Chapter 770

"Five!"

"Four!"

"Three!"

"Two!"

"One!"

"Zero!"

"Fire!"

The light blue arc jets from the outstretched wing end toward the back of the sky plane.

Dragging the long and narrow blue plume, Xiaguang, which was launched from the Jinling space launch center, disappeared at the end of the cloud under the attention of all ground crew, engineers and commanders in the launch center.

The launch plan went very well.

After leaving the troposphere, a pair of short and thick wings of Xiaguang slowly rotate, reducing the angle of the jet port connected at the end of the wing, and gradually stretching the direction of the nose.

At the same time, the blue plume behind the wing gradually magnified and began to work directly against the gravity, pushing the Xiaguang to draw a path tangent to the earth and fly to the boundless deep space outside the earth.

Time passed minute by second.

After nearly an hour's flight, Xiaguang finally met the expectations of the public. It smoothly broke through the edge of the dense section of the atmosphere, reached low earth orbit, and began a 72 hour round flight.

Sitting in the cockpit, Xu Zhenghong, a test pilot in the main cockpit, took a close look at the orbital height on the instrument, the surface temperature of the spacecraft and other data.

After confirming that everything was normal, he was finally relieved with a tense expression.

This is his 57th test flight mission and the highest one. In the past, when he was in the team of test pilots, he never thought that he would drive the plane out of the atmosphere one day.

Until one day, the superior of the army found him and arranged for him the test flight mission of Xiaguang

Although the plane is equipped with an escape pod, only genius knows if it works.

He reached out and turned on the automatic cruise mode. Xu Zhenghong then released the connection between the spacesuit in the cabin and the environmental control and life protection system. Finally, he reached out and pressed on the side of the helmet and took a deep breath.

"This is the Xiaguang. We have successfully reached the target orbit. Please ask for the next instruction."

A series of noisy electric current sounds came from the communication channel.

As the communication signal stabilizes, the response sound of the ground command center will soon come.

“…… This is ground command. Congratulations on your successful completion of the first flight test exercise. Please keep the altitude in orbit for two hours. The next test flight exercise will start in two hours. "

Xu Zhenghong: "Roger, it's in cruise mode."

Sitting in the copilot's seat, Liu Biao, who also untied the environmental control and life insurance system, reached out to loosen the connection at the helmet of the spacesuit, cast his eyes to the space outside the cockpit, and said with a smile.

"The scenery here is pretty good."

Looking at the little spark under the clouds and the deep universe above the spark, Xu Zhenghong replied with a smile.

"Yes."

This is probably the most beautiful scenery he has ever seen.

At this time, far away, a silver spacecraft slowly climbed high, through the edge of the dense section of the atmosphere.

Looking in that direction, Liu Biao, sitting in the passenger seat, squinted and asked.

"That is?"

"It should be space-x's BFR spacecraft. I heard that they were launched today," said Xu Zhenghong, looking at his comrades sitting next to him. "Your eyes are very good. You can see that."

Being praised by the captain, Liu Biao smiled sheepishly.

"Do you want us to go over and say hello to them?"

Xu Zhenghong: "good idea. You can ask the ground command center to see what the commander in chief says."

Liu Biao looked embarrassed and touched the back of his head. He said, "well, I'm just joking. Don't take it seriously."

Xu Zhenghong paused for a moment and said.

"Just kidding. Take a 10 minute break and start working."

Liu Biao, sitting in the front passenger seat, straightened his back immediately.

"Yes!"

……

At the same time, on the other side of the track.

At the same time that Xiaguang found BFS spacecraft, BFS spacecraft also found them.

Although neither side is equipped with radars specially used to detect spacecraft, it can be seen at a glance because the orbit height is the same and the distance is not too far.

Looking out of the window at the silver spacecraft gradually away, Tavi suddenly said.

"According to the tradition of the Marine Corps, should we write down the mailbox on paper and then paste it on the window?"

Johnson raised his eyebrows and joked.

