A cargo spacecraft from Mars is heading to Earth 200,000 kilometers away.
He stood quietly in front of the porthole, his eyes slightly lost, watching the Pamir International Space City getting closer and closer.
The old captain with an Eastern European face showed a long-lost excitement at this moment and said: "Hi, Dr. Guo! The application of the Suzaku nuclear reactor has shortened the spacecraft's voyage from the original 200 days to the current 105 days, which is equivalent to 7 months. shortened to 3 months.”
"Captain Sweer, please don't be too happy. Today's nuclear thrusters are not yet mature. Earth-fire long-distance voyages can only be combined with chemical rocket thrusters. Otherwise, the spacecraft will stop halfway and we will be in danger!" Dr. Guo Yiming He frowned slightly, looking very depressed.
"Thank God, thank the gods for our safe return!"
Captain Swale looked at the earth outside the porthole, drew a circle on his chest, and prayed secretly.
The spacecraft slowly approached the Yellow River dock. Guo Yiming put on a white space suit and followed the crowd walking in the endless space corridor.
Through the glass portholes in the corridor, you can see the outline of a huge ship looming in the distance in space. The robots there have Hall plasma thrusters installed on their backs. They are spitting out weak blue flames in the shadow of the huge ship and are flying around busily. Go and build a new model of starship.
At the other end of the space corridor, the I-shaped space dock is filled with Earth-lunar space shuttle spacecraft.
Guo Yiming took a shuttle boat that could accommodate six people and began to fly quickly to the Earth's suborbital space station.
There, aerospace planes were connected end to end, forming a long star chain team.
The shuttle boat slowly docked with an aerospace plane. Guo Yiming followed other space tourists and found his seat like boarding a high-speed train.
The aerospace plane broke away from the Starlink team and circled the earth, then entered the earth's atmosphere, slowed down along Qianxuesen's ballistic trajectory, and finally landed safely at Hotan Aerospace Airport.
At this time, another aerospace plane, carrying hundreds of tons of cargo compartments, crossed the wide and hard parabolic orbit at extremely high speed, rushed deep into the clouds, and flew towards the suborbital space city. Then, the cargo warehouse was detached from the aerospace plane, then closely connected to the docking spacecraft, and finally transported to the Huanghe dock to become part of the construction of a large Mars transport starship.
The exit outside the airport was filled with various vehicles. Some reporters brought drone cameras and made a special trip here to interview Dr. Guo and waited for a long time.
"Regarding the progress of nuclear fusion engine experiments in space, can it be fully commercialized? Can it provide more and more convenient services for Mars tourism?"
Reporters asked questions about nuclear engines one after another, but Guo Yiming declined them all.
Guo Yiming glanced in the direction of Hotan City, sighed silently, and then hurriedly left the crowd.
In Hotan City, in a saucer-shaped building.
A humanoid robot filled the glass with tea and handed it to Pan Tianyi's hand: "Sir, please use it slowly. My master will be here later!"
"Yes." Pan Tianyi responded, quietly observing the surrounding decorations.
The entire reception room looks bright and clean, with a strong technological style.
"The living conditions here are indeed much better than those in the old capital." Yang Huan touched the electronic briefing on the table with his hand and sighed.
"The Pamir Plateau is located in the center of the Eurasian continent. Coupled with the relatively developed air and space shipping, it will naturally become the center of the Earth-Moon Economic Circle. The living conditions here cannot be replicated anywhere else." Pan Tian took a look. Looking at the "celestial engineering" panorama hanging on the wall, I felt inspired.
At this moment, the old man in gray simple clothes, with a springy look on his face, had already arrived in the living room with a few strides.
"Guo Yang...is that you?"
Pan Tian stood up and looked at the face that was wrinkled by time. From those sturdy eyes, he still felt the intimacy from his childhood.
"Pan Tianyi... Brother Yi!"
Guo Yang stepped forward and hugged Pan Tianyi tightly, with tears already filling the corners of his eyes: "It's been more than 40 years. I'm so happy to see you again!"
"Life is like a fleeting moment, and it seems to be changing very quickly!" Pan Tian (this chapter is not finished yet!)
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The corners of Yi's eyes also became moist, and his heart was full of envy: "Seeing you again, you have become the top scientist in the motherland, a great ladder engineering designer!"
"Yes, the whole world has undergone earth-shaking changes, but your young appearance does not seem to have changed much. This is something that a bad old man like me is very jealous of!" Guo Yang wiped his tears with the back of his hand and said brightly. Laughter comes.
"Haha... It's even, we've all envied each other!" Pan Tianyi looked at Guo Yang and wiped the corners of his eyes with the back of his hand.
"Brother Yang Huan, I'm sorry. When I saw my old friend, I actually forgot that you were here." Guo Yang suddenly apologized when he saw Yang Huan standing aside for a long time.
"Academician Guo Yang, I am very honored to meet you! At first, I didn't want to disturb your reunion." Yang Huan shook his head and smiled happily, not caring about this.
"Please follow me and take you to visit the Earth and Moon Virtual Exhibition Hall."
Then, Guo Yang led Pan Tianyi and Yang Huan to the nearby space virtual exhibition hall.
In the space virtual exhibition hall, a robot provided them with virtual glasses and led them to a huge space simulation cabin.
Pan Tianyi put on the virtual glasses and found that he was already on the Earth-Moon shuttle, shuttling between the Pamir International Space Station.
