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

It was later estimated that about 600 million people around the world watched the live broadcast of the Apollo 11 mission. This number is not small at all.

In 1969, there were very few households with televisions in the world, and they were basically concentrated in Aramco, Europe, and the Union. The combined number of these entities was slightly more than one billion.

Even in an era when communications were underdeveloped, the moon had such appeal, and it only took more than ten hours from the announcement of the lunar orbiting mission to the live broadcast, and it attracted nearly 3 billion users to watch.

It’s hard not to raise expectations for the official moon landing. How many people will be there by then? Four billion, or even six billion?

Lin Ju was briefly absent-minded for a moment, and then a voice sounded in his ears and in his mind at the same time.

Shen Zuozhou was about to remind him that Meng Senlin had opened the hatch and was about to climb out first, and the system also took action.

[The event "Space Race" enters the node: someone orbits the moon]

[Participant: Base (note that the base’s nuclear-powered aircraft completed a manned detection operation of the only satellite around the planet, and became the first player to complete this achievement in this event)]

[After the lunar exploration operation is completed, the system will conduct unified settlement based on the nature of the detection and feedback]

[Note that this mission will have a significant impact on the incident. 】

…

“The world’s loneliest photo refresh.”

Commander Hu Dong took a complete picture of the Earth and the Moon in the same frame when the Storm was 500,000 kilometers above the ground. That was at the end of the deceleration. This picture was sent back to the Earth and followed the rise of the sun. It quickly became popular.

In the photo, both the earth and the moon appear almost completely circular due to sunlight. Hu Dong was also very lucky to seize this coincidence.

Now, Senator Robert waved the photo in his hand and spat at Claire, who was standing alone at the hearing.

"They have gone to the moon!"

This sentence was squeezed out from Senator Robert's teeth almost letter by letter. His expression was ferocious and his eyes were almost wide open.

"Mr. Bergen, tell me how long it will be before you put a man on the moon?"

Claire is very calm. Although he has not experienced many such scenes, he has seen many.

"Congressman, NACA is moving at an unprecedented pace, and I guarantee you that we will send humans to the moon again before next year."

Naturally, the adventure of the Artemis II mission cannot be discussed publicly, so Claire used the word "before" to make it vague.

Robert was quite dissatisfied with this answer and pointed at Claire's nose unceremoniously:

"I don't want you to give me a date, I want a guarantee that we can be the first to land on the moon.

Don't fool us with technical jargon. We don't understand science, but we're not so stupid that we don't understand that someone is already ahead of us! "

As soon as he finished speaking, another congressman stood up:

"As far as I know, Boeing's second SLS rocket body has been manufactured. Why not use it to land on the moon? We even have a lunar space station, which is the first in the world."

Robert: "The small space station you mentioned is not even half as heavy as the Storm. It is a tent at best."

"It takes three rockets to land on the moon! You idiots don't know anything!"

"The Artemis program illustrates NACA's incompetence! Why not use this money to improve public health?"

"..."

Claire watched with an unchanging expression as the congressmen started to argue, without even having time to pay attention to him as the rightful owner. She finally understood what method John used to promise him that he would not step down.

There was a quarrel below for a while, and even the chairman of the Senate could not be saved. They could only wait for the situation to calm down.

Claire, who was being questioned, now acted like a spokesperson hosting a press conference, slowly explaining NACA's current progress, achievements, etc., to the effect that everything has been arranged, so don't worry.

Storm's fright at NACA stems more from its astonishing speed and uncertainty about whether it may carry a lander. It has now been confirmed that it is just a moon-circling operation.

NACA has basically confirmed that the lunar landing mission will still be carried out by the Long March 10 rocket, and the launch time should not change.

However, after a flight around the moon, will Shuguang-3 be changed to a lunar landing mission?

Although the space agency has stated a few months ago that the manned lunar landing schedule will not change, but who dares to bet that they will not suddenly change their minds, just like this time with the Canopy mission?

Claire feels the need to push the progress of "Blue Moon".

…

Class B base.

Lin Ju, who was involved in a big job, quietly returned to the base and did not participate in the celebration dinner of the Tianmu-1 mission.

The time that Storm will stay on the moon is set to be about four to seven days. The astronauts overwhelmingly agree with the latter. They will not return to Earth until May 29-30.

In Qiongzhou, the launch site was almost full with two space shuttles and two No. 3 rockets, and preparations for the other two launch stations had to be suspended.

Because the Storm occupied a launch mission that originally belonged to the Pioneer, the base now has two super-large space shuttles on standby, and it happens to have accumulated two living cabins.

From the 23rd to the 26th, two H2Ms will fly into space to carry out installation tasks for the Advance, and two living modules will also be launched at the same time.

Including the space shuttle itself, the Qiongzhou Launch Center will send more than 400 tons of payload into space within 96 hours, setting a new record.

In order to reduce the pressure on the launch site, this launch will allow two No. 3 rockets to be recovered at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Although a lot of capacity is lost, the No. 3 rocket itself has a lot of remaining fuel, which means adding more fuel. The fuel thing.

The super-large mobile launch pads prepared for the H2 and H3 rockets have been assembled in Jiuquan and are expected to be put into use next month. There is no need to worry so much about the typhoon season that starts in July.

When the remaining two living cabins are completed, the service cabin will also officially start mass production, but the latter will be limited by the production capacity of the Qingshan base. The six A100 engines that require deep modification are not small. After all, the working environment It's completely different from the space shuttle.

According to the base's predictions, the Advance can be put into operation as early as October.

Lin Ju, who was on the ARJ21 business jet, secretly decided to wait until the Forward was completed this year before going aboard. Although he did not make a formal response to Guo Fan's proposal, he gave a thumbs up in his heart. It was a perfect fit. Got it.

The plane landed smoothly on the runway in the base. Semyon and a team of people from the 304 laboratory had been waiting here early.

It was because they kept sending good news to Lin Ju in the capital that the latter was so anxious to return. In their mouths, 304 injections were simply a panacea, and it was hard not to feel itchy.