Great Country Academician

On the outer space shuttle more than 400 kilometers away, Xu Chuan was not very worried about the impact of the unexpectedly observed super typhoon.

For China, it has complete means and related measures for the formation and monitoring of typhoons.

As long as you prepare in advance, it won't be a big problem.

After staying in low-Earth orbit for several hours, after completing the docking with the Tiangong Space Station and replenishing a batch of supplies for the space station, the Xinghai also started its return journey.

As planned, under the instructions of the ground command, the aerospace engine restarted. The main engine swaying at the tail of the space shuttle and the auxiliary engines on the flanks emitted a blue-white light, pushing the huge fuselage to complete the orbit change. Heading towards the ground.

After completing the internal inspection of the space shuttle, Zhai Zhigang quickly came to the crew cabin and reminded Xu Chuan and the other two 'tourists'.

"Academician Xu, Prince Faisal, Mr. Abdulrahman. The Xinghai is about to return. Please put on your spacesuits and be prepared."

Xu Chuan smiled, and while struggling to put on the spacesuit in the cabin, he replied: "I'm already wearing it."

On the side, the bearded Prince Faisal half-entered the spacesuit and complained: "You have to put this thing on very slowly, it's really troublesome!"

Zhai Zhigang glanced at him expressionlessly and said, "For your safety, Prince, it's best to put on a spacesuit just to be on the safe side."

For the prince from the Middle East in front of him, he honestly didn't have much favorable impression from the bottom of his heart.

Although as a soldier himself, he should not have such a position, everything is based on orders and commands.

But this time Academician Xu Chuanxu didn't say that he was fooled by this guy, but it also had something to do with him.

If something goes wrong during this space trip, he will be the sinner of China and even the entire human civilization.

Prince Faisal shrugged, perhaps sensing something, and said no more, struggling to put on the spacesuit in the cabin.

Compared with the gravity environment on the earth, wearing this thing in the gravityless space is more troublesome than imagined. It took the group more than half an hour to put it on completely.

At the same time, in the cockpit, Zhai Zhigang, who was well prepared, contacted the ground command center. Under the ground's dispatch, he reached out and pressed a few buttons on the control panel in front of him.

"The aerospace engine is warmed up, the Xinghai reactor is ready, and the navigation route has been determined."

Accompanied by cold mechanical sounds, hundreds of kilometers above the low-Earth orbit, a silver-white space shuttle drew a perfect curve with a light blue-white tail flame, heading towards the blue star. The planet flies away.

For a spacecraft, there are two most difficult parts of the entire voyage.

The first is to escape from the gravity well and enter low-Earth orbit, commonly known as "orbit entry." The second is to return and enter the atmosphere from low-Earth orbit.

Strictly speaking, with current aerospace technology, returning to orbit is more difficult than entering orbit.

Generally speaking, a spacecraft generally goes through four stages during its return to the ground, namely deorbiting, transition, re-entry and landing.

Since the spacecraft flies too fast, two major problems must be solved during the return process: first, reducing air friction so as not to burn due to high temperatures;

The second is to use a soft landing method to avoid damaging the spacecraft.

Each of these four points can be described as a life and death difficulty for a traditional space shuttle or spacecraft.

However, for Xinghai, which uses more advanced propulsion technology, the difficulty of these three steps of deorbiting, transition and landing has been reduced countless times.

The only danger is re-entering the atmosphere.

It is not just because the spacecraft must be controlled to enter the atmosphere at a predetermined position and attitude, so that the reentry angle cannot be too large, otherwise it will burn out; and it must not be too small, otherwise it will not fall down.

In addition, the space shuttle enters orbit extremely quickly. Even if it decelerates in low-Earth orbit in advance, the friction between its fuselage and the atmosphere will still generate extremely high temperatures.

Multiple difficulties are a considerable test for the performance of the spacecraft itself and the skills of the pilot.

Therefore, whether it is a traditional spacecraft, a space shuttle, or any other manned spacecraft, returning from low-Earth orbit is always a technical job.

In the cockpit, Zhai Zhigang and Chen Dong were very alert and focused on controlling the Xinghai to cut into the transition route.

