spaceflight manual

Chapter 5 Telephones and Candy Papers

Wang Ping'an curled his lips: "Courses and practical exercises are two different things. Well, the rocket is about to launch, let's go."

Angeli also curled her lips in imitation.

Carrying their luggage, the two walked towards the boarding hall one after the other. When they passed the reunited family of three on the way, they saluted the officer holding the child together.

The officer was a little embarrassed, and hurriedly switched the child to his left hand, and saluted the two of them back.

**
The rocket's flight time was very short, and it arrived at the transfer station on the [-]-kilometer ultra-low orbit in a short while.

During the docking, the high-power laser at the transfer station just started, and the neatly arranged phased array laser reflector array focused the green visible light laser on the space junk approaching the transfer station.

Wang Pingan stabbed Angeli's arm: "Look, this is not a scene that you often see. The space junk in low orbit has been cleaned up by middle school students."

Angeli was speechless: "Are you referring to the space summer camp for middle school students organized by your Children's Palace? I heard that they will clean up space junk in low orbit."

"That's it. When we were young, we had to attend a certain summer camp in the Children's Palace, and we had to spend enough time there, otherwise the social practice class scores would not be enough. I participated in the low-orbit summer camp. I drove a spacecraft called BALL to catch space junk everywhere. Spy satellites launched by pre-space age Yankees."

Angeli's mouth was wide open, and after a while she said softly: "I didn't have such a childhood. When I was young, I was studying the knowledge in the textbooks and taking various tests, including the Chinese Test Level [-]. My father always told me Said that joining the United Space Force is a shortcut to enter your country, for which my parents gave everything, and even scraped together the money for genetic modification of hair, they say people in your country like silver hair."

Wang Ping'an almost missed key information, almost.

He looked at the girl in surprise: "Wait a minute, you... only adjusted your hair, or did it come from the day after tomorrow?"

The girl nodded: "Yes, this hair cannot be passed down to the next generation."

"No, no, the point is, you only adjusted your hair? Your appearance belongs to the top among adjustment people...is it natural?"

The girl nodded again, then took out her glasses and put them on: "That's why I'm short-sighted. You all adjusted so that you won't be short-sighted, right?"

"Not nearsighted, but astigmatism... Wait a minute! Are you still nearsighted? How did you pass the physical examination of the Space Force?"

"The Space Force is not the Air Force. You have to use the binoculars on the spacecraft to see the spacecraft in the distance. 20 years ago, the Space Force did not inspect eyesight—except for the position of pilot in the atmosphere."

Wang Pingan said "oh", then grabbed the girl's shoulders and turned her upper body left and right to see her wearing glasses from different angles.

Angelie: "Is it very novel?"

"Yeah, I've never seen anyone wearing glasses in my life."

Angeli smiled wryly: "It's quite common in our country, because in your country, genetic adjustment is arranged by the eugenics committee, and we spend money on it. Rich people are naturally stronger, smarter, and less likely to get sick." .”

Wang Pingan patted the girl on the shoulder: "You are no longer there."

"Yes, I escaped."

At this time, the flight attendant's voice came from the loudspeaker: "Passengers, please pay attention, this plane is about to arrive at the terminal, please take your luggage and prepare to get off the plane."

**
After getting off the rocket, Wang Pingan activated the small thrusters on the suitcase, and was dragged by the suitcase to float along the long transfer aisle.

Angorie floated behind him, and suddenly noticed that he was turning his head to look at the fully transparent porthole on the side, so he also turned his head to look.

"Torch cruiser?" Angeli muttered in a low voice, "Are we going to transfer to this later?"

"Ah?" Wang Pingan was stunned, turned his gaze to Angeli, and blinked.

Angelie: "Isn't it?"

"Of course not. This is a torch cruiser. It is equipped with a terawatt-level reactor, a deuterium-helium thruster, a cruise acceleration of 80 milligal, and a combat acceleration of more than 5 gal. Do you think this thing can be used to transport the two of us?" ( All Ga in this book are G, that is, the earth’s standard gravitational acceleration, not the “Galileo” in reality.)
Wang Pingan's series of dish names stunned An Geli, she shrugged: "Why not?"

