The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 401 The Red Ribbon

"Lin Zihan of the Zhu Rong calculated a voyage plan that would allow the Zhu Rong to return to Mars. According to his design, the Zhu Rong could fly past Mars before the 549th Earth Day."

There was a dead silence.

"Are you joking?"

"549? How is this possible? If the supply ship does not explode, it will not be able to land until the 588th day."

"The supply ship is a point propulsion vehicle, and the power source of the Zhurong is the continuous propulsion Hall propulsion engine, which is accelerating all the time. In addition, the velocity of the Zhurong is very high now. During their current voyage to the earth orbit, the next The moon has to slow down to match Earth's speed."

"...549, this is 35 Earth days before he runs out of food, and all problems have been solved."

Lei Jiayin's potato farm was destroyed, and the food that could have lasted for more than 800 days could only last for nearly 600 days no matter how frugal he was.

And the expedited supply spacecraft that sacrificed countless functions also failed to launch.

Even without considering the time Lei Jiayin can last, even if it takes 50 days to create a supply aircraft again, there will be no second Long March [-], and there will be no propellers for the second Long March [-].

The Long March [-] was originally designed to implement the lunar space station construction plan, and only such a rocket can launch a supply spacecraft that can reach Mars.

Such a super-heavy rocket cannot be built in a month or two, and no amount of money can compensate for the time.

While the audience was anxious about this desperate situation, Lin Zihan, the pilot and payload expert of the Zhurong spacecraft, thought of a navigation plan that could solve the predicament.

After sending it to the control center, it was found that the solution was feasible after supercomputer verification.

Originally, the Zhurong spacecraft had to decelerate when it was traveling to the middle of the journey, but according to this navigation plan, not only could it not decelerate, but it had to start accelerating again.

Zhurong will not go into Earth orbit, but will approach Earth to use Earth's gravity to adjust its course.During this time, they will dock with a supply ship launched from Earth to obtain the supplies needed for the extended voyage.

After that, Zhu Rong will fly to Mars along an accelerated orbit, and arrive on the 549th Earth day after the protagonist lost Mars.

But because the speed is too fast to enter orbit, it can only fly past Mars. The remaining routes will bring all astronauts back to Earth 211 days after passing Mars.

The difficulty is that the main man rushed to the lift-off vehicle site of the Yinghuo 3200 mission [-] kilometers away from the habitat module.

A spacecraft as large as Zhurong cannot land on Mars. Astronauts take the landing vehicle rocket from the Zhurong spacecraft to a soft landing, but the landing vehicle rocket is a one-off and cannot be lifted off.

Every time a manned fire detection is carried out, an aircraft must be used in advance to put the launch vehicle rocket to help the astronauts evacuate to Mars, and some materials will also be thrown on Mars in advance.

Lei Jiayin will take the launch vehicle rocket of the Yinghuo [-] mission to meet with the Zhu Rong spacecraft that is passing by Mars.

But this scheme has three difficulties.

One is how Lei Jiayin arrived at the rocket site 3200 kilometers away, so the rover needs to be greatly modified.

The second is that the design flight altitude of the launch vehicle rocket is the low orbit of Mars, because normally Zhu Rong will enter the low orbit of Mars and stay there. The atmosphere of Mars is thin, and it only needs to consume a small amount of fuel to stay in orbit for a long time.

Therefore, the weight of the launch rocket must be reduced, mainly under the guidance of the space agency to carry out major modifications to the rocket.

The third is the issue of risk.

In terms of probability, the Zhurong spacecraft will double its working time without maintenance, and its flight speed will also be greatly increased. The two effects add up to tens of millions of parts of the spacecraft, and the risk of failure will increase to a level that cannot be ignored. degree.

Taking this method to rescue Lei Jiayin would cost the lives of the five astronauts on the spacecraft.

Using the risk of five people to save a person with a high risk of death, and at such a high speed, there is no way for the launch rocket to rendezvous and dock normally with the Zhu Rong.

And most importantly, when the Zhu Rong passed the earth at high speed, the earth had to launch a launch vehicle to deliver supplies, and high-speed docking was a big challenge.

