Chapter 1093 The Dream of Flying in Nanyang (Third update, please subscribe)
Wanhujiao, this is the space center of Nanyang.
In the past few years, not only multiple launch pads have been built here, but also a series of supporting research facilities. The Nanyang Astronaut Training Center is also located in Wanhujiao—— With an area of more than 4,000 square kilometers, Wanhujiao has ample space to build these institutions.
This morning, a C707 roared and taxied from the runway. When the plane took off, the astronauts training in the cabin looked very curious. Gao Binghan, like everyone else, watched with anticipation. In the cabin wrapped with anti-collision sponge, they will soon conduct an extremely strange training.
As the plane climbed to high altitude, the training officer Xiang Xingyuan looked at them and said:
"Okay, everyone will feel the experience of weightlessness. You must complete the prescribed training in the process!"
Weightless training!
How is it possible to perform weightless training on Earth?
In this era, humans have not done much research on the weightless environment. Although the United States, the Soviet Union and Nanyang have launched animals into space to conduct observation and research on the weightless state, the impact of the weightless environment in space on the human body Studies of the effects, especially on the brain, are - ZERO!
Even when Gagarin went into space, medical staff and aerospace engineers were not sure how people would react in weightlessness. The medical staff even put forward a hypothesis-in a weightless environment, the brain might Will lose consciousness, so the spacecraft must be fully automated.
But unlike their assumptions, Li Yian, who stands on the shoulders of historical giants, clearly knows how to simulate a weightless environment - one is to use an airplane for parabolic flight, and the other is to train in a pool. Compared with the need to build a large pool, it is undoubtedly the simplest to use an aircraft to fly in a parabola. The aircraft can obtain 20 to 40 seconds of weightlessness for each parabola flight. Generally, a flight can make 15 parabola flights.
So at Li Yian's suggestion, the Aeronautics and Space Administration not only built a large training pool to explore pool training technology, but also found the best pilots to start parabolic flight training. After several months of trying, Today, the astronaut candidates conducted such training for the first time.
In the cabin, the light is soft and mysterious, as if even the air is frozen in this miraculous moment that is about to bloom. These astronaut candidates are wearing tight-fitting training suits, with nervous and excited eyes flashing. What they are about to experience is a rare tens of seconds of weightlessness on Earth, when gravity temporarily loosens its shackles, allowing All the normal laws of physics become vague and wonderful at this moment.
As the plane slowly climbed to a predetermined height, and then suddenly dived down, an invisible force quietly turned the world inside the cabin upside down. Gao Binghan instantly felt an unprecedented freedom, as if he had broken away from the shackles of gravity and turned into a light feather, floating leisurely in the cabin.
“I’m floating, I’m floating!”
"Me too, me too..."
Lin Polu also shouted excitedly.
“Okay, let’s start the training. When you move, you need to use your hands to help, alternately grab the railing forward with both hands, drive the body to move along the bulkhead, and at the same time use fixed objects to stop people...”< br>
Having experienced weightlessness hundreds of times, Xiang Xingyuan shouted loudly.
“Now, you go get the food.”
Special emphasis is placed on "eating and drinking" training during weightlessness training, which can ensure that astronauts can drink and eat while floating, rotating and exercising.
In such a wonderland, daily chores such as drinking water and eating have become extremely challenging and full of fun.
According to the method in the training manual, Gao Binghan pushed hard, and the person floated in the air and "flyed" forward. Soon, he took out the food-a tube of water.
When he unscrewed the plastic tube containing water, the water overflowed from the mouth of the bottle without warning, turning into a string of crystal clear bead chains, dancing slowly in the air, and was finally captured by him in a kind of way. It is introduced into the mouth almost like magic.
Just as they were marveling at this magical scene, a red light came on in the cabin, and they fell down, and the weightless experience ended.
"So fast!"
When they felt that they were still not satisfied, the plane climbed to high altitude again, and soon, they floated again, just like this again and again...
In this way, these astronaut candidates experienced this incredible experience in the cabin in just a few tens of seconds of weightlessness, and in the process, some of them will still be eliminated.
It was like 20 pilots were initially selected, but after training in centrifuges, half of them were eliminated, and two more pilots were eliminated.
Now, there are only eight candidates left, and they have all undergone 4 to 5 times of weightlessness training, more than 40 skydiving trainings, and 95 centrifuge experiments...
After completing the weightless training, Gao Binghan and the others will face the most severe test - loneliness training. The biggest enemy during a long space flight is nothing but loneliness. Therefore, this training must be used to test the astronauts’ psychological endurance in a state of loneliness.
During this period, each participant was tested. This test was to observe whether these preliminary astronauts could perform normal work in an environment without sleep for 64 hours. The training center set up a very difficult and complex testing environment for them, such as loneliness, a closed space with limited volume, no communication with the outside world, social and biological isolation - no familiar sounds, no daylight, etc.
One person stayed in an isolation room of about 10 square meters without any sound stimulation for three days. During this period, you can't sleep and can only do the prescribed work according to the 24-hour planning procedure. Just two days later, someone was directly eliminated at this level - he was carried into the infirmary after training because he couldn't stand it anymore and hit his head against the wall and was seriously injured.
