When the Xinghai swayed its reddish-purple tail flame and glided all the way up the runway, CTV's OB truck also recorded the whole shocking scenery in the live broadcast room.

In the darkness of the night, the gorgeous scenery like a divine phoenix traveling for nine days made countless viewers in the live broadcast room marvel and marvel.

[It's so beautiful! 】

[Is this the legendary electric propulsion engine?] The colors of the tail flame are so charming. 】

[The phoenix nirvana breaks out of the cocoon, and its wings are like rainbows! ] 】

[Good poetry! However, there is no culture in the next, and a sentence goes to the world! 】

[With a sentence: it!] 】

[I'm the same!] 】

[True scientists are the only gods of mankind!] The people who can build this electric propulsion system are amazing! 】

[Kawajin: Ahem, you can praise me openly, there's no need to beat around the bush. 】

With the launch of the Xinghai, in the aerospace foundation, Sun Yutong, who hosted the broadcast, also recovered from the shock.

Although I have seen the launch process of Xinghai from news reports and videos before, it is the first time to experience all this from such a close distance.

Especially in this quiet night, the reddish-purple flame that is dragged on the tail of the space shuttle is even more brilliant and gorgeous, which makes people feel shocked.

Looking at the Xinghai that had disappeared in the sky, Sun Yutong took a deep breath, and said quickly with an excited and ruddy face: "Ladies and gentlemen, the Xinghai has set sail smoothly, and its end point will be the moon we look up to." Let's pray for the astronauts and wish them a smooth journey. ”

When the words fell, a large number of flowers and candles were suddenly brushed up in the live broadcast room.

After being silent for three seconds, Sun Yutong continued the live broadcast: "The launch of the Xinghai was a complete success, and the follow-up live broadcast will be transferred to the live broadcast equipment on the Xinghai as planned, let us follow the footsteps of the Xinghai and land on the starry sky together." ”

Now that you are ready for the whole live broadcast, the picture of the flight stage of the Star Sea will naturally be broadcast live.

This is not a difficult task for the Xinghai Research Institute, the space shuttle itself has a shooting device, and it can directly intercept part of the picture and put it into the live broadcast room.

In addition, in order to allow the audience in the live broadcast room to enjoy the beautiful starry sky, Xu Chuan also deliberately added a shooting device to set the corresponding exposure parameters to shoot the cosmic starry sky.

This is different from the camera methods used in conventional space activities, in conventional space shooting, whether it is Apollo 11 in the United States or Shenzhou 14 in China, when the astronauts are active, the background of the starry sky is pitch black, and the stars in the vast starry sky are hidden.

And what causes this phenomenon is not the "mysterious disappearance" of these stars, but the result of the "selection" of the camera's exposure parameters.

To put it simply, in the universe, stars are the dimmer subjects; The space station and astronauts become very bright when illuminated by sunlight.

However, cameras cannot 'see' both bright objects and particularly dark objects at the same time.

What should I do in this case?

Obviously, it is important to get a clear picture of the astronauts, the space station module, and the Earth in detail during the out-of-cabin activities, that is, to set the corresponding camera exposure parameters based on bright objects.

As a result, the images captured in space activities in the past are almost completely dark in the universe.

And the live broadcast, naturally, must be how beautiful and good-looking it is, so Xu Chuan arranged a camera to shoot the stars, and used a long exposure to shoot the cosmic sea of stars when the Xinghai was sailing on the earth and the moon.

After all, the voyage is relatively long, so you can't always show a dark background.

On the other side, the general control center of the space base.

Unlike the relaxed mentality of netizens who watched the live broadcast of the moon landing, the staff in the general control room were busy with their jobs in an orderly manner.

Looking at the picture transmitted back by the Xinghai, Xu Chuan stood in front of the monitoring screen, pinched the headset, and said clearly and calmly: "Call the Xinghai, this is the ground command center, please report your situation." ”

After a brief silence, the astronaut's voice was quickly heard in the headset.

"THIS IS XINGHAI, WITH A CURRENT ALTITUDE OF SIX THOUSAND METERS, A CURRENT FLIGHT SPEED OF 2735.45KM/H, A FUSION REACTOR OUTPUT OF 9.65%, A AEROSPACE ENGINE OUTPUT OF 26.77%, AND THE FEEDBACK OF EQUIPMENT FROM ALL PARTS OF XINGHAI IS IN GOOD CONDITION!"

"Received by the ground center, please act according to the established plan and maintain stable contact!"

"Star Ocean received!"

Compared with traditional chemical-fueled rockets, Xinghai takes longer to put itself into low-earth orbit and accelerates much less. In the atmosphere, although the flight angle is always upward, the astronauts are not under much pressure and can even move normally.

In front of the console, after receiving the answer from the Xinghai, Xu Chuan also breathed a long sigh of relief.

Landing on the moon is a long journey, and no one can guarantee whether Huaguo's footprints can be imprinted on that Moon Palace.