Once the material docking fails, the Zhurong will fly around the earth at high speed. It will be quite troublesome to come back. The food on the spacecraft is only enough for all members of the crew for a month. Even if they don’t go to Mars, it will take at least [-] months conservatively Time slows down and adjusts orbit back to Earth.

The people on the spacecraft will all starve to death, and they will be more miserable than the hero on Mars, because they can't grow potatoes.

Five lives, and a spaceship worth hundreds of billions.

Is it worth paying such a price?
Ding Wei, who was sitting on the chair, kept asking himself in his heart, if such a thing happened in the real world, would human beings and countries be willing to pay such a price?

"does it worth?"

"Of course it's worth it." Wu Heng, who doesn't know much about aerospace knowledge, heard his companion's unconscious questioning, but replied firmly and softly: "On the battlefield, the army should drag the dead bodies back to the trenches as much as possible. What is the reason for risking death and bringing back the bones after decades?
This is for the living to see. "

Some things are not just for the parties, or just for the dead, some things are for the living.

It is for other astronauts, for those engaged in the space industry, and for everyone who is still alive.

The value of human beings, the nobility of human beings, and people's beliefs in the country and human society are priceless, which cannot be summarized by the paradox of the trolley problem.

What's more, the hero himself has become a symbol of human exploration of space.

The significance of the rescue plan itself has surpassed the Apollo project, the Yingluo project in the movie, and all the ambitious space programs in human history.

This rescue operation can be recorded in the history books, regardless of the final result of success or failure.

The plot of another village did not surprise Wu Heng. The routine is not new, but of course it does not mean that there are no surprises.

This rescue plan using a gravitational slingshot is indeed novel. Wu Heng is not a professional, but he also feels that it is very reliable when he is not aware of it.

What surprised him even more was the intertextuality of the film structure, in which the crew of the Zhu Rong who took the hero's corner to Mars personally rescued the hero back.

This kind of story structure is complete and complete, and this delicate and atmospheric echo is so natural and exciting.

Without a trace of deliberation, it was natural.

The surprise for him is even better than the hero who dug up Tianwen-20 [-] years ago and established a connection with the earth.

It is as exquisite as the plot of Tiangong-International Space Station-Tiangong-[-] in "Gravity".

There is such a shock of providence.

If it is he in the end, there is no more happy ending than this.

On the big screen, despite fierce debates and debates, with the news that the five astronauts of Zhu Rong agreed unanimously, this whimsical and risky plan is just beginning to be implemented.

Because there is no other way.

Although there is no Long March 30, the Long March [-] launch vehicle serving the earth space station has a ready-made backup. This launch vehicle has been in service for nearly [-] years. The technology is extremely mature, and the safe launch record is higher than that of the Long March [-].

The rocket was large enough to deliver supplies to the Zhu Rong as it skimmed Earth at high speed in high orbit.

And Lei Jiayin, under the command of countless smartest and most experienced brains gathered on the earth, began a major transformation of the rover.

According to the rover's solar charging efficiency, power, travel and speed, and the launch rocket will also undergo major modifications after arriving at the destination, it is necessary to set off at least one hundred Earth days in advance of the moment when the Zhu Rong passes Mars. It took 50 days to cross 3200 kilometers to reach the destination, and then it took another 40 days to modify the rocket.

That is to say, Lei Jiayin must survive for 100 earth days without leaving the habitat.

The modified rover must carry the "three major pieces", an atmospheric regulator, an oxygenator, and a water circulation device.These three pieces can only work under normal air pressure, but there is obviously not enough space in the rover.Moreover, these three pieces need to work non-stop.

In addition, the rover needs to hold all the food, water, and solar panels that Lei Jiayin needs, as well as extra batteries, tools, and spare parts.

Of course, there is also Tianwen-[-]. As the only means of communication, Tianwen-[-] has to ride on the roof of the rover.

One of the two rovers is used for driving and the other is used as a cargo trailer.

With the assembly of the smartest brains on Earth and Mars, the rover transformation that opened the eyes of the audience was successfully completed.

On the 448th Earth Day, Lei Jiayin drove the rover, and another rover was towed behind it. Various things were wrapped on the outside, and the roof of the rover was tied to the sky that came to Mars more than 20 years ago. Question [-] drove out of the habitat and started the first "self-driving trip" on another planet in human history.

