May 18, 2017 at 9:32 a.m. ET!

This moment will forever be recorded in the annals of human spaceflight, because on this very day, the eighth manned lunar landing in human history will be launched at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA.

The launch mission is still the same launch pad B at launch site 39, which was used for the first launch of the Star-1 launch vehicle. As the most famous launch site in the United States and even in the world, the No. 39 launch site deserves the glory of this launch mission!

Today's weather conditions are excellent, a few hundred meters east of Launch Pad B on the north side, with the clear blue Atlantic Ocean. Waves surged onto the shore from the distant sea, leaving rows and rows of white foam

On the banks of the Indian River, about 10 kilometers west of the launch site, east of Titusville, more than 100,000 tourists gathered on the riverbank like moving ants, using various telescopes to observe the giant launch vehicle that was preparing to launch in the distance.

Here, there are countless media, guns and cannons in the hands of photographers and microphones in the hands of the hosts, who transmit the situation on the scene through radio waves, making it the focus of the world's attention.

"Hello viewers, this is ABC TV host Tom. Douglas brings you a real-time broadcast, and now the audience and friends see the carrier rocket through the TV screen, which is the 'Star One' heavy carrier rocket of the manned lunar landing operation that will be launched later It is reported that this rocket is currently the only heavy-duty launch vehicle in the world that can be recycled and reused, and this launch mission is also the twelfth launch mission of this rocket in the past year! Note that I was just talking about this rocket in almost a year's time. It has successfully carried out eleven missions, this is its twelfth mission, and it is also a crucial manned mission! Let's pray together that it will be able to lift off and send astronauts into space."

"Hello viewers, this is FOX TV to bring you a live direct hit, I'm the host Barbara. Fox. Now what the audience sees on the TV screen is the scene of the upcoming eighth manned lunar landing operation. In about an hour, the launch of this lunar mission will begin"

"Hello everyone, this is the highlight of NBC, I'm George Brown, you're familiar with it. Forbes. That's right, the TV footage you see now is the live footage of the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and in an hour, the eighth manned moon landing in human history will begin. Below. Let me first tell you about the background of this moon landing."

"This is CBS TV, and this moon landing is the first time in 45 years since Apollo 17 carried out the last manned moon landing in December 1972 that mankind has set its sights on the moon 384,000 kilometers away. According to the information given by the Down's Anglo-American Group, the moon landing operation alone took more than a year to prepare, costing a total of about $9.7 billion, and this moon landing operation was only three people in space at a time in the previous Apollo program. The two went to the moon differently, according to the information we have. A total of six astronauts will go into space, and four of them will eventually land on the lunar surface on the lunar lander."

Hundreds of well-known media gathered around Cape to dissect the moon landing from all aspects, leaving the world amazed those who were watching the live broadcast of the moon landing.

And none of this had anything to do with Tang Feng and his five companions, and at this time, the six of them had already entered the manned function compartment at the top of the rocket two hours in advance.

This kind of functional compartment is not quite the same as an ordinary manned functional compartment. Because its space area is much larger, after all, it is to transport six astronauts to space at one time, and it is not transported by space shuttle, so this number is far more than the number of other astronauts when they go to space.

In the manned function compartment, six people are lying in a "sitting position" on a special seat. This specialized seat is not so much a chair. It is better to describe it as a "cradle". Because when Tang Feng and the six of them "sit" on this kind of chair, although they take a sitting position, they are actually lying flat.

Because only this posture can allow astronauts to better improve the huge overload bearing capacity formed during the rocket liftoff.

In the process of rocket lift-off, there will be an overload capacity of up to 8 G or more, at this time, it is necessary to adopt a very effective posture to be able to resist this huge overload force, and this sitting position is the best posture.

Outside the manned functional compartment under Tang Feng and the six of them is the 2,700-ton "Xingkong No. 1" heavy carrier rocket, of course, the first-stage core rocket of this rocket is also the carrier rocket that Tang Feng saw with his own eyes last year that successfully returned vertically. In other words, this rocket has successfully completed eleven launch missions in more than a year, and this is the twelfth launch mission of this rocket.

Tang Feng is really not worried about the safety of this launch vehicle, the first eleven launches were all flawless, and this launch, because it involves a manned launch, so Dr. Schmitz and his team have made the most detailed inspection of this rocket to ensure that nothing goes wrong.

The total launch weight of this "Starry Sky No. 1" heavy-lift carrier rocket today is as high as 2,700 tons, which is 400 tons heavier than the total weight of 2,300 tons in the first test last year. After all, this launch will send six people and a four-ton functional chamber into geosynchronous transfer orbit, and this rocket is also loaded with a set of three-ton multi-ton catapult device, so this launch will require more fuel.

In fact, the maximum launch weight of the "Star-1" can be as high as 2,800 tons, and the "Star-One" carrier rocket has perfectly completed several full-load launch missions in the first few times when the lunar spacecraft and lunar module were built, and the performance is extremely beautiful.

When launched at full capacity, the "Xingkong-1" carrier rocket with a total weight of up to 2,800 can have a GTO capacity of 21 tons, that is, it can send 21 tons of materials to the geosynchronous transfer orbit. This GTO capacity is second to none among the active launch vehicles in various countries around the world.

Now, the Starry Sky 1 launch vehicle will usher in her first manned launch mission! (To be continued.) )