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

"This is called a spaceship!"

Deng Lei touched the control panel of the Nine Chapters with satisfaction. Compared with the Storm, the Nine Chapters looked like the future in science fiction. Sitting in it was like traveling into a science fiction movie. The sense of technology was so rich that it was suffocating.

The cab of Jiuzhang is completely different from traditional spacecraft, adopting a very novel "floating" design.

The seats in the cockpit are independent and can be towed and moved everywhere. The four main control panels rely on mechanical arms to follow the driver's movement and can cooperate with the seats to adapt to posture changes.

For example, when the Jiuzhanhao changes its vertical and horizontal postures, their cooperation can keep the driver facing a certain direction, which greatly facilitates the driver's vision and control.

This set is also transplanted from the XN90, but the latter has a more radical design, much higher integration and freedom, and even supports the complete abandonment of the console floating display. The base has just produced chips with sufficient computing power.

The other three astronauts were also very excited, especially after experiencing Dawn 1, the difference in riding experience was even more obvious.

"Everything about this spaceship is good, but the noise is a bit loud. It's louder than a nuclear engine."

The speaker was Liu Ming. He participated in the Tianmu-1 moon orbiting operation. He still remembered that when the three nuclear engines were working, there was only a slight buzz that was easy to ignore. On the contrary, when the two engines of the Jiuzhang were working at full strength and decelerating, there was only a buzz. Smaller than a rocket launch.

"That's for sure. The Nine Chapters don't have such extravagant sound insulation measures. We are working for the company now, and it is more important to decorate the mines."

"Hiss... United Mining doesn't seem to be a state-owned enterprise, right? Come on, it's really a black-hearted capitalist."

"..."

The atmosphere of the advance operation of the Tianmu-3 mission was as relaxed as taking a bus, but mainly because Deng Lei and Li Wei had both landed on the moon, Liu Ming also had experience flying around the moon, and only the newcomer Fu Xiangjie had no time to participate in small talk and look around, lest he Miss some scenery.

However, the time for chatting was limited to the first deceleration stage. When the Jiuzhang changed attitude and started to decelerate due to gravity from the four engines on its belly, Deng Lei concentrated on the spacecraft.

At this time, he could only observe the lunar surface below through external cameras, with his hands on the rudder stock ready to take over control at any time.

The gray-white lunar surface was like a static picture magnified at a constant speed, until the engine's airflow kicked up a large amount of dust and completely blocked the camera. After about seven or eight seconds, Deng Lei felt that the acceleration from bottom to top suddenly disappeared, and the cabin The noise inside, like the working of a water pump, suddenly stopped, and the distant hills that were no longer moving could be seen through the front porthole.

"We're back again."

After saying this in a voice that only he could hear, Deng Lei clicked on the satellite cloud image.

Last month, the Aerospace Development Commission used a medium-sized commercial rocket to launch dozens of micro-satellites with an average weight of 50 kilograms. They were also manufactured by private aerospace companies. Together with several "laurel" satellites, they formed a reasonably usable set. Lunar GPS navigation system.

Thanks to the fact that the moon has no atmosphere, the orbits of those micro-satellites can be as low as a dozen kilometers, and their functions are greatly reduced. The total cost of the entire system is only tens of millions of yuan, and it will not hurt even if it is destroyed by a nuclear explosion in the future.

But this rudimentary GPS can provide accurate guidance and large-area coverage communication services for early spacecraft and astronaut operations. At least Deng Lei found it very convenient to use it.

According to the GPS display, the automatic landing error of Jiuzhang this time is only ±2.5 meters, which is consistent with the positioning error range.

"Xiang Jie, how do you feel?"

"I'm fine, I feel like I can get up and walk now."

"Let's rest for 15 minutes. Then we'll have something to eat and get ready. Then... we'll leave the cabin at 10:30. Do you have any objections?"

Deng Lei quickly arranged the time to leave the cabin, and then began to report the situation to the command center. After that, he slowly stood up and carefully began to adapt to walking under gravity.

The other three people also started to perform similar actions. After being completely familiar with each other, they finished their simple meal and rested for a while. Then, with the help of each other, they put on their spacesuits and entered the cargo hold of the spacecraft.

Since they still had to move some things down, they didn't plan to exit from the front, so they had to exit through the cargo door on the side.

The goods brought this time were mainly heavy consumables such as the folding lunar rover. Most of them were brought over during the launch of the Nine Chapters and piled up at the settlement site, and they needed to be sorted out.

It includes a three-section connected living module "Guishu", which can accommodate 4 to 7 people for a short period of time. Their first task is to secure the Guishu living module as a shelter for the astronauts in the event of an accident on the Jiuzhang.

The essence of the Guishu residential module is actually improved from the command module of the "Full Moon" lander. The space agency roughly combined three such modules, changing the outermost one into an airlock module, and the other two Together they can provide 40 square meters of living space, which is not too small.

The cargo bay was not pressurized, so Deng Lei deployed two lunar rovers directly inside. The four astronauts sat directly on them and watched the hatch slowly open downwards, revealing the desolate lunar surface.

What will it be this time?

What the boss told him briefly flashed through Deng Lei's mind, and then he immediately got into work mode.

"Set off!"

He drove the Red Rabbit 2 lunar rover to take the lead, rushed out from the cargo bay and drove onto the lunar surface, followed closely by the Red Rabbit 3.

Robot No. 14, also wearing a spacesuit, has already driven the dilapidated "Delu" lunar rover and is waiting here to lead human visitors to the material settlement point.

Deng Lei drove along the traces compacted by construction trucks during the last landing. In his opinion, it was no different from a dirt road.

In addition to fourteen standardized engineering equipment vehicles with different functions, other materials totaled more than 30 tons and were scattered in an open space more than one kilometer away from the landing point.

The engineering vehicles responsible for producing fuel have gone deep into the Qom impact crater, leaving only one nuclear power vehicle to ensure sufficient power supply.

The Guishu residential cabin is placed in the center of the open space, and the surrounding ground is covered with various traces. It is obvious that engineering vehicles and robots have completed most of the work.

Human astronauts are mainly here to inspect the interior and give the Laurel Habitat a different meaning.

Deng Lei parked the lunar rover and picked up a package the size of a computer bag. He waved his hand to Fu Xiangjie to pick up the tool bag on his lunar rover, and then led a few people to the front of the Guishu residential module.

The door of the transition cabin is right in front, with four buckles reserved on the upper part.

Li Wei had already opened the package, took out a brass-colored metal plate, and hung it on it together with Deng Lei.

Then Liu Ming took out the hammer from the tool bag and gently tapped the four corners a few times to make the metal plate completely stuck in.

Then he grabbed the protective cover attached to the surface of the metal plate and pulled it off to reveal several lines of red letters engraved on the metal plate:

"Space Development Committee Yushu No. 1 Base"

"Organization Office"