"That's right." Tevi muttered to himself and then said nothing more.
After all, having to squat in this small and compact manned spacecraft for nearly two months, this feeling is probably not much better than being in jail.
Until one day, the superiors of the army found him and arranged a test flight mission for the Xiaguang...
"It's a breakup," Jones was silent for a while and continued. "Maybe it doesn't seem like much to you, but it hit me hard. I hope to get back on my feet and start living somewhere else."
"Just kidding is enough, rest for 10 minutes, and then start working."
"That's right..." Tewei looked away subtly.
Reaching out to turn on the automatic cruise mode, Xu Zhenghong then disconnected the spacesuit in the cabin and the environmental control and life protection system. Finally, he reached out and pressed the button on the side of the helmet, took a deep breath and said.
Unlike the two grown men, Jones, who was sitting on the other side of the spacecraft, was completely attracted by the blue planet behind the spacecraft.
"That is?"
Meanwhile, on the other side of the tracks.
After glancing at Jones, Tevye also cast his gaze out the window and hummed.
After staring out the porthole for a long time, Jones sighed softly: "What a beautiful scenery..."
"Speaking of which, we are all training at different training bases. We only met two weeks before the launch mission." Looking at the two people staring out the window, Johnson suddenly spoke, grinning and saying, "I mean Yes, why don’t we talk?”
A series of noisy current sounds came from the communication channel.
"yes!"
At the same time that Xiaguang discovered the BFS spacecraft, the BFS spacecraft also discovered them.
"Talk about life, talk about dreams, talk about why we are sitting here, why we signed up to go to Mars... Oh, damn, it would be great if there was a bottle of whiskey here." Johnson touched his head in distress and made a funny expression said.
"Stop, don't say such unlucky words," Johnson patted Tevye on the shoulder. "Our lady has finished speaking, and now it's your turn. I have always been curious about what makes a football player quarterback, became an astronaut.”
The conversation gradually opened up and the atmosphere gradually became more familiar.
Jones glanced at him, and a woman's instinct told her that this guy didn't tell the truth, or didn't finish what he said.
Johnson shrugged and made a helpless expression.
Liu Biao rubbed the back of his head with an embarrassed expression and said, "Well, I was just joking to liven up the atmosphere. Don't take it seriously."
"Haha, there are no nasty bills on Mars, you're relieved now."
After nearly an hour of flight, Xiaguang finally lived up to expectations and smoothly broke through the edge of the dense atmosphere, reached low-Earth orbit, and began a 72-hour orbit.
As if he didn't know how to express himself, Jones shrugged and ended the topic abruptly, "Anyway, I'm sitting here now."
"five!"
…
Xu Zhenghong: "Received, it has entered cruise mode."
"Four!"
In this way, with the longing for the New World and the longing for a better future, the BFS spacecraft left the synchronous orbit and sailed into the dark deep space, flying towards the fiery red planet...
Although the plane is equipped with an escape hatch, only a genius knows whether it works or not.
Sitting in the cockpit, test pilot Xu Zhenghong, who was in the main driving seat, carefully took a look at the orbital altitude, spacecraft surface temperature and other data on the instrument.
As the communication signal stabilized, the response from the ground command center came quickly.
"one!"
"Do you think we should go over and say hello to them?"
Watching the silver spacecraft outside the porthole gradually go away, Taiwei, who was leaning on his seat, suddenly spoke.
"According to Marine Corps tradition, should we write the mailbox on a piece of paper at this time and stick it on the window."
"yes."
“The scenery here is pretty good.”
At the same time, the blue plume behind the wing gradually enlarged and began to work directly against gravity, pushing the Xiaguang to draw a trajectory tangent to the earth and fly into the boundless deep space outside the earth.
The launch plan went very smoothly.
"two!"
"Didn't these things have already been said on the show?"
Time passed by minute by minute.
Since they are sitting here, they are teammates and a team, and they must face all problems together...
Looking away from the porthole, Tevi cast a questioning look at him: "What are you talking about?"
A jet of light blue arc light extends from the end of the outward-flaring wings toward the back of the aerospace plane.
"zero!"
"three!"
After leaving the troposphere, the pair of stubby ailerons of the Xiaguang slowly rotated, lowering the angle of the jets connected to the ends of the wings, and gradually stretching the direction of the nose.
