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Chapter 1469: People Who Conquered the Stars (First Update, Please Subscribe)
Our journey is the sea of ​​stars!

This sea of ​​stars is a general term, which can be a new field or a new journey. After everyone sets a goal, they will regard it as the sea of ​​stars.

But there is one place where their journey is truly to the sea of ​​stars.

The sky seemed to be suffocated by heavy leaden clouds, and an unexpected rainstorm came like a downpour, shrouding the world in a hazy curtain of water.

At the Wanhujiao Launch Center, cars were parked in the parking lot. Although it was raining heavily, thousands of people were still standing there looking forward to the next launch.

Today is the day of the launch of the Prometheus 1 rocket.

The Prometheus rocket has 9 methane oxygen engines, each with a thrust of 135 tons, for a total thrust of 1215 tons!
Because this is the rocket with the largest thrust in human history, its launch not only attracted the attention of the whole world, but also attracted a large number of space enthusiasts, who came here from all directions, even from abroad, just to watch the launch.

The raindrops hit people's bodies densely, but could not dampen their enthusiasm.

Because it was the weekend, Zhao Xiangming also came here. This was not the first time he watched such a launch. Unlike other countries that keep it secret, Wanhujiao is open to the public. Tourists can enter the non-security area for a visit, and each launch will be announced in advance. Space enthusiasts can watch the launch in the designated area.

This has even given rise to space tourism.

Zhao Xiangming is such a tourist. He occasionally casts his gaze toward the dark clouds in the distance and says:

"It's raining so hard, I don't know when it will stop."

"Yes, if the rain doesn't stop, the rocket won't be able to be launched."

Guo Linghang, who was wearing a raincoat, also said something, and then a girl's voice came from behind them.

"Brother Guo, if the rain doesn't stop, will we be unable to launch the satellite?"

Zhang Yuting, holding an umbrella in her hand, looked at the heavy rain and asked.

"Yuting, launching a satellite depends on the weather. Even if the weather is good, we have to wait for the launch window."

Although I am not an expert in aerospace, I have some understanding of some of the terms because I have watched live satellite launch programs on TV.

Zhang Yuting asked with some confusion.

"Launch window? What is this?"

"The time range that is more suitable for rocket launch is called the launch window. The width of the window can be wide or narrow. The wide window can be measured in hours or even days, while the narrow window can be only tens of seconds, or even shorter."

While Guo Linghang was explaining, he looked at the girl next to him and said:
"You'll know after you watch a few more launches. There's also popular science information in the school library. If you're interested, you can go take a look. Ming..."

At this moment, someone suddenly shouted:
"The rain is easing!"

"It seems to be stopping soon..."

"It's amazing! The weather forecast is amazing now!"

There was amazement all around, and as a space enthusiast, Zhao Xiangming certainly knew why.

Weather forecasts have become increasingly accurate since the first weather satellite was launched a few years ago, especially with the use of large supercomputers and the creation of new weather models.

Like this launch, SpaceX estimated the launch window was half an hour later. Although it had been raining heavily before, the rain had stopped now.

“That’s the power of science.”

Zhao Xiangming sighed in his heart. Like many people, he looked at the launch pad in the distance, his eyes full of expectation.

This is the most powerful rocket in the world.

And today is its first launch!
Although they were far apart, their faces were filled with anticipation and excitement, as if at this moment, all the focus was on this huge metal body.

At the Binhai Launch Site, the rocket stood on the launch pad like a giant dragon, with its head raised to the sky.

After the dark clouds dispersed, the sunlight shone on the silver-white shell of the rocket, reflecting dazzling rays of light, as if it was announcing its arrival to the unknown horizon.

"On your marks, ready to fire!"

The launch commander's voice echoed over the launch site, clear and powerful. The staff were busy in an intense and orderly manner, their faces full of concentration and expectation.

"The rocket engine started normally!"

"The navigation system is working properly!"

"The countdown for launch begins. Ten, nine, eight..."

As the countdown progressed, the atmosphere at the launch site became increasingly tense. People held their breath and stared closely at the rocket, fearing that they would miss any moment.

"Three, two, one, ignite!" The commander gave the order, and a blazing flame instantly spurted out from the bottom of the rocket. The huge thrust slowly lifted the rocket up. With a deafening roar, the rocket shot straight into the sky like an arrow from a string.

"Take off! Take off!" Cheers broke out from the crowd, they waved their arms and jumped, as if they were going to fly into space with the rocket.

The rocket drew a long trail in the sky, like a meteor streaking across the sky.

