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"Viewers, our astronauts will stay on the moon for no less than 24 hours. Now they have worked continuously for more than 10 hours and are about to take a break. Our live broadcast on the moon is also coming to an end.

Follow the CCTV news website for more information about the moon landing. In addition, CCAV13 will broadcast the operation footage of the ‘Watu’ space station around the clock.

The bright moon shines brightly in the sky, let us remember this great day together..."

Zhang Zhiguang and Fang Lin waved to the camera one last time, and then went back to the landing module to sleep... Of course not, although they did need to rest, there was still a lot to do now.

Shuguang-3 is expected to stay on the moon for 24 to 48 hours. If nothing unexpected happens, it will break the 22-hour record of the Apollo 17 mission and become the longest lunar exploration mission for humans to stay on the moon.

After confirming that the cameras and broadcast forwarding equipment were turned off, they first had to release No. 14, which they had been holding back for a long time.

14 looks not much different from them in appearance, except that he is taller, his limbs are not expanded due to air pressure and appear more symmetrical, and he is a little thinner.

Just after putting it down from the bulkhead, 14 jumped directly from the hatch.

This move startled the two of them, but it soon proved that their worries were unnecessary. 14 read the attitude data of the explorer and was much more familiar with the gravitational environment of the moon than they were.

Compared to the two astronauts whose movements were slowed down, No. 14 was as nimble as a gibbon in the forest.

But soon, the robot's movements became sluggish and sluggish.

"Wow, the details of this VR are so rich, it's almost indistinguishable from the naked eye."

"Old Ding? (!)"

Ding Jihua has been spying on the screen for several hours, and now he finally has a chance to control 14.

He is floating in the command module, wearing a hard vest on his waist connected to a metal rod to control his position in space, and wearing inductive VR equipment on his head and limbs.

When controlled remotely from an altitude of less than 100 kilometers, the delay is actually acceptable, especially in the low gravity environment of the moon.

"What do I mean now? A remote moon landing?"

The two astronauts and a robot studied each other for several minutes. Zhang Zhiguang looked at 14 possessed by Ding Jihua. He would believe it if it was the real old Ding inside.

"Okay, okay, once Old Ding comes, we have a branch here and can hold the first meeting on the moon."

Zhang Zhiguang made a little joke, and then the three of them took advantage of the time before the break to continue working. Now they mainly moved out the equipment and prepared for the next out-of-vehicle experiment.

With Ding Jihua joining the team, work has become much more convenient, especially since the 14-year-old body does not need to rest and is not afraid of injury, and can move more freely.

This didn't take much time and was all completed in just over 20 minutes.

The space agency is going to let the astronauts go to rest at 23:00. The equipment and experiments that have been moved out will be done tomorrow. The remaining time will be used for terrain exploration, putting down the lunar rover and happily staking out the territory for Guanghan Palace 1. Watch Take a look at your property to see if there are any special areas that need attention.

There are two lunar rovers, the lander and the one from Explorer 9, which can drive around the desert of the moon for more than an hour.

Before free activities, Zhang Zhiguang looked at the time display on the HUD and suddenly remembered something.

It is already 21:39, Artemis 2 should have landed, right?

Why is there no news from the ground? You should tell us.

"Command center, has Artemi 2 landed?"

"This is the ground. We don't have accurate information yet. Over."

"Didn't they land?"

"The latest news from NACA is that the Artemis 2 moon landing operation has been suspended for unknown reasons. Other than that, it has said nothing. The outside world can no longer see the image of the Blue Moon;

However, our satellite did not capture their landing in the planned area. The situation is still unclear. Please carry out the mission as planned. "

Of course, there is no reason for the ground to take the initiative to let its own astronauts take risks for the Yankees. This is the moon, and if you are not careful, you will not be able to come back.

Moreover, NACA has kept the news tightly under wraps and the outside world knows nothing. It would be wrong to act rashly. We have to wait for them to take the initiative to disclose more information.

The eleven countries participating in the Huayin Conference were the first to know that there was a problem with Artemis, slightly more than NACA announced, but that was all.

Lucia took the lead in calling the hotline and asked John if he had encountered any difficulties and that they could organize rescue, but the latter only said indifferently that NACA was handling it and it was not a fatal danger.

Domestically... they had already been warned in a subtle way before the launch, so now the official state is in a "don't know" state. As long as NACA doesn't speak out, it will be treated as if there is no such thing.

However, from the moment they freed up their hands, all spacecraft with detection capabilities in the lunar orbit were desperately looking for traces of Artemis 2. Heat sources and radios always had a way.

The planned landing area of ​​Artemis 2 is 35 kilometers away from Shuguang 3. The satellite has already seen it with cameras and found no trace of landing.

Therefore, the ground speculation is that it is most likely to have re-entered orbit, and there is a high chance that there will be a serious communication failure, as long as no one is killed.

…

"They're not here."

Zhang Zhiguang shook his head. 35 kilometers was not far away for them. As long as they brought an external power supply to the lunar rover, they could go there and have a look in half an hour. He still wanted to say hello.

Ding Jihua: "How about I take 14 for a run later?"

"Forget it, the satellites haven't found any traces of landing. They should be in the sky."

Zhang Zhiguang gave up this idea and instead planned the route on the HUD. The mask was equipped with gesture recognition provided by Huawei. It was very convenient to use and could be used as a holographic navigation.

The Shuguang-2 lunar rover was in good condition, so he decided to move the two lunar rovers separately to conduct a terrain survey of the surrounding area with a radius of three kilometers and an area of ​​about 30 square kilometers. From this distance, even if the lunar rover broke down, he could walk back by himself. .

He and Fang Lin are on the same team, and Ding Jihua and Explorer 9 are on the same team.

After installing some simple detection equipment and beacons, the two lunar rovers set off in opposite directions.

Although he was driven by an astronaut, Zhang Zhiguang still controlled the speed of the car at about 20 kilometers. The soil on the moon is far less solid than the ground due to gravity, and it might suddenly fall into a pit.

The area being inspected now is basically the largest plain area near the impact crater. No matter how large it is, we can only enter the impact crater, but the terrain there is not conducive to transporting supplies, so we can only give up for the time being.

In fact, the planned construction scale of Guanghan Palace No. 1 Base is relatively limited. The real investment is Guanghan Palace No. 2 Base.

The latter location is where Xinyuan plans to mine.