The Apollo 11 mission was later estimated to have been watched by about 600 million people around the world, which is not a small number at all.

In 1969, the world had very few households with televisions, mostly concentrated in Aramco, Europe, and the Union, and the combined number of these entities was slightly more than a billion.

Even in that era of underdeveloped communications, the moon has such an appeal, and from the announcement of the Storm orbit the moon to the live broadcast in just over ten hours, it may have attracted nearly 3 billion users to watch.

It's hard not to raise expectations for the official moon landing, how many people will be there by then? Four billion, or even six billion?

Lin Ju lost his mind for a moment, and then a voice sounded in his ears and in his head at the same time.

Shen Zuozhou was about to remind him that Meng Forest had opened the hatch and was about to climb out first, and the system also moved.

[Event "Space Race" Enters the Node: Someone Orbits the Moon]

[Participant: Base (Note that the base's nuclear-powered vehicle completed a manned exploration of the only satellite around the planet, and became the first player to complete this achievement in this event)]

[After the completion of the lunar exploration operation, the system will make a unified settlement according to the nature of the exploration and feedback]

[Note that this mission will have a significant impact on the event.] 】

……

"The loneliest photo in the world refreshed."

At 500,000 kilometers above the earth, Commander Hu Dong took a complete frame photo of the Earth and the Moon, which was at the very end of the deceleration, and the photo was transmitted back to Earth and quickly became popular as the sun rose.

In the photo, both the earth and the moon are almost completely circular because of the sunlight, and Hu Dong was also very lucky to catch this coincidence.

Now, the photo is being held in the hands of Senator Robert, who is spitting at Claire, who is alone for a hearing.

"They have gone to the moon!"

The sentence was squeezed out of Congressman Robert's teeth almost letter by letter, his expression was hideous, and his eyes were almost open to the maximum.

"Tell me, Mr. Bergen, how long will it be before you send a man to the moon?"

Claire is very calm, although he has not experienced much of this kind of scene, he has seen a lot.

"Your Excellency, NACA is moving at an unprecedented pace, and I promise you that we will send humans to the moon again by next year."

The adventures of the Artemis II mission naturally can't be said publicly, and Claire used a "before" to vaguely pass it.

Robert was rather dissatisfied with this answer, and pointed unceremoniously to Claire's nose:

"I don't want you to give me a date, I want to promise that we will be the first to land on the moon.

Don't fool us with jargon, we don't understand science, but we're not stupid enough not to understand that someone is already ahead of us! ”

As soon as the words ended, another councillor stood up:

"As far as I know, Boeing's second SLS rocket body has already been built, so why not use it to go to the moon? We even have a circumlunar space station, which is the first of its kind in the world. ”

Robert: "That little station you're talking about isn't even half as heavy as Storm, it's a tent at most. ”

"It takes three rockets to go to the moon! You idiots don't understand anything! ”

"Project Artemis illustrates NACA's incompetence! Why not use the money to improve public health? ”

“……”

Claire watched as the councillors quarreled first, and didn't even have time to pay attention to him, and finally understood what John used to assure him that he would not step down.

There was a lot of noise and shouting below, and even the chairman of the Senate couldn't save him, so he could only wait for the scene to slowly subside.

Claire, who was questioned, was like a spokesperson at the press conference, slowly explaining NACA's current progress, achievements, etc., to the effect that everything has its own arrangements, so don't worry.

The Storm's frightening of NACA stems more from its alarming speed and uncertainty about the possibility of a lander, which has now been confirmed to be an orbiting of the moon.

NACA has basically confirmed that the lunar mission will still be carried out by the Long March 10 rocket, and the launch time should not change.

However, after a flight around the moon, will Dawn 3 be changed to a mission to the moon?

Although the space agency has already stated a few months ago that the manned lunar landing schedule will not change, who would dare to bet that they will not suddenly change their minds, just like this Tianmu mission?

Claire felt the need to rush Blue Moon's progress.

……

Class B base.

Lin Ju, who participated in a big event, quietly returned to the base and did not participate in the celebration dinner of the Tianmu No. 1 mission.

Storm is scheduled to spend about four to seven days on the moon, and the astronauts are overwhelmingly in favor of the latter, and they will not return to Earth until May 29-30.

In Qiongzhou, two space shuttles and two No. 3 rockets almost filled the launch site, and preparations for the other two launch stations had to be suspended.

Since the Storm squeezed out a launch mission that originally belonged to the Vanguard, the base now has two oversized space shuttles on standby, and it also happens to have two living modules.

From the 23rd to the 26th, two H2Ms will fly into space to carry out the installation mission for the Advance, and the two living modules will also be launched at the same time.

Including the space shuttle itself, the Qiongzhou launch center will send more than 400 tons of payload into space in 96 hours, setting a new record.

In order to reduce the pressure on the launch site, this launch will allow two No. 3 rockets to be recovered at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

The super-large mobile launch pads for the H2 and 3 rockets have already begun to be assembled in Jiuquan and are expected to be put into use next month, so there is no need to worry about the typhoon season starting in July.

When the remaining two living modules are manufactured, the service module will officially start mass production, but the latter will be limited by the production capacity of the Castle Peak base, and the six A100 engines that need to be deeply modified are not a small problem, after all, the working environment and the space shuttle are completely different.

According to the base's forecast, the Advance could be put into operation as early as October.

Lin Ju, who was on the ARJ21 business jet, secretly decided to wait until the Qianjin was completed this year, although he did not make a formal response to Guo Fan's proposal, but he gave a thumbs up in his heart, which was really perfect to cater to his wishes.

The plane landed smoothly on the runway in the base, and Semyon waited here early with a group of people from the 304 laboratory.

It was they who kept sending good news to Lin Ju in the capital, who was in such a hurry to return, and in their mouths, 304 injections were simply a panacea, which made it difficult not to feel itchy.

(End of chapter)