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"Jay, Jay, which university are you planning to apply to? Let your brother know."

"Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics."

"Whoa, Jay, are you really going for that? I thought you were joking."

"Of course. I never joke about these things."

"Jay, no! If you go to the University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, how will we hang out in the future?"

"Then you apply to the University of Aeronautics and Astronautics too."

"I want to, but the problem is I can't get in. With the emergence of Pathfinder Aerospace, aerospace is super popular now. The admission scores for related majors will definitely increase a lot this year. Ah, I'm just good at playing Pathfinder's 'Interstellar Era' and so-so at 'Space Simulator,' but my academic grades..."

Looking at his good buddy scratching his head frantically over university applications, Lu Jie smiled noncommittally.

He couldn't empathize with his buddy's worries, after all, he was not only an ultimate lucky dog but also a top student with excellent grades.

If it weren't for Pathfinder sparking his growing interest in aerospace, he might have followed his family's traditional wish and gone to Tsinghua or Peking University.

Like others, he had considered which of the two schools to attend since he was a kid. Others might have been overthinking it, but he definitely had the ability to consider it.

Now, at an important moment in his high school career, combined with his experiences during this time, he decided to apply to Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

The learning environment for students now is very different from before, especially in Tianxia, where the differences in learning are even greater.

The shipment volume of VR helmets is increasing, and more and more companies and institutions are participating in the construction of the VR world, making the VR world more and more complete.

In combination with Tianxia's subsidy policies, more and more Tianxia students are using VR helmets and learning in VR academies.

Anyone who has used a VR helmet to play games knows how strong its "immersion" is, so it has the same effect on learning.

Students can learn knowledge in all kinds of small VR environments, and even because of the characteristics of VR, the nature of "edutainment" is becoming more and more prominent, allowing more and more students to truly like learning, or at least not be so resistant to it.

As long as it's not something they resist, children accept it quickly.

Moreover, there are many hardcore simulation games related to learning, some developed in cooperation with the education department and some companies, and some companies will actively develop similar games.

After all, the world is so big, you really can't figure out what some companies are thinking.

Some games also involve knowledge, but it doesn't overlap with the knowledge in the compulsory education stage, but if you play it, you can also learn a lot, such as the most popular one in the world right now, 'Interstellar Era' from Pathfinder Entertainment.

With aerospace being so popular, its popularity is very high. It includes gameplay such as spaceship operation and some astronaut space survival, activities, and work, which requires players to adapt.

Some professional astronauts have said that those things are good "pre-training." If players can learn and master them, then they can take a "shortcut" to becoming astronauts when the conditions are right.

Of course, it's a shortcut in training. If it usually takes a year to train to become an astronaut, they can do it in half a year, or even three or four months.

Later, Pathfinder released a simulator that simulates super soldiers and hardcore space warfare. Pathfinder said it was hardcore, but humans have never had super soldiers or fought space wars, so people don't know how hardcore it is.

But since they say it's hardcore, it's definitely going to be difficult to play.

So compared to the more entertaining 'Interstellar Era,' this simulator has far fewer players.

However, people who can't play this kind of difficult hardcore simulator basically don't like it, but some people who love it really love it.

Because the simulator is too difficult, basically anyone who likes it can become a hardcore fan.

Lu Jie was among this group of people. He was now curious about everything about Pathfinder. Since there was such a game, of course he wanted to experience it.

And you know what, his talent was really good, and he quickly became famous in fleet command.

Moreover, this group of people created several group chats, and even Tang Chao was in them. It was said that Tang Chao would occasionally stroll around in the group, and if you could meet him, it meant you were really lucky.

Lu Jie had only met him 16 times.

Tang Chao didn't just talk to himself in the group every time, and he interacted with the group members a lot. Except for the short online time and few times, he was not much different from the average group member.

No, there was still a difference. Although the group was not created by Tang Chao, but by a boss in the simulator game, when Tang Chao joined, he became one of the administrators.

Tang Chao would talk about things about the simulator in the group, and also talk about some skills, and he also made a promise that he would sometimes come to the group to draw a lottery, draw one or two places to send to space for a tour, which made the group members even more excited.

