The portly fellow named Anderson spoke in mandarin. Although speaking in a hushed tone, the players could clearly hear what he was saying.
He looked at the people around him with pleading eyes. "Err, you… anyone has an idea how to work this damn thing?"
The only answer he received was silence.
The Apollo Program was in operation from 1961 to 1972, and it had been around for fifty years. It was an early space project, where at that time, the United States had just completed the first human spaceflight program, the "Mercury" project, successfully sending astronaut Alan Shepard into space. Back then, training facilities were very different from the current ones.
Those interested in astronaut training would have perhaps heard of centrifuges and neutral buoyancy laboratories. Still, a facility with a piece of multi-axis training equipment was rare – it was also Zhang Heng's first time encountering such a contraption.