Chapter 383 The Rocket Lifts Into the Sky

Annie, who was already nervous and restless when she heard the countdown to the launch, suddenly felt her heart was about to jump out.

Subconsciously, he firmly held his father Philip's hand.

Philip, who was also very nervous, had to stretch out his arms to hug her, and kept comforting her.

"Take it easy, it's going to be all right, it's going to be all right, honey."

The high-ranking Americans who accompanied Philip were also praying in their hearts that nothing would happen.

Otherwise, the situation of the United States will definitely become more difficult.

Therefore, Li Changheng must wait for Apollo 14, but whether it is the 15th, 16th, and 17th after that, or the 14th is definitely all high-level executives in the United States, relevant capitalists, and everyone in the company and project team. Hope failure exists.

On Saturn 5, Li Changheng heard a 'buzzing' sound again.

This time Jim didn't let them talk, he took the initiative to say, "The fuel pipe is detached, we have entered the launch procedure.

After a while you will find that it is only a few vibrations, and we have entered space. "

Lothar nodded nervously, while Li Changheng rolled his eyes and glanced at the quit button in front of Jim.

Then I saw Jim raise his hands, his fingers wearing astronaut gloves kept shaking, and his eyes were also set on the give up button.

"The countdown to launch is 15 seconds, 15, 14,,,."

While the three of Li Changheng cheered each other up with their eyes, they launched from the viewing platform. Amidst the noise, Annie stood up nervously and stared at the huge rocket in the distance.

"10, 9, 8, 7, 6, the ignition process starts."

When the rocket began to shake violently, when there was a sound of 'launch', there was only a huge roar in the ears.

Then before he could react, there was a loud 'bang', and huge flames and thick smoke spewed out from the bottom of the rocket, ranging from tens to hundreds of meters.

Under the huge shock, ice cubes began to fall from the outer shell of Saturn 5.

"Rocket in the air, rocket in the air."

110 meters and a weight of 3038.5 tons. In human history, whether in the past or in the future decades later, the Saturn 5 with the largest thrust-to-weight ratio began to fly into the sky with an indomitable momentum.

"Houston, the rocket has left the launch tower, the rocket has left the launch tower."

Horn on the Houston side tightly held the pen in his hand, and said into the microphone, "Understood, we will take over the rest, thank you."

On the viewing platform, Annie folded her hands on her chest and kept muttering, "Fly up, come on, come on, come on, you must fly."

On Li Changheng's side, Lothar, who was sitting on the far left, kept rolling his eyes on the various dashboards, and then said excitedly, "The speed is normal, and the flight trajectory is normal."

After 50 seconds, the rocket rose to an altitude of 10,000 meters. Jim looked at the green trajectory dashboard and said excitedly, "The trajectory is normal, the trajectory is normal, guys, the hardest part is over."

After 135 seconds, the rocket had reached an altitude of 60,000 meters, and Jim shouted again, "The countdown to the separation of the first-stage thruster."

Houston's voice came from Li Changheng's earphone immediately, "Understood, the protective layer connecting the second-stage thruster and the first-stage thruster is detaching."

After a bang, the protective layer came off, and Jim yelled, "The protective layer has come off."

While reaching out to operate on the control button. "Manual disengagement of the first-stage thruster is completed. The countdown is 10, 9, 8, 7, and 6. Gentlemen, sit firmly, and there will be a little shaking next."

When Jim yelled 1, the rocket that was rushing forward slammed on the brakes after the thrusters were disengaged.

The three of Li Changheng who were fixed on the flying chair suddenly felt a huge reaction force, pushing themselves forward.

Even though Li Changheng's overload carrying ability is super strong, he still feels uncomfortable in his stomach.

Meanwhile, the blood in Jim and Lothar's bodies instantly poured into their faces and chests, and their faces flushed immediately, followed by a brief sense of dizziness.

The second-stage thruster of the Saturn 5 separated from the 42-meter-long first-stage thruster with a bang.

Then the second-stage propeller ignited automatically, pushing the three people with their heads forward back onto the back of the chair.

Li Changheng joked, "Is this the little shaking you said?"

The corner of Jim's mouth smiled, it was very cool to be able to play Li Changheng.

Then he stretched out his hand to open the protective cover of the abandon flight escape system button, looked at Li Changheng and Lothar, and saw that neither of them made any sign, so he pressed his finger.

The escape tower at the front of the rocket broke away automatically and fell to the earth.

After 5 minutes and 40 seconds, the fuel of the second-stage rocket was about to run out, and the sound of Houston disengaging from the thruster came again from the headset.

But this time Jim doesn't need to do it manually, but has a command center to control it.

After the ten-second countdown, the feeling of the body rushing forward came back again, and the three of Li Changheng knew that the second-stage thruster had successfully disengaged.

"Third thruster fires."

After 165 seconds, a voice came from the ears again, "The third thruster is shutting down. The shutting down was successful. It is flying around the earth, waiting to enter the orbit to escape from gravity and fly to the moon."

Two hours later, the third thruster fired again, this time for the longest run.

335 seconds later, "Titan, Titan, is out of gravity and on its way to the moon, good luck guys."

"Thanks".

After confirming that there was no problem, Jim smiled and twisted the transparent hood with both hands.

With a 'click', I saw that he had taken off the hood, and as soon as he let go, the hood was suspended in the air.

Seeing this, Li Changheng and Lothar also smiled and began to take off their hoods, gloves and spacesuits.

However, after the brief cheerful atmosphere, it was Lothar who was responsible for docking the command module and the lunar module.

As for the reason, you can understand it by looking at the structure of Apollo 14.

There have been accidents in which astronauts were killed when they were trapped in the command module by the fire.

So on the rockets that followed, escape towers were installed at the top.

Then the command module where the astronauts are located must be connected to the escape tower.

In the event of a problem, the escape tower escapes with the command module, carrying a heavily fueled rocket.

Therefore, these two equipment must be placed in the first and second positions.

Then there is the service module linked to the command module.

While the bottom of the service module is the thruster used to break out of lunar orbit, the vent will definitely occupy a port.

Below the service module is the third thruster, the lunar module in the fairing.

Because the lunar module does not need to consider returning to the earth, and there is no atmosphere on the moon, its shell is actually very thin, and it is very large, so it must be placed in the fairing so that it will not be damaged during liftoff.

That is to say, in space, the lunar module has to be separated from the fairing, and then docked with the connected command module and service module, so that the lunar module is at the forefront and flies to the moon.

The docking of the connected command module and service module with the lunar module hidden in the fairing of the third thruster is completed.

Just abandon the third thruster, let it fly to the moon by itself, and finally be attracted by gravity and fall on the moon.