At 15:36 Beijing time, the live broadcast of Shuguang 3 has been in a state of surrounding for a long time, and I have been listening to the communication and interaction between the guests and the host in the studio.

Just when people were already a little impatient and couldn't wait, half of the screen switched to the ground command center, and an order was issued from here.

"Lander separation!"

In the other half of the Dawn spacecraft's extravehicular footage, the lander connected to the front of the command module shook slightly, and then left the spacecraft under the action of nitrogen.

Now that they've run to the vicinity of Qom's crater, they're ready to start slowing down.

Ding Jihua stared at the lander from the window, which had opened a distance of more than ten meters, and now he was "the loneliest person".

"03, please confirm the 'Full Moon' stance."

"01, the visual attitude is good, you can brake, you can brake!"

"Roger, I'll start braking."

Because they were about to land on a gravity-based planet, Zhang Zhiguang and Fang Lin's bodies were lying on their stomachs relative to the lunar surface at this time, and they could clearly see the lunar surface through the observation window.

He pressed the "quick positioning" button on the navigation system panel, and the lander immediately made a relative position request for the Dawning spacecraft, satellite, and lunar surface probe at the same time, and the three coordinates were displayed on the screen at the same time.

Confirm.

A three-dimensional simulation animation immediately appeared on the monitor, and three curves were generated from the lander, the blue line is the current orbit around the moon, the yellow dotted line is the calculated landing route, and the current blue line coincides with the blue line and is flashing green dashed line is the actual trajectory.

After Zhang Zhiguang turned around and confirmed that Fang Lin and the items in the cabin were all fixed and would not float around, he clicked "Execute" on the route displayed by the automatic landing program.

In the camera view outside the lander, the engine vent in the tail suddenly began to turn, and after a few movements, white smoke began to emit, and then the picture began to tremble.

At 15.57 minutes, the landing phase of the Dawning 3 mission officially began.

The entire deceleration to landfall process will take about 2 hours, during which there will be several deceleration braking and attitude adjustments, and the lunar surface landing is expected to be completed at about 6 p.m.

It was also at the same time that NACA finally announced the live broadcast time of Arteis II's landing mission: 7 a.m. Central Time on July 4, which is 5 p.m. Beijing time.

This was an hour later than planned, and was spent mainly on confirming the landing site and overhauling the lander.

The landing sites for Artemis 2 and Aurora 3 are both near the Qom crater, and the terrain around the crater is not flat, especially the gentle area outside the crater.

The best spot has already been pre-booked for Aurora 3, and if Artemis 2 also lands there, the final scene will be four astronauts staring at the moon in embarrassment.

Therefore, the other position is not so good, and the "Blue Moon" must be prepared to manually adjust the landing site.

Then there was the lander inspection, which took a full three hours, and they didn't have a strong AI robot to assist.

By the time everything was ready, it was already an hour out of schedule.

The mission is already 90% complete, and only the last step is missing.

……

"Dawn 2 boot begins!"

"The measurement and control of Laurel 02 is normal, and the decline rate is normal!"

"The black rabbit signal is stable, and the drop rate is normal!"

At 17.39 minutes, only the sound of announcements remained in the ground command center, and everyone was focused on the work in front of the screen.

Academician She looked up at the huge screen, his hands clenched into fists.

Although the Dawning-2 mission lander was a one-time success, he is still nervous.

The efforts of the past two years and the unprecedented huge investment of 50 billion yuan are just for this day.

Although Artemis II has already started live broadcasting, it has not yet detached from the start of landing, and the first one has indisputably belonged to itself.

Next to him, although Lin Ju was not so obviously nervous, his fingers were constantly tapping on the table.

Everyone was silent, holding their breath in anticipation of what would happen in ten minutes.

Not only here, but also in the cities, in the countryside, on ships, in Antarctic research camps, in space stations, everywhere there are human footprints, regardless of nationality, color, rich or poor.

Even just looking at space can free the mind from the constraints of geography.

[Current altitude: 10 km!] 】

No. 14, which is fixed on the bulkhead, provides real-time data broadcast to Zhang Zhiguang and Fang Lin in the ascender on the radio, monitoring the changes in the surrounding environment at all times.

[Commander, the Dawning-2 lander is about to start visual guidance, please be ready for manual control!] 】

Zhang Zhiguang calmly sat by the porthole, now that the surface details of the moon were infinitely rich, he had already felt the gravitational effect of the moon.

After nearly four days of weightlessness, even one-sixth of the Earth's gravity makes people feel a little uncomfortable.

The stomach and intestines, which had just adapted to zero gravity, began to fall again due to gravity, and a slight feeling of nausea and discomfort began to appear, but fortunately, they did not eat much at noon and the food was almost digested, so it did not have much effect on the body.

He moved his fingers slightly, regaining his grip on the joystick, and stared intently out the window.

Although it is still in the state of autopilot, the process of driving for more than an hour is more tiring than flying the space shuttle, and the lander cannot rely on the atmosphere to taxi and land.

Below the lateral movement of the lander, radar and a lens about 20 cm in diameter on the landing part of the Dawn 2 are slightly reorienting, and when the altitude drops to 10 kilometers, it activates the guiding headlights.

Because the "full moon" is a split design, the researchers tried to try to broaden the use of the landing part left on the lunar surface, one of which is to equip it with ultra-high-power guidance lights, which use metal vapor to emit light, which is enough to provide quite strong guidance in a short period of time without being too dazzling.

Zhang Zhiguang saw at a glance that there was a very small bright spot on the gray-white moon surface, which was fainter than a firefly on the vast trance-like moon, but it was unique and firmly rooted in the field of vision.

[Current altitude: 5000 meters!] 】

【…… 3500 meters, the estimated circle probability offset error is 180 meters, please note! 】

【2000 meters!】 】

Descending to this height, Zhang Zhiguang has already seen two small black dots next to the Shuguang-2 lander, which should be a lunar rover or a robot.

【500 meters!】 】

In the HUD of the mask, Zhang Zhiguang had already seen that the current projected landing site was about 150 meters away from the planned point, he glanced at the remaining 22% of the fuel, and gently pushed it to the left.

With the slow movement of the already somewhat stiff wrist, the "Full Moon" went into manual maneuvering mode, and the 12 RCS units on the outside began to spew gas, moving diagonally towards the center of the plain, which had been illuminated by the searchlight at the bottom of the lander.

【200 meters!】 The drop rate is 13.5, please note! 】

[The automatic landing system is activated, please let go of the joystick!] 】

On satellite television at the presidential palace, John saw the gray-white moon surface in the live broadcast gradually enlarged from the rough surface of the potholes, and the plains around the crater gradually increased, and the moon surface looked almost indistinguishable from the high and low altitudes, as if it was close at hand, and as if it was tens of kilometers away.

Only by looking at the altimeter in the lower left corner of the UI and the lights of Aurora 2 can you know that the lander is still descending.

This somewhat dazzling scene lasted not long, when suddenly a cloud of gray smoke rose from the frame, and with a noticeable shudder, the picture froze on the fine moon dust and the landing leg wrapped in gold leaf.

At 17:52 p.m. on July 4, Beijing time, the "Full Moon" lander of Shuguang-3 successfully landed on the plain about 1.12 kilometers southwest of the Qom impact crater in the Aitken Basin at the south pole of the moon, 25 meters away from the expected landing site.

(End of chapter)