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You never know until you try; space is truly amazing.

The group was having a great time in the relatively traditional space station, with Du Kangsheng feeling it the most. Among them, he was the only one who had been in Earth orbit and completed tasks involving operating equipment in zero gravity.

During this time, Tang Chao also inquired about his experience, and he reported it truthfully.

Because the orbital shuttle and the space station have some differences, the feeling is definitely different, but in comparison, his previous model exercises on the ground were not on the same level as now.

"Boss, the simulated state of the virtual reality space is very realistic. In my previous exercises, there was a rather risky indicator called 'feel.' As long as I mastered it, I wouldn't make mistakes even with my eyes closed. However, due to the difference in gravity between the ground and space, this project is very difficult to practice."

"Today's virtual space practice gave me a big surprise. Whether it's the gravity index, button material, interaction state, or tactile feedback, it all made me feel like I was operating in real space."

"As a training device, it is very perfect. However, if there is anything different or lacking, it is probably the lack of tactile feedback. All the feelings are very similar, but it always feels like something is missing, like eating braised meatballs with half meat and half flour. Although it has that flavor, it's still missing half the meat, which is a bit disappointing."

"And if you look closely, you can still find that this space station is not so real, just like playing a game. No matter how realistic the modeling becomes, it is always different from true reality."

After listening to Du Kangsheng's report, Tang Chao nodded, "Your feeling is correct. After you finish a process, we will tell you in detail."

Du Kangsheng nodded and continued to lead a group of "trainee astronauts in training" to experience the wonderful virtual space journey.

However, the entire process cannot be entirely in space. Since Tang Chao said that the forest at the beginning was also part of the astronaut training, then they will definitely be allowed to see it.

Moreover, they are only doing an experience this time, and only have a few hours. Many processes will be shortened, after all, their bodies are still lying in bed. After a few hours, they have to eat and go to the bathroom, otherwise it will easily cause problems.

In addition to the floating experience in the space station, Tang Chao also arranged physical exercises for them in the Earth environment.

Physical fitness, as a basic condition for human survival, is also essential in the training process of astronauts.

After all, only a healthy and strong body can withstand the harsh environment of space, so as not to have physical problems in a day or two, and then take an expensive spacecraft back to the ground, and the ground has to launch another manned rocket to replenish the experimental personnel.

In addition to basic physical training, other aspects of tolerance must also be considered. Therefore, in order to comprehensively improve the physical fitness of astronauts and improve their adaptability and tolerance to special environmental factors, astronauts need to be exposed to and stimulated by special space environmental factors, such as G-force, weightlessness, stimulation of the vestibular organs, noise, and high and low temperatures.

The purpose of G-force adaptation training is to allow astronauts to adapt to the G-force environment during the launch and re-entry of spacecraft, and to enhance their ability to resist G-force. The training methods mainly use centrifuges to simulate the G-force curve during the take-off and return of spacecraft, and to conduct chest-back anti-G training and head-pelvis endurance training.

In order to reduce the incidence of space motion sickness, vestibular function training is also required.

This training uses rotating and swinging equipment such as swivel chairs and swings to generate linear acceleration and Coriolis acceleration, or allows astronauts to move their heads on weightless aircraft to stimulate the vestibular organs of the subjects to improve the tolerance of the vestibular organs.

Other special environmental factor adaptability training includes aircraft flight training, parachute training, vibration and noise experience, crew cabin atmospheric environment experience, and isolation environment experience, etc.

These physical tests cannot be realized in virtual space, but Tang Chao can let them experience the mental aspects, and even accelerate the entire experience process.

For example, when doing physical exercises, running is definitely more and more tiring. If humans want to break through themselves, they must not only allow their bodies to adapt to that feeling of fatigue, but also allow their minds to resist fatigue.

In reality, you can only run as you go, running a few kilometers or more than ten kilometers, but in the virtual world, as long as you modify a few values, you can experience the fatigue of running five kilometers after running fifty meters.

This feeling of fatigue impacts the brain's nerves, constantly sending out "want to rest" signals. After doing it a few more times, the brain adapts to this signal and generates resistance.

Then, when you go out and run again, if your body "advises you" to rest, you can resist it with this familiar feeling, and then break through yourself, allowing yourself to run farther, squeeze your body's potential, and make yourself stronger.

Although these body-related trainings cannot directly act on the body in virtual space, they can at least give astronauts a "psychological preparation", so its strength lies in the real "psychological preparation".

Psychological training is an essential part of astronaut training.

Because performing space missions requires leaving our familiar environment, and this environmental change has a great impact on psychology.

Especially in the early space activities, the living environment provided to astronauts by manned spacecraft, whether it is space or diet, is not very good. Staying in such a small environment for a long time and having to endure the noise of the machine running 24 hours a day is quite difficult.

And if this feeling affects the astronaut's psychology, it is very easy to produce unimaginable consequences.

Space is not like on the ground. If you are upset on the ground, you can go out for some fresh air, but in space, death awaits outside the door.

With the progress of technology, although all aspects have been improved, the working and living environment of astronauts is still relatively "harsh".

Psychological training is to allow astronauts to psychologically adapt to the situation in space before they go to space, such as adapting to confined spaces, adapting to noise, adapting to teamwork, and adapting to tightening a screw for an hour, so as to enhance psychological stability.

Because the complexity of performing tasks increases, each flight has several members to complete. Science has proven that chatting can relax your mood.

Of course, the premise is not to chat with a topic killer.

And humans, as social creatures, are very much in need of companionship from their own kind. If they are always alone, then the time it takes for them to have problems is definitely faster than the time it takes for a group to have problems.

Even those so-called stay-at-home otaku often chat with silly netizens through the Internet, otherwise they will easily have psychological problems if they really stay alone.

It just so happens that space missions require multi-person cooperation, so except for the initial limitations of space technology that allowed one person to enter space, subsequent missions have at least been two-person teams.

In order to make the members reach the level of "telepathy" as soon as possible, advance team training and running-in has also become an important part of psychological training.

Practice has proved that training the entire team together is very important for improving their work efficiency in space.

Generally, the time for astronauts to train together is very long, no less than half a year for short-term space missions, one year for medium-term space missions, and more than two years for long-term space missions.

The most important thing is that they could only train with models on the ground before, and then they had to run in for a while after entering space and becoming weightless. Overall, the time was even longer.

In virtual space, you can directly skip many steps and directly let the astronaut team train in a "space-like" environment. Since you are going to perform a space mission, then the test must be carried out in "space".

If an astronaut can't withstand the psychological pressure and directly opens the hatch and wipes out the entire team, there is no way to do anything in reality, so they can only do strict simulations on the ground.

It's different in virtual space. The only things wiped out by opening the hatch are some data. With safety equipment protection, the members will only feel a little pain, and there will be no accidents themselves.

Even the pain of death exposed to the vacuum environment can be eliminated, after all, that is the feeling of death, which will put a lot of psychological pressure on the members.

For training, only keep the feelings inside the cabin.

Of course, if safe scientific research finds that a slight feeling of death can make people cherish life more, it may be used again.

The most important thing is that this realistic space environment can find unstable factors in advance, and then run in a few more times to quickly form a team that is really suitable for performing the mission.

This is the role of neuro-immersive virtual space.