I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

December 11, Qiongzhou, Category 3 wind.

Deng Lei and Zhang Zhiguang, wearing special new-generation spacesuits dedicated to H2, smiled and waved to the media, then strode onto the transfer vehicle inside the venue and headed to the launch tower.

On the same day as the Pioneer returned, the Glory completed the final assembly of the aircraft and rocket at Station 1 of the Xinyuan Launch Site and was ready for launch.

The weather this year is very good, with much less rainfall than in previous years, but it also makes the time suitable for rocket launches longer.

It is now 10 o'clock in the morning, and the strong sun makes it difficult for Deng Lei to open his eyes, but he still enjoys the sunshine.

"Boom!"

With a muffled sound from the steel structure, the elevator stopped.

The two walked through the long corridor and got into the belly of the Glory.

The two of them are already very familiar with the structure inside. The Glory has carried out quite a lot of flight training with its jet engine, but it has now been dismantled.

Unlike the H1 series, the H2M's body is much taller, so the hatch cannot be opened so low. The astronauts can be careful when opening the hatch of the H1 and get down directly. The H2M must have a boarding ladder.

The space inside is also quite large. The outer fuselage is 10.8 meters wide, which is enough to accommodate three columns on each side. It can be squeezed into four columns. It is already larger than the XS-62 series space station.

The interior space of the Glorious is divided into two parts. In front is the crew cabin with a tapered nose. The interior height is more than 6 meters and is divided into two floors. The upper floor is the cockpit and bathroom, and the lower floor is a 12-square-meter living room with 5 Astronauts can live very comfortably here, and the space is much larger than Tiangong-2.

15 meters of the 50-meter-long trapezoidal cross-section fuselage behind the nose is allocated to the fuel storage tank, and the rest is an extra-large cargo hold with a length of 35 meters and a maximum width of 8.4 meters.

How can the crew cabin enter the cargo hold and perform exit operations through the airlock and the 1.5-meter-diameter circular docking port?

If you want to dock with the space station, you can put a transfer cabin in the cargo bay connected to the 1.5-meter round port, and then use the 2.5-meter round port of the transfer cabin to dock with the space station.

The reason why there is no docking interface directly on the outside of the fuselage like the H1 is that the smooth surface is given to the cargo compartment. The passenger compartment has a complicated shape at the nose and is difficult to design, so it is simply designed inside the fuselage.

Another advantage of being designed inside the fuselage is that cabins can be added through docking interfaces in the cargo hold to accommodate more people and survive longer, and can be flexibly adjusted.

In the future, the nuclear-powered version can add a living module, and the remaining space in the cargo compartment can be used to store the lunar lander to complete the moon landing operation.

However, Deng Lei feels that he may still be more willing to drive the XN90 more, although the latter will not officially determine the basic design and enter the manufacturing stage next year.

Climb into the seat and pull up the seat belt. The wide chair immediately intelligently adjusts its posture and adjusts the field of view to the best position by tracking the occupant's eyeballs.

Zhang Zhiguang enjoys this process very much, because the width of the Glorious Space Shuttle is almost the same as that of the An 1250, so the cab is also extremely wide, and the ergonomics are extremely good. It is a pleasure to drive such a space shuttle and sit in it.

"01, 02, the hatch is about to close, please manually open the internal air circulation system and confirm that the system is working properly!"

"yes!"

In the command center, Italian and French astronauts Luca Christophe and Alain Duras also looked enviously at the images returned from the interior of the Glory.

The two are part of the three-country moon and space station cooperation plan. China and Italy each sent an astronaut to China for training. According to the plan, the space hotel of Italy and Italy's Alenia Aerospace Company may be launched and docked with Tiangong around 2017. Going into space after the space station.

The three countries' cooperation plan for lunar scientific research stations has not been affected. Although ESA has launched the Selene project, there must be a back-up, right?

The cost of sending one astronaut from Italy and China to space is the exchange of patents and technology in some fields, and the construction of a scientific experiment and exploration cabin on the moon by each country.

This deal is acceptable to both parties, and the purpose of the space agency is not to strengthen its control over Europe through the Artemis program like Aramco, but to try to win over, and it would be great to get some good things.

But neither Luca nor Alan thought so much, they were just drooling at the Glory.

Luca: "According to the plan, we should enter space with the Alenia company's space station around June next year. I really want to ride on a behemoth like H2."

Alan: "It will be great if we have it ourselves. The Hermes of China will not be able to fly until at least 2018. It is much more beautiful than the Glory."

Luca: "It should be said that it belongs to the European Space Agency. Maybe we will fly to the moon on it?"

Alan: "Then I'm going to find Armstrong's footprints, and then step on mine next to him."

Luca: "I'd rather try lying down. A human print is much more interesting than a footprint."

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“The world’s largest space shuttle is launched.”

"The smart unloading chair on the Glorious has 10 functions, but the weight is so high."

"The Artemis 1 mission is about to launch."

After the successful launch of Glorious, the two seats that attracted much attention were the main and co-pilot seats.

These two seats integrate some control functions, and because the cockpit space is very large, they are also designed to be very comfortable, like a single sofa, which feels very comfortable when you look at it.

In addition, the HUD display function of the new space suit is required. During the driving stage, the data can be directly projected onto the mask with a laser. This is a small achievement of the base's laser laboratory. It has now been authorized to be used by Xin'an Automobile on the front fender. The glass is on.

After Glorious entered orbit, both Deng Lei and Zhang Zhiguang told the ground that the biggest feeling of the flight was "very comfortable."

The maximum overload of H2, which has a slow ascent rate, only slightly exceeds 3G in the atmosphere, and is above 2G most of the time. It is almost stress-free for astronauts. Coupled with the unloading chair and pressurized space suit, it is almost impossible to feel it. overload.

Even if a commercial airliner takes off or lands with a heavy overload, it may exceed this number, which is enough to show that H2M has reduced the physical condition requirements of astronauts to an extremely low level.

For ordinary people, there is no need for anti-overload training. They only need to learn the essentials of action in weightlessness to easily go into space, and the barriers to physical factors are also broken.

Glory will operate in orbit for about 2 days, mainly to test the space shuttle itself without docking with the space station, and then return to the ground to fully prepare for the launch and installation mission of the Advance components next year.

However, the launch date of Glorious is quite coincidental, or December is another month of intensive space launches.

Kennedy Space Center, launch pad 39B, the SLS rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft of the Artemis 1 mission is ready, with 19 hours left until launch.

There are too many things to do today and I haven’t been able to write much... I will try to make up for two updates during the day.