A big country of aerospace with black technology

The King's Science and Technology Space City in Camel Country is still undergoing preliminary institutional construction.

They want to build a complete set of aerospace technology and systems.

There is still a long, long way to go.

"Are you ready to take off?"

At the launch site in the early morning, the sky was still dim.

The three astronauts, who had just gotten up and finished their personal hygiene work, held a final pep rally before liftoff.

"Report to the commander-in-chief that all preparations for takeoff have been completed."

As the commander, Jing Haipeng reported the report with a calm expression.

Zhang Xingyang nodded, feeling quite relieved about him.

As the oldest member of the crew, Jing Haipeng is also the most stable one.

What worries Zhang Xingyang the most.

In fact, she is the only woman among the crew.

Liu Yang.

The space environment will not show any mercy to you just because you are a woman.

In fact, female astronauts will encounter a lot of troubles in space.

Especially in terms of bathing, excretion, personal hygiene, etc.

But as the first domestic crew to occupy the space station.

Still after rounds of discussions, it was decided to have a female astronaut.

From a scientific point of view, this is a great exploration for future female astronauts to work in space.

In the domestic astronaut training mechanism, there are also many female astronauts selected from female pilots.

So far, there are three women who have completed astronaut training and are about to complete astronaut training.

This is a relatively large proportion.

From the perspective of crew coordination, there is such a careful and gentle astronaut.

It allows everyone to work well.

"Report to the Commander-in-Chief, I have completed all preparations."

Compared to the calm and seasoned Jing Haipeng, Liu Yang's mentality seems to be slightly worse.

Zhang Xingyang could hear the confusion in her breathing.

Of course, as the overall commander of the entire launch mission.

Zhang Xingyang chose to believe her and was indeed prepared for everything.

"I wish you a safe return!"

Zhang Xingyang didn't say any more gorgeous words, just plain blessings.

During a manned space mission, there is nothing more reassuring than a safe return.

After a simple breakfast.

The three astronauts who were about to launch into space aboard the Shenzhou-6 rocket held a brief reception.

In the past few years, there have been a relatively large number of domestic manned space launch missions.

Basically, everyone doesn’t find it novel after seeing this kind of thing too much.

But this time, there is something different.

Their activity space and activity time will be much larger and longer than before.

Photographers from several major media took pictures of the astronauts who had put on their spacesuits in front of the podium.

The spotlight keeps shining.

Take photos of the smiling faces of the astronauts before they go to space.

After a brief speech.

The crew and astronauts waved their hands under the gaze of everyone.

Say your final goodbyes to your family, friends and friends on earth.

The positions of the three people in the spacecraft have been fixed for a long time.

They have been training for all this for several years.

You can't go wrong even with your eyes closed.

Jing Haipeng sits in the middle as the commander, Liu Yang is on the left, and Liu Wang is on the right.

It took thirty minutes for the three of them to complete the preparations before taking off.

Taking into account the physiological characteristics of the only female astronaut, a special spare clothing bag, a special cabin pressure suit, a urine and feces collection device, and a female-specific hygiene kit were added to the spacecraft.

It can be said that everything that can be considered has been considered.

If there are still unexpected contents, we can only wait until the next cargo ship is replenished.

Bring it up together.

The time waiting for launch is still so difficult.

Especially for the three astronauts sitting quietly in the spacecraft.

Inside the spaceship, you can almost hear each other breathing.

Even the psychological quality of astronauts is far higher than that of normal people.

Emotions are as stable as an electrocardiogram without any ups and downs.

At this time, I was more or less nervous.

After Jing Haipeng noticed this, he chatted with everyone in a low voice.

It barely relieved everyone's mood.

Start to maintain a stable mood and wait for the rocket launch moment to arrive.

Staying in a small spaceship, time seems to pass very slowly.

It seemed that after more than half a century, the countdown to launch finally came.

Accompanied by the timer reaching zero and the command center shouting "launch".

Before everyone in the spacecraft could react.