Under the guidance of the robot, they quickly arrived at the Yellow River dock. Under the direct sunlight, a huge shadow in the depths of space suddenly enveloped the dock. Pan Tian raised his head and was surprised to find that a giant starship was approaching. Quickly built.
"Following the Ladder Project, the Dauntless is a spaceship carefully built by the Eurasian Community. The hull is in the shape of a slender cone, about two thousand meters long, and weighs 700,000 tons, which is equivalent to the body of seven large aircraft carriers. It can accommodate more than 10,000 crew members." Guo Yang clicked on the hull of the Dreadnought to display the internal structural functional areas.
"Building such a large spaceship, where are we going to fly to?" Looking at the huge spaceship, a feeling of déjà vu emerged in Pan Tianyi's mind.
"Tianyi, that's a good question!" Guo Yang showed excitement and ordered the robot to drive the shuttle and continue flying around the Dauntless. "In the early ten years of the Sound Searching Project, our Earth-Moon Aeronautics and Space Administration established the project Build the Dauntless concept spaceship, and then take 10,000 Earthlings to fly to Proxima Centauri to open up a second immigration station for mankind."
"However, with the nuclear energy technology currently mastered by mankind, it will take at least fifty years for the spacecraft to fly to the Alpha Centauri galaxy, which is almost equivalent to most of a person's life. How can I ensure that the spacecraft is always safe? What? I'm afraid it's difficult for ordinary humans to see Proxima Centauri." Yang Huan raised his own question.
"Haha... We have already considered this." Guo Yang said with a kind smile:
“The ten thousand humans on board must go through strict screening.
Most of them should be prosthetics and humans with special superpowers. During the long voyage of the spacecraft, more than 90% of humans will enter the hibernation cabin, leaving only a very small number of humans and simulated humans to maintain the entire spacecraft. operation of the system.
In addition, I saw the theoretical model of spacecraft roaming and protection written by you. The hyperannular earthquake field fully meets the requirements for the construction of the Dreadnought. It is more suitable to install it in the front third of the conical ship body.
In this way, if the Dauntless encounters stray planets and comets while sailing at high speed, it can activate the hyperring aerodynamic shock absorber, distort the space field in front, and instantly clear or divert dangerous objects on the channel to ensure that the Dauntless hull and Safety for all! "
At this moment, the virtual image of Intrepid ignited dozens of nuclear fusion engines and was accelerating away from the solar system.
In the vast and dark space, a human Dreadnought starship with a faint light will occasionally create a twisted luminous bulb along its long and lonely route to avoid intruding space meteorites and move towards its neighbor. The star moves forward slowly.
Pan Tianyi watched the Dauntless spraying blue flames and getting further and further away in the universe, and worried: "So, we humans have now mastered the controllable nuclear fusion reactor?"
Guo Yang was in a daze and did not dare to look directly at Pan Tianyi. He seemed hesitant to speak. Finally, he sighed and said: "We are interested in controllable nuclear energy. (This chapter is not over yet!)
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Qing's research encountered a bottleneck in the mid-10 years of the Miyin Project, and there has been no new breakthrough or progress. At present, the nuclear fusion engine installed on the Mars transport ship still has the disadvantages of being huge in size and short in flight time..."
"That is to say, with the current nuclear energy thrusters, humans still cannot leave the solar system." Yang Huan's eyes began to dim.
Pan Tianyi didn't seem to notice the change in Yang Huan's demeanor. He continued to sit on the shuttle boat and flew towards the lunar orbit space station, as if he wanted to take a look at the long-lost silver moon.
After an unknown amount of time, the artificial intelligence sent out a gentle girlish voice, reminding everyone that they needed to rest. Then Guo Yang took off the virtual glasses and took the two of them back to their residence.
"Go home often, go home and see..."
At this time, Guo Yang's satellite phone rang. He turned on the video on his mobile phone and found a dejected Guo Yiming appearing in front of him.
"Yiming, you look much haggard. Where are you now?" Guo Yang asked his son with concern.
"I just returned to Earth, and I'm downstairs!" Guo Yiming had a cold face.
"Okay, come back, your schoolmate Yang Huan is here too!" Guo Yang hoped that he would be happy.
After a while, the elevator door opened. Guo Yiming saw Yang Huan waiting, and the two held hands tightly. ..
"Brother Huan, I didn't expect that a few years later, I would see you in person, and you would be more energetic than the person in the virtual world." Guo Yiming's serious face was now smiling as happily as a child.
"We haven't seen each other for many years. Have you made any breakthroughs in the research on nuclear fusion engines?" Yang Huan smiled playfully, showing an innocent and curious look without any hint of coercion.
"I can't explain this in just a few words. Let me talk to you alone another day. Who is this behind you?" Guo Yiming felt relaxed when he saw his good friend. Suddenly, he glanced at Pan Tianyi, and his expression suddenly became unnatural.
"Haha...Yiming, don't be nervous. This is Pan Tianyi, your father's fellow villager. According to the previous seniority, you should call him uncle." Yang Huan reminded Guo Yiming while looking at Silence Pan Tianyi said with an understatement.
"Ah! Then you are Tianming's father. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you!" Guo Yiming suddenly realized and looked up and down at the young Pan Tianyi in surprise.
"Do you know Pan Tianming?" Pan Tianyi observed the middle-aged man in front of him.
"Uncle, not only do we know each other, we also studied the lunar soil together on the moon!" Guo Yiming's face completely disappeared from the depressed expression that often occurs in space.
"We are all a family, don't stand outside, come in and take a rest!" Guo Yang walked out of the room at this time and told everyone to come in quickly.
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