Earth Era

In endless reveries, Zhao Huasheng spent his first night in the Skylab. Perhaps knowing that there are too many monitoring devices here, it is really inconvenient to talk, the plasma lifeform also kept quiet rarely. During this period of time, it has not talked to Zhao Huasheng. However, the slight itching on the skin of the head has been reminding Zhao Huasheng that the plasma life body has always been by his side, and has never left, not for a moment.

Zhao Huasheng can rest, but the rest of the astronauts never rest. They cooperated with each other, and under the command and cooperation of the ground staff, they transported the materials stored in the Skylab to the "Houyi" spacecraft in batches. They were busy for several hours to complete all this, and then they took a short rest, and the journey to the moon began officially.

The Houyi spacecraft can probably be regarded as the first real spaceship in human history. It is not the same as the Red Heart spacecraft, the Red Heart spacecraft is a one-off - not just the Red Heart spacecraft, all spaceships launched by humans before are one-off, they are all because of the execution It is specially customized for a certain task, and it will be discarded after it is used once and the specific task is completed. The Houyi spacecraft is reusable. It can be parked in the spacecraft port of the Skylab for repairs, and it can also complete the mission of manned travel to the moon.

It's built entirely for space travel, which means it can't land on the surface of a planet. But the existence of Skylab solves this problem. Skylab acts as a transfer station, and it is a bridge between China Unicom's Houyi spacecraft and the surface of the earth.

At this moment, Zhao Huasheng came to the Houyi spacecraft together with the three astronauts. The astronauts nervously manipulated various instruments and checked various data, while Zhao Huasheng silently tied himself to the seat with a seat belt again. After communicating with the ground staff, a blazing white flame was ejected from the tail of the Houyi spacecraft. Driven by this flame, it slowly left the port in the sky laboratory and stepped into the into space.

It already has a speed of more than seven kilometers per second, which means that it only needs a little acceleration to break free from the earth's gravitational field. So the huge Skylab was left behind by the Houyi spacecraft. And finally disappeared under the horizon and disappeared without a trace. But after a while. Skylab rose above the horizon in front of him again, and was once again overtaken by the Houyi spacecraft.

The Houyi spacecraft is accelerating around the earth. This time will last for about two days. During these two days, its orbit will become more and more flat, and finally break free from the earth's gravitational field at the apogee and head towards the moon.

At this moment, the most critical moment to break free from the earth's gravitational field has been reached. Its apogee is more than 10,000 kilometers away from the earth, and the bright lights on the earth can no longer be seen clearly from here. The earth side is bright. The other side is dark, and the dark side blends with the dark cosmic background, which looks a bit blurry, so only half of it remains, like half a milky white moon cake suspended in space .

"We have successfully broken free from the earth's gravitational field. The speed of the spacecraft relative to the moon is 5.2 kilometers per second. We will reach the moon in about a day." An astronaut said to Zhao Huasheng.

Zhao Huasheng just nodded without answering. At this moment, the spacecraft has entered the stage of inertial navigation, except for the necessary orbital fine-tuning. The spaceship no longer needs to perform violent acceleration and deceleration actions. So Zhao Huasheng also unfastened his seat belt and floated in the cabin.

The earth has been quietly suspended behind the spacecraft, without any movement. It is shrinking at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye. It keeps shrinking until it looks like the size of a discus and stops. At that time, the moon will also arrive.

Contrary to the ever-shrinking Earth. The moon is expanding all the time. The bridge that maintains these two different changes is the Houyi spacecraft that is flying at high speed.

The dark and deep universe, the dazzling sun, the beautiful earth, and the quiet moon, these few things constitute all the world that Zhao Huasheng can see. Time continued to pass in this silence. After Zhao Huasheng had another sleep and rest, the moon looked bigger than the sun.

At this moment, the moon is still 60,000 kilometers away. Long before this distance, the Houyi spacecraft had already started to slow down. Prepare to enter orbit around the moon. At that time, the Houyi spacecraft will orbit the moon at a speed of 1.5 kilometers per second. The landing module will take those supplies, and Zhao Huasheng and several astronauts set foot on the land of the moon.

