5 a.m. Beijing time on July 1.

Kazuki Yamamoto was debugging the equipment, because there was too much traffic gathered, and he didn't feel cold after blowing the salty and humid air all night.

The efficiency of the police is impressive, with helicopters passing by three times in the past few hours, and people patrolling to inform visitors of the new locations where mobile toilets and free mineral water pick-up points have been added.

In the early hours of the morning, Serizawa Tamao, who was noisy, no longer knew what to do, so he went to sleep in the tent, and he was the only one who patiently waited while adjusting the camera.

He was bending over to adjust the tracking software when he suddenly heard a cry from the crowd.

When I looked up, the assembly building where the rocket was placed was opened, and the tall white arrow body in the middle was particularly conspicuous under the already lit sky.

Experienced residents of the neighborhood already know that the rocket has officially entered the launch state.

"You must be domineering when you say something, and you can't be compared to Yankees!"

Standing in front of the trestle leading to the entrance of the spaceship, Meng Linlin and Zhang Zhiguang embraced, and the former's eyes were complicated.

Originally, Shuguang 3 circled the moon and Shuguang 4 landed on the moon; But now the Dawning 4 crew is one step ahead of the moon, and the Dawning 3 is on a mission to the moon.

Regret and a little fucked up at the same time, but Meng Linlin knew that he would definitely have the opportunity to go to the moon in the future.

In addition to the follow-up mission of the Dawning Project, he also knew that Xinyuan was expanding its professional astronaut team - they must be from military backgrounds, mainly to discuss the employment of astronauts with the Aviation Development Commission - although it should be cooperation without paying.

Zhang Zhiguang smiled, he understood this feeling very well, this was indeed a moment that went down in history.

"Don't worry, we're going to be faster and better than Ami."

After saying that, he took one last look at the people who came to see off the pier, and now there were more people than when they came out of the guest house, hoping to witness history.

The three astronauts stood at the entrance of the pier and watched silently behind them for two or three seconds, then turned around neatly and walked into the corridor and got into the spacecraft.

On the big screen in the command center, they appeared in the empty spaceship.

The internal space of the Shuguang spacecraft is as high as 13 square meters, which is much more spacious than the Shenzhou spacecraft, and it is more convenient to enter, without worrying about touching the cargo or other switches crowded in the cabin.

There are only 3 of the original 7 seats left, and it looks a little empty.

Academician She nodded at the assistant who had been waiting for a long time, and the latter immediately understood.

……

Cape Calavellar.

At 20:14 p.m. Central Time, 106 minutes before launch.

The four Artemis 2 astronauts have already entered the Orion spacecraft and have begun to follow the steps in the manual to calmly carry out various tests on the ground.

Claire stood on the lawn and took one last look at the SLS rocket, which had finished refueling and began to emit white fog, and turned to get into the pickup truck and head to the control room.

"What's new?"

Claire, who was sitting in the passenger seat, asked the assistant who was driving, and the latter shook his head at first, but after a while, he glanced at the phone that suddenly lit up, and slammed on the brakes to make the front of the car press down hard, and Claire was strangled by the seat belt because of inertia, and her chest hurt.

“fuck！ What are you doing! ”

The stunned assistant didn't have time to apologize to the director, but read the headline again before shouting:

"Dawning 3, Dawning 3 announced the launch time!"

"So what? They were at 1 o'clock in the morning, much later than we did! ”

"No!" The assistant shook his head frantically: "Yes...... Ha, at 21 o'clock in the evening, they launched early! ”

Claire glared at the panicked assistant with wide eyes, then snatched the phone from the stand, and the black caption succinctly conveyed the message:

[CADC: In order to avoid thunderstorms, the launch mission will be carried out around 7:00 in the morning]

This line made him stunned for several seconds before turning his head to look at the SLS behind him.

No more, no less, exactly an hour ahead of Artemis II.

Dodging a thunderstorm? There are indeed a lot of tropical thunderstorms in Qiongzhou, but how can it be so coincidental that suddenly 4 hours in advance will not disrupt the deployment plan?

Or is it prepared?

Claire's first thought was to bring forward the launch of Artemis II, but this would undoubtedly put more psychological pressure on the astronauts, and changing the time could be self-defeating.

The assistant watched as the director smashed the co-pilot's plastic trim with a punch, and then looked at him viciously and roared:

"Drive!"

……

Who is the happiest after the Dawning 3 mission is advanced?

Of course, it was the audience who got up before dawn to watch the live broadcast.

Outside the CCAV live broadcast, the director of the station looked at the ratings that had risen almost in a straight line within 10 minutes after the news was released, and only felt cardiac arrest.

At 5.05 in the morning, the ratings reached 9% 5 minutes after the live broadcast started, and the national ratings of last year's Spring Festival Gala were only 36%, that is, a quarter of the Spring Festival Gala.

This also takes into account the emergence of new media, a large number of young people may be lying in bed and using mobile phones or computers to watch online live broadcasts, optimistically estimated, the number of domestic people watching live broadcasts may have exceeded 500 million people.

After the Aviation Development Commission officially confirmed the specific time of the launch at 5:25, the ratings began to skyrocket from 12%, and rose to 26% in 10 minutes.

It is almost impossible to find a precedent for such terrifying data in the past history - if you have to compare, it is the live broadcast of the Apollo 11 moon landing, but it was the moon landing, and now it is just a launch!

The director suddenly thought that the four companies that spent hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising would play their advertisements in the interval between the live broadcast screen switches, and the money was still too cheap, and he underestimated the charm of the moon landing.

And as he expected, the number of people tuning in to watch the live broadcast was much more than that.

In addition to television channels and webcasts, television relay satellites in the sky are also relaying live programs to the world.

Domestic satellite TV is actually very marketable abroad, although there are not many people who can understand Chinese, but satellite programs include border provinces, and the language of many ethnic minorities is similar to that of neighboring countries.

For example, in Central Asia, pirated satellite dishes are sold all year round and television programs from the Western Regions are received, and there are many in the southeast and north, although these places are backward but have a large population, and the total pirated audience may be 1 billion.

In addition, Xinyuan is also working hard to expand the way of live broadcasting.

In Texas, the smart car key that Musk put on the computer desk suddenly began to vibrate, and there was a line of small words on the small smart screen:

"Watch the launch live in your car"

Xin'an Automobile's car machine chip has a high computing power, and it needs to rely on high-speed communication support for satellite networks, which is enough to transmit 480P standard definition video.

Chen Jun had already instructed the staff to quietly update all the cars with plug-ins, and he could watch the live broadcast on the screen as soon as he turned it on.

(End of chapter)