With the squeaky pumping sound, the air in the cargo compartment is quickly drained, and the pressure in the cabin is almost zero.

The cargo door slowly opened, and the vast and deep space appeared in front of Jiao Bai, pitch black, empty, and mysterious. The kind of darkness that people see in space is completely different from the darkness seen at night on Earth. The blackness of space is more thorough and pure, and no other light affects it. Although there is sunlight and starlight in space, there is no air in space, and the light will not be scattered, which causes the stars to be seen from space, the stars will not blink, and when you look at the sun, the light will be particularly strong, and it is easy to hurt the eyes without special filtering.

"After the opening is completed, you can release the satellite."

"Received, Duan Junfeng and I will go out of the capsule to operate, pay more attention to the surrounding situation, in case of space junk attack."

"Understood"

After some exchange, Jiao Bai gestured to Duan Junfeng, signaling him to follow, and then dragged the two small satellites and floated out of the cabin. In space where there is no air and no gravity, it is impossible to walk normally, so you can only cling to the handle outside the space plane with both hands, and constantly shift the hook position of the safety rope while moving outward.

After moving outward for a distance, Jiao Bai stopped, and communicated with Zhu Jun who was far away at the Qiongzhou Space Base through the communicator on the extravehicular spacesuit: "Zhu Jun, it's okay to release positioning satellites in this orbit I'm in now, right?" ”

"There is no problem, in fact, the four satellites all have ion propulsion devices, although the thrust is not large, and they cannot be lifted off independently, but it is no problem to do a few orbit change maneuvers."

"Okay, then I'll throw the satellite out."

After that, Jiao Bai scooped up the small satellite hanging behind his butt in his hand, untied the strap on it, and then threw the small satellite into space with one hand. Duan Junfeng, who was not far from Jiao Bai, did the same, and threw the two small satellites he carried into space. Originally, this work should have been done by a robotic arm or a robot, but Jiao Bai was in too much of a hurry on his trip to the moon, and he didn't have time to find these two things, so he had to go on it himself.

After the small satellite enters space, the ion engine on it quickly starts to fine-tune its flight attitude and orbit. After the adjustments were made, the two solar panels, which were very large for their basketball-sized volume, slowly opened from the folded state. After the solar panels began to work, sufficient power was provided, and the ion engines continued to work, pushing the small satellite farther and farther away from the space plane.

"Alright, let's go back to the spaceplane."

After Jiao Bai and Duan Junfeng returned to the aerospace plane, they took off their heavy extravehicular spacesuits, Jiao Bai let out a long breath, and said, "This thing is too bulky, it's really hard to work in it." Why doesn't anyone want to improve it? ”

In the space in front of Jiao Bai, suddenly the light intertwined and changed, and Zhu Jun's figure was projected there, and he answered: "That's because robots and artificial intelligence are developing too fast, and a lot of work that requires humans to go out of the cabin is contracted by robots." Without so many needs to go out of the capsule, who will still develop extravehicular spacesuits. ”

Jiao Bai stared at Zhu Jun's holographic projection, looked at it carefully, and asked, "How can you project it, didn't you say that the communication bandwidth was insufficient?" ”

Zhu Jun glanced at Jiao Bai and complained: "You have been getting those four satellites for so long, and you haven't studied their functions. They not only have the function of positioning, but also have the function of communication relay. Now that they are in place and working, with their help, the communication bandwidth of the aerospace aircraft and the flight control center has increased more than tenfold, and the communication distance has increased by more than three times, at least there is no problem in covering the moon. ”

Jiao Bai's eyes lit up and he said, "So, now we can go to the moon?" ”

Zhu Jun nodded and said: "It's really no problem, positioning and communication have been solved, but I still suggest that you set the location of the moon landing on the front side of the moon, and try not to go to the far side of the moon to move, which is still a blind spot for communication." ”

"I know, my first goal of landing on the moon this time is the mining base set up by Daming on the moon, which is located on the front side of the moon, so you don't have to worry too much."

After the satellites were put into place, the two aerospace planes started the plasma engines again and accelerated towards the moon.

After being in a state of weightlessness for a long time, Jiao Bai felt a lot of inconveniences, such as eating and drinking, and squeezing it into his mouth like squeezing toothpaste. If you want to eat something hard, you must also process it into small pieces one by one in advance, and eat them one at a time. For example, when you urinate and urinate without gravity, it feels terrible. There is also a bath, which can only be scrubbed with a wet towel, and if you want to take a bath or use a shower or something, you still don't have to think about it.

Fortunately, the flight speed of the aerospace plane was fast enough, and the distance between the water blue star and the moon was not too far, and a day later, Jiao Bai and his party had reached the sky above the moon.

Looking out the porthole, the huge gray celestial body full of craters and meteorite impact craters was full of shock. Judging from the data, the size of the moon is only 149 of the water blue star, which seems to be very small, but that is compared to the huge water blue star. Now that Jiao Bai is standing in front of the moon in person, he realizes his insignificance and the enormity of the moon.

"Has Daming's moon mining base been found?"

Zhu Jun projected a photo taken by an airborne camera into the air, pointed to one of the places, and said: "The location has been determined, but the situation here is not very good, it seems that it has been hit by a meteorite." A large crater was smashed on the tarmac, and the moon dust raised covered both the helium three extraction plant and the rare earth extraction plant. ”

Jiao Bai stared at the photos in the air, and nodded heavily, if it weren't for Zhu Jun's reminder, Jiao Bai wouldn't have been able to see that those gray protrusions were originally a purification factory built by humans.

"The tarmac is damaged, so can we land safely? Are there any other places where you can park your planes? ”

"Our aerospace aircraft has a vertical take-off and landing system, and landing is not a problem, as long as you find a relatively flat place, you can land. It's just that without the assistance of machinery and equipment on the apron, loading and unloading materials will be very troublesome. ”

Jiao Bai waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about this, don't forget that I have a carry-on space, and the materials that need to be carried can be directly loaded into the carry-on space." Just choose to land here next to the helium-three extraction plant, and first go to see if there is any helium-three inventory in it. ”

"Understood, sir, Aerospace Plane One, entering the lunar landing procedure, the target location, the helium-three extraction plant." ：，，，