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

Edo Prefecture.

In a remote urban area, the door of a second-floor balcony facing the street was ajar. If someone happened to pass directly below, they could hear curses and collisions coming from above.

Four people who looked to be over fifty years old were kneeling on the tatami in disheveled clothes, with wine bottles scattered beside them.

One of them picked up the roasted bird on the table, took a small bite, and then drank half a bottle of sake.

"boom!"

He slammed his hand on the table, and then a voice full of resentment appeared in the room:

"Insects, they are all insects! They are all insects that succumb to the rice beasts!"

"Gentlemen, look at them. Although there are countless speeches on the streets, when have they really listened to the voices of the people? How can such an insect govern the country well?"

He raised his hand feebly and pointed out the window a few times.

"The universe is so great and wonderful, but in their eyes it is just a face-saving project for the people. They actually cooperated with Indians and invested billions of dollars. This is a crime against the people!"

Only then did the other three people react and nodded. Yamamoto Kazuki was the best drunk and still had the ability to complain. They were already in a state of drunkenness.

Kazuki Yamamoto couldn't help but feel a bit sad when he looked at these colleagues who often drank with him. He was already so old and was just a low-level social animal, so how could he say he could revitalize the country?

On the other hand, Representative Nakayama Kyuji is one of the few good people who is sober and always considers the people. He has been trying to broker aerospace cooperation with the other side of the Taiwan Strait, but unfortunately the enemy is in Nagata Town and has repeatedly failed to get approval.

Kazuki Yamamoto, who was slowly getting drunk, started to get confused. He accidentally fell on the remote control, and the TV suddenly turned on and a sound sounded:

"...Kyoto TV station reports for you...emergency news...Storm nuclear-powered spacecraft flies to the moon..."

Yamamoto Kazuki, who vaguely grasped a few keywords, struggled to open his eyes, and then saw the image of the Storm and the constantly scrolling news appearing on the screen.

As the information entered his brain bit by bit, his drunkenness was quickly expelled by shock. Yamamoto Kazuki stared at the female host in disbelief, wondering if he was drunk and entering an illusion.

Shaking his head vigorously, he turned on his phone again. The videos on the cover of YouTube all showed the striking body of the Storm.

A few minutes later, a half-naked man suddenly appeared on the street, screaming and standing in the middle, dancing and shouting something.

The nearby patrol policeman hurried over, but heard the latter pointing to the horizon and repeating excitedly:

"The yellow race is the moon, the moon is the moon, the moon is the moon, the moon is the moon!"

…

"Welcome to the evening news..."

Zhou Qingfeng heard the sound from the TV as soon as he entered the door. After throwing his schoolbag on the table, he simply lay down on the sofa.

Grandpa is not here, but he probably just went out, maybe to go shopping.

After lying down for a few minutes, Zhou Qingfeng touched the remote control and prepared to change the channel. There were no good animations at this time, but it was still much better than watching Central News.

"...On this special day today, our country's aerospace industry has taken another step of great significance..."

aerospace? You can listen to this. Zhou Qingfeng released his fingers on the keys.

"At 10:38 a.m., the Space Shuttle Storm detached from the space station to conduct a planned flight test, and entered the Earth-Moon Transfer Orbit at around 4 p.m., preparing to test its long-range flight capabilities with the moon as the target.

It is reported that the Storm carries enough supplies for seven astronauts to live for more than 20 days, and has stronger radiation protection capabilities to cope with high-energy radiation in lunar orbit.

This will be my country's first manned exploration of the moon, and will also be the fastest lunar exploration in the world so far. CCTV will broadcast the real-time flight of the Storm from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. tomorrow morning.

The following is the statement of Zhao Shu, member of the Aviation Development Committee, in an interview with the media..."

Zhou Qingfeng: "!"

No wonder the teachers felt weird today. They didn't even delay the class and let them go to the playground to play football for two hours. I didn't expect that they missed such a big event!

He rushed to his room, turned on his computer, and logged into the forum skillfully. The front page was full of Storm-related content, and there was even a link to share it everywhere.

When I clicked in, it turned out to be Xinyuan's official website. At this time, there was an additional "Real-time Tasks" section, with a few lines of eye-catching characters in the center:

"Storm is still 319,000 kilometers from the moon

There are still 9 hours and 33 minutes until the live broadcast starts

Current speed: 12.74 kilometers/second"

Below the text is a progress bar, with miniatures of the Earth and the Moon at both ends. The left end of the progress bar has a small dot that flashes slowly at a certain frequency, crawling slowly toward the right end while breathing.