They quickly set up a lot of group entry questions, and the review became more and more strict, and they must never let the people behind easily enter the group, and they must get a certain score.

After filling out the university application, Lu Jie left the school.

Although this process can be done directly in the VR classroom, this is, after all, an important event in life, so it is more ceremonial to do it in a real school.

Moreover, although Pathfinder has increased the shipment volume of VR helmets, it still has not covered all the students in Tianxia.

So these years are destined to be years of change, and many things cannot be decided by the schools below, and the education department needs to supervise them, and many things need them to make decisions.

They need to make multiple-choice questions between schools with VR space helmets and schools without VR space helmets, especially score multiple-choice questions.

At the beginning, there was the title of reform pilot, but after a few months, even a fool could see the gap between the two sides, so before the full replacement is completed, this year's important exams are destined to have a lot of score conversion methods.

How to calculate the scores of those with helmets, how to calculate the scores of those without helmets, they all have to go to school. If the existence of helmets occupies a large number of school places, then those students who originally had good grades but did not have helmets will definitely protest.

The key is not that the students don't want to buy helmets, but that the number of helmets is not enough.

So the interests of students without helmets need to be guaranteed.

Anyway, there is a transition period here, and this transition period is the most difficult to do, but once this transition period is over, all the schools in Tianxia will use VR helmets and VR academies, and the teaching level of Tianxia will definitely usher in a collective leap!

This is a very important era of change.

When Lu Jie walked out of the teaching building with his buddy, they looked up at the sky at the same time.

This was already a habit of the two, and not only they had this habit, but many people now had this habit.

This is also a kind of change.

It has been more than two months since humans first modified and upgraded artificial satellites and added fuel in space orbit, giving a new life to a nearly scrapped satellite and rejoining the mission.

In these two months, the industrial area of the Heavenly Palace Space Station has been completed and has become a new space facility that can compete with the International Space Station in appearance in space.

In fact, its construction progress is not 100%, but 120%, because it not only installed fuel storage tanks, but also added a medium-sized rotating simulated gravity cabin between the manufacturing center and the fuel storage tanks.

Yes, Pathfinder has changed the plan of the Heavenly Palace Space Station again.

After more than two months, the commercial area finally started construction and began docking in space.

Tianxia's many private aerospace companies began to enter the market. Their first batch of 4.2-meter-diameter commercial service cabins have been manufactured and tested, and they have begun to cooperate with the national team for launch.

However, their progress is still slow, and it will take at least more than a year to form a commercial area without a ring cabin.

This is actually very fast, but there is a perverted Pathfinder here.

The day when the three major areas of the Heavenly Palace are combined will be at least more than a year later, but the industrial area is becoming increasingly busy, and there are currently thirty resident space engineers.

Of these thirty people, only five people have been trained as traditional astronauts. The rest are directly selected from experts in rocket manufacturing, satellite manufacturing, and computers, and then sent to the space manufacturing center after some training.

Half of these are Pathfinder "astronauts", and their training is even simpler than the space engineers of the national team.

Of course, this refers to training in space skills. Their skills in engineering are not inferior to those of the national team.

The reason why they are allowed to come up so easily is that Pathfinder's space station is different from traditional space stations, and it is more suitable for human activities.

For daily actions, if the target is not very precise, just float over. If the target is precise, you need to turn on the electromagnetic shoes and walk step by step attached to the metal floor.

And in order to better allow these thirty space engineers to live and work in space, Pathfinder specially added a medium-sized ring cabin.

This is the first time Pathfinder has manufactured a medium-sized simulated gravity ring cabin. Although there have been successful examples of small ring cabins, this medium-sized ring cabin still has a certain experimental form.

Experimental result: Good!

This medium-sized ring cabin is the living area for space engineers. Rest, restaurant, exercise, entertainment, washing, etc. are all here. It can provide 0.52G of simulated gravity, which is not bad.

It can accommodate up to 50 people.

How to say this number, it is a bit too much for the industrial area. The International Space Station is not small, but its permanent residents are basically three people, and only during handover will there be six or seven people.

The reason for having so few people is because of consumption. The consumption of materials will definitely be faster with more people, and there will be no ability to send materials to the space station once a week at that time.

