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

"Report status."

"The pressure in the two cabins is normal, the airlock is sealed intact, the spacesuit has been dust-free below the threshold, and the air particle index is normal. You can proceed to the next step."

Guishu Habitat Module... In the Yushu Al Qaeda Office, four astronauts were wearing close-fitting uniforms and sitting around a folding table.

Li Wei was sitting near the bulkhead, with three flags behind him including the Tianmu-3 mission.

He looked serious at this time, and there was a recorder next to him.

"Comrades, I announce the start of the first official branch meeting of Yushu Base No. 1. First, I would like to invite the leader of the Tianmu No. 3 advance team to speak!"

After he finished speaking, he started to applaud together with the other three people, looking at Deng Lei together.

The latter also looked solemn and solemn when he stood up, as if he had returned to the days when he was giving reports in the Air Force.

"Hello everyone, this is..."

His words were not long. He just briefly talked about the work status and completion progress from the time he logged in to the present. Then the other three people would take turns to speak, and finally Li Wei made the summary.

The meeting ended in only 40 minutes, and everyone relaxed in unison when the recorder was turned off.

The meeting just held was mostly symbolic, mainly to prove one thing: from now on, there will also be a branch on the moon!

And there is also a fixed office location, which is of extraordinary significance.

The video just sent back will definitely have to be edited into a few scenes and highlighted in the central news report. Everyone has rehearsed it twice beforehand.

After the meeting, Fu Xiangjie and Liu Ming carried a large box over and opened it. It was filled with various vacuum-packed foods, especially several packages of processed green vegetables, which could be used after simple heating.

Although the advancement of space food has made it possible to eat formed meals instead of paste in toothpaste tubes, the pursuit of food is never-ending. The two space stations Tiangong and Wutu can already support a very abundant supply of green vegetables and fruits. The next phase is said to be allowing astronauts to eat freshly cooked meals on the moon.

It is not a pre-cooked dish heated in a microwave, but a serious stir-fried and cooked dish.

After all, the low gravity of the moon already provides the basis for open cooking. It is not impossible for astronauts to make their own fried beef with green onions or braised pork sausage.

If some of the raw materials used can still come out of the lunar greenhouse, then it can be said that the Chinese have taken root on the moon, which is as important as the existence of the organizational office.

Deng Lei picked out a bag of pickled vegetables and shredded pork rice bowl from the box and imagined what he could cook on the moon for New Year's Eve dinner.

The Lunar New Year is not just a talk. The entire Tianmu-3 expedition mission involving more than 100 people will take at least two months to complete. The current four astronauts will stay until the end of the year unless something unexpected happens.

In the short term, they are the backbone. After all, there is still a gap between astronauts who land on the moon and permanent astronauts on the moon.

The fact that the moon has gravity does not mean it is exactly the same as the earth. It is significantly different from space. It takes a lot of time to adapt to long-term life.

For example, in the few hours they had just been working, even the experienced Deng and Li fell several times. If the "Pioneer I" passive exoskeleton spacesuits they were wearing were not flexible enough, it would be a bit difficult to get up.

You need to pay extra attention to eating, drinking, etc. The only thing you don’t need to adapt to is going to the toilet. The toilet experience of not having to adjust the seat and being sucked by the vacuum pump is simply tearful. There are also rumors that squatting will be tried on the moon base in the future. The toilet is even more desirable.

There are also some benefits: the sense of taste and smell has been restored a lot, the human body's senses are operating in an orderly manner under gravity again, and the congestion on the face is far less obvious than on the space station. This can also help with long-term stationing on the moon.

Even setting aside the allure of working on the moon, the benefits are compelling enough.

The only pity is that these still have to wait, and the first two months were still a bit painful.

The four of them carefully ate with spoons under the gravity of the moon, and also discussed the Artemis 3 "next door".

Although they didn't go over to say hello, Victor and the others knew exactly what they had done. The robot was monitoring everything from a few kilometers away.

Liu Ming was very interested in Victor's eDonkey and thought he could try it if he had the chance. Fu Xiangjie wanted to try Ami's space meal.

The ground has sent a clear message. You can meet and communicate at a time after permission and advance ventilation, but the normal work schedule should not be delayed.

The last time a groundbreaking meeting was held in space was the docking of Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 in 1975. Aramco and Soyuz astronauts shook hands in space for the first time.

As for the first handshake on the moon, it has to have a sense of ceremony, right?

…

On the 26th, Qiongzhou, Xinyuan Launch Site.

The Tengyun aerospace plane was pulled out of the apron, and outside the hangar were 11 crew members who were about to carry it on a flight mission.

They include two professional astronauts, five nuclear experts from different countries, and a two-person team led by Yang Xinjun and Zhu Bingguang.

Professional astronauts are only escorting the journey from the ground to the Tiangong Space Station. The remaining nine experts will go to the moon in three batches to carry out inspection missions via the Dawn-1 spacecraft that has returned and docked with the space station.

The first to go were Zhu Bingguang's team, who had the best ground training results, and nuclear core expert Jamie Stevenson. The rest of the crew needed to continue adapting to space life on the space station and wait for the remaining two flights.

Carrying only three people will also give Dawn 1 more space to load the rest of its equipment and supplies, which will be transported via cheap space planes.

Every relevant mission after the Tianmu 3 mission is launched is a joint mining employment, so you can save a little bit.

Under the huge shadow of the aerospace plane, the nine payload experts surrounded in the middle smiled brightly, leaving a group photo with the most complicated lineup in history.

"Lao Zhu, that's not possible. You are two years younger than me, so why are your training scores B? I'm all A+!"

Zhu Bingguang looked at Yang Xinjun with a dark face. He didn't know what the person who arranged the seats had in mind. They were in the same row.

"I focused my energy on research. What's the use of training no matter how good it is? I have already developed an upgraded prototype and applied for water. This time I will directly pave a section of the road so that the facts can be known. High or low!"

"Old thing, the general trend of space development is industrialization and simplicity! The versatility of space cement is the best. Large-scale application requires simplicity and reliability, not a few percentage points higher in certain indicators!"

"You are an old antique! You are thinking about new problems with backward thinking, so you can only..."

"Ahem, please get ready, we are about to take off."

The loudspeaker in the cabin interrupted the argument between the two. Perhaps to prevent them from arguing again, the two pilots quickly completed the takeoff and used overload to silence the cabin.