The small characters of "acceleration section" and "gliding section" have turned gray, and the "deceleration section" has been highlighted.

The background of the page is a space painting, but as long as you slide the scroll wheel, you can see the switched ground photo of the seven Storm astronauts, as well as the huge "Tianmu-1 Manned Lunar Exploration Mission" mission badge on the blue background behind them. .

Apparently, this was a photo secretly taken before departure but not released until now.

"It's so bad!"

Zhou Qingfeng didn't expect that he would be assassinated by his own space agency. There was no warning for such an important action. If he missed it, wouldn't he regret it for several years?

Fortunately, tomorrow is Sunday. Zhou Qingfeng, who is still in junior high school, only has to make up classes on Saturday, so he can make up for the live broadcast on Sunday morning.

Returning to the forum again, the popularity today is higher than ever before, and every time I refresh it, I can see new posts that have been upvoted.

"Photographing the moon at night! Can anyone guess when the Tempest will be photographed approaching the moon? Can the space shuttle be photographed?"

Second floor: "Sofa, the poster Xiaobai must have been exposed. It is already night, and our position can no longer be observed. And even if it is theoretically possible, it is not possible. It is hundreds of thousands of kilometers away. Ordinary telescopes will definitely not be able to do it. Or Just wait for the live broadcast."

Third floor: "Why not start the live broadcast now? The current communication bandwidth is so strong, the signal must be no problem."

Fourth floor: "Upstairs, this is flying to the moon. All kinds of measurement and control signals are probably all over the space, and now the space shuttle sends its own signals. It has to pass through the Lagrange point before it can be relayed there and to the lunar orbit. For satellites to send signals, bandwidth is still very precious now.”

Fifth Floor: "I thought it would take until Dawn 3 in August to orbit the moon. I was still worried about whether Artemis 2 might overtake us. Now we are absolutely number one!"

Floor 6: "Hey, since it's already orbiting the moon, can Shuguang-3 directly land on the moon?"

…

The Storm's action was sudden. The lunar test was only an idea in early April when the A100 engine was ready to be installed on the space shuttle. The Aerospace Development Commission had no previous plans.

In the view of the space agency, the H2 nuclear-powered version will have to wait until the second half of the year at least. Until the eve of the launch of Tempest, they were still hesitating whether to carry out this operation. After all, this is the first time that A100 has entered space. Carrying out deep space flight like this is detrimental to the quality of the engine. A severe test.

Before the launch, the seven astronauts were organized to take a group photo for the "Sky Curtain" mission and each wore a "Sky Curtain" mission badge. Perhaps it will be brought back to the ground as a souvenir, or it may be stuck on the space suit and go together. Moon.

On May 13, the crew of the Storm completed the installation of the space station, and then received a request from Xinyuan Base to organize the internal materials of the space shuttle, count fresh water and food, and check the working condition of the oxygen generator.

On May 15, Hu Dong routinely checked the flight control of the space shuttle and discovered an update sent from the base, which was a flight plan.

It was also on that day that after a fierce dispute, the Aviation Development Committee was persuaded by Lin Ju with various analysis reports from the base and decided to start the "Top Canopy" plan.

Then the astronauts on the Tiangong Space Station received the news of the breakaway of the Storm and waited for more than two hours before they came to take away the household garbage. Only then did they realize that these seven lucky guys were already on their way to the moon.

Especially for Deng Lei, who was stationed in Tiangong again to bring in new people, his resentment broke through the atmosphere and spread to the ground. According to his schedule, his Glorious mission was at the end of July.

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…

Beijing.

"Zhang Zhiguang, he has rich experience. Why is he not the Commander of Mission No. 4?"

Lin Ju finally got the crew list of the Shuguang 3 mission. The command elder Zhang was very familiar with it, but at the same time he was also a little confused.

The crew of the Shuguang 4 mission were all newcomers who went into space only last year. It seemed like they were working backwards.

Academician She: "The task arrangement is like this. It does not mean that the higher the qualifications, you must go. In fact, the risk of task No. 3 is higher, and it is more reasonable to arrange for the elderly to go."

Lin Ju: “But, I think Mission 3 should be a moon landing.