Three days later, only six astronaut candidates remained.
Gao Binghan was one of them. After this lonely training, Eugene Gesang personally met with these candidates and then said to them.
"Okay, friends, you are now astronauts."
"Are we astronauts?" Lin Polu looked at the director excitedly, as did the other five people.
"Yes, no longer a candidate, eventually one of you will become Nan."
Looking at the six people in front of him, Eugene· Gesang's eyes moved on them. Among the six of them, there were five Tang people and one European. In terms of proportion, they were somewhat similar to the population proportion of Nanyang.
But in the end, only one of them had a chance to become the first Astrosman.
Who should I choose?
In fact, all six of them are equally good. Whether they are mastering the control of spaceships, responding to crises, or training on centrifuges, there is no difference at all between them.
That's the thing with a lot of things - you never know how you're going to pick one of the best people in a group.
But Hans can be ruled out directly because he is of German descent.
He would go into space, but not this time, and that would leave only the five of them.
Eugene Gesang’s eyes fell on them, and now it was time to make the news public.
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"... After a long period of selection and training, Lin Polu, Xu Yunxiang, Gao Binghan, Hans, Liu Langxia and Wang Baoxian have completed preliminary training and become the first batch of astronauts in Nanyang members, one of them will eventually take a spaceship into space..."
Looking at the news on the TV, Zhao Weiming and his younger brother Weijie, both of them had two pairs of eyes, just like that. Looking at the astronauts on the TV, his eyes were full of longing and yearning.
"Brother, can you go into space as long as you become a pilot?"
Zhao Weijie asked.
"Not all pilots are astronauts, but astronauts are selected from pilots..."
Looking at the six astronauts at the press conference on TV, Zhao Weiming His heart was filled with yearning. At this moment, he had his own ideal - to become a pilot, and then, to become an astronaut and go into space!
“I’ll be a pilot and then an astronaut.”
When Zhao Weiming turned to speak to his younger brother, he saw that his younger brother was holding a "Wanhu No. 5" toy in his hand. Listening to his brother's words, Zhao Weijie, who was only five years old, said.
"When the time comes, I will use the rocket I made to send you to space like others..."
Listening to his sons' words, he looked at the TV again, and Zhao Liu touched it Nose, I secretly muttered to myself... Don't you see that our family doesn't have that mugwort? Grandpa You is a mud-legged man. Your father and I only had enough to eat when we arrived in Nanyang. Now, although we make money by selling solar hot water I made a little money, but it was just luck. Become an astronaut and go into space? Build rockets? Our old Zhao family is not that lucky yet!
But Zhao Liu was just thinking about it in his mind...
In Nanyang, many things are made public and are not deliberately kept secret, just like this press conference. The reason why it is made public is to allow these children to have the idea of looking up at the stars and find their ideals. In fact, it doesn’t matter even if the dreams do not come into reality. After all, in their childhood and in their lives, they were once Have the ideal.
On this day, countless children saw the astronauts in Southeast Asia through the TV screen. They looked at the spaceflights with childish eyes. They imagined and fantasized and looked up at the sky.
As long as someone looks up at the stars, that’s what’s important!
October 4th - In another world, the Soviet Union launched its first artificial earth satellite on this day.
At this moment, Nanyang astronauts met the world for the first time through a press conference. On that day, the fourth unmanned spacecraft launch was carried out from Wanhujiao - but the spacecraft It carried a dummy and a monkey. In fact, they had sent dozens of animals into space before.
Different from the previous three times of secrecy, this time the launch was broadcast live on television - this will be the last unmanned spacecraft launch. The first three times were successful. After this success, The next launch will be a manned launch!
After the Wanhu Type 5 rocket successfully sent the spacecraft into space, the Nanyang Aeronautics and Space Administration announced the launch plan - Nanyang will send humans into space before May next year! Thus realizing the human dream of flying into the sky for thousands of years!
For a time, the whole world was shocked - even though the United States had long announced their "Mercury Project", and although the Russians had not announced their plan, everyone knew that they must have joined it long ago. Yes, even Nanyang announced its own plan, but they never thought that Nanyang would be the first to send a spaceship into space before the United States and the Soviet Union.
Who was the most surprised?
It must be Downing Street. After learning the news, Aiden was completely confused. He couldn't even believe it was true. If it was true - then He is such a fool!
50 million pounds were spent to give away large tracts of land. The result was to help the Nanyang people realize their dream of flying into the sky. As for Britain?
"How could this be possible!"
Aiden was a little heartbroken!
He didn’t even know how to explain to the public that he had reached a betting agreement with Nanyang - if Nanyang launched astronauts before the United States and the Soviet Union, then the astronauts would be Nanyang people, not the British. !
“Damn it, I’ve become a joke!”
Aiden said to himself in shock. At this time, for him, there is only one wish left in his heart - I hope that after seeing the news about Nanyang, the Americans will catch up, even the Russians. As long as they can get ahead of Nanyang, that will be enough. Got it!
God bless, the United States and the Soviet Union are still very powerful!
(End of this chapter)