Before that, on the other side of the earth, the Zhurong is about to bypass the earth at high speed, and the Long March [-] is preparing to launch supplies. The implementation is theoretically feasible, but there has never been a docking at such a high speed in human history.

Commander Wu Yue called all the members for a secret meeting. There was no record, no audio and video recording, and the earth also actively disconnected the signal for a period of time.

But this meeting that confused the audience in the theater caused another uproar.

It turned out that this was a top-secret arrangement conveyed by Commander Wu Yue from the space agency.

Once the material docking fails to arrange.

Wu Yue selected the female astronaut who is the petite among the five and needs the least food. If the material docking fails, she is the only one who can survive.

Once the material docking fails, the other four will commit suicide by taking medicine, and they will do so immediately, without wasting any food.

There is enough food on board to keep six people alive for a month.If there is only one left, it can last for six months. If the food ration is reduced, it may be extended to nine months, but it will take fourteen months to go home.

The remaining food supplies will not be the only source of food...

The ground will also disconnect the signal connection on the pretext that the spacecraft is malfunctioning until the spacecraft is adjusted to return to orbit.

"My God..."

"Fuck!"

"It's too exaggerated..."

The audience in the theater was stunned. This dialogue without any visual spectacle shocked the audience more than most of the visual spectacle.

Wu Heng was also stunned. Although the whole movie is getting serious and heavy, the tone of humor still runs throughout, but here suddenly a shock bomb broke out.

"Exploring Mars and landing on the moon are not at the same level of difficulty. Just the journey is recorded in years. Anything can happen during such a long space journey, so all possible plans will be designed..."

Ding Wei answered Wu Heng's question with his exclamation-like words. No wonder the astronauts were not so shocked. They must have been exposed to these plans during the training.

"If the material connection fails again this time, I swear that I will never watch Chen Jingxing's movies again!"

Then Ding Wei gritted his teeth and "threat" made Wu Heng recover from the shock, and felt a little ironic.

"Don't worry, it's impossible." Wu Heng comforted.

This is his sincere words, because he has already seen through the core value of this movie. As the second movie of Chen Jingxing's so-called space trilogy, after seeing this, he can already be sure that "Mars" and "The Center of the Earth" are In the same line.

He already understood what Chen Jingxing wanted to express over and over again.

Even if the style is different, the protagonist's personality and gender are different, but the core value is the same.

A tribute to human exploration of the universe.

A hymn to man's greatest courage.

One last fight even when destruction is at hand.

Never tame the darkness.

"Don't go gentle into that good night... Rage, rage at the passing of the light!"

This poem appeared again, and after the commander played by Wu Yue finished his confession, he read the autobiography written by the once legendary aerospace hero.

The male protagonist is also listening to this poem while sitting in the rover.

It did not exceed Wu Heng's expectations, nor did it cause Ding Wei to bid farewell to Chen Jingxing's movie. Under the nervous gaze of the audience in the theater, the supply module launched by the Long March [-] successfully docked with the Zhurong. Using the gravitational slingshot, Zhurong once again accelerated around their homeland and headed for Mars.

But on Mars, the difficulties did not let Lei Jiayin go.

He drove the rover into the sandstorm area.

The wind speed was not fast, but the sandstorm blocked 80% of the sunlight, which not only affected the working efficiency of the solar panels, but also caused the male protagonist to accidentally drive to the steep slope of the Maas impact crater.

It has a radius of 100 kilometers. Lei Jiayin can't see the whole picture at the current location, so he can't judge the specific position of the pit ring.

Lei Jiayin wore a spacesuit and climbed to the top of the crater ring to find out the route out. Of course, the audience once again enjoyed a visual spectacle.

After struggling to get out of the crater and sandstorm, the rover drove up and down a seemingly ordinary slope when it passed an inconspicuous bump.

The dense, hard sand suddenly turned into a soft powder.Because the entire surface was covered with dust five centimeters thick, such a sudden change could not be seen with the naked eye.

The rover's left front wheel sunk in, and the sudden tilt lifted the right rear wheel off the ground and into the dust.

