Chapter 95 This time together
Fan Ren's arm was held tightly. He gently patted the delicate back of Zeng Yingying's hand to comfort her, then turned his gaze to the command hall.
The young engineers couldn't help but hold their breath at this moment. Even Zhang Yuanda, who was always known for his confident and calm style, had his breathing stagnant at this moment.
On the big screen, two astronauts, wrapped tightly in space suits, appeared in front of a hatch.
Li Jian placed his hand on the control dial of the hatch, took a deep breath, bulged his arm muscles, and slowly turned it.
'Is this the surface of the moon?'
The hatch slowly opened, and the gray gravel surface appeared before his eyes at such a close distance for the first time.
At the far end of the earth, the dark universe is as awe-inspiring as an abyss.
Li Jian did not delay too long, as he knew that this scene was being watched by countless people on Earth.
He stood straight and took firm steps forward.
'The soil is soft, similar to the desert, but harder than the desert.'
This was his first thought.
But he said: "Reporting to the headquarters, I have successfully exited the cabin and am in good condition."
Li Jian's lips moved slightly, and his voice remained the same as before.
As he finished speaking, the Asgard Space Station, 300,000 kilometers away, happened to pass over Daxia.
Looking down through the glass, at this moment, on the map of Daxia, countless faint lights began to flicker like stars.
On this extremely exciting night, the people of the Great Xia Kingdom took to the streets and lit fireworks in celebration.
The end of the world is at this time.
"It's successful, you can let go now."
Fan Ren's brows relaxed and his gaze shifted from the big screen to Zeng Yingying standing beside him.
"Oh, okay. Sorry sorry, I was so nervous."
Zeng Yingying's tone was a little coquettish, but she was no longer shy. During this period of time, she had become accustomed to the occasional close contact between the two of them.
In the command hall, the cheers of the crowd followed closely, and for a moment it seemed to break through the roof, deafening.
Fan Ren looked at the scene in front of him and couldn't help but feel proud.
The eldest brother Li Jiancheng became the first astronaut in Daxia's space history to set foot on the surface of the moon.
This scene is enough to go down in history.
Ouchi, Kyoto.
Ye Rongshan sat in front of the TV, looking at the two young astronauts on the screen with a kind look.
A young man, probably named Li Jian, was currently operating all the equipment in front of the supplies that were first delivered to the base by Xingyun-2.
Another slightly younger man, who seemed to be called Shi Xianliang, was jumping several meters high not far away and then slowly falling down.
Have fun.
"Mr. Ye, you should rest."
The young guard gently reminded that it was nearly 12 o'clock and more than four hours had passed since the rest time ordered by the health doctor.
"Watch it again, watch it again, love it."
Ye Rongshan narrowed his eyes, without turning his head, just staring at the two energetic figures in the picture.
Far away in the United States, Mark sat in his office at the Spieth company headquarters, staring at the screen, the two astronauts standing on the surface of the moon, and his heart could not help but ripple. He could hear the cheers coming from outside.
The engineers in these companies don't have any other messy ideas.
In their eyes, at this moment there is only the common pride of being aerospace personnel.
Once upon a time, Spieth was a great company leading the world's aerospace progress.
Today, this great historical process has been accomplished by Daxia at an astonishing speed in just half a year.
At this time, the secretary pushed the door open and handed over the phone.
"It's a call from President Wells."
Mark reached out to take it, waved his hand to signal the secretary to go out and wait, and then said into the microphone: "President."
"Mark, when will your spacecraft go to Mars? Why are you still delaying? Daxia has already sent their astronauts to the moon. Do you know what this means? This means that if you delay any further, my approval rating will drop to a ridiculous level in the polls in a few days!"
He held the receiver a little further away. The president, who had received his financial support, was in a very bad mood at the moment, and the voice of incompetence and anger annoyed him.
"Where are the people? Did you hear me?"
Mark took a deep breath and calmed down a little.
"The Mars plan has entered the implementation phase, and the preparations are almost complete. With the support of Xinghai's Xingyun series rockets, we no longer need to wait until the Mars near-Earth window to launch. It is expected that our Mars command space station will be sent into the planned orbit in one month."
"You are amazing. You use Daxia's launch vehicle. Do you know what that means?"
Wells's mocking voice sounded, and when Mark heard it, he frowned.
"It means that our country is inferior to them in terms of launch vehicle capabilities. I know this, I know this, but without the launch services they provide, our 'Mars Project' will have to wait for more than half a year before it can be launched. Do you understand? Will you be happy then?"
"Hmph, launch it as soon as possible. I don't want any surprises in the next election."
Wells shrugged off his sarcasm and hung up the phone coldly.
Two days later, Xingyun 3, 4 and 5 arrived at the moon one after another.
At this point, the second phase of the lunar landing project officially began. Li Jian and Shi Xianliang will complete the construction of the lunar base "Guanghan Palace" in a few months.
According to the plan, the first phase of the "Guanghan Palace" was built using a huge foldable building material package transported by spacecraft.
When unfolded, the floor area will reach 150 square meters.
The remaining two spacecraft carried various highly automated tools and life support systems.
The transport capacity is limited and time is tight.
After completing this transportation mission, the Xingyun 345 spacecraft will return to Earth again to prepare for the second round of material transportation mission.
This process will continue until the overall construction of the 'Guanghan Palace' base is completed and the exploration of the mining sites is completed.
While people on Earth were still immersed in the great joy of the successful moon landing, astronauts Li Jian and Shi Xianliang had already begun operating various highly automated tools and started the initial work of base construction.
There was also no extra time for celebration at the Xinghai Space Base. After the three Xingyun series rockets flew back to Earth and were successfully recovered, a group of young engineers plunged into the busy and intense inspection and maintenance work.
Twenty days later, the three Star-Fortune spacecraft set sail again.
This process continued until five months later, when the basic construction of the lunar base was successfully completed, and then the change occurred.
Then, 17 astronauts who had been waiting anxiously for a long time flew to the moon in batches on a newly completed batch of Star Transport spacecraft.
And the next work they are going to do is the mining plan that Fanren has been eagerly waiting for.
(End of this chapter)
