Annihilation of the solar system

The "Qingluan" shuttle successfully reached low-Earth orbit at an altitude of 400 kilometers after the rocket was launched and exhausted its fuel. After three hours of orbiting the Earth, the "Tiangong-3" space station was already in sight.

She has completed expansion and renovation. Looking from the front or rear, the current space station no longer looks like the shape of the word "door" when Xia Lan and the others arrived.

Cabins have also been installed above the double-column main cabin section of the space station. Now the space station has an "H" shape as a whole, and the length has also been lengthened from the original 300 meters to 400 meters. She is now a veritable "star port"

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In her lower dock, the skeleton of a huge spaceship is being set up, and the construction of the first near-Earth space defense turret has also begun in the upper dock. At the docking ports at the end of each of her vertical compartments, there are almost

The shuttle and cargo spacecraft are docking or separating.

The shuttle docked at a docking port in the middle of the star port. The difference from a few months ago was that after they entered the space station, there was no longer a greeting team led by Station Director Jing Yuhui, but only one staff member waiting here.

Hold them.

Li Linjie and the others were following the staff skillfully as they shuttled around the space station. After all, they had only lived and worked here for four months recently, so everything was still very familiar to them.

It’s just that compared to that time, the star port now is very busy. There are busy workers everywhere. There are people operating in front of every robotic arm operating table, and through the portholes, you can see the space operations in progress everywhere.

Walking astronaut.

The staff led them to the docking port of the "Chang'e" spacecraft and left. At this time, another group of 24 astronauts riding the second "Qingluan" shuttle also came down under the leadership of the staff.

They arrived here. Although they launched two hours later than Li Linjie and the others, because the orbit was in a better position, they arrived at the star port almost at the same time as Li Linjie and the others.

The structure of the "Chang'e" spacecraft is very simple. The structure is similar to the "Hongyan" spacecraft that Xia Lan and the others took. It has a living cabin, service cabin, power cabin and solar panels. The living environment here is very special compared to the spacious space station.

They are in a tight situation, and each person only has a private space on a bunk, like a sleeper on a green train, but fortunately they only need to stay here for three days.

Perhaps because everyone's excitement was still high, the 48 astronauts squeezed into the small living room of the spacecraft did not feel particularly uncomfortable. The three days passed quickly. The spacecraft docked at the "lunar orbit"

Onboard the Yutu space station.

Like "Tiangong 3", "Yutu" is also a cabin-type space station, but the difference is that "Yutu" only has horizontal cabins spliced ​​together, instead of vertical ones like "Tiangong 3"

The cabin section and the scale of the Yutu are also much smaller than the Star Port.

The docking port door opened, and a blond woman with blue eyes and a dark-skinned astronaut stood steadily on the floor of the space station, as if gravity was pulling them. The blond woman smiled and used a somewhat awkward expression.

But he said in understandable Chinese:

"My name is Nicole and this is Duncan. Welcome to the moon!"

Ke Guohao was the first to float out of the hatch. He floated excitedly to Nicole and Duncan, and barely stood up with Nicole's help. He pressed a button on his left arm, and a message appeared on the flat screen on his arm.

A fast forward progress bar.

When the progress bar reached 100%, Ke Guohao stood on the floor of the space station with a "pop!". He opened his arms like a toddler who had just learned to walk and walked awkwardly on the floor for a few steps, and then turned back.

He shouted to Li Linjie and Ye Wanqing who had just come out:

"Look, this electromagnetic simulated gravity system really works!"

The human body evolved for the earth's gravity environment, but if it is exposed to the microgravity environment of space or the low gravity environment of the moon's surface for a long time, various problems will soon occur in the bones and muscles of the human body.

In the past, people's solution to this problem was to spend a lot of time on the space station's weight-bearing fitness equipment every day, but now that method does not work. Because every day may be the time when the invasion begins, and the entire human civilization is fighting against time.

When it comes to running a race, it's impossible for them to spend so much time on fitness equipment.

Especially those working on the lunar space station and the lunar surface, they are far away from the earth and need to be on duty for a long time. They cannot return to the ground for rotation as often as the astronauts on the near-Earth space station. In order to solve this problem, engineers at the space center developed the system that Ke Guohao is now wearing.

This is a space suit with an electromagnetic simulated gravity system.

Its principle is actually very simple. It is to bury countless sets of micro-electromagnet arrays in a tight-fitting light space suit. Through a comprehensive control system, these electromagnets can generate suitable magnetic attraction on various parts of the body and the floor, thereby "attracting" the whole person.

"on the floor.

Although there is still a big difference between such simulated gravity and a real gravity environment, it can at least greatly alleviate the damage to the body caused by a low gravity environment. This is why the "Yutu" space station does not have a vertical cabin.

As a transfer station, the "Yutu" space station is mainly responsible for receiving personnel and light and soft materials from the earth. Then they are transported to the base on the moon through shuttles. There are not many permanent personnel on the space station. They are more

Like Nicole and Duncan, they usually work at the moon base, and when necessary, they drive a shuttle to the space station to work.

Amid laughter, all the volunteers staggered along the long corridor of the space station to adapt to the walking posture of the imitation gravity spacesuit. Under the guidance of Nicole and Duncan, they gradually began to master this electromagnetic force.

Here are the essentials for walking under adsorption.

After passing through the entire "Yutu" space station, they came to the docking port at the other end. The shuttle that arrived on the moon was docked here. This shuttle was completely different from the shuttle they had taken before. It did not have any aerodynamic layout.

It was a simple rectangular box with a protruding cockpit at the front and several rocket thrusters at the four corners. The Nicole who greeted them was their shuttle pilot.

The shuttle left the space station and flew to the lunar surface, and soon found their destination on the lunar sea - the Guanghan Palace lunar base.

Viewed from the air, most of the buildings on the base are composed of long, semicircular cylindrical buildings arranged vertically and horizontally in an orderly manner. The height and length of those semi-barrel-shaped buildings are very uniform. They are all about the length of a football field.

The height of a three-story building, there are small passages between the semi-cylinders connecting them to each other.

The shuttle lowered its height and flew slowly towards the square building with the beacon light flashing in the corner of the base. That was the landing site of the base. Although the rocket thrusters at the four corners of the shuttle were small, they were still flying under the gravity of only 1/6 of the earth.

The surface of the moon is enough to support her weight.

When the spacecraft flew directly above the landing site, the hatch on the top of the landing site slowly retreated to the surroundings and opened. Nicole drove the shuttle through the hatch accurately and stopped at the landing area below.

The door then slowly closed again, and after the entire landing area was repressurized, the door of the shuttle opened.