v2 Chapter 63： Run to space (1/2)

The elevator kept rising on the mobile launch platform, and the three of them were getting farther and farther from the ground. Zhang Heng looked up at the distant sky, where a red rising sun was rising from the coastline.

Light and darkness are perfectly intertwined at this moment, like a framed film.

”I hope we can still see such a beautiful sight.” Collins whispered aside.

Although Saturn 5's amazing height made it even impossible to reach the top, the elevator eventually stopped in front of the covered bridge.

NASA staffers opened the elevator doors for them and nodded at them. At the same time, the engineer completed the last inspection before launch. The three people walked through the connecting bridge between the rocket and the launch platform and got into a small space. In the command cabin.

Zhang Heng tried to keep the spacesuit from touching the complicated instruments and pipelines around him, and at the same time found his seat, and the door of the command cabin closed slowly behind him.

So far, only three of them remain in the spacecraft.

Both Armstrong and Collins are old men at NASA. They have performed aerospace missions before, so they are very calm, but compared to Armstrong's unchanged look, it can still be seen that Collins is a little nervous.

After all, NASA has just happened a series of things before, mysterious infectious diseases, and the crazy attrition of training camps ... All this seems to be in line with the widely rumored ”God does not want humans to go to the moon” rumor.

Even with the psychological qualities of Collins, it is difficult to completely ignore these disturbances.

But when the mission began, he quickly cleared his mood and devoted himself to the space flight.

Like the historical Apollo XI, NASA has arranged Armstrong as the commander and Corinth as the command / service cabin pilot. As for Zhang Hengze, he replaced Buzz Aldrin as the lunar module. Driver.

Corinth was also the only person on the Apollo 11 mission that did not land on the moon, because he needed to stay in the command / service cabin when the lunar module was separated from the command / service cabin. Once Armstrong and Zhang Heng could not get from the moon Back, Corinth was going to drive the command module back to Earth.

In terms of safety, he is the highest of the three, but the price is that he has arrived at the ”doorstep” of the moon and cannot go up, but he is still higher than the lunar module driver in the task order. Zhang Heng's.

After contact during the quarantine period, Zhang Heng, Armstrong, and Collins also became more familiar, because Armstrong and Corinth returned late, and the three did not have the opportunity to train together. This once made NASA seniors worried about the three. Tacit understanding.

However, until now, they have no better solution. They can only try to create an environment for the three people familiar with each other during the isolation period. Zhang Heng has also determined one thing.

That is, what happened in the parallel copy will not be brought into the normal copy. Armstrong did not have any impression of the time when the two were together in the Lewis Flight Dynamics Laboratory 14 years ago.