spaceflight manual

Chapter 7

The next day, at 0550 hours, Wang Ping'an and Angeli arrived at the briefing room.

"Green By the House" was playing on the ship's radio.

The briefing room was packed, after all, arriving early to mission locations is the norm in the Joint Space Force.

As soon as the two floated in, some of the people present shouted: "Hey, isn't this a disaster? You arrived early, and we thought we would definitely be late!"

Wang Pingan: "Pull it down, Qin Qiong, don't make it sound like I'm always late, I'm always on the line, okay?"

"That's right, you are good at pressing the line. Every time you come in with your front foot, there is a commander with a livid face behind you."

At this time, Qin Qiong, who was talking, was stabbed on the shoulder by the person next to him, and turned around in doubt: "What's wrong?"

"Look around him!"

"I saw it! What's so strange about it? It's Wang Chaozai. Why do you think he is called Chaozai? There are always beautiful girls around him. Come on, Scoop, everyone is very curious. Let me introduce you!"

Wang Pingan looked back at Angeli, and began to introduce in a serious manner: "Let me introduce, this is my oil bottle Angie, a Frenchman."

"Tug oil bottle?" Angeli repeated suspiciously, "Isn't this a word used to describe the children brought by remarried women?"

Wang Pingan: "Then let me change the word, this is my burden..."

At this time, the astronauts who had just been sitting in various postures all switched to standard sitting postures, with their heads held high.

Wang Ping'an turned his head immediately, and sure enough, he saw the serious uncle floating in carrying the major's shoulder card.

Angeli floated directly to the empty seat, while Wang Pingan greeted the major with an old spirit: "Morning, Major Li."

"Why don't you go back to your seat?"

Wang Pingan: "Isn't this a few minutes before the assembly time?"

Major Li snorted: "You actually arrived early. It seems that the results of the supercomputer are correct. Second Lieutenant Angeli is partnering with you...how many days has it been?"

Wang Pingan: "The third day."

"Ah, on the third day, you will be able to arrive at the meeting place ahead of time. If you continue to do so, the future will be promising."

Wang Ping'an smiled and said, "Really? Major, you should be prepared to salute me one day."

Major Li: "Sometimes I really feel that you are kept by the higher-ups to show that the Space Force is not a hierarchical and authoritarian organization."

"Absolutely!" someone yelled.

Major Li shouted: "Quiet!"

At this moment, Angeli grabbed the small table in front of her seat with one hand, and Wang Ping'an's sleeve with the other, and dragged him back to her seat.

Seeing that Wang Ping'an had also returned to his seat, Major Li snorted and gave the command: "Tell me."

Qin Qiong: "Stand up!"

The astronauts all stood up with a swipe, maintaining a standard military posture.

This is possible because of the weak magnetic force on the bottom of the shoes worn on the spacecraft.

Major Li: "Relax."

Everyone sat down in unison, and there was only the sound of buttocks hitting the stool.

Angeli quietly looked at Wang Ping'an, as if surprised that he could complete this set of movements meticulously.

Major Li: "You all completed a three-month vacation on Earth, during which you were not hit by a car, got involved in a fight or other commotion, and didn't get sick from alcoholism or other reasons.

"You have done a good job of protecting the assets of the Joint Space Force, protecting the Joint Space Force itself that has spent millions of dollars in development, and you have done a good job.

"Then you will undergo a recovery training for a flight to get used to living in space. I don't like that kind of tepid training, so today we will go straight to the spacewalk.

"Of course, I don't think spacewalking alone is enough, so this time it's a spacewalking race. You start from the P14 maintenance airlock of the tritium reflex engine at the rear of the spacecraft, and climb all the way to the A1 airlock at the bow.

"You can choose your own path, which is just a test of your familiarity with the spaceship. But remember, the spaceship is accelerating at 13 milligal, and as long as you lose contact with the spaceship, you will soon be left behind.

"If you're just thrown back, someone might be able to rescue you. But if you get sucked into the jet wake of the spacecraft, you'll be reduced to powder in an instant.

"You will carry standard loads, including space suits and all life support accessories, standard maintenance mission kits, a standard water and energy food pack, and a Type 56 space rifle with a base of ammunition.

"What's the problem?"

Wang Pingan raised his hand: "Why do you bring a space rifle? The pirates are in the distant asteroid belt."

Major: "Because I want you to carry a little weight on your back. No other questions? Well, let's do it!"

**
Some people who have never been to the universe will subconsciously think that spacewalking in a weightless environment is an easy task.

But that's not the case at all.

Although there is no gravity, the mass has not disappeared, and the reptiles who use hands and feet in space still have to do work.

In addition to your own body weight, you have to carry a load that is [-] times your body weight.All astronauts have run cross-country during ground training, and the equipment at that time was much lighter than it is now.

