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

"Hiss...hiss..."

The insulation materials all over the Progress not only prevent high temperatures, but also have some additional functions, such as sound insulation.

Therefore, although Zhou Rui could feel the increasing overload, the loudest sound he could hear was only the sound of the life support system ventilating in the spacesuit.

After more than eight months of scientific training, Zhou Rui's state of mind has been as stable as his age.

He even moved slightly closer to the right, bringing his arm into contact with the trembling bulkhead and feeling the pulse of the rocket engine's fuel injection.

He knew that each engine under his body had a turbine pump power of hundreds of thousands of horsepower, and rocket engines were the most primitive and violent things.

The Progress's portholes were like windows that experienced a storm at night, constantly producing regular and clear shaking.

As time slowly passed, Zhou Rui felt that the scenery outside the porthole was divided. The front was an almost black dark blue, and the rear was emitting soft white light.

When the dark blue-to-black area almost expels the white light, the vibration that lasts almost forever stops abruptly, just like the absolute silence in the middle of the summer night when the cicada stops playing.

Zhou Rui's mind also went blank, and the scene in front of him changed as the world was spinning.

He remembered when he was a child, standing under the eaves, wearing a corduroy jacket, watching the raindrops hitting the mossy stone slopes.

I remember being put on the ox by my grandfather and led into the fields.

I think of that night when I was polishing burrs on parts in the factory, and I heard that the college entrance examination was resumed; I think of my first year of staying in school to teach, and I saw in the newspaper that the Columbia space shuttle was launched; I think of the news in 1992 that China was going to build its own manned spacecraft. Aerospace; thinking of joining the satellite project, I adjusted parameters day and night.

Zhou Rui once thought that being from a peasant family, becoming a professor would be the highest level in his life, but now, he will reach the highest level in the physical sense.

"Level 1 shutdown, level 1 separation."

"Secondary ignition!"

The command from the headset woke Zhou Rui from his memories, and there was a slight thrust on his back again, but it was almost negligible compared to when he took off.

This time he was finally able to turn his head sharply and look out the window, only to see that the first stage of Xinyuan 2 that had escaped was at a perpendicular angle to them, rapidly shrinking until it merged with the atmosphere.

The blue earth is like the Creator in the film. The flowing gas clouds on the surface exude a milky white light, like a beautiful sapphire in the dark space.

"Progress, this is the ground center. Please report the current status of your crew."

"I am 01, in good condition, finished!"

"02 Good status" "03 Good status"

When communication with the ground was restored again, the three finally felt that they were in touch with the earth again, and they no longer felt like they were wandering in the sky.

Deng Lei first greedily recorded the appearance of the earth through the porthole window, and then reluctantly turned his head to look at the two "payload" experts.

"02, how do you feel?"

Zhao Xiaowen also looked away from the window and gave two thumbs up:

"Great! Professor Zhou, where is your poem? It's time."

Only then did Zhou Rui remember the agreement they had made before going to heaven, to recite poems suitable for traveling in space in a solitaire manner. After thinking for a while, he said:

"Piancing and piancing,

Year after year;

The eternal dream of flying into the sky,

When to go to Jiutian? "

"good!"

Deng Lei looked at the starry sky in front of him and cheered loudly in the headset.

Zhao Xiaowen also praised him, and then he became confused. It starts with "天", which is not easy to find.

"Xiao Zhao, hurry up!"

"That's right, 02, you can't break your promise."

The last sentence came from Lin Ju. He heard the conversation between the three of them clearly on the ground and felt joy as they rushed out of the atmosphere.

Sending three humans into space has surpassed 99% of the countries in the world.

Still on the accelerating Progress-two stage rocket, Zhao Xiaowen held it in for a long time, finally thought of a sentence, and read it out directly:

"Heaven...creates all things to nourish man, and man has nothing to repay to Heaven."

The crew cabin's headset fell silent.

The center of the ground fell into silence.

After a while, Commander Deng Lei reluctantly said: "I also thought about it: the night is as cold as water in the sky, sit down and watch Altair and Vega."

"Okay! Okay! The commander is educated."

Zhou Rui wanted to ignore Xiao Zhao with loud praises, and then all of this was shown in the live broadcast.

Lin Ju covered his face and did not dare to read the comments.

"Level 2 shutdown, machine and arrow separation!"

At 550 seconds, the second-stage engine stopped working and separated. Progress took the three crew members into a low-Earth orbit with an inclination of 51 degrees and an altitude of 390 kilometers above the ground, orbiting the Earth in about 90 minutes.

The trio will orbit the earth 48 times at more than 20 times the speed of sound, fly for about 72 hours and conduct some scientific experiments, including physics, biology and other aspects. Only one requires scientific operations, and then bring the results and 50 kilograms of radiation. The mutated seeds return to Earth.

In order to save precious time, the commander Deng Lei removed the seat belt and fixed the helmet on the storage rack above.

Carefully pushing on the armrest of the chair, the whole person slowly floated towards Zhao Xiaowen.

