48 Hours a Day

Physical training is not equipped with any strange instruments, but strength makes many people feel that basic rocket physics and space flight engineering techniques are not as boring.

Unlike previous theory classes, this time named Anthony's strong man performs best, both pushing and pushing first, followed by Zhang Heng, the seemingly impotent young man ranks third, from his mastery and physical qualities of each device, should have had fitness experience in daily life as well.

High school students perform poorly, after middle-aged people who look like intellectuals, but given that he should be about to take the high school exam, it is not incomprehensible that the learning task should be repeated, even if he wants to exercise more, he may not have time.

Beyond that, the bottom of the mattress is still Fatty. His performance also seems to prove once again why he was kicked out of the original team, and he doesn't know where his lust came from before. He can only do half as much as he dares to let Zhen go first. Better yet, he insists on choosing the last one to go to the gym, but soon she regrets it.

Although she was not required to participate in the training because of her feet, the captain said that the amount of training she owed would be spread evenly into the subsequent training, and that she was not idle after smelling, and that her lower extremities could not exercise and her upper extremities could be exercised.

By the end of all the training, it was 11: 50 p.m., and the seven of them had dragged their tired bodies and more tired brains back upstairs to the conference room to start studying flying classes without stopping, as none of them had previously come from Air Force pilots and needed to board a T-38 coach plane within a week, as requested by the captain.

All players, including Zhang Heng, were exhausted this time.

Good thing NASA has a nice place to stay for them, not only does everyone have a room, but the toiletries and laundry are well prepared inside. As usual, Zhang Heng would check his character panel at the beginning of each new copy, but when he opened his room door at 2: 15 a.m., he didn't want to do anything except fall on the sheets.

Three and a half hours of sleep does not completely relieve mental and physical fatigue.

But the alarm at the end of the bed woke Zhang Heng out of his sleep on time. He took a cold bath in the shower in the shortest amount of time, then pulled the curtains open, so that he had time to measure his house a little.

Zhang Heng doesn't know what other people look like, his room is not too big, there are about 40 square meters, but the furniture inside is complete, including a single bed, a wardrobe, a writing desk, a sofa and a TV refrigerator. It is worth mentioning that in the sixties, there was already a color TV, of course, a love action movie quality, and the digital TV of future generations can't compare. It also looks a little peculiar, but it is square, with thick borders, to something more like a microwave or aquarium.

And there's also an Elvis poster on the wall behind the TV, from his song and dance romance movie Pink World, starring Ann Margaret, who's making a back-to-back motion toward the camera.

Zhang Heng took out another clean NASA uniform from the wardrobe and put it on, and also saw the note in the basket below - leave the clothes you need to change here.

Zhang Heng followed the instructions on the note and left the previous uniform inside. He didn't have time to check what was in the refrigerator. The captain's voice rang again outside the door, “Gathering up, I'll show you around the space center for dinner at 6: 20, and then start training in space suits at 6: 30. ”

After the first day of torture, the players had some psychological preparedness for this compact schedule, but there was not much response. Of course, it could also be because they were not awake or were already numb. Only the high school students showed a little anticipation when they heard about the training in the costume.

The space suits used in the Apollo mission were A7L space suits upgraded based on the Gemini program, with later Apollo-Soyuz and Sky Lab missions with improved versions.

Astronauts can often be seen in science fiction films wearing off their costumes quickly, but in reality this is simply not possible.

In the case of A7L, the suit weighs nearly seventy kilograms and contains five main layers of liquid cooling clothing close to the skin, which Zhang Heng wears on the innermost part, followed by a layer of nylon for comfort, a pressure airbag on the nylon for convenient joints, another layer of nylon outside the airbag for fastening the airbag, and finally an outer covering for insulation and protection outside the pressure suit, with the helmet and gloves connected by a sealed metal ring and pressure suit.

And that's not all, Zhang Heng's back is going to be carrying another portable life-support system to provide breathable oxygen from the cabin, as well as cooling, and there's a very high frequency antenna on the top left that supports two-way voice communication.

That's why astronauts need good physical strength, and the vast majority of ordinary people can't move around with this stuff on, of course, much better when they get into space, and this NASA suite has three sets for everyone, one for missions, one for training, and one for backup.

Zhang Heng wore the famous "fish tank” helmet with the help of a trainer. The world was instantly isolated from the other end, but it was not completely quiet in the helmet. He could hear the comfortable buzz and the sound of the fan spinning, from the life support system.

The trainer helps Zhang Heng learn how to use the urine bag while also reading the life-support system control unit on the chest, where you can monitor and regulate the liquid and electrical energy in the portable life-support system.

This is a fresh experience for all seven of us here, and although it's still hard work, training in space suits undoubtedly brings a bit of fun compared to tedious theoretical learning and high-intensity physical training.

In fact, if it weren't for the brutal pressures of survival hanging over your head, for 99.9999 per cent of the world's astronauts, boarding the Moon on Apollo XI would have been an unprecedented experience, and you know that in 2001, a millionaire in the United States paid a staggering $20 million total for a seat on the Soyuz in exchange for an eight-day tour of the International Space Station.

However, Zhang Heng noticed that Zhang's gaze in the training gap always accidentally landed on the clock not far away, and he seemed to be waiting for something.