Reborn Before the Apocalypse: My Backing is the Nation

Chapter 78 Gravity
The helicopter roared as it landed on Doomsday Seven Base, amidst the familiar, endless mountains.

Standing before the entrance, Jiang Yang gazed at the city lights that were already blazing in the distance under the setting sun, his heart filled with indescribable emotions.

Zhou Yu stood silently beside him.

She now knew the truth, but amidst the complex mix of familiarity on a rational level and a distinct sense of unfamiliarity on an emotional level, she remained somewhat reserved.

Jiang Yang ignored her emotions and just looked at the city in the distance.

At this very moment, national-level wartime mobilization should have already begun.

Beneath the surface of tranquility, peace, and bright lights—a surface identical to every other day—behind places unnoticed by ordinary people, many are surely busy at work...

I only hope that the information I bring will increase the success rate of rockets in this life, and prevent so many outstanding astronauts from dying meaninglessly.

With a soft sigh, Jiang Yang turned and entered the base's passageway.

Continuing to learn and increase my knowledge will allow me to make a more accurate overall judgment about the apocalypse, to notice more details, and to be inspired by experts such as Professor Lu, thus gaining a deeper understanding of the apocalypse.

Countless people are already fighting for the end of the world, and continuing to study is my way of fighting.

……

Night had fallen, but one building was still brightly lit.

In the theater-style conference hall, Professor Li Jiaming slowly began to speak, looking at the experts from all over the country who had come to attend the conference in just a few hours.

"...Based on mission requirements, we need to use purely mechanical methods to achieve the functions of the spacesuit, such as cold resistance and heat preservation, heat dissipation, air circulation, internal pressurization, food and water intake, and waste collection."

I have divided these functions into the following major modules, which are...

All of you here are experts in your respective fields, possessing top-notch professional skills both domestically and internationally.

The ability to gather everyone together in such a short time, unite them in a common goal, and open up all logistical resources requires a level of organization that is unique to our country.

Based on the above conditions, I can responsibly conclude that if even we cannot solve this problem, then it is even less likely that anyone else on this planet can solve it!

Time is tight and the task is heavy, so I won't say much more. Now, everyone must immediately assemble according to their respective fields and submit the design drawings of the fully mechanized spacesuit module for their field to me within 14 hours. I will organize the team to review and coordinate the subsequent assembly.

In 21 hours, the overall design drawings must be delivered to the factory for the first batch of production. The deadline is set and cannot be changed; our task must be completed on time. Meeting adjourned!

At the command, the crowd surged forward and poured into different laboratories.

Professor Li Jiaming lied when faced with this group of experts.

Because he knew that similar situations were also occurring in the other 16 precision machinery, aerospace equipment, laboratories, or research institutes across the country.

A total of 17 teams participated in the development and design of the fully mechanized spacesuit, not just one team from our own.

Each of the 17 teams will submit its design proposal independently and conduct trial production. The selection process will depend on the results, and either the best proposal will be chosen or a completely new proposal will be created by combining the advantages of the 17 different proposals.

……

At the astronaut base, a total of 64 astronauts, both active and not currently on space missions, stood in neat rows, each with a serious expression.

Under a sky full of stars and illuminated by lights, 64 large aircraft were parked quietly.

The instructor's gaze swept across the faces of the 64 astronauts one by one, and he announced loudly, "The first acclimatization training shall now begin!"

"Yes!" The 64 people ran forward simultaneously, boarded the shuttle buses in an orderly manner, and entered the 64 large aircraft.

All the seats inside these planes were removed and, after being modified, turned into a small flat area with some gray-black rock-like objects fixed on it, and a thick layer of dust on the ground.

It's just like the surface of the real moon.

But while the environment can be imitated, gravity cannot be changed.

Earth's gravity has remained constant at 1G, and the human body has adapted to this environment for millions of years.

Without changing gravity, no matter how realistic the environmental simulation is, astronauts will never know what it would actually feel like to walk on the surface of the moon.

The 64 astronauts took their positions, and the 64 large aircraft then began to move.

They were positioned at the ends of the two runways at the base.

With the aviation kerosene burning fiercely, the engine's turbofan began to spin rapidly. A powerful airflow blew backward, and the reaction force propelled the massive fuselage to slowly accelerate.

When they reached about two-thirds of the way up the runway, the large aircraft roared into the sky and took off.

Its nose slowly rose, pointing towards the sky at a 45-degree angle. With the boost of its powerful engine, it soared into the clouds like a bird.

The pilots, instructors, astronauts, and others inside the cabin immediately felt an immense pressure pressing down on them, pinning them firmly to their seats.

My weight seemed to have increased by about 80% in that instant.

That's because of the G-forces caused by accelerated flight.

The pressure lasted for more than 20 seconds before suddenly disappearing.

At this moment, outside the plane, the skyscrapers on the ground were so small that they could not be seen, and the undulating mountains were as small as sandcastles built by children.

But the people inside the cabin were completely unaware of this, because all the windows of the plane were completely sealed.

The interior of the cabin was like a separate world at that moment.

"First adaptive training, ten seconds left! 10..."

The astronauts in the aircraft, already equipped with weights, stood before the flat area of ​​about 100 square meters, which mimicked the surface of the moon, ready to go.

At that moment, the plane suddenly changed from level flight to dive.

With an acceleration of 8.2 meters per square second during the descent, everything inside the cabin seemed to have lost five-sixths of its weight out of thin air.

The gravity, equivalent to that of the moon, was created inside the cabin, which felt like an independent world.

The astronaut participating in the training gently pushed off the ground with one leg, then stepped out with his other leg, taking a step as if walking normally.

But the next moment, just as its leg was about to touch the ground as expected, it did not make contact with the ground.

Because his entire body "flew" into the air, tracing a parabola in the air, it took him a while to touch the ground.

This immediately caused him to lose his balance and fall to the ground.

(End of this chapter)