spaceflight manual

Chapter 18 Sun Earth Lagrange 2
From then until arriving at Lagrange point 2, Wang Ping'an was a celebrity on board.

When he meets people he doesn’t know at all on the road, others will come up to him and say, “Remember to say hello to my [-]th generation grandson.”

With Wang Pingan's thick skin, he naturally nodded repeatedly: "Definitely, if your 800th generation is a granddaughter, I will definitely help strengthen your family's genes. This is a pure gene from [-] years ago. Maybe it was the time when you were a granddaughter." This gene is regarded as a national treasure, I will let your family enjoy it!"

A few days after Qin Qiong woke up, the little African boy rescued by Wang Pingan woke up, but he seemed to have been severely traumatized and could not speak at all.

And the elder sister who woke up first couldn't explain the details of the smuggling. After all, she was just a child. Although her Chinese was good, but their father was negotiating with an English-speaking smuggler about smuggling, she couldn't understand it at all. .

The only information my sister could provide was that there were nearly a hundred stowaways from Africa on board the spaceship.

According to the preliminary analysis of the recovered wreckage by the Bravery Engineering Department, the ship in distress may have removed the backup computer system and supporting energy deployment system to install life support equipment.

After all, the Bravery is just a cargo ship, and it happens to be part-time to transport the astronauts back from vacation, and the detailed investigation will be handed over to the more professional space military police after arriving at L2.

The rest of the voyage went without incident, and Brave finally arrived at the Space Force's space fortress at L2 four days late.

**
Before entering the docking procedure, Wang Ping'an and Angeli's recovery training team assembled for the last time.

Because Qin Qiong was recuperating in the medical room, the deputy captain replaced him and told everyone to stand up.

Major Li looked around the briefing room and said, "I don't like to talk nonsense. The voyage this time is not smooth, but in the end it is the normal state of space. Each of you has encountered it more or less. Then return to your post. Come on, make use of this experience. Disband."

"stand up."

All rose together and saluted the major.

The major also returned the salute solemnly.

At this time, the porthole covers on the side of the briefing room opened one by one, revealing the deep starry sky.

Angeli exclaimed, "Wow..."

Wang Pingan: "You have never been to L2, have you?"

"Our training is basically completed in Luna L1, after all, the environment there is basically the same as here."

L is the abbreviation of Lagrange point. The so-called Lagrange point means the gravitational balance point. The sun-earth L2 means the gravitational balance point between the sun and the earth. The moon-earth naturally refers to the balance point between the earth and the moon.

That place used to be a strategic point. After all, the moon was the main source of helium 3 at that time, which was the main fusion fuel for humans at that time.

But now, with the iteration of the technology, the importance of Helium 3 is greatly reduced.

After losing its strategic significance, this place has become the main business district of the Earth-Moon system, gathering a large number of space residences and resorts established by private capital, and most of the flight academies of the Space Force in China and abroad have given space practical courses. Do it here.

The development of Earth Moon L1 is basically dominated by economic laws.But Sun-Earth L2 is completely different. It can be said that there is no economic value here, but after several five-year plans, as the forefront of the Space Management Committee's expansion to Mars, a complete industrial chain has been built here.

Only then did private capital gather towards Sundi L2.

Because of this, Angeli, who had only seen the scene of Earth-Moon L1, was immediately shocked when she saw the scene outside the porthole.

A newly-captured asteroid is changing orbit, and the airflow from the engine installed on the back of the planet reflects the lights of the space port.

The Bravery passed by the asteroid in orbit, and several cruisers of the Space Force escorted the asteroid, and easily passed the cumbersome Bravery.

A cruiser lights the Bravery.

Wang Pingan immediately interpreted it: "I salute you for your brave rescue operation."

Angeli raised her eyebrows: "I'm complimenting you."

"No, it's our entire crew." Wang Pingan said, "I just made a little effort."

The buddy next to him immediately gave Wang Pingan a hammer: "It's disgusting that you are so modest."

Angeli was about to speak when she was suddenly attracted by a new sight.

Bravery passed a large group of asteroids that had already entered orbit. The mining fields on the planet were brightly lit, and small mining machines danced like busy worker bees.

In order to provide minerals for the factories of the Sun-Earth L2, the Space Force has a special asteroid capture force, and all the asteroids that may intersect with the Earth’s orbit have basically been captured to the Sun-Earth L2.

With the improvement of the Martian industry and the extinction of asteroids, the Production Planning Committee estimates that there will be problems with the mineral supply of Sun-Earth L20 in about 2 years.

But right now it's still a bustling scene.

Looking at this scene, Ange Li admired sincerely: "This...how vibrant. Luna L1 has never seen such a scene."

Wang Pingan smiled: "After all, this is the forefront of the five-year plan, and you will gradually get used to it."

"You sound very proud?" Angeli said in surprise.

"of course."

At this time, the Bravery entered the inbound route.

At the same time, a cargo ship was leaving the port, and the anti-collision lights outlining the outline of the spaceship flashed rhythmically.

Suddenly, the light signal on the cargo ship began: "Brave rescue, salute you."

Angeli: "Why do you use lights to signal?"

"There is no need to occupy the communication frequency. This is Sun-Earth L2 after all, and all the frequencies are very busy. The response from the Bravery should also be a light signal, but we can't see it."

Angeli: "You actually explained it seriously. I thought you would say it's romantic or something."

"You actually knew that I would find this romantic. It seems that you have gotten to know me better."

That's when Bravery began to brake.Originally, the relative speed of the spacecraft and the space station had been reduced to almost the speed of a person walking, so the spacecraft "stopped" after only one jet.

Colonel Gu Changhe's voice came from the ship's radio: "I am Captain Gu Changhe. Although there were some episodes in this voyage mission, it was still successfully completed. Please leave the ship in an orderly manner. Welcome back to the last frontier of mankind. "

**
The brigade instructor looked at the computer screen in front of him.

On the screen is a document recommending Wang Ping'an to the Centaur Project.

After a long time of thinking, the instructor wrote in the final personal evaluation part of the report: "Although Lieutenant Wang Ping'an has many defects in character, as a professional master of psychology, I think he is extremely firm in his ideal of opening up the space for human activities. He has an incomparably sincere heart.

"I think his joining will do more good than harm to the Centaur Project. The light of ideals in him may become a bright light that illuminates the long voyage."

After writing, the instructor presses send.

As a result, within a few seconds, the reply came.

"Not adopted."

The instructor sighed, and muttered: "I can't help you, I can only see if the supercomputer's suggestion is reliable."

(End of this chapter)