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

Beijing.

Several senior officials from the space agency were silent as they watched the citizens lined the streets to see off the Xinyuan-2 sample rocket for delivery, and the Il-76 taking off from the airport carrying a 6-meter-wide core stage that was too long and extended beyond the nose section. Longjiu commented:

"The low-Earth orbit carrying capacity is 45 tons. If they adopt their favorite CBC configuration for private spaceflight, and bundle two cores and one stage, the low-Earth orbit carrying capacity will be 140 tons, which can completely carry out lunar landing missions."

"The diameter is 6 meters, and the whole machine is processed. Xinyuan Company's equipment is amazing. I don't know where I found a machine that can process such a large diameter."

The white-haired Academician She called up the rocket imagination picture on Xinyuan's official website, his face full of disbelief.

"The Xinyuan-1 they launched last year was only a small rocket with a take-off weight of 100 tons, but the second one was already a giant rocket, and it was built so fast!

This capacity is already more than 1.5 times that of the Long March 5, and it can be reused! "

The boss also responded with a wry smile: "At the last exchange meeting, Lin Ju asked me for the qualification certificate to enter the national project. I originally thought that throwing some small satellites over would allow the space agency to focus on its own affairs, but this ...If we also use Xinyuan 2, we can launch a manned mission to the moon immediately."

Academician She thought for a while and suddenly said:

"I don't think the people at Xinyuan are several times smarter than us. I want to go to Xinyuan Company to see how they create such a miracle."

"This is a good idea. In addition, you can go to Ulan Hashan Base first. I heard that the H1 space shuttle in complete condition has been built. They have been notified there and are ready for Tu-154 to fly over to pick it up."

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"Hole five, hole six, please check the connector status."

"I got it on hole five." "I got it on hole six."

A Tu-154 was parked quietly at the take-off point of Ulan Hashan Airport. On its back was an H1 space shuttle that was in full condition and capable of carrying out manned missions.

At this time, the two pilots were ready, commander 05 (hole five) Deng Lei, deputy commander 06 (hole six) Li Wei, 01 to 04 were the crew members of Figure 154.

Zhao Xiaowen and Zhou Rui were still spinning in circles in the centrifuge at the 507 training center. They had no need or ability to learn how to operate the space shuttle in a short time, so they could just be used as payloads.

As for why there is an additional deputy commander Li Wei? According to him, he was worried that it would be unsafe for Deng Lei to operate alone. As the team leader, he had the responsibility to escort the trainees.

Of course, Xinyuan is also continuing to look for pilots who can fly the space shuttle. It has already contacted four outstanding pilots who are about to retire but are in good health and are willing to come over. However, they will have to wait until September before they can retire for training.

It is said that the H1 simulation cabin installed by Xinyuan in Ulan Hashan is not idle just because it only has Deng Lei as the commander. On the contrary, except for the 3 hours of downtime for maintenance every day, it is used almost all the time.

First of all, there are the retired pilots in Ulan Hashan. Some of them are relegated to the second line, and there are also ground staff who can fly but work as pilots on the ground. The crew of the Il-76 rented by Lin Ju also try it out every chance they get.

There are also many dear friends in the astronaut brigade who just found a way to move the weightless training venue to Ulan Hashan. Every time they come down, they have to fly the simulator first.

Xinyangguang has spent nearly 100 million yuan on this simulation cabin. The restoration level can reach almost 100%. Even the tremors of the fuselage are simulated. The screen is also Sony's latest and most expensive high-resolution display. In the dim There is almost no difference between the environment and the real machine, which makes people unforgettable.

Thanks to everyone being high-level intellectuals, Deng Lei's training time was not occupied, but people's love for the space shuttle was still beyond imagination.

This is the first manned flight test of H1. The Tu-154 will be launched to an altitude of 12,000 meters and then controlled by the pilot to land at the airport.

Knowing that Deng Lei still lacked a deputy commander, the team members rushed to offer help, but Captain Li one by one said, "The water in the space shuttle is too deep and you can't control it, so let the old aerospace company come." Yu grabbed a seat.

Although there are two empty seats left in H1, it is against safety regulations to bring so many people at once, and no more people are allowed to enter.

Over the past few months, Li Wei has long been familiar with the internal structure of H1, and has spent a little more time in the simulation cabin than Deng Lei.

At this time, he was wearing a gray and white lightweight cabin pressurized spacesuit and a helmet with a large observation window. He flipped the electrical switch with his fingers and checked the status of the flight control and connection points with Figure 154 with Deng Lei.

"Dongyao, I have completed the inspection. Everything is normal. You can take off. You can take off."

"Dongyao received, tower, Dongyao requested to take off."

"The tower has received it. It is allowed to take off. It is allowed to take off. Please pay attention to the climb rate and avoid insufficient flow surge in the back air inlet. Complete."

"Dongyao, I understand."

Wang Zhi slowly increased the throttle and released the wheel brake. The Tu-154 began to taxi on the ground. It was not until the end of the airport that he gently raised the nose of the aircraft and entered a large spiral route to fly to the predetermined altitude.

Well, he took off so softly to ensure air intake for the engine, not because Captain Li was right above his head.

On the ground, the members of the astronaut brigade looked at Tu 154 with envy as it spread its wings and flew high.

Academician She also blocked the sunlight with one hand and looked up at the H1 space shuttle whose outline was almost covered by Figure 154.

The employees of Xinyuan's ground department ran over and invited him to the ground control room to observe the flight attitude of H1.

Academician She nodded in agreement, and then found that this person looked familiar.

"You...are Xiao Ai, right? I only saw you in the Sixth Hospital last year. You seemed to have taken the lead in making a technological breakthrough in the turbine pump, right?"

"Well, I didn't expect you to still remember me. Mr. She, I am now the deputy director of Xinyuan's liquid power department and I am working on several engines."

Ai Yuanwei was a little embarrassed. Academician She defeated him at that time, but he changed jobs a few months later, feeling a little ashamed for no reason.

However, Academician She comforted him with relief: "It's okay, they are all companies in China. Things are different now. Private companies are also a big stage. Xinyuan is doing very well now.

If you take me to see it, will it involve your company secrets? "

"Of course not. You are here as a guide. How could you do something like that?"

Seeing the sincere expression on Ai Yuanwei's face, Mr. She felt complicated and didn't know what to say to Ai Yuanwei.

Can he say that the small space shuttle plan of the 1990s has been re-examined and re-examined?

When H1 successfully returns to the ground and can indeed prove the cost-effectiveness, the new generation of manned spacecraft will completely lag behind, and the need for research will be lost.

Now he is already preparing to revive the original small space shuttle plan, and will launch it as soon as it is proven to be more useful.

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