"Marines don't have this tradition. It's Air Force And I don't think they can see clearly even if we do it so far away. ""That's right." He mumbled to himself, and then he didn't speak again.

Unlike the two men, Jones, who is sitting on the other side of the spacecraft, has been completely attracted by the blue planet behind the spacecraft.

Looking out of the window for a long time, Jones said softly, "what a beautiful view..."

At a glance at Jones, Tavi looked out of the window and grunted.

"Yes, the scenery here is wonderful."

"We all trained at different training bases. We met two weeks before the launch," Johnson said with a grin as he stared out of the window. "I mean, why don't we talk?"

Taking his eyes back from the side window, Tavi cast a questioning look at him: "what are you talking about?"

"Talk about life, dream, why we sit here, why we sign up for Mars Oh, shit, if only there was a bottle of whiskey here. " Johnson felt his head a little distressed and said with a funny expression.

Jones said in a low voice: "the reserves of living materials will not be unlocked until they land I heard that during the training. "

Instead of focusing on unimportant questions, Tavi answered his previous sentence.

"Didn't these things have been said on the show?"

Johnson shrugged and made a helpless expression.

"Only I said, you haven't."

Tavi hesitated for a moment, and finally did not answer the question, but looked at Jones.

"Ladies first."

"Eh? Me? I...... " Jones glanced left and right with a bit of embarrassment, then gave up, sighed and said, "well, I hope you don't laugh at me when I say it, because I have a little emotional problem..."

Johnson: "emotional problems? break up? divorce? Or Oh, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked - "it's a break-up," Jones continued after a pause. "It may not seem like much to you, but it's a big blow to me. I want to get back on my feet and live in a different place. "

Tavi raised his eyebrows and asked incredulously, "and then just then, did you see the recruitment ad planned by Ares?"

"Yes," continued Jones, with a slightly reluctant smile on his face, "it's amazing, isn't it? My colleagues were shocked. No one thought that I was elected The immigration department quickly approved my application, and space-x even reimbursed my flight from Amsterdam to the United States. I thought about it later and thought it was good, so I...... "

As if he didn't know how to express it, Jones shrugged and abruptly ended the conversation. "Anyway, I'm sitting here now."

"It's too exaggerated..." Tavi looked at Jones a little incredulously and muttered, "if it's just because I'm breaking up, I'm afraid I've already flown out of the solar system."

"Stop, don't say such unlucky words," Johnson patted Tavi on the shoulder. "Our Lady has finished talking. Now it's your turn. I've always been curious about what makes a quarterback on the football field become an astronaut. "

Finally, I have to face this problem.

Tavi hesitated and gave up, shrugging.

"Because Debt issues. "

Johnson looked at him in surprise. "Credit card?"

"Is that right..." Tavi moved away slightly.

Johnson smiled cheerfully and clapped him on the shoulder encouragingly.

"Haha, there's no nasty bill on Mars, you're free now."

Tavi smiled from the bottom of his heart, but did not answer.

Jones took a look at him, and the woman's intuition told her that the guy didn't tell the truth or finish his words.

At least, the reason why he joined the program is certainly not as simple as the debt problem.

Compared with Jones, Johnson didn't pay attention to these details. He just felt that Tavi didn't seem to want to continue the topic very much, so he didn't go deep into it.

A person's past doesn't matter. What matters is how he faces the future.

Now that they are sitting here, they are teammates, they are a team, they have to face all the problems together

The chatterbox gradually opened and the atmosphere gradually became familiar.

Looking at the two teammates who recovered their cheerful, Johnson nodded with satisfaction.

As the "Captain" of the flight, Columbus sailed to the new world, in addition to being responsible for professional operation, he had to be responsible for coordinating the mental state of his teammates.

After all, I have to squat in this small and compact spaceship for nearly two months, which is not much better than going to jail.As time went by, the blue planet behind them, as well as the spacecraft that had long disappeared, were gradually leaving them.

In this way, with the yearning for the new continent and the vision for a better future, the BFS spacecraft left the synchronous orbit and drove into a dark deep sky, flying towards the red planet