nitrogen cycle, and it's expected to return to normal in eight hours - you can just use the synthesizer normally, don't worry too much!"

The layout of the supply cabin is somewhat similar to the space capsule in traditional science fiction works. This cabin is significantly smaller than the other cabins, and the walls are neater and cleaner. Zheng Yan and Stephen floated into the supply cabin and entered dosage instructions into the synthesis machine.

About three minutes later, the synthesizer spit out a piece of pink tacrolimus. After another fifteen seconds, the synthesizer poured out a small glass of clear liquid—ambroxol in it.

The two took medicine together and said goodbye in the supplies warehouse. Stephen planned to go to the living cabin to read a book, while Zheng Yan was going to sleep in the rest cabin.

"If you go to bed now, remember to set an alarm." Stephen said to Zheng Yan before leaving. "When we enter the quiet zone in four hours, we can make up for two extra-vehicular activities. Just for you and Valentina Fill."

　This chapter is an update to achieve "resumption of updates in December". The official recovery will have to wait.

　　The borderline of justice is almost halfway there! It’s just a bit difficult to write...I’ll try to get it done as soon as possible. Please wait for me!

　　

　

(End of this chapter)