The surging propulsion came from under the seat.

The firmly locked five-point safety belt fixed everyone on the seat.

At this time, in fact, even if they don't wear seat belts, there won't be any problems.

The huge inertia will press them hard on the chair.

"The launch of the rocket is more exciting than imagined."

Liu Yang said to the other two with a smile.

"It's kind of cool!"

Jing Haipeng, who had always been calm and serious, couldn't help but groan a little.

The rocket flying at high speed stimulates the crazy secretion of dopamine in everyone in the spacecraft.

Bringing people an unprecedented exciting experience.

Although I have experienced acceleration training like this countless times in the training base.

But compared to a real rocket launch.

Only then did I realize that there was still a lot missing in training.

It can never achieve the effect of real emission.

During the ascent of the rocket, there is actually very little the astronauts can do.

All they can do is wait inside the spacecraft.

Waiting for the rocket to reach the predetermined altitude.

Staring at the altimeter in the cabin, the three fell into silence again except for the initial brief exchange.

The altimeter goes up almost every second.

In just over a hundred seconds, it had already reached the edge of the Earth's atmosphere.

At this time, if you look out from the rocket.

You can even see the semicircular outline of the Earth and its bluish-white atmosphere.

The spacecraft experienced its first slight vibration.

Then came another force.

All the astronauts present knew that the first-stage rocket had separated and the second-stage rocket had successfully started.

After getting rid of the first-stage rocket, there will basically be no more large-scale aerospace accidents.

Even if something goes wrong, their lives can be saved.

The Tiangong-1 space station has been waiting for them in space for dozens of days.

Starting 21 days before the launch of the spacecraft, Tiangong-1 began to lower its orbital altitude in preparation for docking with the spacecraft.

After several days of orbit-lowering operations, Tiangong-1 has entered a nearly circular docking orbit with an altitude of approximately 343 kilometers.

Tens of minutes after launch, the Shenzhou-6 spacecraft successfully entered its intended orbit.

Inside the spacecraft, the three of them clearly felt as if the gravity that had restrained them for decades no longer existed.

My spine seemed to be more relaxed than ever before.

Entering the predetermined orbit is just the first step for the Shenzhou-6 spacecraft.

So, after briefly experiencing the space environment.

Several people started their own work.

Liu Yang loosened his seat belt and subconsciously glanced at the earth through the porthole of the spacecraft.

Seen from space, a mountain as tall as the sky seems to be nothing more than a small mound.

Two large rivers that are thousands of meters long are just two small snakes.

After thinking about this in my own mind, I started my work.

The first thing to do when entering space is to increase your orbital altitude.

The Shenzhou-6 spacecraft was in an elliptical orbit at this time.

The perigee height is less than 200 kilometers.

I want to complete the docking with the Tiangong-1 space station.

The altitude of the spacecraft must be raised to the 343 kilometers where Tiangong-1 is currently located.

It takes a whole day to say the least.

"We are all busy, let's get ready for dinner."

As the leader of the three-person team, Jing Haipeng said when he saw that the scheduled time was coming.

During the first manned space flight, astronauts could only eat cold meals and self-heating food.

During the second manned space flight, they brought a small microwave oven to space.

Finally had hot rice for the first time.

This time, their eating habits escalated again.

There are even two small pots on the cargo spacecraft.

They can be allowed to complete some simple stir-fries and stews in the space station.

This is simply a dimensionality-reducing blow to the current aerospace food industry!

Eating a hot stir-fry in space is no less than a sip of popsicles on a hot day, or a sip of sweet milk tea late at night in winter.

"We won't get any good food today."

Jing Haipeng floated in the cabin, took out a few bags of self-heating rice and said:

"But it's not bad if you can have hot meals."

The spacecraft has not yet completed docking with the space station, and they cannot cook for themselves yet.

You can only eat self-heating rice carried by the spacecraft.

There are actually a lot of these things on the spaceship.

