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

"We chose a good day, the plum blossoms have just left."

"The plum blossoms have left. The Meteorological Bureau has forecast that Miaobai will come again soon. Our launch schedule for the next month can only be used as a reference. The seven-day forecast may not be accurate."

At the Qiongzhou Launch Site, two staff members from the Launch Administration were preparing the launch procedures for the Xinyuan-3 rocket while discussing the bad news from the Meteorological Administration.

Today is the day for the launch of the No. 2 Living Module of the Forward space station. The launch date was set a month ago, but the last round of heavy rain did not pass until last night. At this time, the air is still filled with the moist smell after the rain.

In order to prevent the typhoon from killing the rocket, the final assembly building of the No. 3 rocket was opened in the middle of the night and the rocket was pushed to the launch station. It was not until 6 a.m. that the fuel was refueled.

The launch center's instruction is to launch immediately after confirming that the rocket is in good condition. It is expected to ignite around 7 o'clock.

Now the Launch Administration and the surrounding people are almost numb. Since entering 2017, Qiongzhou has maintained a monthly launch frequency of one No. 3 rocket and one H2 heavy-duty space shuttle.

The No. 3 rocket required more than 4,000 tons of kerosene for each launch. In order to meet such a large consumption of supply, a coastal petrochemical field was forced to introduce refining equipment from the Karamay Oilfield to manufacture special mixed kerosene fuel.

The No. 2 and No. 4 stations commonly used at the Qiongzhou launch site have also been ablated by the tail flame of the No. 3 rocket, resulting in a large barren area around the launch station. Now even trees cannot be planted...

But no one complained. Whenever the No. 3 rocket exploded with more than 7,000 tons of thrust, an endless stream of tourists could feel the land moving. This is the power that marks the most powerful technology of human spaceflight.

"...Three, two, one, light the fire!"

Fan Zun and more than a dozen people from the Annan Aerospace Technology Exchange Group saw the entire process of igniting 19 engines from the outside to the inside at the VIP observation seat closest to the launch pad, and saw how the flames of the liquid oxygen kerosene rocket engine passed through the diversion The trough releases white smoke that blocks the sky and the sun, and you can see the stainless steel handrails swinging violently due to vibrations conducted by the air and the ground.

He recalled that in 1979, as an elite pilot of the Annan Air Force, he went to the Alliance to receive astronaut training and witnessed the take-off of the "Soyuz" rocket, which also had a kerosene engine.

However, the alliance that countless countries could only look up to at the beginning has disappeared. However, the powerful neighbor in the north is more powerful than the alliance. The No. 3 rocket is more than ten times more powerful than the alliance rocket.

Even if it is a super rocket that neither America nor America can build, they can launch it once a month. How great a power is this?

Fan Zun tried his best to raise his head so that the No. 3 rocket was in the center of his field of vision. At this time, the tail flames of the 19 engines had merged together in his eyes, like a blazing sun.

After a while, he reluctantly looked away.

The accompanying aviation development committee members looked at each other and felt inexplicably happy.

"Your rocket is the greatest in the world, bigger than Aramco and the Alliance, but Annan can't even send a satellite up there."

"Mr. Fan, the national conditions of each country are different, and according to the agreement we reached, an Annan astronaut will fly into space in two months and enter the Tiangong Space Station. Congratulations on joining the world's aerospace family."

Fan Zun nodded. The huge concessions made by the country were exchanged for a seat on the Shuguang 5 (near-Earth round trip) mission of the Aerospace Development Commission in mid-July. If there are no accidents, there will still be Annan astronauts stationed at the Tiangong Space Station for a long time. .

However, in his opinion, the conditions are quite relaxed, and many agricultural product export agreements have been reached. This can bring great economic growth to Annan, and the price is only the concession of territorial sea disputes. It is too tolerant.

The Aerospace Development Commission is actually very happy with this deal. In addition to the cost being allocated from above, with the addition of Annan, the Tiangong Space Station will have three foreign astronauts, which can be said to have become "international".

The boss is preparing a new round of Tiangong Space Station expansion plan to add four more heavy-duty compartments.

After all, we will accept astronauts from various countries in the future. Is it appropriate not to expand the cabin?

"By the way, Deputy Director Zhang, it has been said recently that island countries will also cooperate with you in manned spaceflight. Is this true?"

"Sorry, no comment, we have no official news at the moment."

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"The Annan Institute of Science and Technology and the National Defense Science and Technology Bureau have reached an agreement with the Aerospace Development Commission to send three Annan astronauts to the Tiangong Space Station within one year."

"After 37 years, Annan will return to space."

"The head of the Thai Air Force said that astronaut selection is in progress and the first astronaut will be sent into space within this year."

"..."

Before Labor Day, the Aerospace Development Commission officially announced the manned space cooperation plan with Annan, but did not disclose the specific details of the cooperation and funding issues.

But immediately afterwards, important officials came to the capital to negotiate on many disputes. The outside world was not a fool, and they could see that the relationship between the two sides was continuing to get closer through aerospace.

The reason why the former Alliance called the third-generation spacecraft "Alliance" was to practice its "will send an astronaut into space for every allied country." Obviously, this routine was used again decades later.

Fan Zun, who was once Asia's first man in space, signed the cooperation agreement on behalf of Annan. The location where the agreement was signed is also very interesting: it is the Qiongzhou Space Launch Center.

When the content was announced, five pilots had already flown to China to prepare for training, which shows that both parties attach great importance to it.

Immediately after Thailand also revealed news, it is difficult not to imagine: Asia is getting closer around the Tiangong space station - except India.

Although the third brother's Jaganyan spacecraft successfully entered orbit, the strange thing is that they did not release any real space footage in the following time. Moreover, an insider revealed that due to certain malfunctions, the on-orbit test will end early. Separate and return to the ground.

As the other half of the Asia Star project, JAXA was informed of the failure of the solar panels to deploy. Fortunately, after the emergency power supply was activated, there were no terrible problems inside the spacecraft, and the return should be safe.

After all, in the future, astronauts from the island country may fly to the moon on this spacecraft. Fortunately, the service module is being developed by the island country, so such low-level mistakes will definitely not occur.

Why is it possible? Because now there are some rumors suddenly appearing in their country.

The general idea is that the Asia Star plan is a complete delusion and will never succeed, and the Artemis plan will not accept island countries, so the only correct route is to cooperate with the Aviation Development Commission.

Kishimoto Tsu was providing a large amount of funds to a project that was doomed to fail, and most of the money was taken away by Lucia, so the H-X rocket was also Lucia's conspiracy.

Although it is just a rumor, it seems that someone is deliberately promoting it, and some congressmen have already begun to attack the Asia Star project with this.