"Of course not, this should be to pick up a certain general. That's the one we're going to sit on!"

Wang Pingan pointed to the unattractive spaceship parked next to the slender torch cruiser.

"Magnetic mirror restraint reactor, tritium reflective thruster, can't walk the torch string so can only climb slowly, it will take 2 weeks for that thing to reach the Space Force Fortress at Lagrange L5, understand? Five weeks! This is still the shortest route .The torch cruiser only needs to walk the torch string to reach Sun-Earth L2, and it will be completed in a week."

Angeli: "I'm also a graduate of the Space Flight Academy, I know this."

"Didn't the Space Flight Academy tell you that the astronauts who just finished their vacation have to complete recovery training on the way to the Earth-Sun Lagrangian L2? You don't think that after three months of vacation on the ground, it only takes one week Re-adapt to space?"

Angorie shrugged.

But she immediately found the blind spot: "Wait a minute, you've been on the ground for three months, and you didn't want to go home?"

"If I had gone home from the beginning, my dad would have allowed me to participate in If You Are the One in these three months. He could have introduced me to a girl from the reinforcement group, and I would have no chance of getting any rest." Wang Pingan seemed to think of the old Dad chattered endlessly, and his whole body became numb.

Just then, his phone rang.

After going to Earth-Sun L2, there is no way for personal communications to communicate with the Earth. To contact family members, one must transfer through the communication system of the space station.At the L2 fortress space station, the duration of private calls is rationed. In order to allow Wang Pingan to have more private call time to flirt with girls, he would rather take the time to call in at this time.

Wang Pingan answered the phone angrily and said, "Hello? Who?"

"Who? Your dad! Hey, son, are you up to date? Foreign girls are very open!"

Wang Pingan: "Ah, Dad? Dad? Why is there no sound? Why is the signal so bad?"

"You lied to your father! Son, what a rare opportunity, that girl is so beautiful and smart enough to enter the Space Force, her genes must have been adjusted at a huge price!
"They are different from us. We are all genes with a uniform specification. Your dad can only use labor points to customize his appearance. Foreigners spend money to do it themselves. Every item must be out of specification!"

"Uh," Wang Pingan glanced at Angeli, "Actually, she only ordered the hair color."

"Fuck, can't you hear what Dad said? I knew you were fooling Dad! What did you just say?"

"Angeli only had her hair custom-made, and the rest is natural. I'm going to be in trouble to marry her, and I have to go to the eugenics committee to sequence her genes."

Wang Ping'an could feel his father's interest in An Geli drop suddenly through the phone: "Oh, what should I do, why not the girl from the dispatch bureau yesterday, my mother-in-law's attitude towards you has changed all of a sudden... "

At this time, Angeli took out a toffee, peeled it off and ate it, and stuffed the candy wrapper to Wang Pingan.

Wang Pingan understood what she meant in seconds, took the candy wrapper and began to knead it on the microphone of the mobile phone.

The candy wrapper made a sound like radio interference noise.

Wang Pingan: "Hello? Dad? Why is it cut off again? Oh, I don't know if the signal today is caused by solar flares or the approach of Axis. It's rubbish!"

Several space army sergeants passing by laughed, obviously they had encountered similar situations.

Wang Pingan ignored them and continued to act: "Dad? Dad? Hey, I'll hang up first. I'll call you at the allocated time when I arrive at the L2 space station. That's stable!"

"Don't, you call the girl during the allocated private time! Don't!"

Wang Ping'an hung up the phone.

He looked back at Angeli who was floating behind him, and raised the candy wrapper in his hand: "That's a good idea."

Angeli: "I often deal with my dad like this. But now it's easy. When he calls, I tell him that I'm partnered with a Chinese lieutenant. The lieutenant is still unmarried. My dad will definitely hang up after saying "Come on."

Wang Pingan gasped.

Unexpectedly, one day, I, Wang Ping'an, will become someone else's excuse.

(End of this chapter)