How people from the outside world pay attention to this launch, Tang Feng naturally doesn't know, he just wants to care, but he can't care, because when the three-pole rocket is started, the astronauts in the manned function cabin can already move freely, and at this altitude, it is already a microgravity environment, and the gravitational pull of the earth is almost negligible. Tang Feng was sitting on the chair at this time, enjoying the space scenery outside through the window

After unbuckling the seat belt and restoring the chair to its original state, except for Tang Feng, the other five people began to check the various instruments in the function room. After docking with the lunar spacecraft, this functional compartment will also become a part of the lunar spacecraft, and when Tang Feng and the others successfully return from the moon to the lunar spacecraft, they will return to the earth after returning to the geosynchronous transfer orbit again.

This functional compartment is not only a vehicle that sends Tang Feng and them to space, but also a vehicle that sends Tang Feng and them back to Earth.

Because it is in space, there is almost no air, so the line of sight is exceptionally good. Under the sunlight, several people can clearly see the silver-white lunar spacecraft more than 100 kilometers away, but at this distance, the nearly 30-meter-long lunar spacecraft has only one silver-white point, which is still because of the reflection of sunlight, otherwise, even if the line of sight is good, the lunar spacecraft will not be seen at such a distance.

"Explorer, explorer, this is Houston, please report on your situation." The voice of the ground control center sounded in the wireless headset. Anthony immediately reported the current situation to Houston, and naturally everything was fine.

With the propulsion of the tripolar rocket, the functional compartment is getting closer and closer to the lunar spacecraft, and in a few minutes, the distance of dozens of kilometers is finished, at this time. The tripolar rocket also turned off the engine and disengaged, ejecting the functional compartment.

At this time, the distance between the functional compartment and the lunar spacecraft is still tens of kilometers away, although the distance is still very far, but the functional compartment relies on inertia to take another three or four hours. will be able to completely catch up with the lunar spacecraft.

When the functional chamber is still a few kilometers away from the lunar spacecraft, the functional compartment begins to slow down, until it is slightly faster than the speed of the lunar spacecraft, and a few hundred meters away from the lunar spacecraft, and then starts the docking procedure.

The docking of the functional compartment and the lunar spacecraft will naturally not be manually docked, and that thing is an emergency means that will be used after the automatic docking program has a problem, and the usual docking is carried out by relying on the automatic program.

At this time, the functional compartment was only a few hundred meters away from the lunar spacecraft. The appearance of the lunar spacecraft can already be seen very clearly. Under the sunlight, the silver-white lunar spacecraft hung "quietly" in the air, "motionless", as if waiting for the arrival of its master.

In fact, since the construction of this lunar spacecraft, no one has really been to this lunar spacecraft. All the components on the spacecraft are docked through an automatic program, because this spacecraft is plain speaking. It's like a piece of building blocks, all the building blocks. Including the lunar module attached to the outer body of the spacecraft, it is composed of functional compartments one by one.

The lunar spacecraft is composed of three functional compartments, one is the ion engine functional compartment used as an engine, this functional compartment is the front functional compartment on the future Mars spacecraft, which is the head of the Martian spacecraft, but its main function is to slow down the Martian spacecraft. Because a total of four 900-millimeter-level ion thrusters are placed in this functional chamber, two main and two secondary, which can completely slow down the extremely high-speed Mars spacecraft.

Of course, in Dr. Schmitz's design, this functional compartment, which was originally the top of the Martian spacecraft, was the functional compartment of the secondary ion engine. In the event of a hazard, the chamber can also be used as an escape pod, because in the event of an unpredictable catastrophic situation in space, the four ion thrusters in the chamber would be enough to guarantee the return of the chamber to Earth within three months.

In addition to these four ion thrusters, there is also an oxygen generator that can supply eight people, and can store enough water and food for four people to live for three months. At the same time, inside the bulkhead, there are eight portable nuclear batteries, these eight portable nuclear batteries and stored ion thruster fuel, can intermittently provide power for two ion thrusters for three months, of course, there is a pair of small solar cell wings outside the functional chamber, which can provide a certain amount of power for the functional chamber. Therefore, just this functional compartment is enough to complete the moon landing program.

However, Tang Feng didn't want to complete the feat of landing on the moon in such a small space, so the moon spacecraft docked the other two functional compartments together. The second functional compartment is the functional compartment of the small nuclear power plant, which ranks second in the Mars spacecraft.

The main purpose of the existence of this functional chamber is to provide sufficient power for the entire ship, as well as to provide power for the ion thrusters so that they can work properly. In this modest functional chamber, a small nuclear reactor of 100 megawatts is housed.

As for the last module, it is the main body of the lunar spacecraft and the core functional compartment of the future Martian spacecraft. This chamber is also the first component of the entire spacecraft to be sent into space, and it is the largest functional compartment on the entire Mars spacecraft except for the wheel cabin, which is 17 meters long and has a dry weight of 20 tons.

These three functional compartments constitute the main body of the lunar spacecraft, but the position of the three functional compartments of this lunar spacecraft is reversed from that of the Martian spacecraft. In the design of the Mars spacecraft, the auxiliary ion engine function module is at the forefront of the Mars spacecraft, and the core function compartment is in the third place. On the lunar spacecraft, the order is reversed, with the core functional compartment at the head and the ion engine functional compartment at the end.

These three functional chambers are enough for six astronauts to carry out the moon landing operation, after all, a moon landing operation is only a week back and forth, and this lunar spacecraft is built according to the requirements of landing on Mars, and coping with the moon landing operation is almost like using a cannon to fight mosquitoes.

On the exterior of the lunar spacecraft, there is also another lunar module about the size of the core function module, which is powered by chemical fuel, because the lunar module is to land on the surface of the moon and Mars and return, and the current ion engine cannot provide enough thrust, this lunar module can only be powered by chemical fuel.

This big guy is also made in Rockwell International, has a single engine, and although it is not as big as the space shuttle, the space inside is not small at all than that of the space shuttle. It can allow four astronauts to ride comfortably in it for the moon or Mars landing operation.

The docking procedure went smoothly, and after more than half an hour, the manned functional module successfully docked with another docking interface of the core functional module of the lunar spacecraft, and thus the real lunar landing operation began. (To be continued.) )