The landing didn't take long. When it dropped from the 'off-orbit section' at an altitude of 160 kilometers to the upper atmosphere at an altitude of 50 kilometers, Xinghai's speed also began to gradually decrease.

Soon, sufficient air in the atmosphere replaced the xenon in the wing refrigerant tank, and the red-purple tail flame ignited again at the tail of the space shuttle.

Dragging a long and narrow flame, the Xinghai entered the atmosphere from the northwest of China and flew towards the east.

This time the voyage will land not at the Xiashu Space Center in Jinling, but at a military airport in the capital.

The red-purple tail flame swayed in the air, looking particularly eye-catching in the blue sky and white clouds.

In the airport on the ground, Wu Yuankang of the Space Administration stood in the sub-control room of the airport, carefully accompanying an old man and waiting quietly.

"Let's go, our 'hero' has returned successfully, let's go take a look."

Looking at the picture from the monitoring screen in the sub-control room, the old man said with a smile, but the pronunciation of the word "hero" was a bit strong.

Wu Yuankang nodded and walked out together. Behind him, two medical staff followed with a portable medical kit on their shoulders, ready for examination.

It was not his idea to ask the Xinghai to land in the capital, but the request of the man in front.

Probably because I wanted to 'criticize' that person's adventurous spirit.

Although it is difficult for the senior management to change his mind about that person, and most of the time he is still half-coaxed, but no matter how much he talks about this kind of space travel adventure, he is afraid that he will land on the moon next time. .

Manned spaceflight in low-Earth orbit is relatively safe. Even if something unexpected happens to the Xinghai, they have other spare spacecraft and launch vehicles to bring people back.

But the moon landing is different. Currently, the only one in China that has the ability to complete a manned moon landing is the Xinghai space shuttle.

If that person thinks that space travel is only that dangerous and follows the space shuttle to the moon next time, it will be a big mistake.

Of course, another aspect of letting the Xinghai land in the capital is to have the medical staff here carefully check the body.

Although it is a short-distance low-Earth orbit voyage, Xinghai also has complete anti-radiation means, but space travel does have some risks after all.

Compared with Jinling, the medical resources here in Beijing are much better.

The red-purple tail flame was like a brilliant sunset on the horizon, and the silver-white Xinghai emerged from the blue sky riding on white clouds.

The short time passed by like a shuttle, and on the spacious runway, the swaying red-purple tail flame gradually disappeared.

The engine was shut down, the drag chute was sprayed backwards, and the speeding space shuttle gradually came to a stop.

In the cockpit, Zhai Zhigang's hand that was tightly gripping the control rod slowly loosened his grip, and he sat down on the chair as if he was exhausted, and took a long breath to relieve the turbid air in his chest.

Although the mission of this flight was ordinary, it was the most frightening of all the flights in his life.

Fortunately, everything went well.

In the crew cabin, when the space shuttle entered the atmosphere and returned to the embrace of Mother Earth, Xu Chuan had already taken off his spacesuit.

When the plane landed smoothly, he stood up from the space chair and walked toward the door that was about to open.

Looking at the blue sky, Xu Chuan felt a sense of satisfaction and wonder in his heart.

Space travel was something he had never done in his previous life. Less than ten years after his rebirth, he stood hundreds of kilometers in the air overlooking this red land.

After walking down the ramp from the space shuttle, no one came to greet them on the open runway of the airport, but it could be seen with the naked eye that there were many soldiers with guns and live ammunition standing guard at the posts in the distance.

At this moment, a familiar old man walked over from the exit.

Seeing this person, Xu Chuan quickly walked over and said hello: "**, why are you here?"

The old man looked him up and down, and then smiled and said after seeing that he was okay, "Is it fun up there?"

He is probably the first person in the history of spaceflight who dares to take a space shuttle designed and manufactured by himself.

After all, manned spaceflight has extremely high physical requirements for astronauts. Traditional chemical fuel rockets can accelerate up to 6 or 7 G during launch and return.

Most ordinary people without training cannot withstand this kind of super acceleration.

