Trapped on Mars for the third day.

Today the weather is clear, and the earth is still nowhere to be heard.

The old cat had finished packing all the supplies that needed to be transported, Tang Yue began to check the status of the Eagle spaceship, he stood under the lander, looked up at the Eagle spaceship, the sun cast a huge shadow on the gravel.

Tang Yue pulled the handle on the landing gear hard, and the gangway slowly descended.

The payload bay of the Eagle spacecraft is at the top, taking up only a small part of the space, there is a command bay and a cargo bay, the command bay has six seats, the standard number of members is six, but there is also enough space in the cabin, if necessary, additional seats can be temporarily added, up to ten people can be carried.

Today's Mars landers are no longer comparable to the Mercury spacecraft of the past, and the space of those antiques of nearly a hundred years ago is as cramped as the bottom of a bed full of debris, and the astronauts sit in it like a fixed part.

But the Eagle spacecraft's cabin was spacious enough to fit a mahjong table.

Under the crew bilge is the cargo compartment, and since the lander is in a vertical state under normal circumstances, the cargo compartment is actually under the feet of the astronauts, through a hatch on the floor.

Further down the cargo hold, the main structure is the fuel tank of the rocket engine, these huge aluminum alloy canisters with a diameter of several meters are filled with methane and liquid oxygen, and the entire Eagle spacecraft is a two-stage structure, when it leaves the surface of Mars, the upgraded engine ignition, pushing the payload into orbit, as for the descent stage, it will stay on Mars, at this time it plays the role of a launch platform and base.

The electric gangway took Tang Yue up slowly, he stepped on the gangway, his hands were on the ladder, his body was full of all kinds of big bags and small bags, wearing Mingguang armor Tang Yue couldn't climb, he could only rely on the motor to pull him up slowly.

There was a click, and the gangway was at the top.

"I'm rubbing...... It's so heavy. Tang Yue raised his hand and unscrewed the hatch above his head, and climbed up with all his might, panting, he was carrying dozens of kilograms of turtle shells on his back, but no one helped pull him, it was really inconvenient for one person to do anything.

"Old cat, you bastard, can't you help me share it?"

"Unfortunately, I wasn't designed to do menial work." The old cat very bluntly rejected his request.

"And what did you design it for?" Tang Yue was very annoyed, "Do you specifically complain?" ”

"I'm an electrical and mechanical engineer, an astronomer, a communications expert, a master of cross talk, a cat that catches mice, but not a bricklayer." The old cat said slowly, "It's not my job to do rough work. ”

"Then I was born by my father and mother to do rough work?" Tang Yue climbed into the cargo hold, "People are all fleshy, what's the difference?" Why can't you do it if I do it? ”

"Unfortunately, I'm not flesh-raised."

Under normal circumstances, the maintenance of the spacecraft is definitely not done by one person, there are a total of six people in the expedition team, excluding the people on duty on the United Space Station, there are at least five people who land on Mars, and there are many people who work together to check the lander, and Tang Yue can't even take off the extravehicular suit alone.

Tang Yue gasped, took off all the tool bags hanging on his body, and then lay flat on the floor of the cargo hold to rest.

"Mr. Tang Yue?" Mai Dong's voice came out of the headphones, "Are you okay?" How's it going? ”

"The situation is not promising."

"Mr. Tang Yue, what's wrong with you?"

"I've never been so tired since I was born in my mother's womb, you count how much work I've done all day today......" Tang Yue lay on the floor in a big word, "I moved the battery board for a few hours in the morning, checked the Kunlun station, rode the bicycle for half an hour, and then packed the supplies, and now I came to climb the lander...... The problem is that the old cat bastard only gave me two sandwiches! ”

"Mr. Cat...... It's scary. ”

"Mai Dong, you say, is this exploitation? Is it all evil exploitation? ”

“……”

"Wrapper!" Tang Yue was heartbroken, "I am a miserable Martian body worker, have you ever studied Comrade Xia Yan's "Body Worker"? ”

"Learned."

"In the middle of April on Mars, at half past six in the morning, before dawn, the people sleeping in the crowded Kunlun station had already been shouted by the old cat to get up, and a robot wearing handcuffed silk shirts and pants that did not match the season shouted loudly: Tear down the shop! Get up! Then, he shouted as if he had an order: Tang Yue! Go move the panels! Damn, still lying down, pigs! ”

Tang Yue began to change the original text again, humming weakly.

Mai Dong burst out laughing.

"The old cat is a bastard!" Tang Yue said, "The proletariat of the whole universe unites to defeat the old cat!" ”

The gangway slowly descended again, and when it rose up again, it brought the old cat up, and when it came up, it kicked Tang Yue.

"Who do you call a bastard?"

The old cat closed the hatch, "drip-" sounded, the green light turned on, the air pressure in the cargo hold slowly rose, a few minutes later, Mingguang armor reminded Tang Yue that the external environment was normal, Tang Yue sat up with difficulty, and the old cat helped him open the exit of the extravehicular suit.

Tang Yue crawled out of the Mingguang armor, and the second he took off this extravehicular suit was really like being reborn.

He stood in the empty cargo hold, which looked a bit like a super-large can, surrounded by a white composite substrate and a few sets of light orange cabin suits, with nylon buckles on the inner walls and floor of the cargo hold to secure the cargo that would be tied up when it was time to deliver supplies to the space station.

There was also a hatch above their heads, and there was the command compartment.

Tang Yue climbed up the gangway on the wall, opened the hatch, and then got into the command cabin.

The old cat took out the ultrasonic flaw detector from underneath and began to check whether there were cracks and scars on the rocket fairing and structure.

The space of the command module is slightly smaller than that of the cargo compartment, and since the command module is located at the head of the entire spacecraft, its internal space is a large cone, arranged a bit like the cockpit of a space shuttle.

On one side are six seats, two in the front and four in the rear, and on the other side is the main console, which is densely packed with buttons and LCD displays.

But the Seating arrangement of the Eagle spacecraft is very different from that of the Space Shuttle.

The seating arrangement of the shuttle is similar to that of a regular aircraft, as it is a taxi-run landing and can land directly on the airport with landing gear.

The Eagle spacecraft re-enters the atmosphere in a recumbent position, but when it lands, it lands vertically, so the crew's seats are placed with their backs to the belly.

There is nothing wrong with this in the vertical state, but when the lander enters the atmosphere, everyone lies down with their backs to the earth, facing the sky, and their heads facing forward.

Tang Yue stood in the command cabin, looking out through the porthole, he could see the whole picture of Kunlun Station not far away, and beyond that was the endless wind and sand and desert.

He turned on the power, and after a few seconds, all the lights and screens in the command pod lit up.

A line of words slowly typed out on the main screen of the main console:

Welcome to the Eagle Lander.