Chapter 344: Half a Century Later, Humans Descend on the Moon Again
In fact, it was not only ordinary people who were shocked, but also people from other national space agencies and space companies.
Especially the people at Merriken Space.
At the beginning, their manned mission to the moon was to change places with one shot, and there were no duplicate locations, so every time they landed, they were faced with a semi-unfamiliar landing site.
There are no dangerous craters or rocks on the ground that need to be observed while landing, and the distance in lunar orbit is too far for the detection satellites and orbital modules equipped with small telescopes to see the real details of the ground at all, so every landing is a big adventure, and you must be careful and careful.
Like the first manned landing on the moon by humans and Merriken, when astronauts descended from the lunar module to the lunar surface, sirens indicating computer overload suddenly began to sound.
It was this siren that allowed the lunar module to fly in the descent trajectory for an additional four seconds, which means that the actual landing site would be several kilometers away from the planned westward direction.
And because of several abnormal program alarms on the navigation computer, the ground command center at that time was also faced with a critical, instantaneous choice - whether to terminate the moon landing program!
Because at that time, there was only enough fuel on the lunar module for one attempt.
After a quick moment of thought, the commander-in-chief "intuitively" allowed the astronauts to attempt a moon landing.
When the astronauts began to look out the window again, they found themselves between a rock and a piece of hard ground, and because the computer malfunctioned and they flew past the pre-selected landing area, and the fuel was about to run out, the astronauts chose to manually control the lunar module.
As the lunar module continued to descend, the fuel began to run out, and when the lunar module was about 9 meters above the lunar surface, there was only enough fuel left for 30 seconds.
It was the astronauts who calmly and quickly found a suitable place to land on the lunar surface, which was strewn with gravel and craters, and finally landed the lunar module on the moon.
This feeling of fighting with death directly made the astronauts break out in a cold sweat.
It is like the landing of the lunar spacecraft, which can be described as elegant, and the commander and deputy commander have the feeling of landing a civilian flight.
As soon as they saw this, the people at Merriken Space began to worry again.
It seems, probably, maybe...... Their return to the moon was no different from the previous moon landing, and it was another big adventure, a test of the limits for both the astronauts and the lunar landing equipment.
People thought that the moon landing would be quite exciting, and it would be even more exciting if they dared to broadcast it live, but they didn't expect it to be so elegant this time.
Although it broke through people's imagination, but after a little thought, they found that it was still a technical reason.
The Navigator's technical bull batch.
"It's good to keep it secret, the navigator didn't say that Yuegong-2 still has navigation functions, haha, I thought it was just a survival module."
"Now that it's good, this area can get rid of the 'blind landing' in the future, and with the guidance of the ground, whether it is the landing accuracy, success rate, or comfort, it will be improved by several orders of magnitude."
"The technology is developing quite fast, well, it's not fast, it was thrilling enough when Merriken landed on the moon decades ago, but I didn't expect it to land like this now."
"Don't talk about Merrican, even the landing of Yuegong 2 was not too peaceful, and even after landing, I found that the landing site was a small slope, and it would be nice to move it a little bit to the side, but fortunately, its landing bracket can be retracted and adjusted."
"Yuegong-2 is the infrastructure here, just like if you want to drive fast and well, you have to build the road first, and building the road is infrastructure, there is the landing guidance of Yuegong-2, and there are eight lunar rovers responsible for tidying up the ground, and the landing process is naturally smooth."
"Yes, infrastructure is too important, from this you can see the difference between Tianxia and Merrican, Merrican is first-come, first-served, but it does not develop at all, it is just a sortie everywhere, stand and go, and the five successful moon landings do not seem to be far behind, and Tianxia's plan is obviously to gain a firm foothold at one point, and then develop rapidly, and finally go out to push flat."
Tang Chao pouted as he watched these netizens discuss it, thinking in his heart what kind of infrastructure this is, you will know when the real infrastructure is built.
Tianxia's infrastructure capabilities are not understood by outsiders at all.
As the Luna gets closer to the lunar surface, the clearer the landing site will be, and viewers watching the live broadcast will be able to see the Moongate-2 with the solar panels unfolded, as well as the eight lunar rovers next to the Moongate-2.
Although these eight lunar rovers have been wandering around the moon for ten months, now seeing eight of them at once from another perspective, I still feel that the original navigator is really crazy.
Of course, the most obvious is the circular landing site below.
Compared to the pristine lunar environment with pits and rocks next to it, this obviously groomed circular area with a rut mark is too obvious.
The 500-kilogram lunar rover is not heavy, but the rolling back and forth of eight vehicles is enough to make the lunar soil on the lunar surface a little tighter.
It's not as good as the rollers, and it's not as good as the purpose-built landing site, but it's much better than the pristine lunar surface full of fine moon dust.
In the cockpit of the Moon, the data obtained by the spacecraft itself and the data provided by the Yuegong-2 corroborated each other, and the most accurate data escorted their landing, and Cheng Dong sat in the main pilot's seat and calmly responded to various problems.
"Ten meters!"
"Five meters!"
"Two meters!"
"Turn off the engine!"
"Understood!"
The moment they turned off the engine, they felt a vibration, and then the [Touchdown] prompt on the screen lit up.
There was only a slight vibration, indicating that their landing attitude was very positive, and also indicating that the landing point was very flat, with four landing brackets touching the ground at the same time.
This is the credit of the Lunar Palace-2 and the lunar rover, without their support, such a smooth landing would have been impossible to experiment.
There was only the sound of equipment running in the cockpit, Cheng Dong and Lin Yang looked at each other, Tong Anfu and Peng Zizhen sitting in the back row also looked at each other, and everyone felt a little incredible.
"Let's ...... Landed on the moon?"
"Moonlight, did you land successfully?"
Although the ground command center witnessed the landing of the Moonshot from various angles, it still needed to be confirmed from the mouths of the astronauts.
Hearing the question on the ground, Cheng Dong hurriedly changed from an incredible state to a serious state, "We have successfully landed on the lunar surface, repeat, we have successfully landed on the lunar surface!" ”
As soon as he said this, all the people on the earth who watched the live broadcast couldn't help but cheer, not just Tianxia people.
At this moment, the four astronauts are not only Tianxia people, they are also earthlings on the moon.
It's been more than fifty years, and humans have finally landed on the moon again!
"It's done!!"
"Yay!"
"Cattle Pie! Cow Pie! ”
"Ahhhh I don't sleep today!! ”