Chapter 123, Moon Landing 4 (Ask for the first order~)
In the vast starry sky of the universe, the distance between the earth and the moon is simply insignificant.
But even this insignificant distance is still very far away for humans, and even the most advanced spacecraft can take hours to complete.
June 24, 2021, 3 p.m.
On the 'Houyi' spacecraft, Li Haiyang, the leader of the moon landing team, woke up from his sleep, he had been deliberately training for a long time, so as soon as the point arrived, the biological clock would automatically wake him up.
Looking at the time, there were still 2 minutes left before the scheduled time, he did not disturb the sleep of his teammates, and looked ahead.
In the field of vision, the moon is already very huge, and it can be clearly seen with the naked eye.
The moon's indication that there is no Moon Palace in mythological stories, and naturally there will be no Chang'e and Little White Rabbit, and Wu Gang, who cut down the osmanthus tree, is naturally nowhere to be found.
On the contrary, the Moon's representation is very inhospitable, full of large and small craters formed by meteorite impacts, some craters are very huge, and even form huge basins, and some craters are very small, very small meteorite impact formations.
Barren, desolate, without any color, this is what the moon is supposed to be.
Looking back at the direction of the earth, the earth has become very small at this time, as if a bright disk is lying in the void, and the azure light makes it look like a pearl, very dazzling and eye-catching.
"Buzz~Buzz~"
At this time, a burst of sounds was remembered in the spacecraft, and the alarm clock was set to wake up the astronauts.
"Ground call Hou Yi ~ Ground call Hou Yi ~ Hear please answer ~"
Soon, the voice of the liaison officer of the ground control command center also came from the call headset worn by Li Haiyang.
"Hou Yi received ~ Hou Yi received ~"
"Request Instructions~"
Li Haiyang looked at his teammates around him, who had already woken up from sleep at this time and began to look at the moon and look back at the direction of the earth energetically.
"The ship starts to slow down after 5 minutes ~ The ship starts to slow down after 5 minutes ~"
"Received~The spaceship starts to slow down after 5 minutes~"
Li Haiyang repeated the other party's words, and then everyone on the spaceship became nervous.
Everyone knows that when the spacecraft arrives on the moon, whether it can be captured by the moon's gravity is a very crucial step, which is directly related to the success or failure of the manned lunar landing program.
Here in the ground control command center, scientists and engineers have also begun to get busy, the detailed information about the spacecraft is constantly updated, and the supercomputer is constantly simulating and deducing to ensure that it can smoothly slow down to the speed that can be captured by the moon's gravity and smoothly enter the lunar orbit.
Through the cameras installed inside and outside the spacecraft, the ground control command center can also clearly see everything inside and outside the spacecraft.
Everything went very smoothly~
The spacecraft and astronauts are in very good condition, and as long as they can successfully enter the lunar orbit, the manned landing on the moon can basically be declared successful, after all, with the powerful ability of the anti-gravity spacecraft, landing on the moon is just a piece of cake.
Five minutes later, the deceleration engines on both spacecraft began to slow down, and the deceleration engines were also fuel-injected propulsion engines, but they were installed in the opposite direction.
As the deceleration engine started, a bright tail flame began to slowly lengthen and become brighter in front of the spaceship, and the speed of the spacecraft began to slowly decrease.
As you get closer to the Moon, the speed of the spacecraft decreases.
Half an hour later, the Moon was close at hand, and even without any tools, it was possible to see everything on the Moon clearly.
The air shown by the Moon is very thin, yes, the Moon shows that there is still air, but it is not even one billionth of the Earth's air, and the gravitational pull of the Moon is too small to absorb the air indicated.
The air shown by the Moon is so thin that it is no different from no air, and without the protection of the atmosphere, the Moon shows that everything can be seen clearly in space.
It is precisely because there is no air protection that meteorites of any size can leave large and small impact craters on the moon when they hit the moon.
The earth is very lucky, as a satellite of the earth, the moon is like a shield, resisting the earth from the starry universe I don't know how many bullets, the cratered surface of the moon is the best proof.
Without the Moon, life on Earth would have been destroyed again and again by extraterrestrial meteorites.
Of course, the thick atmosphere of the earth itself is also a protective umbrella, and small meteorites rub and burn with the atmosphere, and when they really land on the earth, the mass is much smaller, a lot, as long as it is not a particularly large meteorite, it does not pose much of a threat to the earth.
