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

"This is Tuanjie shuttle, received please reply (This is the Tuanjie shuttle, please reply if you hear it), This is Tuanjie shuttle, received please reply..."

Since the six astronauts come from four countries, the language of communication can only be English.

Fortunately, as astronauts, everyone speaks English very well. Only Lin Ju on the ground needs a translator to understand. He swore directly in the launch center that if he wanted to go into space one day, he must speak Chinese.

At the same time that Li Sheng started calling, Oleg was already waiting for the radio signal in the return cabin of TMA-17M. He heard Li Sheng's first call.

Oleg couldn't help but feel excited when he thought that the Unity might be thousands of kilometers behind him at this time.

On the Unity, the three of them all heard a deep Maoist voice: "Dawalishi! KI Taidawalishi! (Transliteration: Comrade, Comrade Huaguo!)"

Then came a Chinese greeting and thickly accented English: "Hello! It's Soyuz TMA-17M!"

Deng Lei suddenly fell into a trance. When he heard Davarixi, he seemed to have returned to that winter night 24 years ago. Since then, Lucia rarely called "Davarisi" to Chinese people. At this moment, she seemed to have recalled her relationship with Mao Zedong. The years when bears fell in love and killed each other.

Zhang Zhiguang and Li Sheng were older, and they were very close to each other. The two sides unconsciously used "Davarishi" to communicate with each other, and there was no chance for Lindgren and Keimi Arii to interrupt.

Even in Baikonur, many older people began to talk about Davarich, and some with gray hair even began to recall the time when they went to support industrial construction...

If the Unity was not chasing TMA-17M at a speed of more than 28,000 kilometers per hour, the scene might have turned into a class friendship promotion association.

Both NACA, Lucia and the Chinese Space Administration have rich experience in space docking and have accurately formulated rendezvous procedures.

Unity's intelligent computer interacts with satellite data to fine-tune its direction bit by bit, and is expected to catch up with the Soyuz spacecraft in 110 seconds.

At this time, 5 hours and 19 minutes before the launch of the Soyuz TMA-17M mission, it took only 223 minutes for the Unity crew to receive the order, setting a world record.

Zhang Zhiguang still remembers that he was finishing the warm-up training and was chewing on a snake fruit when he was suddenly summoned urgently.

This kind of emergency assembly is familiar to military personnel, but to them it is nothing more than a drill. Who knew that they would have to go into space and perform tasks outside the vehicle?

It has been 7 years and 11 months since he last entered space and conducted a spacewalk.

At the Qiongzhou Launch Control Center, Lin Ju looked at the simulation animation on the big screen. Unity and Soyuz TMA-17M were already close at hand, the second-stage rocket had already separated, and Unity had begun to slow down.

Oleg stared out the window, hoping to see a small white dot appear in the darkness.

But due to the damage to the center of the spacecraft and several explosions, Soyuz TMA-17M was actually spinning at an angle, and the Earth could only be seen every once in a while.

On the radio, he already knew that the Unity was only a few dozen kilometers away from them and was undergoing its final deceleration.

On the other side of the porthole, Arii Keimi and Lindgren crowded in front of the porthole, and suddenly saw a small dot that flickered on and off. It was the Unity that was slowing down.

"Space shuttle! Space shuttle!"

Deng Lei took over the command of the Unity. The position of the radar mark coincided with the small spot jointly monitored and controlled by various countries. They were only more than a thousand meters away from the Alliance TMA-17M, but due to the problem of the direction of the light, they could still only see darkness.

In the back seat, Zhang Zhiguang had grabbed his survival backpack and looked at the porthole in front.

"Target, 500 meters!"

"200 meters!"

The distance was getting closer and closer, and the dark green and white Alliance TMA-17M (damaged) finally appeared in the field of vision. Deng Lei flashed the signal light, and then the RCS began to spray nitrogen to slow down and approach the spacecraft.

In Oleg's field of vision, when the return capsule rotated to the earth's side, the white upper part of the Unity and the blue portholes appeared in the light.

"явасвижу, I see you Китайскийтоварищ! (I see, I see you Comrade Hua Guo!)"

Lindgren and Ariei Keimi also suddenly became active in the narrow return capsule, and hurriedly stared out the porthole at the increasingly larger Unity.

"She is so beautiful."

Lindgren gave his most sincere praise and looked at the Unity without moving.

Li Sheng reported to the ground the observed situation of the Alliance TMA-17M that was rolling:

"At the command center, only the combination of the return module and the orbital module is left on the Alliance spacecraft. Visual inspection has not separated. It is rolling at 11 degrees. Our aircraft has arrived more than 10 meters away and requested the use of a robotic arm to correct the attitude of the target spacecraft and then carry out rescue operations. !”

During the video conference, the space agencies of the three countries and Xinyuan Aerospace confirmed the status and fuel remaining of the Unity and approved the operation.

At this time, Zhang Zhiguang finally unbuckled his seat belt, and Li Sheng also got out of the seat, carefully helped him install the life-support backpack, and finally pulled the metal buckle on Zhang Zhiguang's mask to lock and seal.

Zhang Zhiguang pressed the button on his left arm to activate the extravehicular mode, and the life-support backpack immediately began to work and cycle independently.

"Dongliang (02), check the status of the space suit."

"Dongyao (01), I am in good condition, the instructions are normal, and I can leave the cabin!"

Li Sheng nodded, then he sat on the chair in the second row and pulled down his mask with Deng Lei.

Behind the crew cabin, the transition airlock began to pressurize until it equalized the air pressure of the crew cabin and the electric door slid open, revealing a square exit nearly two meters high. Zhang Zhiguang easily passed through it as soon as he lowered his head.

Then the inner cabin door was closed, the status of the space suit was confirmed again, and the airlock was depressurized.

Inside the airlock, Zhang Zhiguang watched as the pressure gauge on the bulkhead dropped to zero, and the indicator light on the outer hatch changed from red to green, and he gently pressed the button.

Since the vacuum had been drawn, the outer hatch opened smoothly. Zhang Zhiguang first floated half of his body gently, and his left arm touched an area next to the upper hatch of the aircraft body. A circular cover opened, revealing four safety ropes. One end.

After crossing the rope in a circle, Zhang Zhiguang fixed the buckle around his waist, pulled it to make sure it was OK, and carefully sat on the hatch.

Less than ten meters away from him was the Alliance TMA-17M, which was tumbling irregularly. The Unity's RCS all over its body was still spraying air from time to time.

Looking to the left, the huge Pacific Ocean is at his feet. Zhang Zhiguang saw Hawaii at a glance.

In the crew cabin, Deng Lei flipped the switch on his head, pushed the buckle to prevent accidental touch, and the cargo door on the back of the Unity slowly opened.

Because it is a passenger type, the cargo hold of the Unity is horizontally rectangular instead of vertical. It is only big enough to hold a car, and the carrying capacity is greatly reduced. Fortunately, there is no need to carry anything for this mission.

The folded robotic arm stretched out synchronously. Zhang Zhiguang, who was sitting on the space shuttle, gently pushed the small rocker on his left arm with his thumb, and the claw moved little by little toward the Soyuz spacecraft.

"Cave Three, get closer, to within five meters. The length of the claw is too limited."

After receiving the message, Deng Lei first turned on the automatic obstacle avoidance system and lowered the trigger value to 2 meters. Then he carefully moved forward and to the right, approaching the spacecraft at a speed of 0.1m/s.