"1.5 meters, correction to the left!"

"50 centimeters!"

Reed Wiseman finally pushed the joystick, and the top of Artemis II's command module gently moved forward at a speed of 0.1 m/s, and the locking mechanism was immediately activated, causing the entire assembly to vibrate slightly.

Victor didn't have time to enjoy the moon's second-by-second view, and immediately floated to the porthole on the left to observe the "Blue Moon" lander docked to the side of HALO.

However, just at the first glance, the black man couldn't help but curse a swear word.

“oh shit！”

"What's wrong, Glover?"

Jeremy Hansen also squeezed over, and then saw that the side of the "Blue Moon" lander, which was mostly black on the outside, was constantly emitting a trace of white gas, which was extremely conspicuous at the junction of light and dark.

Now there is no need to check the source of the leak, the fault is already obvious.

It wasn't until all three of them yelled that Wiseman left the workbench, and he also observed the condition of the "Blue Moon", but instead breathed a sigh of relief.

According to the data received from the ground, the flow of liquid oxygen escaping from the pipe is not large, and since you can see obvious signs from the outside, it means that the leak source is not deep, and there is no need to bother to dismantle too many parts.

Extremely low temperature transmission pipelines have always been a part of the spacecraft that is more prone to failure, and engineers will generally deliberately adjust the position to facilitate maintenance when conditions permit, and if it is a deeper fault, then the lander can only be thrown away quickly to avoid exploding with the space station.

Wiseman looked at his watch, then took a deep breath and said:

"Spirits men, it's time to see the moon when there's time, and now we've got to work right away.

Glover, Jeremy, let Koch help you put on your spacesuit, I'll check the condition of the 'portal' first, it's been floating here for a long time, I'm going to try to pressurize it now. ”

"Okay commander."

Koch looked at the view of the moon outside the porthole and replied, she wanted to see it for a while, but now she had to repair the "Blue Moon" according to the plan, and immediately went to the second half of the command module to find spacesuits and equipment.

Glover and Jeremy followed, leaving Wiseman to quickly confirm commands on the console.

He turned on the headset and adjusted to a separate communication channel:

"Houston, this is Artemis, we haven't been out of the cabin yet, but we have observed a gas leak from the HLS, I think it's still under control, and we're going to do it in an hour, it's over."

“…… This is Houston, I'm Claire Boden, Wiseman, Blue Moon's ground team will be assisting you, be sure to turn on the live video link. ”

"Roger."

Reed Wiseman replied with a quick glance behind him, and saw that all three of them were busy getting out of the cabin to prepare, so he pressed the microphone closer.

"Your Excellency, I would like to know how long Aurora 3 has been ahead of us."

"They just arrived, just half an hour ago."

Claire's answer came almost immediately after his question, which left Wiseman silent for a few seconds before he added:

"I recorded the direction and speed through the radar at the rendezvous, there is no need to hide it from our husband, we are the most able people to withstand pressure, and not knowing it will be bad for us."

This time there was silence on the ground, for about a dozen seconds.

Claire's bloodshot eyes felt like they were going to close at any moment, but he still managed to stay in the center of the control because the final hours of the decisive battle had arrived.

"Listen, Reed, according to the ADC's external announcement, Dawn 3 started its first orbital braking at 17 o'clock, and it should have completed its orbit entry around 21 o'clock."

Wiseman looked at his watch, and calculated that it was 10 o'clock in the capital time, three hours.

In order to reduce the most time-consuming docking process, Houston carefully calculated the deceleration trajectory, so that Artemis 2 could dock with the "Portal" after only one braking cycle.

It's not hard to imagine how many people are desperately trying to do all kinds of simulations in exchange for valuable time, and Wiseman doesn't want to live up to their efforts.

"And did they decide when to land?"

"I don't want to put too much pressure on you, but ...... Half an hour ago they released the latest news, 14 pm Beijing time, that is, 4 hours later, the live broadcast started, I speculate that it is about 16 to 18 o'clock that the lander will start to break away at the earliest, and we still have a lot of time.

If Blue Moon isn't in good shape, I'll cancel this mission, nothing is more important than your lives. ”

At 16 o'clock, can the maintenance and preparation of the "Blue Moon" be completed in 6 hours?

Wiseman, who had experience of getting out of the International Space Station, knew that this was impossible, and Claire was completely comforting him.

It's still a little late.

As an Air Force officer and astronaut, Wiseman is almost the quintessential representative of traditional whiteness, the kind of Ami who is full of conviction and dares to take risks.

He hated in his heart the decision to let a black man and a woman go to the moon in order to pander to public opinion, it was completely meaningless, everything should be in the service of victory, not the damn so-called public opinion.

Turning into the microphone, he repeated the words he had said before his departure:

"Adventure is also part of history, I applied for an increase in the number of extravehicular maintenance personnel, we don't have that much time."

……

Beijing, 507.

Liu Zesen and Jian Yushan stood at the door of the restaurant, each holding a stack of posters in their hands, and each astronaut who came in raced to one.

"On July 7th, MayDay band condolence performance, please come and wow."

Li Sheng was given goosebumps by Jian Yushan's cute voice, and hurriedly walked away after taking the poster.

Seeing this, Liu Zesen looked at Jian Yushan helplessly, squinted slightly and said:

"Yu Shan, don't talk so much in the future, you have to speak Mandarin here on the mainland."

"But I've tried very hard to speak Mandarin well, and people have always spoken in Sauce Zi...... Colonel Park, remember to come and see the show. ”

“……”

This is the second week that he and Jian Yushan have come to the 507 Institute, Liu Zesen is an old qualified excellent instructor of the Air Force School, Jian Yushan is a weapon control officer of the former Air Defense Force, and the two are trained as professional astronauts and payload experts respectively.

At first, they were still worried about being bullied, but what they didn't expect was that the astronauts here were very good to them, and the treatment was obviously different from that of the foreign astronauts who were trained: of course, it was not material treatment, but the usual care, a bit like treating distant relatives, although they had not been in contact for a long time, but after all, they were their own family.

In order to make their relationship with the astronauts of the 507 Institute better, the authorities contacted several well-known bands and singers to prepare to go to the mainland to celebrate the moon landing and hold space-themed charity performances, which were initially scheduled for more than 30 performances, all of which were free public performances and paid for by the authorities.

The first one to arrange the schedule is MayDay, they have just completed a performance in Xiangjiang, and will go to the capital to hold a concert for the astronauts and their families, and the two actively distribute posters in the institute, each poster can bring a large family to enter, all for free.

(End of chapter)