48 Hours a Day

Four days have elapsed since the sudden chaos that preceded it, because the situation was too bizarre and complicated, involving five astronaut candidates, resulting in four outs, three of whom died, and the team was overstretched at one time. NASA would have liked to keep things down for now until the results of the investigation were available to consider what to do next.

But it didn't occur to me that just the next day, everything was exposed by the media, and the more evil things got, the more people even called this series of accidents the moon curse, because what NASA was doing now had angered God, and that would lead to disaster.

There were also spontaneous protests at the Kennedy Space Center and outside Congress over the past few days.

NASA had to convene a press conference on an urgent basis, in which only three remaining astronaut candidates also attended the conference and were asked questions that lasted 45 minutes, and those journalists were reluctant to ask about the colours of all three of their underpants, many of them guided questions with traps.

But the three of them were obviously also prepared for the situation, and basically all the answers were intact.

As soon as the 45 minutes arrived, the staff of the Public Affairs Office took them to the back lounge.

When everyone left, the door closed, isolated the noise at the other end, there were only three people left in the room, Bruno immediately went to pour two glasses of water with a very good eye, and brought the cup over, to Zhang Heng and Jialei, "Brother, drink water. ”

Fatty and angry laughed, “A fat house like mine still prefers Coke. ”

“Then I'll buy it for you right away!” Bruno patted his chest immediately.

“You don't have to be so troublesome, you're about to start climbing the moon. It's better to keep a low profile at this time.” Fat man has had a pause, and he's concerned, "Are you still eating LSD lately, and you will be driving to the moon cabin. Is that okay? ”

“No problem, no problem, I haven't touched that thing in a long time, and it's more spiritual now than ever.” Bruno Dao.

Jalai's last so-called opportunity and choice simply did not exist, and he had already made the choice to leave Bruno behind and kill Jane... not because Jane had cheated on him, but because Jane was harder to control and deal with than Bruno, so Jalai also offered his highest respect, which was to kill each other in advance.

The threat was not so great, Bruno, to form the last moon climbing squad.

With less than 10 days left before the launch of Apollo XI, given the one-week quarantine period that preceded the launch, which meant that they actually had more than two days of free movement, there was only one final field survival training left in training.

This is to ensure that astronauts are able to survive there until rescue arrives when the vehicle lands in some extreme environment on its return to Earth. During the Gemini program, astronauts were required to conduct five days of special survival and life-saving training in tropical, desert and aquatic environments, and NASA even led astronauts to Iceland and the Amazon Rainforest for covert intensive training.

This time, however, due to time constraints, the field survival training course was reduced considerably, and the water survival training was completed in the swimming pool, while the tropical training component was cut off directly, leaving desert training, which was retained, but also put in the end in case other training was not completed and the entire training process had only two days.

But compared to those previous trainings, there was no pressure on the three of them to achieve anything this time.

Because regardless of the outcome, the final list has been established.

Thus, in the eyes of Jalai and Bruno, this is no different from a trip, but at this point the entrance to the lounge was opened again, this time with another figure besides the captain.

When Jalai and Bruno saw the figure, they didn't pay much attention to it. They thought it was just a field survival training staff, but Zhang Heng's face was full of surprises.

The captain did not mean to introduce the parties, but opened the door directly to the mountain lane, as usual, “You have been trained for 45 full days, you have basically mastered all the skills required by the astronauts, and you have experienced all sorts of things in the process, but the good news is that you have persisted, and I am proud of your efforts and performance, and you will then have the opportunity to be part of history. ”

Jalai and Bruno looked at each other and saw a glimmer of joy in each other's eyes. Although they had known ahead of time that they were the last winners in the game to successfully climb the Apollo 11 and step onto the Moon, when the day really came, it was difficult for them to conceal their joy. Especially given what had happened before, Jalai went from the last backlash to the final list, now that the dust had been fixed, he no longer had to disguise and disguise his inner thoughts.

Only Zhang Heng's face remained calm among the three, staring quietly at the silent man next to the captain, seemed to evoke some memories of him.

Then Jalai and Bruno listened to the captain continue, "This afternoon we will begin our final training, and I hope that we can all take it seriously, because this achievement, together with your previous achievements, will serve as an important reference for determining the final candidate. ”

“Wait, the final candidate… what does this mean?” Jalai frowned.

“We're the final choice, aren't we? We need three astronauts to execute Apollo XI, and now we're three.” Bruno also opened his eyes, "you said," because of a new infectious disease, you've lost a lot of astronauts, and the astronauts on Apollo 10 haven't recovered since the last mission, for some unknown reason, so we're all that's left, right? ”

The captain was unchanged, “Yes, yes, because of the mysterious infectious disease, we did lose a large number of astronauts, almost all of them, but some of them survived,” speaking of which, he looked at the silent man around him, "Neil Orden Armstrong, the former commander of Apollo 10, who had passed the observation period a week earlier, was undergoing restorative training, in good condition, and confirmed that he could continue with Apollo 11. ”

“Wait...” Bruno is terrified, “that means we only have two spots left? ”

“To be exact, it's a spot, and we're very lucky, Michael Collins, that the service cabin pilot is doing well.” But don't worry, "said the captain," no one can stay in the ground control center, serve as a support team, and participate in this great voyage as well. ”