"Beep...... Beep...... Beep...... Beep ......"

The final 150-meter altitude no longer requires artificial entry after the landing site is selected, and the topographic mapping radar at the bottom of the lander has been able to accurately determine the most suitable landing site for fine-tuning, and the astronauts only need to concentrate on the impact of landing.

Zhang Zhiguang and Fang Lin waited with bated breath for almost 12 seconds after receiving the prompt, and suddenly felt a strong upward acceleration, and then this force suddenly disappeared, and the entire lander shook heavily.

The mechanical noise, which was constantly vibrating due to the deceleration of the engine, disappeared at this moment, leaving only the faint radio noise in the headset and the prompt sound in the spacesuit.

Fang Lin didn't seem to be aware of the sound of his heavy breathing, and despite his body's discomfort to gravity, he slightly stretched out his head to look at the porthole, from which he could see the mountains rising from the edge of the Coom impact crater.

"Holes, holes, report status!"

2.4 seconds after Academician She asked, Zhang Zhiguang and Fang Lin heard a noticeably heavy voice on the radio.

"Report to the commander-in-chief, the landing posture is normal, and the cave feels good!"

"Hole two feel good, I've reached the moon, I've reached the moon!"

The answers of the two were sent from the lander, accepted by the "Queqiao" in charge of relaying at the Lagrange point, and forwarded to the earth's geostationary orbit communication satellite, and the electromagnetic wave advanced at the speed of light for 1.28 seconds before being received by the geostationary orbit communication satellite, and the delay after relaying to the ground and then processing was close to 3 seconds.

Academician She stood like this for five seconds as if it were a century long, and the clear and powerful answers of the two astronauts sounded on the radio of the command center.

A minute earlier, the live broadcast had finally been added to the astronauts' communications audio part, and the world heard the words in Mandarin, "I've arrived at the lunar surface, I've arrived at the lunar surface!" ”。

Huayin City.

The higher-ups rejected the proposal to adjourn the meeting, and directly made the live broadcast of the moon landing in the afternoon a part of the meeting.

When Fang Lin's voice repeated twice, the representatives of the 11 countries lined up on both sides of the oval conference table began to applaud almost simultaneously, no matter how many opinions they had on the Huayin meeting, but at this moment, the superiors declared their own strength in the most simple and straightforward way.

The superior looked at the domestic translators and bodyguards who were trying to hold back their excitement, and took the initiative to stand up and said:

"Let's applaud the success of the Dawning 3 crew landing mission."

With him taking the lead, the originally spacious and somewhat deserted venue was immediately filled with warm applause, and some people even clauded despite the pain.

Of the remaining 11 delegates, Badis and Antoine were the first to make a move, followed by Prince Switan, who was slightly behind, and the rest also stood up almost at the same time.

The photographer on the side quickly seized the opportunity to take pictures of this precious scene and recorded the actions of dignitaries from various countries.

"Congratulations, congratulations to the space agency for such a great achievement, and mankind has once again landed on the moon!"

Prince Switan, who was closest to his superiors, was the first to congratulate him.

"The credit is not for me, but for the hundreds of thousands of astronauts who worked hard for the Dawning Project, and to our brave astronauts."

The scene quickly changed to the delegates taking turns to congratulate each other, and the original proceedings of the meeting had been put on hold for the time being.

After a while, the superior signaled everyone to be quieter.

"Ladies and gentlemen, our astronauts will need to adjust to gravity for a while before they can go out of the capsule, so we hope you will be patient."

……

"Dear viewers and friends, after an hour and 55 minutes of landing, now our astronauts have successfully landed safely on the lander at the scheduled landing site.

Based on the latest news we've received from the Space Development Council, the out-of-cabin activities will take place in the next one to two hours, so let's be patient and wait for the good news.

The 'Our Space' news studio will bring you more to you later, so let's move on to the wonderful scenery of the moon. ”

The hostess's voice was gentle and gentle, her eyebrows were raised uncontrollably and her snow-white teeth were exposed, and the guests on one side were even more excited and trembling a little, looking at the camera with burning eyes, and spreading her heartbeat to the entire audience.

The director, whose forehead was covered with sweat, glanced at the real-time data in the background, and his chin stiffened on his face.

At this moment, a total of four billion users around the world have seen the smiling face of the host.

Space Center Houston.

The assistant hurried up to Claire and whispered something in her ear, the calm expression on her face not changing in the slightest.

"How's that!"

Deputy Commissioner Jim grabbed the assistant, and Claire replied on his behalf:

"At 7.55 minutes, the Chinese people successfully landed on the moon."

Jim didn't know whether to be happy or disappointed at this time, so he stomped his foot hard and returned to his workstation to put on his headphones.

Claire grabbed the assistant and asked him:

"John said nothing?"

"Not yet, but it should be soon, and it should rush us to start the Artemis II landing mission."

Now that the Artemis II mission has been broadcast live for an hour, the number of viewers is also skyrocketing, with ABC alone counting more than 1.6 billion people, and the global viewership should be about the same as that of Dawning 3.

But now Artemis 2 still needs to fly more than half a circle to reach the vicinity of the Aitken Basin, that is, there are still about 70 minutes left, and it will break away at about 9:20 (19:20 Beijing time) and start to slow down.

Three hours, in terms of deceleration and braking time, Artemis II ended up three hours late.

Even if the program was executed at what NACA considered craziest speed, it was still one rocket less and three hours late than Project Aurora.

The winner is decided.

"Then tell John that we'll be landing on the moon in an hour and that Artemis II will be carried out steadily."

After saying this, Claire turned around, propped her hands on the table, and sighed softly in a voice that no one else could hear.

After nearly half a century on the road of deindustrialization, even though NACA still has the world's leading high-end manufacturing capacity, after the economic entity with the largest industrial scale, the most complete variety and the world's highest industrial output value in human history, the original huge technological gap has been quickly caught up, especially the proud manufacturing capacity is completely incomparable.

Most of the difficulties encountered by the Artemis program, from NACA's successor to the cancellation of the God of War program to the return to the moon program that competed with Dawn, came from itself rather than from the outside world, and the consequences of the hollowing out were undoubtedly revealed in this program.

If no changes are made, the backwardness of Artemis' plan may be just the beginning, and it will only become more and more difficult to compete with opponents in the future.

(End of chapter)