Chapter 803 Encountered a Little Trouble

The Xiaguang sailing in the deep space slowly approached the silver "port".

Immediately afterwards, a pair of strip-shaped "landing gears" slowly stretched out from under the nose of the Xiaguang, pointing to the cabin section with the interface at the lower end of the space station, and then slowly approached.

Sitting in the cabin, watching the approaching space station outside the porthole, Johnson's heart almost reached his throat, and sweat oozes from his tense palms.

The docking of space spacecraft has always been a difficult point in aerospace technology.

This not only tests a country's "hardware strength" such as industrial camera precision, spacecraft material strength, engine and its control technology, but also a series of software strengths such as computer vision measurement technology.

In particular, the requirements for the orbital altitude and speed accuracy of the spacecraft are even more stringent to an outrageous level. Often the window period for engine ignition will be compressed to within one second, and one second earlier or one second later will lead to docking failure. .

At the beginning, when the Gemini manned space program of the United States first came out, it took nearly a year for Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 to achieve the rendezvous. However, after maintaining a distance of 30 centimeters and flying for 20 minutes, the two spacecraft finally failed to achieve docking. It was not until Gemini 8 in the following year that it successfully docked with the unmanned target spacecraft that the United States truly mastered this technology.

As for the docking of manned spacecraft, it was not until the mid-1970s, when the United States and the Soviet Union "shaked hands" in the aerospace field, that it was finally realized under the concerted efforts of the two superpowers.

One of the main reasons why the Apollo program did not choose to launch the lunar landing components in batches and go to the moon after "merging" in high orbit was that the docking was too difficult. In contrast, high-thrust rockets are more acceptable in terms of risk and cost.

Johnson has served in the NASA astronaut corps much longer than Tavy and Jones, and he knows how difficult it is.

However, before he could react, the pair of "landing gears" of the Xiaguang had already been inserted into the underside of the multifunctional docking module of the Moon Palace.

Accompanied by a slight tremor that was almost imperceptible, Xiaguang, which successfully connected the "landing gear" to the space station, slowly pulled itself towards the space station as the "landing gear" contracted.

In the end, the docking devices of the two spacecraft, one large and one small, were tightly combined.

Then……

There's no after that.

The entire docking process of the spacecraft did not give people a sense of tension at all, and it was even so simple that it was unacceptable.

"...WTF?"

Staring blankly at everything outside the porthole, Johnson was completely stunned as if he had never seen the world.

Having received training in this field in the NASA astronaut brigade, he knows very well that the docking of spacecraft is not the case at all!

The correct posture for docking a spacecraft in outer space should be to first fly the spacecraft to the front of the space station, then turn around and slow down, and wait for the space station to "catch up".

It is unheard of for him to directly release the landing gear like Xiaguang, and take the initiative to fly up to the space station!

At this moment, the signal light on the hatch came on.

As the hatch door of the room was unlocked, Taiwei, who floated out of his room holding the door frame, moved his limbs, and then saw Johnson who was there in a daze, and asked in doubt.

"Dude, what's wrong with you?"

Johnson looked at him strangely and said.

"...Didn't you see it just now? The operation of those Chinese people docking the spacecraft."

Facing the captain's strange gaze, Taiwei scratched his head sadly, shook his head and said.

"I don't quite understand what you're talking about."

Johnson sighed,

"...pretend I didn't ask."

Asking such a complicated question to an idiot, he must be crazy.

According to the prompt of the indicator light, the three colonists who returned from Mars walked to the cabin to gather. Immediately afterwards, the alloy door in the middle of the cabin slowly opened, and Liu Biao, wearing a spacesuit in the cabin, floated in.

"Xiaguang has successfully docked at the Moon Palace lunar space station. We will check your physical condition in half an hour, and at the same time disinfect the space inside the spacecraft..."

At this time, Liu Biao suddenly noticed that the Caucasian male astronaut had a ghost-like expression on his face, so he looked at him with a smile and asked, "Are you okay?"

"I'm... fine," Johnson regained consciousness, his Adam's apple moved slightly, and finally couldn't help asking, "How did you do it?"

Liu Biao looked at him in bewilderment: "How did you do it?"

Johnson opened his mouth, not knowing where to ask or how to speak.