Under the dual protection of the moon and the atmosphere, this is the cradle of life.
The spacecraft continued to slow down, and by about 4 o'clock, the speed of the spacecraft had decreased to 2 kilometers per second, which was enough to be easily captured by the moon's gravity.
"Whew~"
Li Haiyang took a deep breath and looked at the huge moon outside.
At this time, the Earth Control and Command Center has handed over the authority of the spacecraft to him, and the distance between the Earth and the Moon is nearly 400,000 kilometers, and it takes 1.3 seconds for electromagnetic waves to propagate at the speed of light, and it takes 2.6 seconds to go back and forth.
This seemingly insignificant time difference is very likely to lead to a fatal mistake.
Therefore, at this time, the control of the spacecraft is in the hands of the astronauts on the spacecraft, and they need to make timely judgments based on their previous training experience to successfully fly the spacecraft into lunar orbit.
Li Haiyang carefully piloted the spacecraft to slowly approach the moon, and soon, the spacecraft was captured by the moon's gravity very smoothly, and began to enter the orbit of flying around the moon, flying around the moon continuously.
Immediately afterwards, the 'Chang'e' spacecraft also entered the lunar orbit very smoothly, and also began to orbit the lunar orbit continuously.
"Houyi called the ground, Houyi called the ground, and smoothly entered the lunar orbit~"
"Chang'e called the ground, Chang'e called the ground, and smoothly entered the lunar orbit~"
When the news of the successful entry of the two spacecraft into lunar orbit was transmitted back to the ground control command center, the entire ground control command center couldn't help but cheer.
Qin Yi, who had been doing nothing, couldn't help but stand up with everyone and began to applaud constantly.
It went very smoothly into the lunar orbit, which basically means that there is no problem with this moon landing, and the next thing is to wait for time, and when the time comes, the spacecraft will fly into the moon, and the descendants of Yan and Huang will set foot on this magical land.
The spacecraft arrived in lunar orbit at about 4 o'clock, and the actual moon landing time was at 6 o'clock, with 2 hours to be busy on the way.
In the 'Houyi' spacecraft flying in lunar orbit, the nine astronauts began to get busy.
The orbit of the spacecraft was constantly adjusted, and at the same time, the hatch of the spacecraft slowly opened, and satellites were continuously released, and soon a lunar global positioning system was established on the moon.
With a large anti-gravity spacecraft, launching a satellite is really no different from eating, it is simple, there is no trace of difficulty, and establishing a lunar positioning system is just a matter of launching dozens of satellites.
The establishment of the lunar global positioning system is also for the follow-up plan, these satellites can not only be positioned, but also used for communication, future bases on the moon, mining bases, lunar factories, etc. need to use this positioning and communication system.
Of course, on the moon, there are communication satellites, resource exploration satellites, etc., which have already been launched in advance, and there are even a few unmanned spacecraft loaded with supplies that have been launched in advance.
These spaceships are ordinary spaceships, not gravity-defying spaceships, and they are filled with all kinds of supplies.
At that time, the two spacecraft will unload the materials in the spacecraft to the moon, and then they can fly into space to transport these materials.
To build a permanent base, the materials needed are still too huge, and there are still people to be stationed for a long time, so the materials are also as complete and prepared as possible.
Of course, this is only in the case of having an anti-gravity spaceship, if there is no anti-gravity spaceship, everything has to be carefully calculated, and it is simply impossible to be so extravagant, and the spacecraft will be loaded and launched one by one in advance.
On the other side of the moon, the two spacecraft are constantly busy.
On this day, almost all enterprises, units, etc. leave work half an hour in advance, leaving time for everyone to watch the live broadcast of the manned moon landing.
This is a great moment for the whole country, and it is also a great moment for the descendants of Yan and Huang, and the 1.4 billion people in the country and overseas Chinese and Chinese compatriots have witnessed this great moment.
Companies and factories leave work early, schools leave classes early, and even the junior high school students who are about to take the college entrance examination in the most tight time put down their pens and books at this time and sit in front of the TV, ready to watch the sacred moment of the manned moon landing.
From the leaders of the country to the ordinary people, everyone stopped their busy work.
Adults hold ignorant children, very patiently and proudly tell their children what the moon is, what is a manned landing on the moon, these children will understand when they grow up, this kind of national strength and national pride will be deeply rooted in the bone marrow and soul.
Overseas Chinese gathered together, set up the wine, and waited for the moment to raise their glasses and celebrate.
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