Too expensive, can't afford it.

The second is to consider the mental state of the astronauts.

The International Space Station looks not small, but most of them are solar cell arrays and trusses that fix them, which cannot accommodate people. The space that can accommodate people is only those few pressurized modules.

It looks like three or four meters in diameter, but because a lot of experimental equipment and armor need to be installed, the activity space inside is very narrow. Three people are just right, and it will definitely be crowded with more people.

The space environment has a great impact on humans. If the astronauts' mental state is affected by the crowded situation, and then they do something irrational, it will be terrible.

The Heavenly Palace's industrial area dares to play like this because its pressurized space is really large, and all aspects of technology are advanced.

The industrial area is a module with a diameter of more than ten meters. The space in the maintenance cabin is so large that dozens of people can somersault in it without touching each other.

Even if the satellite that needs to be repaired is installed inside, even if three are installed, the engineers can still easily work around them.

The diameter of the manufacturing center is larger than that of the maintenance cabin, but it is not empty inside, because it needs to classify, melt, manufacture and store some things, so it is divided into compartments inside.

However, a diameter of more than ten meters is enough to toss around. The places that need it are naturally larger, and the passages where no equipment needs to be installed are also two meters high. The astronauts wearing electromagnetic shoes "clanging" walk inside without showing any crowding.

Especially the medium-sized ring cabin, which is the magic weapon for astronauts to rest. The 0.5G simulated gravity is naturally not as good as the earth's gravity, but it is already very good in space.

And 0.5G will not float like the gravity of the moon and Mars, nor will it be as heavy as the gravity of the earth. In addition to exercising a little more than on the earth to reduce the loss of calcium and muscle, it seems to be better than the gravity of the earth.

The sense of oppression is not strong, and the waist is not easily crushed by gravity.

Also, because of the emergence of orbital shuttles, it is okay to transport supplies to the space station once a day.

Not to mention that it actually costs about one week to transport supplies once, so there is no fear of having too many people.

Even if it is slightly more expensive, the manufacturing center, maintenance cabin and fuel station can earn these money back many times over. The benefits they generate when they are running are quite amazing.

Now thirty people represent that the living limit has not been reached. The simulated gravity cabin can still hold twenty people, and these twenty people are prepared for large simulated gravity ring cabins.

Large gravity ring cabins cannot be transported in one piece, even if the Yishan is used, so some construction that is not too difficult needs to be carried out in space.

The two ring cabins in the commercial area will first dock with the industrial area, because the three major modules are currently not docked, so the engineers who work must also live in the industrial area, but the original thirty engineers have their own work to do and cannot be busy with the large ring cabin.

Then adding twenty people will solve this problem.

According to Pathfinder's mission process, it seems that this mission will begin in a month.

It's just that Pathfinder's plan can only be seen, because it will definitely be ahead of schedule. This is everyone's unanimous perception.

The outside world is waiting for this wave, so they often look at the sky unconsciously, thinking about what the wonderful scene will be like on the day when the Heavenly Palace Space Station is really completed.

Can it really be seen with the naked eye, without even a telephoto camera.

That scene will surely provide new inspiration to many.

As for the Pathfinders, they aren't rushing into the large orbital habitat project right now. Instead, they are busy with an unprecedented aerospace device.

Its modules are all built and waiting to be launched into space for assembly.

Once assembled, it will become a spacecraft of epoch-making significance!

PS: Book recommendation, it will be released soon, "Becoming a God Through Part-Time Jobs in the Heavens".

Synopsis: "As a car mechanic, is there a problem with me being good at driving? Dom?" - *The Fast and the Furious*

"As an IRS employee, isn't it my job to investigate your CIA's tax evasion and catch a couple of spies while I'm at it? Tom?" - *Mission: Impossible*

"As a courier, it's normal for me to run a little fast, right? Flash?" - *The Flash*

"As a gym trainer, is there anything wrong with me being a little strong? Clark?" - *Superman*

"As a wandmaker, isn't using a little magic a professional requirement? Dumbledore?" - *Harry Potter*

"As a chauffeur, isn't it only natural that I can drive a Mark armor? Tony?" - *Iron Man*

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