It was getting faster and faster, and soon disappeared from people's sight. But the shock and excitement of that moment will remain in everyone's heart forever. "Success! We succeeded!" Cheers came one after another, and people's faces were filled with happy smiles. People were cheering there for the success of the rocket launch!
The joy of this moment enveloped everyone's heart.

At the same time, in front of a nearby satellite communications broadcast vehicle, a reporter said to the camera:
"With the successful launch of Prometheus 1, we have taken the first step towards the moon - in the future Prometheus will take us to the moon."

……

The Prometheus rocket launch was successful!

After watching the live broadcast of the rocket launch on TV, Korolev quietly walked out of the meeting room.

Then he just stood there, smoking silently, even though the Prometheus rocket launched this time had only nine engines.

But he could still feel that the Soviet Union was lagging behind them in terms of progress.

"Each Prometheus rocket has nine methane oxygen engines. In the future, they will use three Prometheus rockets in parallel to form one "Prometheus" to complete the moon landing mission!"

Looking up at the sky and listening to the footsteps coming from behind, Korolev said without turning his head.

"Now that they have completed the launch of the first Prometheus, it is very likely that they will complete the launch of a lunar rocket in the next two to three years."

"And what about us? When will we be able to launch our rocket?"

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Hearing this, the general asked.

"So can we get ahead of them? Can we launch ahead of them? We need to get ahead of them as early as possible."

"General, the first-stage rocket has not yet been tested on the ground..."

Looking at the falling snow, Korolev said:

"It uses 30 rocket engines in parallel. The technical difficulty is far greater than the nine rocket engines of Prometheus, and the price is also very expensive. If the experiment fails, we will lose 30 engines..."

Korolev's brows were furrowed, and deep down he was jealous of his American counterparts, who this year received up to $12 billion in grants for their Apollo program.

In contrast, the funds he received were very limited. In fact, without Khrushchev's support, the "Moon Landing Plan" would have been difficult to carry out because the military was not very interested in the Moon Landing Plan. Compared with the Moon Landing, the military was more interested in building missiles.

After all, missiles are the most important thing to the military. Some marshals even believed that the moon landing program took up a lot of funds and affected the speed of the military to manufacture missiles.

Under such circumstances, Korolev did not dare to take risks easily. On the one hand, he was afraid that the experiment would fail, which would give the military an excuse to terminate the moon landing plan. On the other hand, he was worried that after the ground experiment failed, there would not be enough funds to carry out the next plan.

So, Korolev is very depressed now. The lack of sufficient funds will obviously affect the entire moon landing plan.

However, without a certain degree of success, it would be difficult to convince the military to continue supporting their research in this area.

In this case, any choice would be very risky.

If the ground experiments fail, it will become more difficult to win the support of the military.

But now with the launch of Prometheus over there, we must not use certain progress to convince them to support this plan.

Now all Korolev could do was to conduct a ground experiment.

Even a failed experiment would show Moscow that they are moving forward with this plan.

Taking a deep puff of his cigarette, Korolev whispered in his heart:
“May God bless you and everything go smoothly!”

In fact, for all scientific research, the biggest factors that restrict it are, first, money, and second, money.

Only with sufficient funds can corresponding research be carried out, otherwise everything is empty talk.

Just three days after the successful launch of Prometheus 1, which sent three satellites with a total weight of more than 25 tons into space - a communications satellite, a meteorological satellite and a reconnaissance satellite, at the Baianur launch site, with Korolev's order, the first stage of the Soviet Union's N1 giant rocket carried out its first ground test.

After 32 seconds of testing, the first stage of the rocket failed as expected. Fortunately, when the sensor sent a fault signal, they cut off the fuel supply, otherwise, the violent explosion would have shaken the entire launch site.
But even this made Korolev's face turn pale. Faced with such a failure, he just muttered to himself.

"Fortunately, this was just a ground test run. At least we didn't explode in mid-air like the Americans did."

Just yesterday - NASA also launched a rocket - Saturn V, which is the US moon rocket.

This was also the first launch, and was apparently in response to the launch of the Prometheus from Cape Wanhu.

In this world, competition is everywhere. In these three places that look up to the stars and try to conquer the sea of ​​stars, the competition between them is silent and fierce.

The American launch that followed lived up to expectations and exploded in the air.

Now, this failure at the Baianur launch site is not an isolated case, it is just one of many failures.

"Besides, they were only 30% successful."

Korolev comforted everyone and said, looking at the destroyed test bench in the distance:
"At least now we have discovered some problems through this test run..."

What Korolev didn't know was that in the other world, he had no chance to see the ground test of the first stage at all - in fact, due to insufficient funds and time constraints, only 30/1 of the 4 engines of the first stage were tested, and no complete ground test was carried out at all.

At least, now they discovered the problem in time!
(End of this chapter)