326 Chapter 326
The first official contact with Reston was neither good nor bad.
Li Changheng wanted to see the license to start a rocket company, or the possibility of obtaining a license, so he first threw a few million dollars to try.
Otherwise, no matter how much money is thrown in, it will be in vain.
As for Reston, Li Changheng used the moon landing as a threat, which made him embarrassed at the same time.
He also thought about whether he should simply use the moon landing to arouse his interest.
Reston, and some of the folks behind him, though, are the only thing for sure.
He has earned tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of dollars in just over two years, and he is only 20 years old.
It is definitely easier to cooperate and fool than those consortiums or military industrial groups.
After all, in their opinion, Li Changheng is indeed extremely smart, but young people are more curious about new things than middle-aged and old people.
It's a pity that this group of people never imagined that no matter how they describe the future of commercial rockets, Li Changheng, who has long known the general trend of the future, is definitely not as easy to fool as they think.
Even, once they enter a new company, they may find that the direction of their research has nothing to do with space.
Instead, it was used as a research and development tool by Li Changheng, and he first helped the boss earn money before he had funds to research the space field.
Otherwise, he wouldn't foolishly help Americans improve their technological level.
Not to do loss-making business.
The only ones he is willing to give are probably Annie and the children in the future.
Thinking of Annie, I thought that if I really became an astronaut, I would be required to live in the officer's villa complex in the Houston base.
Although according to what Jim said, personal freedom will not be restricted, and there are weekend holidays.
But going abroad is not so easy.
Maybe ask Anne if she'd like to live in it, or live on Long Island and fly home on weekends.
That is to say, I want to buy a P51 Mustang without a weapon system, and I also need to build a simple runway and maintenance and storage hangars in the manor on Long Island.
Mustangs can be easily bought by looking for Lieutenant Colonel Scott of the National Guard.
Even a whole set of maintenance equipment, there are spare parts, even the engine is fine.
After all, I bought it once last year.
And the hangar is even simpler.
After making several phone calls in a row, Scott sent the plane and equipment to Virginia and the base of the Death Squad first.
Then call someone to fix the runway and hangar at the Long Island estate.
The three-dimensional rolling ring test in the afternoon, to put it bluntly, is a test to test astronauts' resistance to vertigo.
When the spacecraft is in space, it is very likely that there will be dangers of rotation and rollover.
If you can't stay awake, you won't be able to calmly find a solution to the problem while the spaceship is tumbling.
For this kind of test, pilots have actually been trained for a long time.
Fighters not only need to roll over when necessary, to avoid guide eggs or machine guns.
Even when a fighter jet flies sideways in flight, it will cause the ground and sky to constantly change heights, which will easily cause people to feel dizzy.
Li Changheng did not hide at the end this time, but was the first to apply for the test.
Sit in the pilot's special cockpit seat, fasten your seat belt, and make sure you're fully secured in the seat.
Nod to astronaut supervisor Dick Reston.
When the instrument was activated, Li Changheng's body first rolled back and forth, and this kind of rolling can be supported by a normal person for a long time.
But when the body starts to roll over, the body suddenly rolls obliquely backward.
Or halfway through the turn, when the feet are up and the head is down, when suddenly rolling sideways, the body's senses are instantly disrupted.
The feeling of dizziness rushes straight to the back of the head, and then the body becomes weak, cold sweats, and top-heavy.
Moreover, the longer the time, the body began to have the illusion of not being able to perceive time.
In addition, this three-dimensional rolling ring test is actually different from other tests.
Feeling dizzy, Lee Jang Hyung spent some time looking for the timer as his body kept turning.
But he saw that there was no electronic timer at all, but Reston and two guys in white coats were standing together with three stopwatches.
NM.
been counted.
Li Changheng instantly understood that it was Reston who noticed that in the first two tests, he did not try his best.
So, this time, the three of them were together, each holding a stopwatch to time the time.
Li Changheng, who had begun to feel confused about time, simply closed his eyes and let it go.
This kind of circular anti-vertigo test, even if you sit on the instrument for a long time, at most, the sensitivity of the inner ear is too low.
Ten minutes later, the people present were shocked at first, and then began to feel numb and bored.
Normally speaking, turning in a three-dimensional circle is much more difficult than just rolling back and forth. Some of the pilots present could only hold on for about 5 minutes before feeling a strong sense of vomiting.
So when facing Li Changheng, who was sitting in the instrument and seemed unresponsive on the outside, many people completely extinguished their desire to compete with him.
When the time came to fifteen minutes, Reston had no choice but to nod with the two test officers, and then signaled to them to stop the three-dimensional rolling ring.
15 minutes is already the best score among active astronauts, and it is meaningless to continue the test.
The first astronaut to land on the moon lasted a little more than 8 minutes.
Li Changheng, who was closing his eyes and relaxing his mind, felt the dizziness disappear little by little, and soon felt that the speed of the circle was slowing down.
After the instrument came to a complete stop, he sat in the pilot's chair and waited for about ten seconds before unfastening his seat belt. He jumped off the chair as if nothing had happened, and signed his name on the report card.
Then he left the test site of the three-dimensional swivel directly.
He didn't want to stay here any longer, and then suddenly vomited out when he saw a guy who gritted his teeth and persisted.
That's why he was eager to be the first to do the test.
Subsequent weightlessness and claustrophobia tests, claustrophobia will be quite difficult.
Although it is not directly locked in a small black room, being locked in a simulated command module while also making you weightless is indeed more frightening than closing a small black room.
Fortunately, the dividing line of excellence is 104 hours.
This time happened to be the time when Apollo 11, from entering the earth orbit to entering the lunar orbit, and then orbiting the moon in the lunar orbit, found the landing opportunity, and the lunar module officially separated from the command module.
Therefore, although the claustrophobic test was completely dark, the problems encountered by Apollo 11, 12, and even 13 when flying to the moon were also played in the middle.
Then there are some simple instructions for testers to execute.
As long as there is no sound and nothing to do, 4 days and 8 hours is not as difficult as imagined.
Even because of the existence of the simulation command, it became a problem for some testers to sleep.
However, this has nothing to do with Li Changheng.
Anyway, he implemented his schedule according to the schedule throughout the whole process.
The only problem is getting to the toilet.
Thinking of the process, Li Changheng himself did not want to continue to recall.
On September 5, 1970, he was checking the renovation of his manor on Long Island, New York.
Looking at Jim, Jack, and Fred, they walked in with smiles on their faces and said.
"Congratulations, Boss, you have officially passed the assessment and become one of the seventh batch of six astronauts."