The purpose of circling the moon is to obtain accurate lunar orbit data. In fact, Project Canopy can basically complete these tasks and can fully support the moon landing on the third mission. "

Academician She: "But this is still too risky. The Long March 10 made its first flight in August last year, and it took one year to send people there. This is much faster than manned spaceflight."

"This time, that time..."

"Well……"

The location where the two of them are now is the ground command center. No one here is destined to sleep peacefully tonight, as they are all waiting for good news from the Storm.

Through the window, the moon, obscured by a layer of light clouds and mist, hung high in the sky. The whole world was paying attention to the little bug slowly crawling towards it.

18 hours is the limit of A100.

After losing gravity, space has become an ideal physical testing ground. It can not only continuously superimpose high speeds with small accelerations, but also cause the spacecraft to face the momentum it needs to face when decelerating.

Lin Ju thought of the stellar-class battleship in "Three Body". When it started its engine in the solar system, its tail flame was as bright as a star. If it was in a low-Earth orbit, there would be an extra small sun during the day.

How powerful an engine must be to present such a grand scene?

"What are you thinking about, Xiao Lin? I'm going to rest for a while. I'm old and can't stand up like you young people."

Lin Ju: "Mr. She, how far has our country's EAST progressed?"

"EAST? I don't know much about that, but I met people from Hefei in the past two months and talked about it a little bit.

Anyway, EAST is definitely the most advanced project in the world and is expected to build a commercial fusion reactor before 2050.

Do you want to get involved in this too? Don't blame me for being harsh. This thing is at least an order of magnitude higher than nuclear fission technology. It's useless even if you have money. It's very difficult for the whole country to carry out. "

Academician She really didn’t know much about EAST, but he was curious why Lin Ju asked about this.

Lin Ju: "Cheng Nankai, you know, isn't he a nuclear expert? He happens to be doing a lot of research on fusion. He has some theoretical achievements recently. I want to communicate with colleagues. The EAST project team should understand.

I heard him say that this is a valuable theoretical conjecture, and maybe EAST has the potential to verify it. "

"Here... you should ask him to go to the Academy of Sciences. His ability must be fine. Let me say hello to you."

…

"We're faster than we thought."

Hu Dong rotated his seat 180 degrees and faced the porthole again.

The seven astronauts have taken turns sleeping in the past ten hours. During the deceleration process in the later stage, the seats have to be rotated 180 degrees. Otherwise, the slight backward acceleration will still cause discomfort to the body and congestion on the face. too much.

There are now only more than 20,000 kilometers left to the moon, and 90% of the journey has been completed. He had just passed the Lagrange point before going to bed.

The Earth had gradually grown from a behemoth to a size that just barely occupied the Storm's huge front window.

The volume of the earth is 49 times that of the moon. When the earth is viewed from the moon, its diameter is 4 times that of the moon when viewed from the earth, but it is almost the same when viewed from their position.

The moon cannot be clearly seen in the rear camera picture, and it will take a while for the sun's rays to cross the horizon, but Hu Dong can imagine its general outline.

He has observed the moon with astronomical telescopes from the ground and the space station more than once. It is a flickering sphere with scars all over its surface. It has mountains higher than Mount Everest and has endless resources waiting to be developed. Although it is desolate, it is destined to be. The target to fly towards.

The earth outside the porthole seemed to have lost its three-dimensional sense at this moment. Most of the sphere was hidden in darkness. The illuminated land half of the sphere was larger than blue and should be the Indian Ocean.

At 360,000 kilometers above the ground, Hu Dong felt lonely for the first time.

It is a kind of loneliness that comes from the heart, as if you are alone in the invisible midnight, everything is unknown, and your mood has no fluctuations.

During the past flight time, the seven people were interested in chatting at first, but soon fewer and fewer people spoke. Except for necessary instructions, they were all immersed in this loneliness. Sometimes it seemed like they were alone.

"Beep—·—Beep—·—Beep—"

The signal prompt woke Hu Dong out of his third absence and he felt the temperature again.

This was a video communication request, and he roughly guessed who was connected.

After the other six people quickly adjusted their status, he clicked answer.

"Storm crew, this is the capital, and I'm here to say hello to you."

Hu Dong: "Reporting to the Commander-in-Chief, the Storm is in good condition and the mission is ongoing!"

Because they were decelerating, the seven people did not stand up, but when their superiors looked at the astronauts in their positions, they truly felt a calm emotion that transcended time and space. They were closer to space than Tiangong and Shenzhou.

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