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Chapter 1102: The Desolate Moon

On February 15, 1964, China was still celebrating its own Lunar New Year. In addition to the festive atmosphere of the festival, there is another thing that inspires the people's beliefs.

The Xihe Project is about to usher in the most important moment. Human footsteps will step on the moon that is more dazzling than the stars. The manned moon landing operation will finally make its debut after a long-term training and exercise.

The night on February 15 is destined to be a sleepless night.

On this night, almost all Chinese people couldn't sleep all night. In the country where nationalism was rising, every citizen was watching the same TV program intently - the moon landing operation broadcast live by Hualian Space Administration!

At the same time, more than one billion foreign audiences with TV sets around the world also focused their attention on the same picture. The Chinese have planned to send humans to the moon. Even countries and nations with political differences have to pay attention to the every move of the astronauts of the Chinese Federal lunar landing.

At this moment, the Chinese Federation no longer represents Asia but all human beings!

In most American families, they use black and white TVs exported from China. On the dim TV screen, three people wearing white bloated clothes appeared.

For Westerners, these are Chinese names that are unfamiliar to the three, but now, these three names will be remembered by history: Wei Cunyang, Gu Mingyao, and Lin Rui.

Two of them are from the Chinese federal military and one is from the civilian community. Wei Cunyang is a member of the Innovation Society. Gu Mingyao is an ace pilot. Lin Rui is a biologist.

No one knows what the government sent a biologist to the moon. Of course, Lin Rui's identity as a biology expert is not very eye-catching, and people are more concerned about his part-time job as an astronaut.

Hainan Wenchang Satellite Launch Center has now become the command center of the Xihe Project.

This is the long-range missile test base and satellite launch center established by the Huaxia Federation since November 1938. Due to the Xihe project, the Huaxia Federal Space Administration was also established, and the base was set up in Wenchang and expanded on the basis of an original military missile base.

After the establishment of Hualian Space Administration, rocket launch stations were gradually established in Wenchang to launch various satellites and manned spacecraft.

Therefore, the launch site is jointly managed and used by the National Space Center affiliated to Hualian Space Administration and Hualian Air Force.

In the third phase of the Xihe project, that is, to develop the "Gianling God" heavy launch vehicle, Hualian Space Administration designated this place as the launch site of the moon rocket and built the No. 35 launch area. There are two launch towers.

Not only is there a clear waterway here, it can ensure that the burly "Giant God" rocket is transported from the waterway, mainly because it is near the Pacific Ocean. After completing the launch mission, the first-stage rocket will fall directly into the sea and will not pose a threat to ground personnel.

The launch area is equipped with a vertical assembly and testing building, a launch control center, a special dock, and a transportation road for giant crawler transport vehicles. The main launch tower is kilometers from the vertical assembly building, the secondary launch tower is kilometers from the vertical assembly and testing building, and the two launch towers are 2.5 kilometers apart.

As the protagonist of the manned moon landing, the first flight started from the main launch pad of 35.

The vertical assembly and testing building is the assembly factory of the "Gianling God" Rocket and the Luna Ship. The factory is 230 meters long, 180 meters wide and 172 meters high. It has 4 assembly stations and 8 test rooms, and the Rocket's 45 sub-systems can be tested and inspected.

Next to the vertical assembly and testing building, the launch control center has 3 engine rooms, each engine room is equipped with 470 monitoring, command and control equipment. A computer system as dense as a spider web can test more than 3,000 rocket projects.

The TV surveillance system is equipped with 80 cameras, 100 surveillance screens, assembly and testing building, launch tower, and even the rocket fuel filling warehouse. All the moves in the ubiquitous "width eyes".

There is no doubt that this day will be the historic day when humans land on the moon for the first time.

Starting from midnight, more than 3 million spectators from all over the country and nearly 4,000 journalists from all over the world began to gather in Hualian National Space Center in Wenchang, Hainan.

At four o'clock, all the three astronauts who participated in the moon landing flight, Wei Cunyang, Gu Mingyao and Lin Rui, got up. They took a shower, shaved their faces, and then enjoyed the last breakfast on Earth before returning.

After breakfast, they put on the thick space suits, got into a luxurious van, and started to head to the main launch pad No. 35.

The spacecraft that first manned moon landing is named "Xihe 12". Among them, the command module and service module are called "Moon Palace". The lunar module is called "Jiaolong".

At 9:18, the sky was breeze and sunny. The visibility was excellent.

The "Giant God 3" rocket ignited and launched into the sky. Amid the rolling smoke, flames and the roar that shook the sky and the earth, the "Giant God" rocket held the Xihe 12 spacecraft at the top, like an arrow from the string, pierced the blue sky straight and advanced towards space.

When the rocket dragged its flaming tail more than 500 meters long, the staff in the command room burst into thunderous applause and cheers.

It is 380,000 kilometers from the earth to the moon. During this long and difficult journey, astronauts Wei Cunyang, Gu Mingyao and Lin Rui carefully manipulated the spacecraft to successfully complete the Earth's orbit, flying to the moon orbit and flying around the moon.

