I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

It's four o'clock in the morning, but the command center is bustling with activity.

The superior had originally prepared something to say, but now he decided to change his approach.

"Comrades, let us cheer for our astronauts with a song."

The rest of the people were stunned for a moment, and then stood in line neatly.

Other staff in the command center also stood up. Lin Ju glanced forward and already knew which song it was.

"Classmates, get up...

Big waves, big waves, on and on...

Quickly use your strength..."

The songs of more than a hundred people from the capital were transmitted to space through antennas, received by super-large communication satellites in synchronous orbit, and sent towards the moon.

In the cabin of the Storm, the sounds 370,000 kilometers away were mixed with the songs of the seven astronauts, pushing them forward like waves.

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"Yuegui-01, Yuegui-02, and Queqiao have established stable communication!"

"The navigation route has been planned and it is expected to enter orbit in 10 minutes."

"The Chang'e-5 B3 lander sent a communication request and has been connected!"

"..."

The interior of the cabin, which had been silent for more than ten hours, became alive again, with the seven astronauts concentrating on various operations.

Meng Senlin inadvertently glanced at the upper right porthole. Under the reflection of the sunlight, the outline of the Aitken Basin was visible to the naked eye.

After decelerating for the last time, Tempest has successfully entered a 40-kilometer orbit around the moon and has circled half a circle into the sun.

17 hours and 56 minutes, which is the entire time it took for the Storm to break away from the space station and enter orbit.

More than 60% of the fuel is left, which is more than enough. The three engines have continued to work stably for so long under the harsh conditions of high hydrogen ion temperature. Only some traces of ablation have been added to the root of the tail wing.

Hu Dong lay on the porthole and took a photo of the front side of the moon with a high-definition camera.

Forty thousand meters below the feet, every landform feature on the lunar surface can be seen because there is no interference from the atmosphere. It is like a super huge picture with infinitely rich details, which deeply makes people feel their own insignificance.

"Command center, is this seat suitable?"

Hu Dong fixed the other camera and pointed it at the porthole.

"Move further to the right, and you can still see the operating console."

There are four cameras used for live broadcast, three outside the cabin and one inside the cabin. The ones outside the cabin don't matter, but confidentiality issues must be considered for the ones inside the cabin.

The field of view of the camera in the cabin can only cover the large porthole area above the operating console. It can also be rotated into the cabin, but care must be taken to expose the operating console as little as possible.

There are quite a few command switches related to the nuclear engine on the latter, and a lot of useful information can be analyzed by professionals.

At 4:57, the ground command center confirmed that the incident was correct and opened the signal interface to the TV station.

People have been waiting in front of countless TV sets for a while. After more than 20 minutes of science popularization in the studio that started at 4:30, the host and guests were waiting for the voice in the headset in tacit understanding.

The director backstage made a gesture, and the host moved slightly and looked at the camera with a smile:

"Dear viewers, Storm has arrived at the moon and is about to send back a live television signal. Now let us move our sights 380,000 kilometers away."

The screen went black for a moment, and then seven astronauts huddled together appeared. Behind them was the gray-white lunar surface that occupied the entire porthole.

The director of CCTV took a look at the background data and found that the ratings were rising at an almost linear rate.

What also has such a growth rate is the crazy number of visits to Xinyuan's official website and Weibo, from both domestic and foreign countries.

Even though the backend server had been prepared for a long time, it still didn't expect the sudden increase in visits. In order to avoid crashes, the bandwidth of each user could only be continuously reduced. The direct manifestation was that the live network video began to freeze visibly to the naked eye.

Musk frowned and looked at the still astronaut on the screen, and patted the tablet hard.

"Why do we still get stuck in space? Isn't the Dragon spacecraft directly connected to satellite signals?"

Billy Shen: "But the signal given to us by Starlink is also forwarded from the ground, so it is no different from the one on Earth. It is not directly connected to the relay satellite."

Musk: “Then why can’t we directly receive Chinese TV satellite signals?”

Billy Shen: "This... we have to buy their TV signal conditioner. Besides, no one has ever tried to use a satellite TV receiver in space."

"..."

A full four or five minutes passed before the frantically mobilized redundant servers were able to process the unimaginable amount of access requests, and the screen finally began to move.

At this time, only Hu Dong and Meng Senlin were left in the picture. The two of them were leaning against a giant porthole that was almost as big as their bodies. The bright moon in the sun could be seen very clearly, showing all the details.

"...We are currently about 40 kilometers above the surface of the moon, which is a straight-line distance of 40,000 meters, and will pass through a distance of 1,700 meters every second.

Just above my head is the Sea of ​​Tranquility, the site of the Apollo 11 mission and the first human landing on the moon. This is..."

The moon that filled the portholes became a huge map, allowing the two astronauts to point around. Musk believed that at least 95% of the viewers on earth could not understand what they were talking about, but they would definitely be the same as himself. Listen carefully.

Even if you don’t say anything, you can feel the thrilling beauty just by looking at it.

This is completely different from observing with a super telescope. Just one glance makes you feel like you are already on the moon, and an ethereal background sound can't help but sound.

The scene soon switched to the outside of the space shuttle, two facing the moon and one facing the earth, fully displaying the different scenery.

It took more than ten minutes before Hu Dong received the prompt and temporarily handed over the scene to the ground studio.

Of course, there are many live broadcast projects that last four hours. Now it is only temporarily cut off. The time to resume depends on the speed of other astronauts' actions.

The latter was currently putting on a spacesuit with the help of two people, and two sets of spacesuits were also placed nearby.

In addition to going out to observe the moon from a closer distance, several small cube satellites will be released in the cargo bay to collect more data on the moon's magnetic field and radiation.

It took almost half an hour to prepare for leaving the cabin. At this time, Lin Ju also got the statistical TV and online live viewing data.

According to the most preliminary estimates, about 400 to 600 million people in China have watched the live broadcast. This is still the result of insufficient publicity. As for the number of direct visits from abroad, it exceeds 700 million. The indirect broadcast is even more difficult to estimate, and it is likely to exceed 1.5 billion. That means a total of more than 2.5 billion people may be watching the Tianmu-1 mission.

That number was more than four times that of the Apollo 11 mission, which was just a poorly publicized mission around the moon.