"Only I have said it, and you haven't."
"ignition!"
Sitting in the co-pilot seat, Liu Biao, who had also unlocked the environmental control and life-saving system, reached out to loosen the connector on the helmet of his space suit, cast his gaze towards the space outside the cockpit, and said with a smile.
Johnson raised his eyebrows and joked.
"This is the Xiaguang. We have successfully reached the target orbit. Please ask for instructions on the next step."
"Yes," Jones forced a slightly forced smile from his face and continued, "It's surprising, isn't it? My colleagues were all shocked, no one expected that I would be selected... The Immigration Bureau quickly approved my application, and Space-X even reimbursed my air ticket from Amsterdam to the United States. I thought about it later and thought it was good, so I went... "
"Yes, the scenery here is beautiful."
At least, the reason why he participated in this plan must not be as simple as the debt issue.
This is his 57th test flight mission and the highest he has flown. When he was in the test pilot group, he never thought that one day he would fly a plane outside the atmosphere.
Johnson: "Relationship problems? Breakup? Divorce? Or... Oh, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have to dig into it—"
Tevye's attention was not on those irrelevant questions, but answered his previous sentence.
After looking at the sparks below the clouds and the deep universe above the sparks, Xu Zhenghong smiled and replied.
After confirming that everything was normal, he finally breathed a sigh of relief with a tense expression.
"Eh? Me? I..." Jones glanced around awkwardly, then sighed as if giving up, and said, "Okay, I hope you won't laugh at me after I say it. I'm emotionally troubled. Just a small question…”
Johnson smiled brightly and patted him on the shoulder encouragingly.
Looking at the two teammates who had returned to cheerfulness, Johnson nodded with satisfaction.
Xu Zhenghong: "What a good idea. You can ask the ground command center and see what the commander-in-chief has to say."
A person's past is not important, what is important is how he faces the future.
Liu Biao smiled sheepishly after being praised by the captain.
Liu Biao, who was sitting in the passenger seat, immediately straightened his back.
Johnson looked at him in surprise: "Credit card?"
Tevi raised his eyebrows and asked in disbelief: "Then at this moment, you saw the recruitment advertisement for the Ares Project?"
"... This is the ground command. Congratulations on successfully completing the first test flight exercise. Please maintain the orbital altitude and continue flying for two hours. The next test flight exercise will begin in two hours."
This was probably the most beautiful scenery he had ever seen.
Dragging a narrow blue plume, the Xiaguang was launched from the Jinling Space Launch Center and disappeared into the end of the clouds under the watchful eyes of all the launch center's ground crew, engineers, and commanders.
As the "captain" of this flight heading to the New World, Columbus, in addition to being responsible for professional operations, is also responsible for coordinating the psychological state of his teammates.
Looking intently in that direction, Liu Biao, who was sitting in the passenger seat, narrowed his eyes and asked.
Tevye hesitated, and finally shrugged as if giving up.
"Lady first."
Finally faced this problem.
Jones whispered: "The reserve of living supplies cannot be unlocked until after landing... I heard it during training."
Time passed by, and the blue planet behind them and the long-disappeared spacecraft gradually moved away from them.
Compared to Jones, Johnson didn't care about these details. He just felt that Tevye didn't seem to want to continue this topic, so he didn't delve into it further.
Tevye hesitated for a moment, and finally did not answer the question, but looked at Jones.
Tevye smiled from the bottom of his heart, but didn't answer.
"This is too exaggerated..." Tevye looked at Jones in disbelief and muttered, "If I had to run so far just because of a breakup, I'm afraid I would have flown outside the solar system."
Xu Zhenghong paused for a moment and said.
At this moment, in the distance, a silver spacecraft slowly climbed up and passed through the edge of the dense section of the atmosphere.
"The Marine Corps doesn't have this tradition. It belongs to the Air Force... And I guess even if we did this, they wouldn't be able to see clearly from such a distance."
"Because of... the debt problem."
"It should be Space-X's BFR spacecraft. I heard that they are also launching today," Xu Zhenghong glanced at his comrade sitting next to him and joked, "You have really good eyesight. You have seen all this."
Although neither side is equipped with radar specifically designed to detect spacecraft, they can be seen at a glance because the orbital height is exactly the same and the distance is not particularly far.