Among other things, that spacesuit alone weighs dozens of kilograms.

There are now lighter spacesuits with layers as thin as normal clothing.In addition to being light and thin, this kind of space suit is expensive.

It is so expensive that the United Space Force does not even consider equipping its astronauts with this new type of spacesuit.

The bulky space suit also has advantages, such as being firm. This thing can even defend against bullets from old-fashioned gunpowder rifles. If you wear this thing and get hit by a small meteorite, as long as it doesn't get blown away, you are generally fine.

It's also better protected against cosmic rays.In Sun-Earth L2, a wealthy man from the Lone Star Country who wore a new type of space suit encountered a space ray burst, and was directly burned off all the implants on his body, including the chips in his brain, and became an idiot.

However, to say a thousand words and ten thousand, this thing is really heavy.

Wang Ping'an had been crawling outside for three hours, and was so tired that he had to stop to rest.The two of them found a place on the back of the spaceship, hung on the safety rope, and floated beside the spaceship.

He had finished drinking the water in the supply kit, and now he was drinking the water that the space suit had recycled and filtered from his sweat and urine, and it had a strange smell.

Wang Pingan: "Damn it, there is something wrong with the filtration system of my space suit, and the water smells strange!"

Angeli: "Then give you some of mine?"

Wang Pingan: "I'm not so perverted to drink your sweat and urine."

"But the water on the spaceship also comes from the circulation system. You not only drank my sweat and urine, but also the captain Qin Qiong's..."

Wang Pingan: "Ugh!"

Angeli smiled happily: "So you also care about such things! I thought you were not afraid of anything!"

Wang Pingan: "I am also a normal person, I have my own likes and dislikes."

"Are you a normal person?"

"Yes, without a doubt!" Wang Pingan said firmly.

Angeli: "Even if you are. I said, should we fight for the first place?"

"Why are you arguing over that, and you can't have extra meals for dinner..."

"You can give Major Li a face." Angeli interrupted Wang Ping'an's complaint.

Wang Pingan: "...Indeed, that's the case. It makes sense!"

"Then do you have a short cut that is not very compliant but is shorter?" Angeli asked excitedly.

Wang Pingan: "No. In fact, everyone is familiar with this kind of old spaceship—I mean, relatively old spaceships must have chosen the shortest path. Believe it or not, you can see afterwards that everyone climbed the same path."

Angeli: "Then let's reduce the rest time and climb faster!"

"No." Wang Pingan stopped Angeli, who was about to start climbing, "wait a minute. Our load cannot be reduced, and the space suit cannot be removed, otherwise the water cycle can be thrown away. However, there is something thrown away. It doesn't matter."

As he spoke, he pointed to the safety rope hanging around his waist.

"Throwing this thing away can only reduce the weight of seven or eight kilograms, but we still have to climb for five hours. The weight lost is enough to accumulate a huge advantage."

Through the helmet of the space suit, Wang Ping'an saw that Angeli opened her mouth wide: "You... want to throw away the safety rope?"

"Yeah, let's just say that there was an accident and it was lost. This kind of accident is very common, and it does not violate the rules set by the major.

"Or are you afraid?"

Angeli gritted her teeth: "Okay! Throw it away."

**
"The accident caused the safety rope to fall, hum, it fell." Major Li circled around Wang Ping'an and Angeli, who were standing at attention in a military posture, and the soles of their magnetic boots knocked on the steel deck making a bang bang sound.

Next to them, the astronauts who had completed the spacewalk stood in a row. Everyone looked like they were watching the show, and they kept sneaking glances at Wang Ping'an.

Major Li: "Who suggested it?"

Wang Pingan: "What do you mean?"

Angeli: "It was indeed an accident. I missed first, and then Lieutenant Wang also lost the safety rope to save me."

Major Li glanced at Angeli, with a very complicated expression, and then looked back at Wang Pingan: "It's amazing, foreign girls will cover you up. You should explain to me that you had an accident, and it took the shortest time Completed a spacewalk, how did you do it?"

Wang Pingan: "It shows that we have the determination to resolutely complete the task."

"Then how do you explain the lack of video recording data in the spacesuit?"

"We had an accident, the spacesuit collided and it got damaged."

"Is that the part that just broke?"

"Because we made emergency repairs to the spacesuit after the accident!"

Major Li: "Yes, you are impeccable. Damn it, even if you don't make small moves, you are very likely to win the first place. I don't believe that throwing the weight of a safety rope can make you half an hour ahead of No.2 !

"Why do you have a wrong mind!"

Wang Pingan: "Then... you want to punish me?"

Major Li was so angry that his mouth trembled. He forced himself to calm down and asked, "Computer, what is the rating of this accident?"

"This accident is a Class D accident."