"Forehead"

Hearing these words that sounded like criticism and questioning, Xu Chuan was dumbfounded and thought for a long time before replying: "It's okay."

The old man shook his head and sighed: "You are so courageous. If something unexpected happens, how do you want me to explain it to your parents?"

"It's not that I won't let you go up. At least in this situation where our aerospace technology has only just started, you can wait a little longer."

"You are still young. Even if you have a dream, it doesn't matter if you wait two years."

Looking at Xu Chuan, the man was shaking his head and nagging like a parent or elder.

Standing aside, Xu Chuan had an embarrassment on his face. He didn't listen, and he didn't listen. He wanted to leave but couldn't. His whole body was numb.

This was probably the first time someone other than his parents had nagged him like this, and it was someone he could only stand there and listen to.

Fortunately, it didn't take long before Prince Faisal and Abdul Rahman from the United Arab Emirates came down from the space shuttle to help him out.

After all, he is the prince from the Middle East. Since he has arrived, the old man still has to say hello in a friendly way.

"Huh~"

Heaving a sigh of relief, Xu Chuan, who had escaped disaster while the two sides were communicating, was just about to sneak away quietly when he was pulled back by Director Wu Yuankang from the space agency.

After coming down from outer space hundreds of kilometers high, no matter what happens, you have to undergo a comprehensive physical examination.

Although he felt that everything was fine about his physical condition, he could not bear the demands of his superiors. Xu Chuan, Prince Faisal and others who went to heaven together this time were taken to the 301 People's Liberation Army General Hospital and admitted to the hospital.

Various instruments and equipment were used on the body, but acupuncture was just missing.

Although he is not interested in these things, Xu Chuan also knows that this is for his own good. After all, we are on a trip to outer space. If we don’t check it thoroughly, no one will be at ease.

Fortunately, although he lives in the hospital, his daily activities are not restricted.

Of course, this unrestricted means that there are no restrictions on activities in the hospital. As for discharge, according to the words of the old experts in the hospital, it still needs to be observed for a period of time.

As for how long the observation will last, it’s hard to say. It could take as little as a week and a half, or as long as several months.

Hearing these words, Xu Chuan's face turned pale.

If he really needs to stay in the hospital for several months and half a year, wouldn't that be a lie?

After all, there are so many things outside waiting for him to deal with, so how can he spend so much time here.

However, the old experts insisted on observing each other, and even took the example of astronauts also needing to be hospitalized for recovery for the first time to go to space. Xu Chuan had no choice but to take one step at a time.

In the ward, Xu Chuanxian took out his mobile phone from his pocket in boredom and scrolled through the news.

A report from NASA caught his eye.

This is news related to manned spaceflight, or space travel.

After the failure of the Artemis lunar module, the United States and NASA launched the first commercial spacecraft launch plan with an all-civilian crew through SpaceX in order to make a comeback in the aerospace field.

According to news reports, the commercial spacecraft named "SpaceX Crew Dragon" will be launched a week later, on September 15.

After reaching orbit, the spacecraft will dock with the International Space Station and stay in a low-Earth orbit of 400 kilometers for 24 hours.

In addition to NASA's "former astronaut" Michael Lopez-Alegría, there are three tourists who are conducting this "space travel" plan.

They are Larry Connor from the United States, Mark Passi from the Maple Leaf Country of North America, and Iltan Stibbe from Israel.

Each of the three passengers had to pay `65 million' for this space trip.

After reading the news, Xu Chuan had nothing else in his mind, only a number.

Sixty-five million meters of gold!

Still alone!

"Oh my god, are these people so rich?"

Looking at the news reported by NASA, Xu Chuan couldn't help but swallow.

Sixty-five million rice coins. According to the current exchange rate, one person is worth 290 million yuan, and three people are almost 1 billion.

Good guy, you're not that quick to rob a bank, right?

Taking a deep breath, Xu Chuan suddenly remembered something. He quickly opened the photo album on his phone and found the photos he took on the Xinghai.

It would be outrageous for him not to spend this money properly!

PS: It’s the beginning of the month, please help me with my monthly tickets. There will be another chapter later, but not until after 12 o'clock.