The astronaut’s journey commenced in the highlands; the fabulous spatial complex was located at four thousand meters above the sea level.
Perhaps, could sounds strange for a XXI century human
reader that the space port facilities were located at very high altitude, up
there in the mountains, and in addition not enough with the mountain altitude
itself, there was a 2K height tower above the mountain.
Although most impressive even, was the lack of rockets in the space port. Well, the reason behind it, was that the astronauts were not expecting take off from the space port, but just jump from it.
The astronaut commander commenced to check out the
spaceship system altogether with the AI assistant for the travel.
The very first meters of the travel, were more similar
to a maglev train travel than a spaceship travel, since the spaceship were
positioned in the proper place inside the tower, ready for the free fall stage.
Once the spaceship reached the initial velocity of 200 Kph, approached the free fall zone and just jumped inside the tower space duct to experience a vacuum free fall.
One hundred eighty seconds later, the spaceship left
the 2k tower duct and accessed to the vertical mountain tunnel, where the high pressure's
shield and high temperature's shield were activated.
Six hundred seconds later, the spaceship approached the transition zone at 90% of the earth's scape velocity in a free fall and turned on the engines.
Thirteen minutes later, the spaceship left the
transition zone and therefore the mountain vertical tunnel at 95% of the
earth's scape velocity and flew horizontally for a couple of seconds above the
Atlantic Ocean before perform the fast ascension to the thermosphere.
Sixty eight minutes later, the spaceship crew
commenced to experiment a free fall again, but this time around the earth. Very
soon they were hooked up to the International Space Station hovering at Four
Hundred Kilometers above the sea level.
