It's four o'clock in the morning, but the command center is bustling.

The superior had prepared something to say, but now he decided to take a different approach.

"Comrades, let's cheer our astronauts with a song."

The rest of the people were stunned for a moment, and then stood in line.

The other staff in the command center also stood up, and Lin Ju glanced forward and already knew which song it was.

"Students, get up......

Great waves, great waves, constantly ......

Hurry up and ......

The singing of more than 100 people from the capital was transmitted to space through the antenna, and was received by a super-large communication satellite in synchronous orbit and sent in the direction of the moon.

Inside the cabin of the Storm, the voices of 370,000 kilometers away mingled with the singing of the seven astronauts, propelling them forward like waves.

……

"Laurel-01, Laurel 02, and Queqiao have established stable communications!"

"The navigation route has been planned and is expected to be in orbit in 10 minutes."

"The Chang'e-5 B3 lander has sent a communication request and has been connected!"

“……”

The interior of the cabin, which had been silent for more than ten hours, began to become alive again, and the seven astronauts were engrossed in various operations.

Meng Linlin inadvertently glanced at the porthole in the upper right, and under the reflection of the sunlight, the outline of the Aitken Basin was visible to the naked eye.

After one last deceleration, Storm has successfully entered a 40-kilometer orbit around the moon and has already circled half a circle into the sun.

17 hours and 56 minutes, that's the total time it took for Storm to go from the time it left the space station to the time it entered orbit.

More than 60% of the fuel remained, and the three engines were stable after working for so long in the harsh conditions of the high temperatures of hydrogen ions, only adding some traces of ablation to the roots of the rear wing.

Hu Dong leaned on the porthole and took a photo of the front side of the moon with a high-definition camera.

40,000 meters under your feet, because there is no atmospheric interference, every landform feature of the lunar surface can be seen, like a super huge, infinitely detailed picture, which deeply makes people feel their own insignificance.

"Command center, is this position appropriate?"

Hu Dong fixed the other camera and aimed it at the porthole.

"Offset a little further to the right, and you can still see the console."

There are four cameras for live broadcasting, one of the three outside the cabin, and one in the cabin, and the ones outside the cabin don't matter, but the confidentiality of the cabin must be considered.

The view of the camera in the cabin can only include a large area of the porthole area above the console, and it can also be rotated to the cabin, but care must be taken to expose the console as little as possible.

The latter has quite a bit of command switches related to the nuclear engine on it, which can be analyzed with quite a lot of useful information for professionals.

At 4:57, the ground command center confirmed that it was correct and opened the signal interface to the TV station.

In front of countless TVs, people have been watching for a while, and after more than 20 minutes of science popularization in the studio that started at half past 4, the host and guests are silently waiting for the sound in the headset.

The director in the background gestured, and the host moved slightly, smiling and looking at the camera:

"Audience friends, the storm that has arrived on the moon is about to send back a live TV signal, now let's move our eyes to 380,000 kilometers away."

The picture went dark for a moment, and then seven astronauts huddled together appeared, and behind them, there was a gray-white moon surface that occupied the entire porthole.

CCTV's director took a look at the backstage data, and the ratings were rising at a near-linear rate.

There is also such a growth rate, as well as the crazy number of visits to Xinyuan's official website and Weibo, from home to abroad.

Even though the backend server has been prepared for a long time, it still didn't expect the sudden surge in the number of visits, and in order to avoid crashes, it can only continuously reduce the bandwidth of each user, which is directly manifested in the fact that the live webcast video begins to freeze visibly.

Musk frowned and looked at the astronaut who was stuck in a standstill on the screen, and patted the flat plate hard.

"Why are we still stuck in space, isn't the Dragon spacecraft directly connected to the satellite signal?"

Billy Shen: "But the signal that Starlink gives us is also forwarded from the ground, so this is no different from being on Earth, it is not directly connected to the relay satellite." ”

Elon Musk: "Then why can't we directly receive Huaguo's TV satellite signal?" ”

Billy Shen: "This ...... We had to buy their TV signal modem, and no one had ever tried to use a satellite TV receiver in space. ”

“……”

It took four or five minutes for the redundant servers to process the unimaginable number of access requests, and the screen finally began to move.

At this time, only Hu Dong and Meng Shulin were left in the picture, and the two of them were leaning against the huge porthole almost the size of their bodies, and the moon shining in the sunlight could be seen very clearly, showing all the details.

“…… We are about 40 kilometers above the surface of the Moon, which is 40,000 meters in a straight line, and we will pass a distance of 1,700 meters every second.

Right above my head is the Sea of Tranquility, the Apollo 11 mission and the place where humans first landed on the moon, and here it is ......"

The porthole-filled moon has become a giant map, and at the mercy of two astronauts, Musk believes that at least 95% of the audience on Earth will not understand what they are saying, but will listen as carefully as he does.

Even if you don't say anything, you can feel the thrilling beauty just by looking at it.

This is completely different from observing with a super telescope, as soon as you look at it, you will feel as if you are already on the moon, and you can't help but hear an ethereal background sound.

The scene quickly switches to the outside of the shuttle, two facing the Moon and one facing Earth, completely revealing the different views.

It took more than ten minutes before Hu Dong received a prompt and temporarily handed over the picture to the ground studio.

Of course, there are a lot of live events that last for four hours, but now it is only temporarily cut off, and the time to resume again depends on the speed of the other astronauts.

The latter was putting on the spacesuit with the help of two people at this time, and two more spacesuits were also placed next to him.

In addition to going out of the capsule to observe the moon at a closer distance, several small cubesats will be released in the cargo compartment to collect more data on the moon's magnetic field and radiation.

It took almost half an hour to prepare for leaving the cabin, and at this time, Lin Ju also got the statistical TV and online live broadcast ratings data.

According to the most preliminary estimates, about 400 million to 600 million people in China watched the live broadcast, which is still the result of insufficient publicity, as for the direct visits abroad exceeded 700 million, and the indirect broadcast is even more difficult to estimate, it is likely to exceed 1.5 billion, that is, there may be more than 2.5 billion people watching the Tianmu 1 mission in total.

That's more than four times the Apollo 11 mission, and it's just an ill-publicized operation around the moon.

(End of chapter)