Chapter 593 Comfortable Space Flight

Dong Chen watched those people cast their gazes out of the portholes. It was not that these people had never seen the world. At least Mr. Zhao next to him had definitely seen the world.

His personal experience is absolutely overwhelming to 99.9% of people in the world, but the environment they are in determines the height of their vision. Although the "place" where many of them stand is high enough, it is obvious that their height is not higher than the atmosphere.

Of course, the "height" referred to here is not something in the same field.

But looking at their actions of constantly looking outside, one can tell that they have indeed never seen such a scene, at least not in person.

When the aerospace passenger plane took off, they began to look out constantly, especially those passengers who were arranged near the window and were not affected by the wings.

At first, they felt that everything on the ground was moving away quickly. Gradually, they saw that everything on the land began to become blurry, with only simple lines. These things were so familiar, just like flying on an ordinary airplane before. Same.

However, after passing through the clouds, things began to change. The plane did not change to level flight, but continued to fly upwards, watching the clouds getting further and further away from me.

There are also those human architectural miracles and city outlines that look so small when viewed from an airplane that they completely disappear after reaching a certain height, leaving only the green space, yellow sand, and blue ocean colors of the earth itself.

When the aerospace passenger plane flies to a suborbital altitude, they can clearly see the arc of the earth with the naked eye, and the degree of curvature is getting larger and larger, and the "sky" they see is getting darker and darker, until they feel I suddenly felt light and airy, that is, they were in space.

Many people sitting here have seen this process, but some people have seen it purely through online videos, while some people have watched the internal videos of the space agency, and some have also participated in the internal command and control of space missions. Watch the video of the entire process.

But today they experienced this process in person on an aircraft, and the feeling was really different, especially the ordinary staff of the space agency who were obviously closest to space but had no hope of going to space.

There was also the old man from the space agency sitting next to Dong Chen.

Zhao Gang sat on a seat by the window and stared blankly at the space outside the window for a while. He turned back to Dong Chen and said, "I never thought I would be able to come to space in my lifetime. I can be said to be working behind the scenes in the aerospace department." After a lifetime, I never thought that I would be able to go to space when I get older, and thanks to your kid, I would get a free flight."

Dong Chen was a little touched at the beginning. He felt that it was not easy for this big boss, so he expressed such emotion about life. However, before he was moved for two seconds, the plot was reversed.

So he was almost stunned by this turn of events, and said in a dumbfounded voice, "You are turning corners too fast, I thought you were going to talk about the philosophy of life, and I was planning to write it down in a small notebook, but I didn't expect it right now. Becoming a “boy”.”

"Haha, you kid," Zhao Gang pointed at Dong Chen happily, "How do you expect me to talk about philosophy? I hold a military position, and I am a rough guy."

It can be seen that Zhao Gang is very happy to have come to space, and he just wants to listen to the big boss, but Dong Chen still said with a speechless face: "You were reasoning with me before, and you wanted me to be a qualified chairman. , I’m not learning from you.”

"I want you to study with us. I'm not telling you anything specifically. Just take the initiative to learn and watch more." Zhao Gang calmly leaned on his seat and said.

After saying that, he didn't care about Dong Chen's confused expression, but asked the middle-aged man sitting opposite him who was looking out the window and recording something in a notebook, "Xiao Yang, how are you? Do you feel something is wrong?" Is it the same? How is it different from the spaceship you took before?"

Seeing that Zhao Gang had changed the subject, Dong Chen no longer planned to ask anything, but curled his lips and looked at that person.

Dong Chen knew this middle-aged man whom Zhao Gang called "Xiao Yang". He is Director Yang, who is currently the director of China's Manned Space Engineering Office. He was the first astronaut from China to enter space. He is very famous. exist.

Although he later went behind the scenes, Dong Chen unexpectedly interacted with him several times because he had crossed paths with him when Arc Light Group established Arc Light Aerospace.

At that time, Dong Chen followed several ArcLight astronauts to the Chinese Astronaut Scientific Research and Training Center for training, and the Chinese Astronaut Scientific Research and Training Center was one of the main participants in the national manned space project. The aerospace engineering office manages, and he, the office director, is the one person Dong Chen must contact. He also often goes to the training center for meetings, and has met Dong Chen several times.

This time, he was indispensable for inspecting China's space industry and expressing condolences to the astronauts.

He heard Zhao Gang asking himself, closed the notebook in his hand and said, "Mr. Zhao, I am very amazed by the performance of this aerospace plane. The spaceship we took before did not have such comfort. This is simply better than taking an ordinary passenger plane." To be comfortable, we still need to learn a lot.”

As he spoke, he looked at Dong Chen and smiled, "Mr. Dong Chen, your company's technology is really excellent. I think we can have more cooperation."

"No problem, our cooperation has always been very pleasant, and it would be better to be more pleasant." Dong Chen said with a smile.

Seeing the three big guys chatting happily, the official sitting in another seat also joined in. Although Dong Chen didn't recognize him, it didn't hinder the chat.

This time Arc Light Aerospace dispatched two aerospace passenger planes at once. After all, 40 people came this time. Plus some people from the Arc Light Group, the number of people going to space directly reached 53 people. One aerospace passenger plane carried 40 people. The passenger capacity is only 30 people, so we can't do it without dispatching two planes.

Moreover, the seats inside the aerospace passenger plane can also be rotated and adjusted, allowing passengers to sit face to face. However, since the aerospace passenger plane is about to rush out of the earth, its rotating seat technology is much higher than that of high-speed trains and other high-speed trains. However, Like the seats on high-speed trains, they generally do not rotate.

When the two planes approached the Tiangong Space Station, passengers could already see the huge space station through the portholes. It could be described as "blocking out the sky and the sun."

Looking at the people waving to them through the viewing window of the space station, they realized that the space travel that people dream of is actually so simple and comfortable.

Of course, only Director Yang, who was sitting on the other side of Dong Chen, knew that this was not simple at all. Only those who have been in space on a manned spacecraft can know the pain of space flight.

In that small and crowded space, there are instruments, hand control handles, optical sights, etc., and you have to put on a thick space suit and a helmet, so there is simply no room left.

During the flight, you have to endure strong turbulence all the time. Whoever takes the seat knows how it feels.

This is still the feeling when riding a spaceship. The strict selection and painful training before were even more unimaginable to ordinary people.

In contrast, Arclight Aerospace's technology omits all these, making space tourism simply too comfortable.

It made him, an old astronaut who had been in space, feel so happy that he wanted to cry.

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