Enough for them to eat three meals a day for 120 days.

And their mission time is only 90 days.

So rich!

Skillfully tying dinner plates to their legs, everyone picked up their own self-heating rice and shook it, hoping to mix it more evenly.

"When we get to the space station, I'll let you guys try my skills." Liu Wang, the least talkative among the three, said at this time.

In fact, several people can cook.

However, a few people did not go into detail and make a very detailed plan for this matter.

The original plan was to take one day at a time for you and me.

However, now it seems someone wants to show off their skills.

Naturally, the remaining two people are indispensable.

After finishing the simple self-heating rice, several people had some dessert.

Mainly various freeze-dried vegetables and fruits.

It is difficult for their manned spacecraft to preserve various fresh vegetables.

However, it is said that a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables can be stored on the cargo spacecraft.

After a day, the track changed.

The Shenzhou-6 manned spacecraft finally reached the same height as Tiangong-1.

When both are at approximately the same height.

Shenzhou-6 flies in front and Tiangong-1 flies in the rear.

The two began to complete automatic docking according to the predetermined procedure.

Considering the impact of light on automatic docking, the entire process is carried out within the sunlit area.

Because the dimness of light and shadow will affect the accuracy of the optical camera.

In areas with full sunlight, there are more clutters in the universe.

For the degree of automatic docking.

It is a bigger test.

After the automatic rendezvous and docking procedure started, the three people in the spacecraft fell into waiting again.

As the first docking between a space station and a spacecraft in China, the automatic control program is more reliable than humans.

Only in the second docking experiment will they use manual docking.

Come and gain some experience.

As time passed, the three people in the spacecraft felt almost nothing.

The docking is over.

I didn’t even feel the slightest reaction!

This is mainly because both of them are floating in the air, and the little force generated by the docking has almost no impact.

After the docking is completed, Shenzhou-6 and Tiangong-1 formed a larger combination.

The astronauts are about to work inside Tiangong-1.

And if they want to enter, there are only two gates standing in front of them.

After putting on their space suits, the three of them lined up like primary school students.

Start taking turns to enter Tiangong-1.

Jing Haipeng led the way and was responsible for opening the door.

Liu Wang was at the end of the team and was responsible for closing the two doors.

Of course, the three astronauts did not enter the space station completely empty-handed.

It is still necessary to transfer some living and scientific research supplies from the spacecraft to the space station.

Within the space station, carbon dioxide purification equipment, microbial control equipment, and life support equipment have all been turned on for several hours.

So after a few people entered, the first thing they smelled was the air with the fragrance of grass and trees.

Liu Yang was a little surprised.

Even if no one enters for several months, it can still maintain such an environment.

It is enough to prove how advanced the air circulation technology of this space station is.

Important supplies were transferred to the space station this time.

It is a small survey telescope.

This telescope will accompany Tiangong-1 as a companion flight.

This is also a good start for domestic astronomical undertakings that want to find their own path.

Survey telescopes can not only reveal many scenes inside galaxies and deep space in the universe.

It can also allow us to better understand the major planets in the solar system.

The design and construction cost of a survey telescope is very high, almost as expensive as an entire rocket and a manned spacecraft.

Investment in this kind of basic field is inherently easy to fail to recover the cost.

Fortunately, Zhang Xingyang came forward and talked to many big bosses.

Only then did they agree to invest in this huge telescope project.

"Oh, I'm so exhausted."

After completing the initial cargo transfer and sorting, Liu Wang felt that he had sweated a lot.

This sweat is sucked away through the water circulation system on the space station bulkhead.

Then he took a big sip from the water bag to replenish water.

"Shall we take a group photo as a souvenir?"

Jing Haipeng said after completing his work.

Liu Wang and Liu Yang are also happy to leave their own images.

From a camera on the bulkhead, some parameters were adjusted.

Jing Haipeng quickly called the two people over.

The three of them struck a more serious pose.

I left with a smile, the first photo of the interior of the Longguoren space station!