In an accelerated state, each of them has to bear more than seven g of gravity. The existence of gravity causes inertia to constantly squeeze their bodies, bringing pain and depression that ordinary people cannot bear.

But all three of them had to grit their teeth and endure all this.

During the flight, the three astronauts not only completed the necessary work and rest every day, but also conducted multiple TV broadcasts. Their shooting images of the command module, the lunar module, and the Pacific and Asian continents feasted the eyes of hundreds of millions of viewers on the earth.

After four days and nights of intense flight, the Xihe 12 spacecraft finally flew over the scheduled lunar landing site. On March 18, the astronauts woke up began to prepare for the moon landing.

According to the scheduled "Moon Orbital Intersection" plan, command module pilot Gu Mingyao will fly the command module and service module of the "Moon Palace" alone to continue flying in orbit around the moon.

Commander Wei Cunyang and lunar module pilot Gu Mingyao will land on the moon in the lunar module "Jiaolong".

Outside the spacecraft is an eternal starry sky. Compared to it, even the earth is as small as dust.

People who have never seen it with their own eyes cannot imagine the vastness and eternal vicissitudes, as if everything in the world is insignificant in the face of the vastness of the universe.

Even Wei Cunyang, who was determined, was lost for a moment. However, he remembered the purpose of the trip again, and with a cold eyes, he also swept over Gu Mingyao and Lin Rui behind him.

Gu Mingyao's uncle was Gu Yuejun, and he himself was the ace pilot of the Hualian Air Force. During World War II, he shot down more planes through battles than many people have seen in his lifetime.

It is not surprising that such a person was selected to be the first group of moon landing astronauts. What made Wei Cunyang care about was Lin Rui, this unknown little figure, suddenly got such an opportunity.

Although the country has created a so-called "universal suffrage" for astronauts, Wei Cunyang knew that it was all used to fool the people. The real list is controlled and determined by internal control.

Wei Cunyang's intuition told him that Lin Rui should be sent by the Guwen Society, and Wei Cunyang was always wary of this private organization that secretly manipulates the country.

But now is obviously not a time when everyone has their own ulterior motives. The moon landing plan is extremely complex and difficult. It requires the sincere cooperation of each team member to have the possibility of success.

As the commander, Wei Cunyang is the captain of the moon landing team. Now he only needs to care about one thing - how to lead the team members to accomplish this great cause!

According to the orders of the Wenchang Command Center, the astronauts separated the "Jiaolong" and the "Moon Palace".

Afterwards, Wei Cunyang also excitedly sent a report to the Earth headquarters: "The dragon enters the sea!"

It is precisely because the Chinese created a huge dragon and sent it into the sea of ​​stars. From then on, the human space age will be a vast sky.

Wei Cunyang and Lin Rui are responsible for the actual landing of the moon. Gu Mingyao must drive a spacecraft to respond on the earth-moon orbit. If an accident occurs, he must find a way to take rescue measures or bring some of the remaining information back to the earth.

Wei Cunyang and Lin Rui left the command cabin. They shouted to Gu Mingyao who was still on the spaceship through the communicator: "There will be a date later!"

The three of them belong to different camps. However, in the past four years, they trained and had dinner together, and sincere friendships were also developed. Moreover, the moon landing mission was extremely dangerous. Wei Cunyang and Lin Rui both risked their death to set foot on the moon, so they had to say goodbye to Gu Mingyao at this time.

The lunar module began to slowly leave the command module and rely on its own thruster to move towards the predetermined destination.

The moon is so close that the critical moment is right in front of you. The success or failure of the Xihe Project is even more like this.

At this time, all the staff of the Wenchang Command and Control Center of Hualian SA on the ground, as well as more than 100 million viewers watching TV and more than one billion listeners listening to radio, were all watching the spirits and gathering their energy, waiting for the final result.

I don’t know that at the critical moment when I am most afraid of something, I just have a small problem.

Just when the "Jiaolong" lunar module descended to seven kilometers from the moon surface, the alarm light of the lunar module computer suddenly lit up, indicating that the computer was malfunctioning, but it did not display the malfunctioning numerical symbol, which means that the failure was unexpected.

Faced with the sudden situation, should we continue to land or stop landing?

The commanders of Wenchang Center are facing a very difficult choice. Some control personnel are already nervous to the point of being nervous, especially the technicians who manufacture this computer manufacturer are even more worried. They are worried about asking God for blessing.

Later, through the record query of electronic computers, Wei Cunyang discovered that it was a system vulnerability that caused computer command overflow, which was not a big problem, and it was a false alarm.

But for safety reasons, Wei Cunyang and Lin Rui decided to check the system and equipment again, and the omissions occurred while causing an accident. This is the real extraterrestrial world, and they are unwilling to be the first martyrs in human history to die on the moon.

On the original action plan, the lunar module is only allowed to stay for 15 minutes after landing.

