Chapter 925 - Guests from Afar (1/2)

Although it was called an elevator, the base of this elevator was much wider than a high-rise. However, with a length of more than 30,000 kilometers, the vertically suspended elevator was just like a noodle.

Travelling with Celestial Trade’s frigate, Jiang Chen boarded the base station of the space elevator.

Shortly after he boarded, a group of people walked in his direction.

“We succeeded!”

When Jiang Chen first saw Kelvin when he returned to the modern world, the arrogant middle-aged man was as excited as a child, holding his hand and not letting go.

Jiang Chen, on the contrary, seemed calmer. Compared with the excitement of witnessing the birth of a spectacle, the excitement of leaving his name in history, he felt this was a wish coming true and he felt relieved for the distant future.

“Yes, we succeeded.”

After letting go of Kelvin’s hand, Jiang Chen looked up at the space elevator and suddenly gazed at the technical director who was standing next to Kelvin.

“If I want to engrave a line at the bottom of the space elevator, what kind of pen should I use?”

The technical director took a moment to process this then said, “The laser welding torch should be good.”

“Help me get the laser welding torch.”

Although he didn’t know what the president was doing, the technical director eyed the engineer next to them. Soon, a five pound laser torch was handed to Jiang Chen. After he took it in his hand, he weighed it to test its feel. Kelvin and the technical director were impressed by the scene.

To be able to hold a five or six-pound welding torch in his hand like this, the President’s strength was much greater than they thought.

Standing next to the space elevator, Jiang Chen pressed the switch of the welding torch and engraved a line of words on the titanium shell.

Taking two steps back, Jiang Chen looked at the line he engraved and nodded with satisfaction.

“I know we can solve the next problem because we’ve already solved all the problems that existed before.” Kelvin read the sentence with a perplexed expression, he then looked at Jiang Chen, “Is there any deeper meaning to this sentence?”

“There’s none. This is just for memory’s sake.” Jiang Chen laughed, turned off the welding torch, and threw the welding torch back to the engineer. “Take me to see the inside of the elevator.”

Walking into the interior of the space elevator, Jiang Chen used the engineering holographic concept blueprint displayed by Kelvin to view a panorama of the entire space elevator track and its operating mechanism. There was a total of six passenger tracks, three of which were upwards and three were downwards. The carriages changed tracks after reaching the terminal.

Because of the one-way unidirectional design, multiple carriages could travel at the same speed on one track. It was foreseeable that space activities would surely be quite frequent in the distant future. People could take space elevators to outer space and the elevators could even be as convenient as high-speed trains today.

The kind of design took traffic congestion in the future into consideration.

After the visit, Jiang Chen enjoyed lunch with the senior officials of the Space Launch Center in the cafeteria of the offshore platform. At the dinner table, Jiang Chen asked Kelvin about the progress of the asteroid capture project.

“The work of landing and weaving the nets went very smoothly, but the progress of the orbital change work is slower than expected.” Kelvin put his fork down and said bleakly, “Although the supercomputing center calculated the orbit of the asteroid, maintaining the speed and orbit of the asteroid at the same time still remains difficult with our current technical means. Each acceleration of the rocket is quite critical. With even one wrong step, everything has to be recalculated.”