The rover had rolled over, and at the same time, the solar panels that had been well stacked on the roof all slid off and fell to the ground like a stack of playing cards.

The trailer was connected to the rover through a hitch, and the torque applied to the hitch was too great. No matter how strong its material was, it still snapped like a twig. The hose connecting the two cars was also twisted, and the trailer fell into the In the soft soil, fell to the ground.

Fortunately, the pressure chamber was intact, and Lei Jiayin survived another catastrophe.

At this time, the audience became tense again and sighed, lamenting that the director really can torment the male lead, and Chen Jingxing's worst protagonist in the works is really hammered.

After going through 81 hardships, the hero finally reached the 27-meter-high launch rocket.

Later, under the command of the Earth Control Center, in order to reduce the load to the greatest extent, and close to the orbital height of the Zhurong passing Mars, the rocket underwent a major modification that stunned the audience.

Removed the extra five accelerator chairs, medical kit, tool kit, inner safety belt, and various straps.

Throw away all life support equipment.Tanks, air pumps, heating, air ducts, carbon dioxide absorption systems, and even insulation materials for the inner layer of the hull, Lei Jiayin had to wear a space suit for the entire flight.

The rocket is piloted remotely by Zhurong.

In addition to throwing away three of the five batteries, there is also an auxiliary power system.The Orbital Mobility System had three redundant thrusters, and the second and third communication systems were also dropped altogether.

Also remove a first stage engine
And what opened the eyes of all the audience was that the entire bow of the rocket was also directly removed.

Male lead: "So, that means, I'm going to launch from a spaceship with a big hole in the bow?"

Earth: "You can cover the bow of the ship with habitat canvas."

Male protagonist: "Habitat canvas? Use this for orbital launch!?"

Earth: "The hull of the ship is originally for sealing. The atmosphere of Mars is extremely thin, so there is no need for much streamlined design. When the speed of the spacecraft is fast enough to consider air resistance, it has already risen to a place where there is no air. We have already run There should be no problem after many simulation tests."

Male protagonist: "Should? You want to send me into space under a canvas? Isn't this an open rocket?!"

Dominated by a sense of light humor, worry and absurdity, the audience waited for the last moment to decide Lei Jiayin's fate.

"There are still 4 minutes." Wu Yue said into the microphone: "How do you feel down here?"

"I can't wait to go home, Commander," Lei Jiayin responded.

"We'll come to pick you up right away." Wu Yue said, "Remember, you have to bear quite a lot of excess weight, even if you pass out, it's okay, everything will be left to Lin Zihan."

"Tell that birdman not to do the spiral roll."

The rocket was ready to take off, and the rumbling sound was endless, and Lei Jiayin was lying on the accelerator seat.

The thrust of the rocket was terribly powerful, and the acceleration exceeded any manned spacecraft in human history. Lei Jiayin was pushed into the recliner with such force that he couldn't even make a sound.

Directly in front of him, the hab's canvas bow patch vibrated crazily as the ship accelerated geometrically.

Lei Jiayin heard Wu Yue's voice from a distance, as if someone was talking to him at the other end of the tunnel, he was in a daze, not sure what she wanted, his consciousness would occasionally be attracted by the flapping canvas in front of him , a place has been torn, and the hole is expanding rapidly.

The tear in the canvas grew wider, and the tattered pieces flew wildly.Through the gap, Lei Jiayin saw the boundless red sky unfold in front of his eyes.

As the rocket continued to rise, the atmosphere became thinner, and soon the canvas stopped churning and the sky turned from red to black.

When he opened his eyes again, he gritted his teeth in pain in his chest.

There was not much of the canvas covering the top of the rocket, only some tatters floating around the edge of the hole, which gave him and the audience in front of the screen an unobstructed view of Mars.

The red planet is full of impact craters, stretching seemingly endlessly into the distance, and the thin atmosphere is wrapped like a membrane around the edge.

There is another unique beauty compared to the earth.

But before the audience could fully appreciate the beautiful perspective of looking at Mars from space, the bad news came again.

Breathless.

