Chapter 87: What a Big Sky Monkey
Base canteen.
"Dry!"
Fan Ren showed a rare relaxed expression on his face. After shouting, he tilted his head back and drank the beer in one gulp.
Li Jian put down his wine glass, looked at the two brothers whom he hadn't seen for four years, and smiled sincerely.
"Where's the fourth one? Have you contacted him?"
When Liu Jun heard this, his face suddenly became a little lonely.
"The fourth one is living a much more comfortable life than us now, he..."
"The fourth child is doing well. He found a local boss in Linhai and started a family early. The one at home is more mature than him. I guess they are worried that he will fool around outside, so they don't contact us much."
Fan Ren interrupted Liu Jun and after explaining, he couldn't help but sigh.
Finally, things and people have changed.
More than four years have passed. Among the four brothers, Li Jian has returned as a Daxia astronaut, and Liu Jun is now also the general manager of a company. Under his management, the high-voltage radio division is developing rapidly.
As for him, he spends 365 days out of 360 days a year in the laboratory, working on the technology tree.
The fourth child has already started a family and a career. Although he is strictly controlled by his husband, his parents have now settled down in Linhai, and it is said that the young proprietress is extremely filial to his parents.
Parents are alive and well, wife and children care about him, and he is in good health.
That's pretty good.
We got together once or twice over the years, but unfortunately things and people have changed. The fourth brother has changed so much that we no longer have the feeling of getting along with each other as we did in college.
"This is pretty good. Second brother is really amazing. He has done such a big thing. When our leader told me that he would do odd jobs for you, I thought something had happened to you."
"Don't talk about you. I've been with him for four years, and now when I look back, it feels like a dream."
Fan Ren smiled without saying anything, raised his glass and took a sip of wine.
"Boss, please stop criticizing me. It's obvious to all how difficult it is for us to be selected as astronauts in Daxia. You've given us both a big surprise. Awesome!"
Li Jian looked a little proud when he heard this.
Unlike Fanren's achievements, which require extremely high scientific talent, he persisted for four years and it was truly because of his self-discipline that he stood out from thousands of people and was selected.
Liu Jun reached out and pinched his arm.
"solid."
He nodded to Fanren, and the three of them burst into laughter.
A week later, the Space City launch base.
Fan Ren stood in the huge launch command center, quietly watching the rocket standing on the launch pad on the screen.
'Xingyun-1' manned transport rocket.
Length: 100 meters.
Diameter: 3 meters.
Payload: 80 tons for low-Earth orbit and 60 tons for lunar orbit.
Total mass: 1000 tons.
Not only that, relying on the extremely powerful computing power of Mental Arithmetic No. 1, this rocket uses launch and recovery technology that Daxia has not yet put into use.
Chief Engineer Yin of the Aerospace City initially refused to use this technology on this rocket.
The technology has not yet been put into practical use, and no one knows what will happen.
But on this point, Fanren is very stubborn.
All new technologies have already been maturely applied on today's Xingyun-1 carrier rocket.
Not only does this make the rocket 20% lighter overall, but because a large number of wiring harnesses have been removed from the inside, the complexity is actually lower than before.
Coupled with the powerful Star Computing No. 1 chip, he is confident that he can successfully recover the rocket after launch. "Boss Fan, the preliminary preparations have been completed, and there is still half an hour before the scheduled launch time."
Zeng Yingying, wearing a slim suit, stood behind him and reported.
Fan Ren nodded, turned around and looked at her, secretly amused.
Perhaps because of Shan Qin's appearance, Zeng Yingying seemed to have a sense of crisis and began to cram on various secretarial professional knowledge. In half a year, she has completely transformed from the "nanny" who only watched TV series and studied makeup when she had nothing to do, to the current image of a secretary with a very professional style.
"Are you still used to it?"
Zeng Yingying was stunned for a moment, then smiled sweetly.
"It's actually quite easy. It's just recording what you need to do and reminding yourself. You're not like Mr. Jin, flying around all day and dealing with a lot of things."
"That's true, good job."
Fan Ren's eyes continued to be fixed on the huge display screen, on the various records and data that were incomprehensible.
Seeing him like this, Zeng Yingying secretly stuck out her tongue, her naturally charming eyes filled with little stars.
Which girl doesn’t have spring in her heart?
Today's launch plan is particularly important, as this is the test flight of the first rocket carrier platform designed and assembled by Xinghai.
The test program flew to a 400-kilometer low-Earth orbit and carried 20 tons of supplies for the Asgard space station.
After the rocket and spacecraft are separated, the rocket returns to the atmosphere for recovery operations.
Such a simple process made all the Xinghai engineers present extremely nervous.
For this reason, there are still many engineers from the Daxia Aerospace Department on site today who are responsible for checking for omissions and filling gaps on site, for fear that these newbies will make mistakes.
It can be said that Daxia Aerospace truly gives unreserved support to Xinghai.
"Boss Fan, don't worry, these kids are all good and nothing will go wrong."
Fan Ren turned around and saw that it was Yin Shangjin, the chief engineer of Aerospace City.
He didn't dare to be arrogant, and quickly turned around and stepped aside, saying, "Chief Architect, how come you have time to come here?"
This chief designer is nearly 70 years old, but he is still working on the front line of aerospace. Although the rocket launched today belongs to Xinghai, he still took the trouble to come to the scene.
Fan Ren has great respect for this chief engineer. In the past six months of contact, this chief engineer has been very kind to the engineers of Xinghai. Not only does he answer all questions, but he also actively arranges for them to enter various departments to learn from experience.
Without his help, Xinghai Space Base would not have achieved such success in such a short time.
"Haha, I can't sit still. Come over here and watch the scene to have a better idea. Come and sit over there with me."
Yin Shangjin smiled and took Fanren's hand and walked towards the observation room on the high ground.
Half an hour flew by.
"Don't be nervous, Mr. Fan. I feel better than ever. Oh, and you may not have heard that we astronauts are, to some extent, more superstitious than most scientists. Look, it's the countdown."
The old man next to him saw that Fan Ren was staring at the big screen without blinking, so he made a joke to ease the atmosphere.
Fan Ren felt a little uncomfortable. It was the first time he felt so nervous. He immediately nodded slightly to Yin Shangjin.
"Launch preparations completed, launch countdown begins."
10
9
ignition!
In the command hall, accompanied by a stern shout from the commander, the front desk operator pressed the big red button with a determined look.
On the big screen, a ball of flame suddenly lit up at the silver-white tail of the Xingyun-1.
Then the flame exploded, and the high-temperature tail flame as high as three thousand degrees Celsius instantly hit the cooling pool below.
In Fan Ren's sight, the entire huge screen was instantly filled with rising steam, and nothing could be seen in the vast expanse of white.
(End of this chapter)
