Ivan, this is a typical Russian man's name, just as ordinary as Hans corresponds to Germany and Henry corresponds to Britain. In the whole of Russia, there are not ten million men who call this name, and there are millions, and Alexander Constantinovich Ivan is one of these millions.

Now, Ivan, who is 42 years old, is sitting quietly in the living room. He is a soldier-born and has a very standard sitting posture. In addition, he has a handsome appearance and a good body proportion, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a handsome man. If there are any flaws, Ivan is slightly shorter than ordinary people. He is only 5.54 feet tall and is a veritable shorter man in the tall Russian race.

However, this did not prevent Ivan from becoming an officer, and he was also a colonel officer with a high rank. Because the reason was simple, he served in the Russian Federation Space Administration and was an extremely outstanding astronaut.

"Col. Director, please come in." The door inside opened, and a man in a suit showed his figure and nodded to Ivan with a smile.

Ivan stood up, tidied up his military uniform, put on his military cap, and walked into the office with impeccable steps.

"Alexander Constantinovich Ivan reports to you!"

When he entered the door, he stood at the bald man sitting behind the desk and saluted. The man who was holding a pen and didn't know what to write, looked up and smiled when he saw Ivan, and stood up from behind the desk.

"Dear Ivan, I'm so sorry. I've been waiting for you for a long time. There was an urgent official service to deal with just now." Sergei, director of the Russian Federation Space Administration, hugged Ivan with a breeze, and then patted him on the back enthusiastically: "There is no need to be restrained here, come and sit down."

Sitting down on the sofa next to him, Sergei friendly inquiring about Ivan's recent situation. As Russia's most famous astronaut, Ivan has entered space many times, and even set a record of the longest stay in space on the International Space Station. Before him, this record has been maintained by his compatriots Sergei Krikarev and Sergei Avdiev, respectively, with 803 days, 9 hours, 39 minutes and 747 days, 14 hours, 14 minutes, 11 seconds respectively. This record is extended to 818 days, 21 hours, 9 minutes, 34 seconds respectively.

A few years ago, Ivan returned to the ground after completing his last space mission and served as the director of the Gagarin Astronaut Training Center of the Russian Federation Space Administration. His work is mainly to select and train astronauts for the Russian Federation Space Administration. It has to be said that Ivan is not only an extremely outstanding astronaut, but also a very competent instructor. Over the years, the astronauts he trained by himself have become the pride of the Federal Space Administration.

After a few greetings, Sergei got to the point. He handed a document to Ivan. After taking the document, Ivan opened it in confusion and looked at it. After a few glances, he was stunned.

"Is this...a spaceship plan?"

Ivan looked up at Sergei in shock, with an incredible look on his face.

Although Ivan has a good position in the Russian Federation Space Administration, his work nature is different, and the base for training astronauts is not at the headquarters of the Federal Space Administration, so he is not clear about some secrets within the Federal Space Administration. However, when he saw this document, Ivan, surprised, soon remembered an order issued by the Federal Space Administration to himself three years ago. The content of this order was to allow Ivan to increase the training of astronauts in the short term as soon as possible, including increasing the number of trained astronauts. For a long time, Ivan only thought that this was related to Russia's public announcement of reconstruction of the Mir space station. But he never expected that behind everything was the spacecraft plan.

"Yes, Russia's spacecraft project, Mr. President named it the Starry Sky Plan." Sergei was able to come up with this top-secret document to Ivan, of course, he had long been authorized by the Kremlin. The Starry Sky Plan is about to be completed. Russia has invested a huge amount of US$190 billion in this plan, and the United States' Zeus plan, which has always been paid attention to by Russia, is about to come to an end. This new space competition has reached an imminent point.

For Russia, the Starry Sky Plan is only allowed to succeed but not fail, just like the Americans who used the United Space Structure Space Station project to cover the implementation of Zeus Plan. The Russians also put the guise of rebuilding the Mir space station, and even went further. They called on the resources of the International Space Station to serve the Starry Sky Plan.

Judging from the speed, although the Americans took the lead, the Russians came from behind. Of course, this is not that the United States' technology is not as developed as Russia, nor that the United States' investment is not as much as Russia. The key is that the two countries' technological directions and implementation methods are different.

Compared with Americans who are more refined and pursue perfection and cutting-edge technology, the Russians are notoriously rough, direct and simple. In the eyes of the Russians, as long as they can achieve their goals, there is no need to pursue excellence in some details, not to mention that there is never an idiom in the Russian dictionary.

Furthermore, the Russians are also relatively thick-skinned and do not consider absolute safety when working. There have been many accidents during the implementation of the entire Starry Sky Plan, and the most serious accident also caused two Russian astronauts to be buried in space. If this incident was placed on Americans, the plan would have been suspended for rectification. Don’t forget that the Russians have never had this habit. Therefore, while the Russian Starry Sky Plan was stumbling and paying a huge price, it gradually caught up with the Americans.

"In order to ensure the final success of the plan, Mr. President hopes that you will be the captain of this spacecraft." After explaining the situation of the Starry Sky Plan in detail to Ivan, Sergei finally explained his real intention of calling Ivan.

When I heard this, Ivan's heart stopped beating instantly, and then he was extremely excited. As an excellent astronaut, Ivan can be said that he had devoted all his life to the aerospace industry. Traveling in space was his childhood pursuit and dream, and it was precisely because of this pursuit and dream that Ivan became such a great astronaut.

In recent years, I have left my favorite front-line work and returned to the ground to be responsible for center training every day. These same-sized work have long been bored in Ivan. He is only 42 years old this year, which is no longer the best golden time for an astronaut to come, but he is still the age to continue to create a career. You must know that before him, his compatriot Sergei Krikarev, the astronaut hero of the former Soviet Union and Russia, and his predecessor at the Gagarin Astronaut Training Center, still set a historical record in the space station at the age of 46. Why can't he create a new miracle now that he is only 42 years old?

Thinking of this, Ivan felt like he was filling a bottle of good vodka, and his blood in his body couldn't help but boil. (To be continued)

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