This moment came seven hours later. The Houyi spacecraft successfully entered the orbit around the moon and began to orbit the moon at a stable angle and speed. After it moved to a suitable place, Zhao Huasheng and the two astronauts who went down with him put on spacesuits and entered the landing module. The remaining astronaut will stay in the Houyi spacecraft and be responsible for the operation and control of the Houyi spacecraft.

The landing module also has its own fuel. After breaking away from the Houyi spacecraft, the landing module began to slow down. As it slowed down, it began to spiral towards the lunar surface in a parabolic posture. After orbiting the moon for a few laps, the recoil rocket at the bottom of the landing module opened, reducing the speed of the landing module again, so the landing module stopped firmly on the moon.

Before the landing module landed on the moon, Zhao Huasheng had already felt the gravity of the moon, but the previous feeling was not as real as the current feeling. It was a kind of feeling like staying in the water, feeling light all over the body, as if you can fly if you don't pay attention.

"Sorry, there was a slight deviation in the attitude control system of the landing module during the landing process. We did not land at the scheduled location, but landed at a place ten kilometers away from the moon base." An astronaut said to Zhao Huasheng, " But it doesn't matter, please rest assured, the astronauts who stayed in the moon base have already driven over with the lunar rover, and they will arrive soon."

"Okay." Zhao Huasheng nodded, and then said, "Can we leave here now?"

"Okay." The astronaut said, reached out and operated a few times in the landing cabin, and the cabin door opened. Zhao Huasheng got up and walked out of the landing cabin along the ladder. The two astronauts behind them also followed, so the three of them stood on the ground on the surface of the moon.

It was very dark, very dark, and there was no visible source of light other than the light of the searchlight on the space suit. But also because of this, the starry sky here is more transparent, like a large black gemstone dotted with many bright pearls.

The earth is on the back of the moon, so the earth cannot be seen at this moment. The vague connection between Zhao Huasheng's heart and the earth has never been broken. Zhao Huasheng knew that there were countless compatriots living on the star not far away. He came from there and always belonged there.

Zhao Huasheng lowered his head, and the light of the searchlight shone on the surface of the moon. The surface of the moon is covered with gray dust, but the dust here is very rough, not round at all, but sharp-edged. This is completely different from that on Earth. Because the dust and gravel on the earth cannot keep their edges and corners for a long time after being impacted by water and air currents and rubbed against each other.

The dust here is very thick, and if you step on it, you can sink a few centimeters deep, but the space here is so transparent that you can't even see the beam of light appearing in the sky when the searchlight shines on it. Because the beam of light appears because of the dust in the air and the scattering of gas, but there is nothing on the moon, so naturally there is no scattering.

Here is eternal cold and darkness. In the thousands of years of human history, no human footsteps have ever set foot here, not even robots. But this place has always existed, no matter how many vicissitudes and heroic changes have taken place on the planet adjacent to it. If there is no accident, the situation here will always exist like this, and it will last forever.

Zhao Huasheng tried to take two steps on the moon, but the inadaptation of gravity made Zhao Huasheng stagger and almost fell down. Zhao Huasheng became a little more careful, moved here carefully, and left a long series of footprints behind him. If there is no external influence, these footprints will also exist for at least millions of years.

The surroundings are as dark as water, so thick that people can't help but feel oppressed in their hearts. At the same time, people living here are also helpless, because no matter what kind of predicament he encounters, no one will come to help him.

And Zhao Huasheng will survive in this water-like darkness, and will never have the chance to return.

Zhao Huasheng didn't go too far, but just walked around the landing module, and then began to wait.

While Zhao Huasheng was waiting, the other two astronauts were also busy, unloading the materials carried in the landing module and stacking them aside. After waiting for a while, Zhao Huasheng saw two beams of light suddenly shooting out of the darkness ahead. Zhao Huasheng took a closer look and saw two tractor-like vehicles driving crookedly.

Zhao Huasheng knew that it was the two astronauts who stayed at the moon base who came to greet him. (to be continued ~^~)