Chapter 492
Chapter 492: Chapter 80 Jask!
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(Extra for Alliance Leader Feitian General Alliance, Chen Ge!!)_2 Under 4 G’s of acceleration…
Lin Xian struggled to turn his head, looking towards the pitch-black space outside.
Black.
It was truly black.
Even though he could see twinkling stars, the lack of moonlight made the dark universe beyond extremely oppressive.
Beneath the porthole, he could see a bright blue.
Without question, that had to be Mother Earth.
Due to the angle, Lin Xian could only see a curved corner of Earth and scattered clouds.
“The second-stage booster fuel is depleted!
Prepare for jettison!”
“Third-stage booster ignite!”
Another surge of force shook them before the sensation of being pushed back hit.
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The third-stage booster was the last one, and the formidable rocket from before had now shed its sections until only the topmost part remained, carrying the exposed Skyspace Aircraft up its climb trajectory.
Now, take another look at the little penguin in front of us.
It had completely tipped over, vertically toward everyone’s feet, the ground, Earth.
From this perspective…
The Skyspace Aircraft they were aboard had “flipped” over, parallel to Earth’s east-west direction.
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Finally!
The feeling of being pushed back disappeared in an instant.
From the radio communicator, the ground control center sent its final transmission:
“Third-stage booster detached!
Skyspace Aircraft released!”
“Shenzhou-II Carrier Rocket launch successful!
Skyspace Aircraft has entered orbit smoothly!
We wish you all the best!”
Inside the smoothly flying Skyspace Aircraft, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.
They could breathe normally at last.
“Lin…
Senior Lin Xian!
Look at the little penguin!”
Chu Anqing’s voice came through the helmet.
Lin Xian looked towards the front of the cabin, where the little penguin was hanging.
He discovered…
It was actually “floating” up!
Drifting freely in the air, no direction, no purpose.
Lin Xian nodded:
“We’ve reached zero-gravity height.
Don’t you feel it with your body?”
Only then did Chu Anqing suddenly realize…
If the penguin was weightless, then of course, she was weightless too!
But because she was too nervous and fastened tightly to her seat with safety belts, she genuinely hadn’t felt it for a moment.
“You can only say…
that you…
have too strong a physique…
to not even be aware of this.” Gao Yang said intermittently.
It was evident.
Compared to Chu Anqing, who didn’t even realize she was weightless, Gao Yang was nearly at his limits.
“Look outside the window, young astronauts,” said Coach Wei Cheng’s relaxed voice, coming through the radio communicator:
“Now, you can proudly say that you’re the youngest astronauts in the world.
There has never been astronauts as young as you going to space…
no, perhaps even the astronaut limitation can be removed.”
“You four are the youngest space travelers on the entire Earth!”
Having said this…
Wei Cheng suddenly felt it was somewhat inappropriate—it seemed…
it seemed Commander Huang wasn’t that old, right?
Was it proper of him to exclude her from the category of young people just like that?
“Commander Huang, may I ask how old you are?”
“Focus on flying the aircraft,” Huang Que said coldly.
“Understood!”
Knowing his place, Wei Cheng immediately muted his mic.
After the joke, the tension that everyone had just felt vanished instantly, and they all laughed without meaning to.
Lin Xian and Chu Anqing were seated together, so they leaned over to look out the window…
They could see a corner of the Skyspace Aircraft’s wing.
Then there was the vast!
Immense!
Huge Earth!
So large…
that they could only see the faint curvature of a corner.
It appeared their current position was above some ocean, so they couldn’t see any land, but the lighting was very bright, shining onto the planet below, blue of the oceans and white of the clouds interweaving like a delicate watercolor painting.
“It’s so beautiful…”
Chu Anqing exclaimed.
To date, only a hundred or so people in the world had the chance to behold Earth from this perspective.
And at this moment…
Just as Wei Cheng said…
They were undoubtedly the youngest ones.
And she was the youngest among them.
A 19-year-old space astronaut.
This record might never be broken for many years to come.
Beep beep.
A light sound.
It was the second radio channel.
In this channel were only five people, without Wei Cheng—it was their tactical discussion channel.
“We are now at an altitude of 240 kilometers, with a flying speed of 7.5 kilometers per second; the Space-Time Particle is currently at a distance of 1,500 kilometers above the Earth’s surface, and its speed has dropped to 1 Mach, even slightly below the speed of sound!”
Liu Feng, who had been silent, spoke from the radio communicator:
“As expected, the speed reduction of the Space-Time Particle has a pattern, but it’s uncertain whether it will continue to slow down.
Its speed is already slow now, if it slows down further, it will be disadvantageous for us because the Skyspace Aircraft uses a working fluid engine, which has a minimum flight speed requirement.”
“Based on the current speed, we estimate that if we fly two-thirds around the Earth from west to east, from the Pacific Ocean airspace to the Atlantic Ocean airspace, lowering to an altitude of 100 kilometers and slowing down to around 1 Mach, we can synchronize with the Space-Time Particle.”
“The Space-Time Particle’s direction is still very stable without any changes, so under the best circumstances, we will meet the Space-Time Particle in the airspace 100 kilometers above the Atlantic Ocean around 11:50, and the capture plan will officially commence from that time.”
“I will direct Coach Wei Cheng to get as close to the Space-Time Particle as possible using the tracking equipment but try to avoid any contact or collision…
We don’t know what might happen upon contact with this miraculous particle, so to be cautious, we should maintain a certain distance and let Gao Yang use the Mechanical Arm and rice cooker to capture it.”