Because the canvas was not supported, it tore in the early stage of ascent, so the relative speed between Zhu Rong and the rocket reached 42 meters per second.

For this reason, Lei Jiayin once again came up with a crazy idea, to poke a hole in the glove of the space suit, use the escaped air to propel, and fly to Zhurong.The propulsion source is on his arm, so he can grasp the direction.

This made Wu Heng think of the fire extinguisher in "Gravity" while being astonished. Although it is the same method, it has a new idea.

The Zhurong also thought of a way to blow up the mobile airlock, and by removing the air inside, it would deviate from the course and approach Lei Jiayin.

According to calculations, when the maneuvering airlock is leaking and the bridge and reactor chamber are sealed, the Zhurong can be accelerated to 29 meters per second, and the relative speed drops to 13 meters per second.

The accomplished astronauts created homemade tubular explosives using sugar and pure liquid oxygen.

Let Ding Wei marvel at the hard core of this movie again: "Good guy, this can also create..."

The magnificent and vast dark sky, the red planet below occupies half of the screen.

Under the light of the stars that traveled [-] million kilometers, Lei Jiayin was wearing a space suit, exposing his upper body in the upper half of the rocket's cabin, and rotating upside down with the rotation of the cabin.

Not far away, the huge hull of Zhu Rong blocked half of the sunlight.

Wearing a spacesuit with a jetpack, Wu Yue jumped out of the airlock, behind him the red tether like a streamer fluttered in space.

But the tether has been put to the end, and the 214-meter red rope was straightened by Wu Yue, driving a long straight bridge in space.

But there is still a constant distance from Lei Jiayin.

Lei Jiayin used a knife to cut a hole in the palm of his left hand, and the air flow jetted out and collided with the narrow spaceship, but he still seized the opportunity and flew out of the hole.

Pressing back with his left hand, Lei Jiayin swayed his bloated space suit with the jet of air, crossed the quiet night sky, stepped on the red planet under his feet, and flew towards Wu Yue.

The tumbling Lei Jiayin was getting closer and closer to Wu Yue.

The two stretched out their hands to each other as hard as they could.

In the apprehension of the audience, the two hands wrapped in the thick white spacesuit clasped together.

But the relative speed of more than 6 meters made the two hands unable to keep apart.

"what!!"

"do not!"

Wu Heng stared at the big screen with his eyes wide open amidst the exclamation in the cinema hall, it's impossible, could Chen Jingxing really have a be ending?

Of course not!
Amidst the ethereal music and the audience's panting breaths, Lei Jiayin, who passed by Wu Yue, stretched out his hand and grabbed the red ribbon flying in space.

The palm of the hand seemed to hold the last hope, and refused to relax a little bit. He swiped backwards for dozens of meters in the friction all the way before stopping his figure.

Wu Yue struggled to retrieve the red tether, while Lei Jiayin held onto the tether tightly. Under the force and speed of the two astronauts at both ends, the red ribbon began to rotate and fold, pulling the two of them continuously. close.

In the boundless space, against the background of the red planet, a long red rope fluttering like a ribbon connects Lei Jiayin and Wu Yue, spinning and approaching, as if dancing a space waltz.

Then the two astronauts, 549 Earth days apart, spun close and hugged each other, holding each other tightly.

The two people holding each other, separated by the mask reflecting the stars, the sun and Mars, glass on glass, happy smiles reflected in each other's eyes, fluttering red ribbons around them.

Wu Heng seemed to see once again the astronaut played by Lei Jiayin in "Gravity" found the heroine played by Wu Yue who was floating in space. The two clung to each other tightly. In the visible city lights, they hug each other happily.

It seems that many other viewers also thought of the same picture as Wu Heng.

After the exclamation at the beginning, the audience was fascinated by the unique audio-visual spectacle of "The Martian".

Let go of all tension and anxiety.

Chen Jingxing always seems to be able to find scenes that can touch people's hearts.

As if returning to "Gravity", the space surprise that Chen Jingxing brought to the audience once again came to an end in an intoxicating romantic scene.

Even when the lights are on, the audience still seems to be savoring the aftertaste of the movie. The more difficult the process, the sweeter the fruit. "The Martian" once again proved this point.

(End of this chapter)