48 Hours a Day

Less than twenty minutes after disembarking from the multi-axis trainer, Zhang Heng and their candidate astronauts were pulled down the next place by the transport horse without stopping.

Through the window, Zhang Heng saw a white main building, the American flag on the right, the NASA logo on the left, and an abstract sculpture of a rocket flying off the road.

“The Kennedy Space Center, located on Metro Island on the east coast of Eastern Florida in the United States, was started in 1962 and changed to honor the late President Kennedy.” A boy who still looks like a high school student is excited.

“In terms of distance, we should have been at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base, where the Mercury Project, the Gemini Project, had an early Apollo mission to start, because it could launch rockets into the ocean and avoid endangering populated areas, while also being closer to the equator, could take full advantage of the Earth's autobiography to give the rocket more thrust, although it could not match the Saturn 5 rocket, and then Kennedy Space Center built an entirely new launch site. ”

“Wait, is Kennedy dead by this time?” Fatty asked.

“Yeah, in 1963, he was assassinated in Dallas, and despite that famous lunar talk, he didn't see American astronauts on the moon himself.” The high school boy shrugged his shoulders.

“Ladies and gentlemen, may I remind you that we are not here to travel, but should we not now be more concerned about our own situation?” Anthony's strong man frowned.

“Yeah, it looks like the main mission is to get us on the moon, or at least to outer space, but as far as I'm concerned, there's actually no big difference between the two. ”

“Why do you say that?” The only girl in this copy asked if it was coincidence that she chose Zhang Heng's seat when she got in the car.

“Don't you know?” The boy who looked like a high school student picked out his eyebrows and was somewhat surprised.

“The Apollo 10 took off on 18 May 1969 at 1249 hours, after the Captain said that the rocket had been launched three days earlier, meaning that we entered the copy on 21 May 1969. ”

“So?” the girl blinked.

The boy leaned back on the chair and smiled at the girl, “Apollo 11 was launched on July 16, 1969, followed by Apollo 12 on December 14, nearly five months apart, considering our copy deadline this time, so..."

“Didn't you say there was a twin star program in America? ”

“The Gemini Project, a transition between the Mercury and Apollo Plans, began in 1961, completed 10 manned missions in Earth orbit and successfully concluded in 1965. ”

The intellectual-looking middle-aged man said, "So if we want to complete this main task, we only have one chance to get on Apollo 11.” His expression looked heavy.

Everyone's face changed at one exit, and the atmosphere in the cabin suddenly became weird.

Only the fat guy was confused, "What's the matter, Apollo 11 is dangerous? ”

“Dangerous?” The high-school boy grinned, pointing to the NASA driver driving ahead, "Yeah, after all, this was the first time humans had ever challenged the moon, and not only did these ordinary people feel unhappy, but even the scientists, engineers and astronauts in NASA were panicking, but we, as the later ones, knew very well that the end result of the mission was a huge victory, so the real question we faced was how to get on Apollo 11. ”

“How many astronauts can you sit on Apollo 11?” Girls ask questions that are of the utmost concern to all.

The high-school boy raised three fingers, "As you all know, Commander Neil Armstrong, Moon Boat Driver Buzz Aldrin, and Service Boat Driver Michael Collins. ”

Even Fatty's face changed this time. Lost his voice. "Three? But there are seven of us now. ”

“Is this your first copy of a single competition?” The strong man named Anthony sneered, “Don't you know what competition means? ”

“I… I have been following team activities for the first time, and this is the first time I have entered a copy by myself.” Fatty cried, “the single copy is too difficult, more than half the elimination rate, from small to large, all competing projects, but my ranking hasn't even gone midstream. ”

“Then why did you choose to act alone this time?” The girl asked with interest.

“Because... because...” Fatty swallowed up for half a day and still couldn't say one, so he came.

Finally, the strong man named Anthony relentlessly unraveled his scar, "because you are too weak to drag the back leg of your team, that's why you were kicked out by the team members, and you couldn't find another team willing to accept you, so you had to fall into your own single row. ”

Fatty didn't admit it, but his instant grey face proved from the side that Anthony was right.

“Lucky, so this copy is missing a competitor.” The boy in high school had his hands pillow behind his head, laughing.

The middle-aged man with the golden silk glasses shook his head, "You must be a little too optimistic. The Apollo XI in history has successfully landed on the moon, but don't forget, it was Armstrong and his team who were on the mission. How many more chances do we have of winning? ”

His words also plunged the cabin into silence again.

Soon after, a strong man named Anthony said, “On the bright side, we have at least sixty days of training. ”

“Technically, 55 days, because Apollo XI will be launched on 16 July, and we have only 48 days of training, minus the pre-launch segregation period.” A high-school boy, “he added, adding that a professional astronaut would normally be trained for two to three years, that future deep space exploration missions would even reach five years, and that payload specialists and scientist astronauts would be slightly better, but at least for more than six months. ”

“Why do you know so much about these things?” Girl wonders, "no matter how much you prepare, you won't intentionally gather this cold door knowledge, you can even remember the launch time of Apollo 10 so clearly, and precisely reached minutes. ”

“Because I'm an avid space enthusiast, this game is my circle of destiny.” The boy who looked like a high school student smiled confidently.