Major Lee: "There's no way I'm going to punish you for a Class D incident. You're sure I know, because you're a master at exploiting military code loopholes! However, I can use my authority as your commander to put you in charge of the shit cycle The maintenance of the system will be responsible for... five weeks!"

Angeli was shocked: "Do I want it too?"

The major hesitated for a moment: "No, you don't have to. But you are also at fault, you have to mop the floor of the residential area for a week!"

Wang Pingan: "It's not fair, I demand equality between men and women! Otherwise, I will complain to the Women's Federation!"

Major: "Then she will wipe for five weeks! Just like you! Even you, you wouldn't really let girls maintain the poop pipes, would you?"

Wang Pingan: "That's true."

The major snorted and waved his hand: "Tell me!"

Qin Qiong: "Stand at attention!"

Major: "Relax. Everyone has done a good job in this training, including the one who 'encountered an accident'. But everyone must not imitate him! Disband!"

**
As soon as Wang Ping'an arrived at the dining hall, everyone laughed.

Other members of the training team yelled at Wang Ping'an: "Bai, I heard that you stole books again. Uncle Li hanged you up and beat you."

Wang Pingan: "Stealing books, stealing books is not considered stealing!"

Everyone laughed, and the air was full of joy.

Angelie: "What the hell?"

"Have you seen Kong Yiji? We all learned it in middle school. He used this to make fun of me." Wang Pingan shrugged.

Angeli: "Oh, that's it... I'll look for this text later."

At this time, someone shouted: "The scourge! Come one?"

Wang Ping'an turned his head and saw his buddy from the flight academy: "Okay! Push it over!"

The buddy picked up the guitar on the table, pushed it lightly, and the guitar floated towards Wang Ping'an.

In the middle, a few people reached out to help the guitar correct its course, and the guitar just relayed to Wang Ping'an.

Holding the guitar, Wang Ping'an floated up to the "Style Corner" in the corner of the dining hall, connected the public effector, and tried the sound.

Angeli floated in place, looking at all this suspiciously.

Wang Pingan started, first a solo show of skill, and then cut into the prelude.

Just now that buddy was beating the dinner plate with his chopsticks, and there were several enamel bowls of different sizes turned upside down in front of him, which was using the tableware as a drum set.

——The earth outside the porthole, the earth outside the porthole, the earth outside the porthole seems to be within reach.

Along with the singing, everyone in the dining hall stopped and turned their heads to look in Wang Ping'an's direction.

——We are like wandering wanderers, we are like wandering wanderers, missing the only mother earth.

This wasn't the version that was on the radio, this one seemed to have more power.Angeli knew that this was called rock and roll.

——Although it is closer to the stars here, it is far away from the warmth of the earth.

Someone in the dining hall began to lightly tap the table with their fingers in rhythm.

——Into the shadow of the earth, like a solar eclipse, waiting for the light to reappear and we return to sleep.

The moment he entered the chorus, Wang Pingan roared with a rough voice, and everyone in the audience sang along.

——I can’t hear the roar of the launch site in my dream
——I can’t see the sad and deep sky
——All I see is the grass beside the house

——Green, green grass!
The violent music has once again entered into a slow and lyrical rhythm.

——The orbit around the earth is full of unknowns, and meteorites often pass by.

In the cafeteria, the descendants began to harmonize: "Pass over~"

——Risk is commonplace here, only courage and music accompany it.

Several girls joined the ranks of harmony.

—The soft mist that wraps the earth outside the porthole

——that is the magnificent morning glow and gorgeous sunset glow
The person in harmony no longer sings the lyrics, but softly kneads "wu~"

——Youzi misses his mother, Youzi misses his mother, and the earth is the mother of all things.

The chorus came again, and everyone sang together, as if pulling a song:
——I can’t hear the roar of the launch site in my dream
——I can’t see the sad and deep sky
——All I see is the grass beside the house

——Green, green grass!
Angeli suddenly had the urge to cry, she didn't know why, this was something she had never encountered or learned in space flight school.

Before the song ended, Wang Pingan shouted while playing the guitar: "The first one to enter the universe is the laborer's son!"

Everyone in the cafeteria patted the table and shouted: "Oh!"

Wang Ping'an: "We searched orbits and space, but we didn't see God or angels!"

The crowd continued to cheer vigorously: "Oh!"

Angeli also yelled, but she didn't realize that a young female second lieutenant had floated to her side, holding her shoulder with her hand before stopping.

Angeli looked at her suspiciously through the glasses, and found her eyes were shining.

Girl: "Now do you understand?"

Angor asked in confusion, "What?"

The girl just laughed and looked at her without speaking.

Angeli froze for a few seconds, then smiled from the bottom of her heart.

　The last song is called "Траваудома (Green Grass by the House)"

　　
　
(End of this chapter)