This star is going to the moon

Chapter 276: To ensure the customer's "astronaut" experience, a special fire-fighting full-coverage powered suit is required.

Some people may genuinely be ignorant or pretending not to, but the spacesuits worn by the national aerospace team are equipped with many tools; they are essentially work clothes.

Elon Musk's Crew Dragon commercial intravehicular spacesuit has far fewer functions. It only needs to ensure the most basic functions, and the rest is to generate commercial buzz.

Therefore, compared to the seemingly "jingling" national team spacesuits, his commercial version of the spacesuit has a minimalist style, essentially a casual outfit.

Whether something looks good or not is a very subjective matter.

However, to insist on comparing work clothes with many pockets and hooks with minimalist casual wear, and to argue that "whoever has a simpler style looks better," is just asking for trouble.

Even if you insist on saying it looks good, it only looks good in photos. When you actually wear it, it's affected by many other factors.

After all, the seller's photos and the buyer's photos are different.

(Buyer's and seller's photos of the spacesuits inside the Crew Dragon capsule)

Moreover, to be fair, aside from the issue of buyer's show versus seller's show, Elon Musk's minimalist intravehicular activity suit is not very friendly to business travelers.

After all, as wealthy individuals, those who bought tickets in the early stages were those who had a certain interest in aerospace and space.

Some people, besides simply wanting to experience the scenery of space, also want to label themselves as "astronauts".

However, the intravehicular activity suit designed by Elon Musk looks like it's for space tourists. It's not "professional" or "work-related" at all. How can anyone imagine that a space tourist wearing it is an astronaut?

Lu Yun is different. If you're in the service industry, you should do it well. You can't act like you're the customer's father.

So Lu Yun's solution was to combine the official intravehicular activity suit with Lao Ma's minimalist intravehicular activity suit to create a "casual wear with workwear elements".

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"Hey, Lu Yun, your body proportions are amazing! Any clothes you wear look like they're from a professional seller!"

Guo Fan directed the cameramen to keep filming Lu Yun, who was wearing the "Blue Star" intravehicular activity suit. While directing, he praised, "We had the top three students try it on before, and the result was just a slightly better 'buyer's show' when they wore it."

An Fangfei had worn it before, but it looks different on Lu Yun.

Putting aside his body proportions, Lu Yun's demeanor exudes a technological and aerospace vibe, making him the perfect handsome protagonist from a science fiction novel!

So, with stars in her eyes, she proudly declared, "That must be the seller's photo."

"After all, the 'Blue Star' spacesuit was manufactured by Blue Star Aerospace Company, and he, as the boss, was originally the seller."

"Haha, the boss is indeed the best of the best among sellers," Guo Fan said. "While the boss is here, let's shoot a few more close-ups; we'll use them for promotion later in the program."

Guo Fan doesn't overlook any detail when filming, and as soon as he saw Lu Yun wearing this spacesuit, he decided that it had to be used in "The Wandering Earth 2".

The film's production team has now decided that Rowan will play the younger version of "Liu Peiqiang" in "The Wandering Earth 2".

After all, the timeline at the beginning of the second part is when Liu Peiqiang was in his twenties and participated in the astronaut selection, so it is perfectly fine for Liu Peiqiang's son "Liu Qi" to play his father in his twenties. Many films and TV series are based on this approach.

A classic example is Alec Su's version of "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber," in which he played the father "Zhang Cuishan" and the adult son "Zhang Wuji."

The black screen displays the message "X years later," indicating that the child will be an adult.

Wu Jing is now 46 years old, his face is full of wrinkles, and he still needs special effects to change his face when playing a young man in his twenties.

This thing looks small, but it's very expensive because the face swaps done with cheap, low-end technology look very unnatural.

To achieve realistic and detailed face-swapping effects, you need to invest money and time. Money isn't actually a problem; the second installment has ample funding, with Lu Yun, An Fangfei, and Wu Jing all contributing, in addition to other sources.

But the key is time, because Andy Lau also needs to use special effects to make his face look a little younger.

After trying on their spacesuits, Lu Yun and the others went to check on the trainees who were training.

All the trainees were extremely happy to see Lu Yun, but some of them were also relieved at the same time.

After all, they all came with a mission, but they basically never saw their mission targets, so what's the point of doing the mission?

But there was nothing that could be done; Lu Yun was just too busy.

Neil Armstrong Jr. was the most excited because he was currently ranked third in the points. Although it was not yet the end and there were many variables, the chances of him staying on as a commercial astronaut were very high.

Thinking of this, he nudged Simon beside him: "Hey Simon, the assessment is coming up soon. Aren't you nervous? I heard that the intensity of the assessment is not the same as the intensity of the training."

Simon laughed and said, "It's alright, I feel like I can handle it. I'm ranked ninth, which puts me in the top ten."

“Hey, that’s great then,” Armstrong said happily. “I’m closest to you, and I don’t want you to get eliminated…”

Lu Yun didn't stay with the trainees for long. After offering a few words of encouragement, he went to the conference room. However, he didn't have a meeting with An Fangfei and Guo Fan. Instead, he had a meeting with the security personnel disguised as staff members, mainly to listen to their reports.

“That young man named Dong Chen is fine. We even checked all his posts on social media. He did grumble a little during junior high school, influenced by some extracurricular readings, but he was not cynical or yearning for foreign countries. Instead, he chose to work hard.”

“That girl named Lu Xiaotong has a bit of a problem. Her social media posts are somewhat biased, and there are even signs of her ‘awakening’.”

"This little Armstrong can basically be ruled out; he's just a silly kid."

"However, Simon, who is very close to him, is a prime suspect. We've noticed that his friendship with Armstrong seems somewhat deliberate, and we've also observed that he sometimes holds back during training and quizzes, not giving his all, just maintaining a good level, but not particularly outstanding..."

Lu Yun listened to the report carefully, then matched it with his brief impressions of them. Although he had not received special agent skills training, his level 5 physical performance and level 4 vocal lines were not just for show.

With these two skills, he can act well on his own and also distinguish between good and bad acting skills in others.

Some people should think twice before putting on an act in front of him.

At the same time, a forest fire in the mountainous area of ​​Sichuan became a trending topic on Weibo.

Wildfires happen every year, but this year's firefighters were a little different because some people saw a team of unusually tall firefighters.

They were completely covered in flame-retardant and heat-insulating fire suits, which looked very heavy and had obvious metal structures on their limbs.

Despite their seemingly heavy state, they carried firefighting equipment with remarkable agility, and some even pulled electric-assisted two-wheeled carts loaded with other items.

Wow, are firefighters now all the height of basketball players?

[That can't be right, what would firefighters need to be that tall for?]

No, no, no, I don't think it's about height, but rather the metal structures on the limbs. Didn't you guys notice how similar those things are to powered exoskeletons?

I played a near-future shooter game that seemed to have similar equipment, but that game was classified as science fiction.

Speaking of science fiction, quite a few science fiction concepts have actually become reality, so...

(End of this chapter)