48 Hours a Day

There's probably no more complicated job in the world than an astronaut.

At the beginning of the Mercury program, NASA recruited more than 100 elite pilots as candidates for astronauts in the military, but only seven eventually joined the first-generation human space program.

Especially in the early days of human astronautical history, nobody knew what would happen if they left Earth, and theoretically anything could happen. In the vast universe, only astronauts and aircraft, ground control centers thousands of miles away, nobody could rely on them, so that would require astronauts to be able to cope with as many emergencies as possible.

This is also what training is all about.

Although the time filled daily is quite compact and even frightening, even breathing becomes a luxury thing, it must be admitted that there are some interesting parts of it, such as weightlessness training on vomiting comets, that allow the body to float freely in the air and rotate, the first time to taste space food, although the taste of primary space food is not so good, training in the use of manoeuvres and tools in the swimming pool...

The latter is also Zhang Heng's favorite part, dressed in a space suit, diving into the bottom of the water for activities, raising his head from the bottom to see the sparkling surface of the water, the bubbles emitted by the divers around him, while the sound of air flow in the helmet and the sound of water outside the helmet can be heard by the ear.

The world seemed so quiet at this moment. Although Zhang Heng knew that he was not in space, it did give an extraordinary feeling.

More often, of course, training is tedious and tiring, a duck-filled theory course, high-load physical training, and even Jalai loses a lot of weight, but what saddens him more is that after eating so much hard to leave the copy, the fat will still return to him.

And that's not the worst part, and in addition to that, there's what's called abusive training.

The Johnville human centrifuge, which can accelerate from static to 200 kilometers per hour in seven seconds, is definitely a nightmare for everyone, and is said to test the ability of astronauts to remain conscious in extreme gravity, compared to the experience with multi-axis trainers, which doesn't seem so bad.

Of course, the scariest thing is the Moonboarding machine, which is probably NASA's ugliest and most dangerous invention.

Uh... looks a bit like a mechanical flea.

NASA uses this to simulate what happens when the moon deck lands on the moon, but in fact, even NASA itself admits that the moon deck does not simulate fully out of the moon deck or out of the cockpit, and in fact, more often than not, it just puts the driver in danger.

In the virtual simulator, after the crash, you can easily discuss the cause of the crash with the trainers around you, but on the lunar training machine, you either land successfully, or you make an accident yourself, and if you're lucky, you can be ejected by the seat at the moment of the crash, or you explode with the lunar training machine.

At the outset, NASA was said to have experimented with four lunar training machines, three of which crashed, with a crash rate of up to 75 per cent.

“I hope someone can tie the engineers who built this machine to sit on it and try their own masterpiece.” Fat Jalai mumbled.

But no matter what the players complained about, the captain on the other side had already started naming him on schedule again, "The first man on the list, Anthony. ”

The strong man named Anthony raised his eyebrows, and he obviously wasn't happy to sit in this crazy machine, but after a month of training, he had tried all kinds of weird training and machines, and his ability to receive them had improved dramatically, not to mention the captain's power to score them.

The strong man named Anthony wanted to make a bold impression in front of the captain. After all, the astronaut's assessment was not only physiological, but also spiritual.

Therefore, despite considerable doubts in his heart about the object in front of him, he sat in, scrupulously carrying out his orders.

The strong man named Anthony fastened his seat belt and the staff beside him examined him, reminding him that "the wind is a little high today and drive carefully. ”

“So... should I leave a message in advance?” The man named Anthony had a sense of humor.

“The handle is under your seat, and if you pull it in time for danger, you will be ejected from the training machine, after which the parachute behind you will take you safely back to the ground. ”

“Understood.”

The captain turned on the communication channel, "Start when you're ready. ”

Moonboarding machines rocked like drunk men, but eventually rose to the sky and reached the desired altitude.

“1100 feet, over the lowest ground-to-ground distance.” Anthony's big guy is on the channel.

“Copy that. You can start trying to land.” The captain replied, while the other players stood on the other side and looked up at the moon trainer in the sky, looking at it from this angle, it was like a flying flea.

Because the front end of the training machine was open, people could even see Anthony's strong man operating in it nervously.

Driving a Moon Trainer landing is a very difficult thing to do. Of all the training, even if it's not the hardest, it can definitely be ranked first, not to mention the wind today, which will further increase the difficulty of landing.

“He might have killed himself by mistake.” The impotent young man squeezed his eyes.

Several other players sniffed and looked at him.

“What's the matter? Don't tell me that's not what you think. We all know that day will come, don't we? It's not always a bad thing to lose a competitor, is it?” The impotent young man is leisurely, "by the way, this is for you, and I've never seen this as an adversary. ”

Although his words were hard to hear, it was hard to disprove. He looked like a bad teenager, but everyone was expected to perform well in subsequent flight training and theoretical studies, after Zhang Heng. Although concrete results had not yet been achieved, it should not be a problem for him to get a spot.

On the contrary, others, especially those who did not behave ideally in training, did need to start thinking about what happened after that, and by the time the results of the first round of training came out, it might be time to turn their backs.

The Moonboarding Training Machine is also slowly falling under the operation of the strong man, but everyone's mind is no longer on it.

And then the captain's voice sounded again on the channel, “You're too fast, you need to slow down, repeat, you're too fast, you need to slow down, try to raise the altitude before you try to land. ”

The strong man named Anthony was sweaty in the face, constantly pulling the lever in his hand, but at this time the moon climbing trainer was shaking violently in the air like it was out of control, and the distance from the ground was rapidly approaching.

All of this happened too quickly, in just a few seconds, the Moon Trainer had accelerated into the earth under gravity, and the flames were blazing, followed by black smoke.