But at least, the first step in front of them has already gone out, and the journey has been smooth.

The rest, it's up to God's will.

Although he is not superstitious as a scientist, he has done his best to do his best, and in the face of the vast sea of stars, all he can do is pray.

"By the way, where is the Artemis moon landing ship over there in the United States? How long are they left to go to the moon? ”

In front of the console, Xu Chuan suddenly remembered something, turned his head and asked Academician Chang Huaxiang who was standing beside him.

In recent days, he has been preparing for the launch of Xinghai, and he really hasn't paid attention to the detailed planning of NASA.

Hearing this question, Academician Chang Huaxiang also frowned, and after thinking for a while, he shook his head and replied: "I really don't know much about this, and I really didn't pay much attention to the situation over there." ”

Like Xu Chuan, as the person in charge of the planning of the manned lunar landing project, he was also very short on time and did not pay much attention to this aspect of things.

Xu Chuan nodded, and just wanted to say something, Wu Yuankang, the director of the Space Administration on the side, spoke with a smile.

"I know this, the Artemis moon landing ship was launched on time at 1:30 p.m. on the 17th, stopped in low-earth orbit for 42 hours for inspection and two orbit adjustments, and entered the Earth-Moon orbit at 7:30 a.m. on the 19th and headed for the moon."

"Judging from the latest information collected so far, the Artemis lunar spacecraft is between the Earth-Moon orbit, and it will take about forty-five hours to get close to the 100-kilometer orbit around the Moon."

"This is the data updated by NASA in real time, of course, I only have a rough note, if Academician Xu needs accurate data, I will check it."

"No, you don't."

Listening to Wu Yuankang's words, Xu Chuan shook his head and silently calculated in his heart, from 1:30 pm on the 17th to 0:30 pm on the 21st, that is, about 103 hours.

If it takes nearly 45 hours to reach the 100-kilometer orbit around the moon, NASA will take at least 150 hours, if not longer, to land on the moon.

This data is almost twice as long as Apollo 11 a few decades ago. He remembered that the Apollo 11 moon landing seemed to have taken about 75 hours.

Of course, this does not mean that the strength of the United States in the field of aerospace has declined.

On the one hand, the steps designed for landing on the moon are quite cumbersome, and Apollo 11 was able to reach the moon in about 75 hours, which can be said to have gathered the strength of the entire United States.

Moreover, the record of 75 hours of moon landing is only Apollo 11, and the subsequent 12-17 will take much longer than that of 11.

On the other hand, there isn't much time left for NASA to prepare.

In a hurry or even greatly ahead of the amount of work, it is quite powerful to be able to successfully send the Artemis moon landing ship to the moon.

It's just that this time, it seems to be a bit of a problem?

In his mind, Xu Chuan thought carefully, it was not that there was something wrong with the Artemis moon landing ship, but that he felt that something was wrong.

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Staring at the monitoring screen in front of him and looking at the Xinghai on it, Xu Chuan fell into deep thought.

On the side, Academician Chang Huaxiang glanced at him in surprise, but it didn't disturb his thinking.

After stopping for a while, Xu Chuan suddenly shouted with some surprise: "I know!" ”

Chang Huaxiang looked at it curiously and asked, "Huh?" What's wrong? Got it? ”

Xu Chuan quickly replied: "Time! It's time! ”

"According to Director Wu's data, it will take about 45 hours for the Artemis lunar landing ship to reach the 100-kilometer lunar orbit, and it will theoretically take three to five hours to switch from the 100-kilometer lunar orbit to the 15-kilometer near-moon orbit, and it may reach 60 hours if you count the time for launching the lunar module and landing on the moon."

"If they move a little slower, theoretically speaking, it is possible for our Xinghai to complete the launch of the 'Lunar Lander' before them and land on the moon first!"

Hearing Xu Chuan's words, Academician Chang Huaxiang couldn't help but blurt out: "The last to come? ”

"Is that okay?" On the side, Wu Yuankang of the Space Agency followed up and asked quickly.

Xu Chuan nodded, took a deep breath and said quickly: "Xinghai went to the moon, and it only took more than two days to reach the lunar orbit, according to the previous calculation, we should arrive at the moon at noon the day after tomorrow, which is almost sixty hours." ”

"I didn't expect that NASA's moon landing would take longer than usual, a full 1560 hours, almost six and a half days."

On the side, Chang Huaxiang made a quick calculation, and his eyes suddenly brightened a lot: "According to the speed of the Xinghai, it is really possible for us to be the first to land on the moon." ”

Xu Chuan nodded and said, "The key now is how long it will take for them to adjust their orbit around the moon!" If it's more than four hours, we have a good chance! ”

"I'm going to collect more accurate time!"

Hearing these words, Wu Yuankang threw down a sentence and walked out of the control center quickly, originally thinking that it was impossible to take the lead in landing on the moon by the United States, but he didn't expect that there was still hope for them to turn around.

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