[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil":3,"chapter-you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-205":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","You were told to build a tractor, but you're building a rocket?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1305808,1735,"Chapter 205 - 199 Accident_1","you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-205",205,"\u003Cp>Top trending entry on Weibo, July 7th:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lin Ju’s First Night in Space\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At noon on July 6th, Lin Ju arrived at the Tiangong Space Station.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he had not been to space in many years and had never docked before, the countless repetitions of training had paid off. Li Wei’s manual docking was even faster than the automatic system, securing the connection on the first try.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having floated in space for over two hours, Lin Ju had already adapted to the lack of gravity and followed Li Wei into the Tianhe Core Module.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 0.9m docking ports of the Cloud Palace Core Module were occupied by both Shenzhou No.11 and Unity, so they had to enter through the node cabin of the Tianhe Core Module.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>System Engineer Ke Yun and Deng Lei were waiting for him at the Yungong Space Station, and as Lin Ju passed through the spacious 2.5 meter square docking port, they both exclaimed in unison:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Welcome home, Boss!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No problem there, both the manufacturing and ownership of XS-62 belong to Xinyuan Company, so it’s accurate to call it Lin Ju’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which means... he owns a piece of property in space?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Lin Ju had been inside a space station on the ground more than once, this was his first time doing so in space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What he found most amazing was the sense of direction, especially in the circular cabin sections.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first thing he did was to lightly walk along the cabin walls. With no gravity, there was no sense of being upside down at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 6.8-meter-diameter circular cabin section offered an vastly different living experience. With Lin Ju’s height of 1.8 meters, the cabin was a whole three and a half times taller than he was!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So much so that during his live broadcast that evening, Lin Ju couldn’t help but quip:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Had I known, I would have divided it into compartments. There’s enough room for two levels.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Comment sections online were immediately filled with remarks like \"Typical of a big capitalist\" and \"Capital is moving into space\", but nobody really saw an issue with it since the floor height in average residential buildings is also around 2.8 to 3 meters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At a height of 6.8 meters, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call it a villa, which is why to this day people still mock XS-62 for being overly luxurious and extravagant for not having a second level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the engineers at Xinyuan Company at the time had considered this. They believed that having a cylindrical cabin like this would greatly increase the comfort of the layout and give it a spacecraft-like feel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And indeed, that’s exactly the vibe Lin Ju got from the cylindrical cabin section. It was a total futuristic spaceship experience: the space was vast, the layout elegant, especially when sitting in the observation deck. If there was a ring-shaped control panel included, it would feel like sitting in the cockpit of the \"Millennium Falcon\", quite a special experience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other hand, when he later went back to visit the Tiangong No.2 space experiment lab, he instantly felt like he had entered a shipping container, with a significantly diminished perception of space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He recalled the unintentional complaints of engineers from the Fifth Academy at the B-level Base when they were making the cooperative experiment cabins after the first crew of four astronauts came down from Tiangong Space Station.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The astronauts who had experienced the Cloud Palace Core Module strongly advised that future space stations should have an internal size of at least 3x3 meters, preferably reaching 4x4 meters, because once you have experienced a spacious environment, there’s no going back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with their adaptability, it would take a significant amount of time for them to adjust, and the advantages of a large cabin section are numerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, the second batch of \"Dream Heaven\" and \"Ask Heaven\" experiment cabins were still built with the \"wasteful\" spirit of Xinyuan Company, leaving plenty of space instead of cramming in equipment indiscriminately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During his first hands-on experience with a space station, particularly one built by his own company, Lin Ju darted around non-stop until the mandated sleep schedule of the space station, even picking a ripe bok choy...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some of this activity was captured by the space station’s live broadcast camera and made public. For a celebrity’s first space station experience, these video clips had a very high viewership and attracted lots of commentary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Given the usual public narrative, celebrities are supposed to exhibit certain traits, but Lin Ju’s behavior seemed indistinguishable from that of an ordinary person; he was surprised by the magical phenomena in the zero-gravity environment and made many seemingly juvenile gestures to experience the wonder of weightlessness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And these gestures led to some unexpected outcomes:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jeff Bezos announced within Blue Origin the development of \"New Shepard-2\" rocket, different from the \"New Shepard\". The New Shepard-2 would utilize a BE4 engine, with the aim of launching a reduced-weight space capsule into low Earth orbit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the difference between experiencing weightlessness for a few minutes and being in orbit is... well, clearly the latter has more prestige.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ma, on the other hand, set his sights on the space station. SpaceX announced a joint development with Bigelow Aerospace for an inflatable cabin module, to be launched to the ISS with a Falcon 9 rocket. After docking, it could be inflated to become a dedicated tourist module.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This inflatable module, named \"Origin\", would expand to an area of 115 square meters upon deployment — a bit smaller than the XS-62 but not by much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its advantages include well-managed volume and weight. Bigelow Aerospace had received aid from NACA ten years ago, and their technology is quite mature, although its reliability has always been a cause for concern. However, they have now decided to push ahead and introduce inflatable cabin modules sooner rather than later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Our country’s new-generation crewed spacecraft completes its first test flight.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On July 8th, while Lin Ju was still floating in space, the new-generation crewed spacecraft completed its first test flight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The launch vehicle was the CZ-IIIb, with a LEO lift capability of 11.2 tons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At a weight of 21.6 tons and a length of 8.6 meters, the new-generation crewed spacecraft couldn’t reach low Earth orbit on the CZ-IIIb, but this was just a test of the spacecraft’s performance. The objective was only to fly to a high suborbital trajectory so the spacecraft could be scorched by Earth’s atmosphere a couple of times to see if the design had any flaws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using the New Yuan 5A, they could have just reached low Earth orbit, but the China National Space Administration thought it unnecessary. Plus, there’s a large stockpile of CZ-II and CZ-III series rockets, so why not launch one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the diameter of the new-generation crewed spacecraft is 5 meters, while the maximum diameter of the CZ-IIIb is only 3.35 meters, and the intended reusable CZ-7 also has a diameter of 3.35 meters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A slightly larger diameter isn’t a problem, but since the new-generation crewed spacecraft was designed without a fairing, the bottom connection to the rocket also lacks a transition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This results in the spacecraft’s nose appearing somewhat... let’s just say suggestive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luckily, the test of the spacecraft itself was highly successful. The new-generation crewed spacecraft’s design is very refined and the reusability targets were fully met. The effects of the ablation were not serious, and just a bit of tidying up was needed before it could be launched again without any issues.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spacecraft’s use of many new technologies, including a flexible cargo area and air cushions during landing, were also proven successful, signaling the end of the expensive Shenzhou Era for the China National Space Administration and the onset of a reusable, more economical Space Age.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, this news didn’t stir much excitement in the aerospace or even the tech community. The hot topic at the moment was computing: ternary computers.\u003C\u002Fp>",1327,"2026-06-05T18:20:54.444Z",1,"novelbin.me","0f13d145a296b2f350ab74d1b5aaa6df4d944ba07efac65eb2a2a9222daf6816","you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-206","you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-204",804,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fyou-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-cover.jpg"]