In order to perfectly make use of this short quarter of an hour, Wei Cunyang and Lin Rui conducted a series of inspections on the instruments, landing locations and other conditions in the lunar module.

When they finally confirmed that everything was normal, their stay had been extended to half an hour, and then it was extended for another hour.

According to the original flight plan, after landing the lunar module, Wei Cunyang and Lin Rui opened the cabin door and went to the moon at about ten o'clock.

This period will be spent in four places: two hours of equipment inspection, two meals totaling about half an hour, five hours of basic sleep, and two hours of preparation for departure.

In order to win the prime time of live TV broadcasts during supper, Wei Cunyang and Lin Rui, who were eager to set foot on the moon, decided not to eat or sleep, and prepared to start the lunar activity 5 hours ahead of the scheduled time.

The two people's request for change of action was quickly approved by the Wenchang Command Center, but the TV stations and media in the Western world who were unprepared for this were in chaos.

In the space filled with darkness and nothingness, the moon is silent. The lunar module stands alone in the center of the desert.

In the cabin, after the two lunar astronauts were ready to leave the cabin, the commander Wei Cunyang, with the help of Lin Rui, drilled out of the hatch backwards and then walked down the escalator carefully.

The moon was covered with fine powdery sandy under his feet. Wei Cunyang was very careful. He first gently tested it with his left foot. When he confirmed that it would not sink, he stepped on his right foot on the moon.

The bulky spacesuit on Earth is only one-sixth of the mass on the moon. Wei Cunyang was not used to it at first, and his body jumped up as soon as he exerted his force.

The gravity environment completely different from the earth, Wei Cunyang's movements were very awkward. He could not control his body even if he tried his best. However, Wei Cunyang still used his calmness and calmness as a soldier and his superb physical coordination ability.

Five minutes later, he slowly adapted to the new gravity environment, and Lin Rui also walked out of the lunar module and became the second human to step onto the moon.

The two slowly crawled out of a strange object one after another, and then stepped onto a land that was barely grass like a ghost. The picture was so simple that it was a bit rough that it could not be compared with any festival party program, and there was no intoxicating sound effect.

But on the TV is a scene that humans have never seen in history - humans have stepped onto the land outside the earth!

That night, everyone who witnessed this scene cheered, tears flowed, and could not sleep at night.

What happened this night made the universe an integral part of the human world. In the future, history will always remember this moment, the first step for human beings to expedition to the stars and seas.

The moment he stepped onto the moon, Lin Rui felt his body fluttering and his whole body was filled with goose bumps.

This was a very strange feeling, and it was Lin Rui's first contact. He immediately looked at his feet, and then he was attracted by Yue Chen's unique nature.

On the moon, dust splashes in all directions and all sand particles will fall to almost the same distance.

Lin Rui strolls slowly over the desolate planet to test his current maneuverability. This gives him a strange feeling, wearing a clumsy spacesuit, as if he is slowing down his motion.

Lin Rui looked around curiously. There was no doubt that this was a desolate planet, with dead gray everywhere. There was no river or vegetation, and no creature.

The Jiaxi 2, the improved lunar exploration rover, is a super "mount" developed by Pegasus Power Group gathered all its engineers. The cost of a single vehicle is 4 million yuan, which is enough to buy ten Tiger II main battle tanks.

The detection vehicle slowly drove out of the lunar cabin, twice as long as an ordinary car, and was very wide. Four pairs of eight wheels grabbed the moon, and the car drove towards the set destination in the wilderness.

The background is the vast sea of ​​stars. Since it is the back of the moon, there is no blue light visible here.

The car is equipped with drinking water and food for two people to eat for half a year, as well as solar panels. Their mission is to explore the back of the moon. Until now, the every move of the two moon-landing astronauts Wei Cunyang and Lin Rui has been broadcasting live.

They kept discussing everything around them, including the large number of craters around them, and impact craters everywhere.

Drive in the car, Lin Rui and Wei Cunyang stopped and stopped all the way. Sometimes they would get out of the car to collect lunar soil specimens, basically collecting them every kilometer to collect more detailed samples as much as possible.

Lin Rui quickly noticed that his own inertia seemed to be much larger, which was obviously different from on Earth. Lin Rui adapted to the gravitational environment of the earth and could stop in just one step while running, but he had to take three or four steps to stop on the moon.

Every time he takes a step, his strength is always difficult to adapt. In this regard, Lin Rui cannot compare with Wei Cunyang.

The color of the moon surface ranges from earth-gray to light brown, which is a completely gray environment, with only one particularly conspicuous place, which is the location of the lunar module.

The black, silver-gray and bright orange-yellow insulation coatings on the surface of the lunar module shine in this world without colors, and finally add some color.

On the moon, even the unnatural white of the spacesuits she wore looked particularly dazzling.

Before entering the back of the moon, Lin Rui and Wei Cunyang could still look around and see the earth. Although it is much larger than the moon seen from the earth, the earth seems to be very good on the moon.

It is like an attractive oasis, shining in the distant sky with this dazzling blue brilliance, which is clearly separated from the dark world of the moon...

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