Do you just ask "how did you dock the spacecraft"?

Perhaps for them, it is just a matter of course to go directly to the access station, just like his understanding of spacecraft docking technology.

It's just that he still can't accept the reality that Huaguo's aerospace technology has advanced to the point where any detail will make him dumbfounded.

Looking at the friendly smiling Huaguo astronaut, Johnson gave a dry laugh twice with a stiff expression.

"It's nothing... just pretend I didn't ask."

Although it is the same sentence, but at this moment, he has a completely different mood in his heart...

After Xiaguang was connected to the multifunctional docking module of Yuegong, the three Mars colonists, led by Liu Biao, passed through the connection port and entered the airlock of the multifunctional docking module.

When there is no docking of the spacecraft, this is the buffer zone for stationed astronauts to enter and exit the space station. Astronauts who go to work outside the cabin will change their spacesuits, check their equipment, and adapt to the air pressure...

But now because there is a spaceship connected, the airlock is used as a zero-hour checkpoint.

"...you wait here, a professional doctor will check up on you in a while, and after confirming your health, I will consider taking you into the Moon Palace for a tour."

Looking at Liu Biao standing at the door of the cabin, Johnson, who had just taken off his space suit in the cabin, asked, "Then what do we need to do now?"

Liu Biao smiled and said, "Eat something, drink something, and then...the medical team from the United Nations may need you to provide some feces and urine."

Jones blushed and asked, "Here?"

"Of course it can't be here," Liu Biao coughed lightly, and pointed to the alloy door embedded in the wall next to him. "There is a separate toilet next to it."

It didn't make these colonists wait too long.

With the help of two Lunar Station staff, Johnson and others quickly completed the physical examination. At the same time, the metabolite samples collected from the three people were also sent to a special experimental cabin.

Those in charge of testing these samples are Professor Leslie from the Institute of Microbiology of the Leimana Health Medical Center in Switzerland, and researcher Zhao Shuxuan from the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Both scholars are experts in the field of biology, and have published many articles in the unpopular branch of astrobiology. Although he is not the most authoritative big cow, he is also a top-notch scholar.

And the most important thing is that both of them are under forty-five years old, relatively young, and have good physical fitness. Although many authoritative experts also wanted to seize this opportunity, they were too old to stare blankly at Xingkong Technology's weightlessness simulation device.

Time passed by every minute and every second.

Whether outside or inside the experimental cabin, everyone is nervously waiting for the test results.

At this moment, Professor Leslie, who was sitting in front of the electron microscope, suddenly muttered something in a low voice, with surprise and ecstasy written in his eyes.

"Oh, Shet..."

"What did you find?" Zhao Shuxuan quickly walked to the side of the electron microscope, pushed down the glasses on the bridge of his nose, moved closer to the computer screen, and frowned, "...is this?"

"A very strange anaerobic bacterium with thicker cell walls and membranes... Wait, let me correct it, it's spores! No wonder it can survive on Mars," he continued adjusting the magnification of the electron microscope, staring at Professor Leslie, who was looking at the screen, gradually became excited, "God...unbelievable."

Staring at the image on the screen, Zhao Shuxuan also had a flash of excitement in his eyes, but soon became serious.

"We might be in trouble."

Leslie smiled and looked back at Zhao Shuxuan, and pushed down the glasses on the bridge of his nose.

"That's true in theory, but exciting? Isn't it?"

Sitting in the isolation cabin and waiting quietly, but after a long time, there was no movement.

Just when Johnson and the others started to fidget, the hatch suddenly opened. Not only the Chinese man who brought them here earlier walked in, but also a man who looked a little dignified beside him.

Johnson vaguely remembered that he seemed to have seen this person when he was on the Xiaguang. If he guessed correctly, he was probably the captain of the Xiaguang.

Before he had time to ask what was going on, Taiwei, who was sitting next to him, stepped forward and hurriedly stood up and asked.

"What's going on? What kind of medical examination is taking so long? When will we be able to go home—"

"Sorry guys."

Raising the volume interrupted the black brother's barrage of questions. Xu Zhenghong said in a heavy voice with a dignified expression on his face.

"The time for us to go home may have to be postponed."