As it turned out, Zhang Tianyuan's worries were unnecessary.
Liu Peiqiang is just an ordinary medical practitioner now, not the space station rock climbing master he will be more than ten years later.
Liu Peiqiang now strictly follows regulations when performing extravehicular activities, and he values his own life highly, even though he leaves his family behind in the Legend Spacetime.
As fathers, they shared similar difficulties, and Liu Peiqiang and Cooper quickly became acquainted during their time working on the Endurance.
Cooper also knew about Liu Peiqiang's identity, that he was an astronaut serving in Wandering Spacetime, who would stay on the space station for more than ten years, while his wife and children could only wait for him in another timeline.
"Actually, the situation is already quite good. They are much safer in No. 2 Spacetime than in the underground city."
Wearing a spacesuit, Liu Peiqiang exited the capsule to change equipment, gazing down at the azure Earth ravaged by sandstorms, and spoke to Cooper inside the capsule via radio.
Cooper, following the instructions in the mission manual, was also working inside the capsule. "My situation is similar to yours. My son and daughter are waiting for me on Earth, but I have to save the planet before I can go back to see them."
"Haha!" Liu Peiqiang laughed, suddenly remembering a saying his father-in-law had once said, "If I'm holding bricks, I can't hold you; but if I put down the bricks, I can't support you..."
At that moment, the two men suddenly felt a sense of mutual respect and camaraderie.
"Alright, you two."
A message from the ground interrupted their conversation.
Zhou Kun stood next to Zhang Tianyuan, personally directing the operations aboard the Endurance. Jody and other North America technical experts from this timeline were providing technical support to ensure the smooth progress of the Endurance's modification work.
" Peiqiang's work is done. Now, return to your cabin and wait for further instructions. Cooper, get to the pilot's seat and prepare to begin transferring the Endurance."
"Received." Space climbing master Liu Peiqiang began his return to the capsule.
A short while later, the ground received a report that he had successfully returned to the space station.
Cooper also got into the driver's seat and got ready.
Liu Peiqiang was in charge of maintenance and modification, while he was in charge of piloting the space station.
He has a talent for this; otherwise, in the movies, with the spaceship flooding and the space station going out of control, he would have been much more skilled and talented.
It's too late.
Although he has only trained in the Wandering Spacetime for less than a month, several simulated driving sessions have already awakened his driving skills.
He is now indeed the most skilled person in piloting Interstellar Spacetime spacecraft.
Upon seeing Liu Peiqiang sit next to him, Cooper was still in the mood to joke, raising his eyebrows and asking Liu Peiqiang if he wanted to sit in his seat and experience what it's like to be a driver.
Liu Peiqiang's brow twitched involuntarily. For some reason, his instincts seemed to be telling him that it was best not to do this.
He assumed it was because he hadn't received any space station pilot training and declined with a smile.
Once the two were ready, Zhang Tianyuan opened a double-layered Spacetime Tunnel for them on the ground, allowing them to jump from near-Earth orbit to Saturn's orbit with almost no intermediate transfers.
The Spacecraft No. 1 launched earlier was located not far above them.
Having made all the necessary preparations, Cooper immediately began adjusting his trajectory after the successful jump to avoid colliding with the spaceship overhead.
Afterwards, the Endurance will be placed in a new orbit, revolving around Saturn, becoming the first outpost on Earth for studying wormholes.
The space base soon received news of the successful jump.
"According to the next plan, we can send Spacecraft No. 1 through the wormhole. There, a New Star awaits us."
The audience erupted in applause. Listening to Zhang Tianyuan's words, Zhou Kun knew that the era of Interstellar migration exploration was about to begin, and he was filled with overwhelming excitement.
Once they find a habitable planet in the New Star, they can restart their industry while migrating to the New Star.
Then humanity will be saved.
The staff in the command center stretched and began preparing for the next task.
" Spacecraft No. 1 has restarted."
"Successfully derailed!"
"Spaceship enters wormhole!"
Liu Peiqiang and Cooper on the Endurance knew about this news earlier than the space base.
As soon as the signal from Spacecraft No. 1 disappeared, they looked through the window at the wormhole in the far distance. In the distorted starlight, a small spaceship plunged straight into it, like a fishhook falling into the sea, barely making a ripple.
But on this small fishhook hangs the hopes of all humankind...
From the moment the spacecraft escaped Saturn's orbit, inside the spacecraft...
It had already connected with the Wandering Spacetime and arranged for personnel to go in and connect the communication cable. All the spacecraft's data was transmitted to the Wandering Spacetime via the cable, and then transmitted back to the space base via spacetime communication.
This eliminates communication delays; otherwise, given the average distance of 1.28 billion kilometers between Saturn and Earth, there would be at least a 71-minute communication delay.
Like everyone else, Zhang Tianyuan was watching the images transmitted back by the spaceship.
Everything was twisting, everything was deforming, but nothing was destroyed.
Inside the spacecraft, whether it was the air or the outer shell, ripples had unknowingly spread, like water droplets falling on a lake, bending everything captured by the cameras into spreading waves.
Outside the spaceship, distorted spacetime flashed by rapidly, like streaks of neon. The spaceship seemed to have entered a surging, high-speed tunnel, with blinding light stretching to the horizon. The tunnel was surrounded by magnificent celestial bodies from the boundless universe, which, with the fluctuations of spacetime, surged and burst like bubbles on the sea... w.
Even through a camera, everyone present could feel the pulse of the universe in the footage.
Zhou Kun glanced at the numerous instrument readings on the spaceship, only to find that none of the instruments were responding; the readings remained unchanged.
Inside the wormhole, none of the expensive, pre-installed devices intended to record various parameters were functioning properly.
Everyone held their breath, watching as the spaceship drew closer and closer to the blinding light at the end of the "tunnel," only to realize that the light did not come from a single source.
Instead, they originate from star clusters, nebulae, pulsars, and other celestial bodies.
As the light drew closer, the image on the camera became clearer and clearer...
Then suddenly.
They then saw that the transmitted images suddenly became normal.
No longer exhibiting distorted or deformed characteristics, everything regained its three-dimensional appearance, with distance, height, thickness, and thinness. The instruments also began to function, and various readings started to change.
Everyone finally snapped out of their daze.
We've passed through a wormhole!
Spacecraft No. 1 has arrived in the New Star on the other side!
The space station erupted in enthusiastic applause once again, and everyone cheered.