This star is going to the moon

Chapter 341 The Possibility of a Ninety-Year-Old Going to Space; Filming Begins for the TV Series "Meritorious Service"

August 28th.

Even though it's been a few days since Lu Yun proposed in space, he and An Fangfei are still trending on Weibo every day.

As a platform for information explosion in the era of information explosion, it's quite impressive that Lu Yun and An Fangfei can stay on Weibo's trending topics for several days in a row.

However, today, the people from Xiao Rizi's side topped the Weibo trending list.

Because its Prime Minister Shinzo Abe decided to resign from his post to avoid the impact on national affairs due to the worsening of his old illness, he will continue to serve until a new prime minister is elected.

Upon seeing this news, Chinese netizens became interested.

[Oh, is Jin San-san about to die?]

It's hard to say; it depends on what illness he has. If it's cancer, then he probably won't live much longer.

So what exactly is this disease, and is there a risk of it being cured?

I remember he resigned once back in 2007 due to a worsening of his ulcerative colitis. This time, he says his old illness has worsened, so it's probably the same disease.

Oh, it's just an ulcer and inflammation? I thought it was cancer.

Indeed, it doesn't look too serious. What a disappointment.

[As expected, "good people don't live long, but bad people live a thousand years." With Xiao Rizi's superb medical skills, plus this guy's status, he might be cured soon.]

That's such a shame, why didn't a single brave soul come and give him a taste of his own medicine?

[Stop joking, he's the Prime Minister. Even former Prime Ministers have very tight security. How could an ordinary person have that opportunity?]

[Of course there was a chance! Didn't someone in the US have a really brilliant idea back then?]

That's from a bygone era. These days, security for important figures has learned a lot from that guy; there's no chance of pulling off a sneak attack like that anymore…

Hard to say.

After seeing this news, Lu Yun had to use a lot of willpower to avoid leaving a single "happy" comment.

Lu Yun, who has just returned from space, is not busy with aerospace matters for the time being, because in a few days he will be joining the production team of "Meritorious Service", which is also a national mission that needs to be taken seriously.

He started preparing relatively late, only a few days ago, while the other "veteran" actors had been preparing for over a month.

Fortunately, Rowoon plays an aerospace engineer, whose lines contain a lot of professional aerospace terminology, as well as Russian lines. The actor also needs to learn from real aerospace engineers to ensure that his performance is convincing.

If other actors were to play this role, even a month or so might not be enough, but for Lu Yun...

With professional aerospace terminology, Russian dialogue, and the acting style of an aerospace engineer, Lu Yun even needs to tone down his performance a bit.

After all, things were much more serious back then than they are now.

The remaining ordinary lines are what he needs to memorize.

So he had plenty of free time to surf the internet, and that's when he saw Shinzo's news.

Lu Yun didn't dare to make any rash moves, fearing that he might affect Xiao Ri's life and ultimately prevent Jin San Sang from "laughing heartily" in this life.

If he really dies now, he will become a sinner in history.

Therefore, Lu Yun didn't care about his daily life at all; all he cared about was the Tianwen-1 probe, which had already flown 100 million kilometers away from Earth.

After all, the academician Sun he is about to portray is one of the pioneers of China's artificial satellite technology, satellite navigation technology, and deep space exploration technology.

On the last day of August, Lu Yun made a special trip to see Academician Sun.

The crew needed to coordinate with many parties to meet someone, but Lu Yun went directly to register and met him. He wanted to ask Academician Sun for advice on "how to play Academician Sun".

The two had a very pleasant conversation. Academician Sun not only talked about his youth but also discussed the future development of deep space exploration with Lu Yun. The only regret was that Academician Sun sighed, "Alas, I'm just too old. I'm watching your space shuttle design become manned, and a new era of manned spaceflight is dawning, but my body won't allow me to actually go to space."

"I've spent my whole life studying space, and now I'm leaving with this regret."

"It's Xiao Ye who's lucky in this life to have such a good student like you..."

Upon hearing Academician Sun say this, the people accompanying him fell silent, unsure of what to say for a moment.

After all, Academician Sun is 91 years old this year, which is indeed too old. The "Little Ye" he mentioned is Ye Jianfei, who is 75 years old and just went to space.

Lu Yun stroked his chin and asked, "Mr. Sun, I'd like to know if you've traveled by plane in the last two years?"

"Yes, I have. I even flew there for a meeting last year."

Academician Sun said with a smile, "Although going to space is not an option, flying within the atmosphere is still possible. After all, modern commercial airliners are much more comfortable than the planes we had back then."

Upon hearing this, Lu Yun clapped his hands and said, "That's right, Mr. Sun. If you can travel by plane, then you can most likely take the Muyuan to space, because its travel experience is designed to be comparable to that of a commercial airliner."

"!"

Everyone was shocked!

Academician Sun was also startled, but his eyes quickly lit up.

He looked at Lu Yun seriously and said, "Really?"

Lu Yun nodded, but added, "However, you need to carefully check your physical condition to be sure, after all, there is a fundamental difference between a space shuttle and a commercial airliner, and there will still be considerable turbulence when passing through the atmosphere."

"And as you mentioned before, you fainted at work many times due to overwork when you were young. I'm worried that you might have some kind of 'internal injury'."

Academician Sun was stunned for a moment upon hearing this.

I thought to myself, "If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have said anything!"
But it's good to have hope.

He never imagined that he would have the opportunity to go to space at the age of 91!

This... truly marks the arrival of a new era of manned spaceflight.

so good!
Filming for "Meritorious Service" began on September 1st.

The main actors from each unit gathered in Beijing for the opening ceremony, and then went their separate ways to film their own projects.

This is why "Meritorious Service" was filmed so quickly, because the eight units were filmed separately and simultaneously, and each unit was six episodes long.

Because it is a national mission, not only are the leading actors, who are all accomplished actors, so are the supporting actors in each segment.

On Lu Yun's side, his colleague is Wang Zijian, the host of "Tonight's 80s Talk Show".

In addition, there is Liu Yijun, who plays Mr. Qian, and Liu Jin, a special-type actor who plays President Zhou.

Then Lin Yongjian, who played his leader in "The Three-Body Problem", also plays his leader here, playing Marshal Nie.

In this way, despite not having many appearances, An Fangfei, who played Lu Yun's wife, has earned the title of "powerful actress".

"Haha, Lu Yun, we're partners again!"

Lin Yongjian said with a smile, "When I was acting in a science fiction drama, I was very confident with you as the scientist. Now that I'm acting in a space drama, I'm even more confident with you as the space scientist!"

"And Fangfei, you're playing Lu Yun's wife in a TV series again. When are you two really getting married?"

Upon hearing this, An Fangfei laughed: "My family just asked about it a few days ago, and I didn't expect you to ask about it now, Teacher Lin."

"But it will be soon indeed. Teacher Lin must come then..."

(End of this chapter)