"Cherish your time, great scientists, you don't have as much time to enjoy space as I do!"

…

"China's private aerospace company can send people into space within one year of its establishment. Why is it that it has been 13 years since specaX was established and five years after the Dragon spacecraft was launched, but we are still not allowed to carry out manned missions?"

On Little Blue Bird, Ma Yilong roared about being treated unfairly, and also posted a spoof photo of his face distorted with anger.

specaX is indeed sour, or Lao Ma was forced to transform into lemon essence.

Although NACA has long supported the Dragon spacecraft to replace Lucia's Soyuz spacecraft, ISS has always been extremely wary of private spacecraft manned spacecraft. Until the retirement of the first-generation Dragon spacecraft, it only allowed it to carry out some cargo missions.

On the other hand, Xinyuan Aerospace dared to send three astronauts up at once after two unmanned test launches. Only one of them is considered a professional. What does this mean? Does this mean that NACA’s support for private aerospace is not as good as that of China?

When the trio of Deng, Zhou and Zhao happily wrote in space, many foreign media were broadcasting it, so it caused a great response.

After all, this is the first time in the world that a private aerospace company has sent people into low-Earth orbit. It is even more powerful than an air shuttle!

Countries such as Aramco and Lucia did not react much to this. After all, their countries have sent astronauts into space. At most, several private aerospace companies of Aramco were ridiculed, and Ma Yilong suffered the most critical blows. That’s all.

But among the group of younger brothers around China, they could smell the sour smell across the sea.

JAXA, the island country's aerospace research and development agency, had the biggest reaction because at this time their H2A rocket was similar to China's most powerful rocket currently in service, the Long March 2F. They had always regarded themselves as equal opponents, and even because their own hydrogen-oxygen rocket engine was ahead in some parameters. Somewhat proud.

As a result, Xinyuan-2 suddenly appeared, instantly outperforming H2A, and it was also able to carry a space shuttle on a manned flight. This was a PPT that JAXA and NACA had been drawing for many years!

On the day the trio successfully launched, people from the island nation gathered outside the JAXA office to protest violently, forcing the JAXA board of directors to come out together for a "red bean paste private Marseille".

Moreover, the voice of the parliament has also changed. The pro-China faction has begun to advocate aerospace cooperation with China, and a new round of war of words is about to begin...

The other is Bangzi. At this time, Korean Bangzi is almost extremely arrogant after having extremely low self-esteem. They are posting dog barks that belittle China Aerospace in batches on the oil pipeline, which has become a unique scenery.

Abel... Abel frantically posted a bunch of imaginary pictures of his future space station. After all, the production of Unity and Progress was completed, and the next one would be their own Mecca.

The people of Allah will ride on their own flying carpets and overlook the earth from space!

…

The noise on the ground does not affect the space 390 kilometers away. After the Progress entered orbit, the last words people heard were said by Zhao Xiaowen:

"There is still so much fuel, why not catch up with the International Space Station and have a look? They seem to be in a 400KM orbit."

ground:"……"

The live broadcast is temporarily over. In the next three days, it will be broadcast publicly for 2 hours every day, mainly for some small experimental demonstrations and Zhou Rui's live lectures to the whole country.

When Nanji Academy contacted Tianshang, he kept hinting to the two of them to promote their school more. This time, they sent two teachers, which greatly increased their prestige.

Then Lin Ju received a physical examination list provided by several partner universities. It listed all young, strong or academically accomplished teachers and professors, hoping to enter Xinyuan's preparatory astronaut sequence.

Colleagues who knew an old man and a young man on the ground beat their chests and felt that they could go to space. Those two people were really nameless and unreal. I really don’t know where their shit luck came from.

Of course, Lin Ju is open to all these people. Isn't it just to send people to heaven? It only takes less than 200 million to completely burn them up at a time. What's the big deal about sending people up to see the world?

You must know that he plans to send all outstanding engineers there...including himself.

It is still a bit expensive to use Xinyuan 2 now. The LEO transport capacity is 45 tons, far exceeding the H1 launch mass requirement of 21 tons. The manufacturing cost and fuel of the second-level hydrogen and oxygen machine are too expensive, and the man-hours consumed in supporting transportation, measurement and control, and final assembly are also too high. Quite a lot, and a big expense

When the kerosene-powered Xinyuan 5 comes out, LEO will be just 22 tons. It will not be as wasteful to launch H1 as Xinyuan 2. The cost of a single launch is estimated to be only 25 million, which will not be the same as the price of each recovery and maintenance of H1. To 50 million yuan, the average cost of sending one person is less than 9 million yuan.

The price is less than 1.5 million U.S. dollars. Not to mention engineers, even the dog from the security department can earn a seat and walk around twice!

Some time ago, my eyes were too bloodshot while I was finishing up the manuscript. I have a rest today. Thank you in advance to all the book friends who voted for me and gave me rewards!

Some readers wanted to see foreign reactions. Since it was not easy to edit the manuscript after saving it, I added some content directly. 2k words became 3k words, so today’s update is 6k, which is barely considered an additional update~