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

"Beep...beep...beep...beep..."

The final 150-meter altitude no longer requires manual input after the landing site is selected. The terrain mapping radar at the bottom of the lander can accurately determine the most suitable landing site and make fine adjustments. The astronauts only need to concentrate on dealing with the impact during landing.

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

The mechanical noise that was originally vibrating due to the engine slowing down completely disappeared at this moment, leaving only the faint radio noise in the headset and the prompts in the spacesuit.

Fang Lin seemed unaware of his heavy breathing. Regardless of his body's discomfort with gravity, he slightly stretched his head to look at the porthole. From here, he could just see the continuous mountains rising from the edge of the Qom impact crater.

"Dong Yao, Dong Liang, report status!"

2.4 seconds after Academician She asked, Zhang Zhiguang and Fang Lin heard an obviously heavy sound on the radio.

"Report to the Commander-in-Chief, the landing attitude is normal and the hole feels good!"

"The hole feels good. I have reached the lunar surface. I have reached the lunar surface!"

The answers of the two people were sent from the lander, and were accepted by the "Queqiao" responsible for forwarding at the Lagrange point, and forwarded to the earth's geostationary orbit communication satellite. The electromagnetic wave traveled at the speed of light for 1.28 seconds before being received by the geostationary orbit communication satellite. The delay after being forwarded to the ground and then processed is close to 3 seconds.

Academician She stood like this for five seconds that seemed to last a century. The two astronauts' clear and powerful answers came from the command center's broadcast.

A minute ago, the live broadcast signal finally joined the astronaut communication audio part. The whole world heard the well-spoken Mandarin and heard the sentence "I have reached the lunar surface, I have reached the lunar surface!"

Huayin City.

The superiors 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 was repeated twice, representatives from 11 countries on both sides of the oval conference table began to applaud almost simultaneously. No matter how many opinions they had about the Huayin Conference, at this moment, the superiors used the simplest and most straightforward way Declare one's own strength.

The superior looked at the domestic translators and bodyguards who were trying their best to hold back their excitement, stood up on his own initiative and said:

"Let us applaud the success of the Shuguang-3 crew's landing mission."

With him taking the lead, the originally spacious and somewhat deserted venue was immediately filled with warm applause. Some people even shed tears while applauding regardless of pain.

Among the representatives of the remaining 11 countries, Badis and Antoine were the first to make a move, followed by Prince Sweetan, who was slightly behind. The rest stood up almost at the same time.

The photographers on the side quickly seized the opportunity to take pictures of this precious scene, recording the actions of dignitaries from various countries.

"Congratulations, congratulations to the space agency for such a great achievement, humans have once again landed on the moon!"

Prince Sweetan, who was closest to his superiors, was the first to express congratulations.

"The credit does not belong to me, but to the hundreds of thousands of aerospace workers who work hard for the Dawn Project, and to our brave astronauts."

The scene quickly turned into representatives taking turns to express congratulations, and the original meeting process has been temporarily put on hold.

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

"Everyone, our astronauts need a little time to adapt to gravity before they can conduct extravehicular activities. I hope you will be patient."

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"Dear audience friends, after an hour and 55 minutes of landing process, our country's astronauts have successfully landed safely on the lander at the scheduled landing site.

According to the latest news we have received from the Space Development Committee, the extravehicular activities will be carried out in the next one to two hours. Let us wait patiently and wait for the good news.

There will be more to come from the Our Space news studio soon, but for now let’s move on to the beauty of the Moon. "

The female host's voice was gentle and graceful, her eyebrows raised uncontrollably and her white teeth were exposed. The guests on one side even trembled with excitement, looked at the camera with burning eyes, and expressed their heartbeats to the entire audience. spread.

The station manager, whose forehead was covered with sweat, glanced at the real-time data in the background, and his jaw was stiff on his face.

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

Space Center Houston.

The assistant quickly ran to Claire's side and said something quickly in her ear. The calm expression on the latter's face did not change at all.

"How about it!"

Deputy Director Jim grabbed his assistant, and Claire answered for him:

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

Jim didn't know whether to be happy or disappointed at this time. He hesitated for a long time and finally stamped his feet, returned to his work station and put on his headphones.

Claire grabbed the assistant and asked him:

"What did John say?"

"Not yet, but it should be soon. It should speed up the launch time of our Artemis 2 landing mission."

Now the Artemis 2 mission has started live broadcast for one hour, and the number of viewers is also rising rapidly. According to ABC alone, it has exceeded 1.6 billion people. The global viewership should be similar to that of Dawn 3.

But now Artemis 2 still needs to fly more than half a circle to reach the vicinity of the Aitken Basin, which means it still has about 70 minutes. It will break away and start to slow down around 9:20 (19:20 Beijing time).

Three hours, judging from the deceleration and braking time, Artemis 2 ended up being three hours late.

Even if the plan is executed at what NACA considers to be the craziest speed, it is still one rocket less than Dawn and three hours behind schedule.

The outcome is decided.

"Then tell John that we will also start landing on the moon in an hour, and Artemis 2 will continue to execute stably."

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

After running wildly on the road to deindustrialization for nearly half a century, even though NACA still has the world's leading high-end manufacturing capabilities, it has become an economic entity with the largest industrial scale, the most complete types, and the highest industrial output value in the world in human history. The technological gap is quickly being caught up, especially the proud manufacturing capabilities are completely incomparable.

The entire Artemis program, from NACA's follow-up plan after the cancellation of the "Ares" program to the return to the moon program competing with "Dawn", most of the difficulties encountered came from the self rather than the outside world, the consequences of hollowing out It is evident in this plan.

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