Chapter 700 The Countdown Is in Your Hands
Aerospace Group.
Chief Engineer's Office.
After hearing the news that Xingkong Technology planned to conduct a test flight on New Year's Day, Secretary Yu immediately rushed to bring the news here. After hearing the whole news, Yuan Huanmin, who was reading the literature, froze for a few seconds.
When he came back to his senses, he glanced at Secretary Yu standing in front of the desk with unbelievable eyes.
"...Test flight?"
"Yeah! Who would have thought that they would move so fast!" Secretary Yu sighed heavily, with a sad expression on his face, "Hey, we are still a step behind, what a mess!"
In fact, contrary to what the head of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology expected, the Aerospace Corporation never took that bet seriously from the very beginning.
electric propulsion...
Anyone who knows something knows that it is impossible to climb the gravity well with that little thrust. Otherwise, the leader of the Aerospace Group would not be able to agree to the bet so readily. It is really not a wise choice to argue with that Professor Lu, and simply let him touch the ashes.
result……
Who would have thought they would all start test flights?
Looking at Secretary Yu who was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, Yuan Huanmin's face was also full of surprise.
However, his worries were somewhat different from those of Secretary Yu...
After being silent for a while, he asked in an unbelievable tone.
"The first test flight, did they fly on a living person?"
Secretary Yu froze for a moment, frowned and said, "There are two pilots in the launch plan..."
"It's just nonsense!"
He slapped the table with his right hand, shaking the lid of the teacup several times. Yuan Huanmin stood up from the chair with an angry face, grabbed the coat hanging on the back of the chair, and walked towards the door of the office. go.
Seeing that Academician Yuan was about to leave, Secretary Yu was stunned for a moment, and hurried after him.
"Mr. Yuan, where are you going?"
Yuan Huanmin said without hesitation: "Do you still need to ask? Of course it is to the launch center in Jinling!"
Secretary Yu said with a face full of embarrassment: "But Jinling didn't invite us, wouldn't it be embarrassing for us to just go there..."
"Is this a matter of face!" Yuan Huanmin stared wide-eyed, spitting and yelling, "Is life more important than face!"
Those are two astronauts!
And it was the trump card selected from the test flight team!
Thinking of this, Yuan Huanmin shook his head while being furious.
It's still too young.
With some achievements, it swells up like this.
It's fine to intervene indiscriminately across borders, and now even the lives of precious astronauts are not cared about!
In Yuan Huanmin's view, this Lu Zhou is just taking the country's trust in him and letting his own temper fool around!
Originally, it was fine for him to spend his own money on this project, but now that it cost his life, he couldn't sit still.
Stop him no matter what!
After making up his mind, Yuan Huanmin immediately called his secretary and asked him to help him buy a ticket from Shangjing to Jinling, and then went downstairs to the garage.
Secretary Yu, who was closely following Mr. Yuan, wanted to dissuade him, but after thinking about it, he dismissed the idea again.
Wouldn't it be a good thing if he really stopped the launch?
Regardless of whether you stop it or not, you can still give it a try...
...
Dust billows outside the Jinling Space Launch Center.
Escorted by several military vehicles, a heavy-duty rocket carrier slowly drove into this small launch center.
As early as a day ago, the Jinling Municipal Government blocked this section of the road, and used police forces to temporarily block all road sections leading to this area, and persuaded pedestrians who approached to leave. On the one hand, this is out of consideration for the safety of citizens. After all, spaceflight is always accompanied by many accidents, and on the other hand, it is out of confidentiality.
It is foreseeable that the eyeliners of many countries in China have already set their sights on this place.
However, it doesn't matter if you stare at it.
Nothing can be kept secret forever, or in other words, it is not easy to keep it secret until now.
Getting off a military green jeep, Captain Dai in military uniform walked up to Lu Zhou and held his right hand tightly.
"Professor Lu, we meet again."
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Captain Dai is safe and sound," Lu Zhou said with a smile, shaking Captain Dai's hand.
Since the controllable nuclear fusion project, the two have known each other because of work contacts, and their friendship has always been very good. The upper management attached great importance to this launch and entrusted the security work to the East China Theater, while the regiment led by Captain Dai was still responsible for this work.
After the two exchanged a few simple greetings, Captain Dai spoke.
"Let's talk about the old days after the launch is over. I won't bother you here. Our soldiers are responsible for ensuring the safety of this area. You can just carry out the experiment!"
"Well," Lu Zhou nodded, and said seriously, "Thank you for your hard work."
"It's not hard work, it's our duty in itself."
Smiling and waving his hands, Captain Dai turned and walked back to the jeep.
The moment he picked up the walkie-talkie, the expression on his face had regained his majesty.
"Attention companies 1 and 2, conduct carpet patrols near the space launch center!"
"In the area with a radius of 500 meters, there is only a fly, so don't let me go!"
...
On the other side, after greeting Captain Dai, Lu Zhou turned around and came to the side of the launch site, and saw two test pilots who were ready to board the plane. Standing next to the two test pilots, the instructor responsible for training the two is making the final emphasis on the matters that need to be paid attention to.
Seeing Professor Lu approaching, the instructor stopped talking and gave Lu Zhou the opportunity to speak.
After walking to the side of the two test pilots and standing still, Lu Zhou stretched out his fist and touched Nie Yun's chest.
"come on."
Nie Yun took a deep breath.
He didn't talk much all along, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Um!"
Then he walked in front of Nie Han, Lu Zhou stretched out his fist, but suddenly realized that female men are also female, so he awkwardly changed it to patting his shoulder.
After capturing the changes in Lu Zhou's movements and demeanor, Nie Han chuckled and said in a teasing tone.
"Actually, I don't mind."
"...Are all the girls in your army so uninhibited?"
"That's not true. There are many styles of girls in the army. What type do you like? I'll introduce you to someone when I have a chance."
"That's fine..."
Have you become so famous for being single?
Lu Zhou coughed dryly, then put on a serious expression, looked at her and said solemnly, "Come on."
Nie Han raised her hand as a military salute, but the fearlessness and strength on her face were carved out of the same mold as her brother.
"Definitely live up to the mission!"
Lu Zhou nodded, turned around and walked to the side of the huge space shuttle, and looked back at the two of them.
"The prelude to the space age will start from this day, and you will be the drummers who strike the first note of the prelude."
"I won't talk too much if it's redundant."
"History will remember this day, and you, and everyone who stood here."
Having said that, Lu Zhou paused for a moment, and looked at the silver spaceship with a streamlined shell behind him.
"See you later, then."
Those three short sentences made the engineers and technicians at the scene excited and full of pride.
It's just that no one noticed that there was an imperceptible smile on the corner of the mouth facing the space shuttle.
After a long pause, Lu Zhou called out the name of the person in charge.
"Hou Guang."
"exist!"
"The countdown to ignition is up to you!"
Without thinking too much, he nodded excitedly when he heard that Hou Guang was in charge of the countdown.
"Yes!"