Great Country Academician

(Additional update 5/10 for the leader of the alliance, Mr. Xingyan, there are still five updates to go, it’s coming soon (ω))

In the lunar sky, above the Antarctic polar launch orbit, a silver-white space shuttle quickly passed through the deep sky.

Under the command of the space center, Xinghai has successfully completed its orbit adjustment and successfully entered the launch orbit.

In the cockpit, Zhai Zhigang stared at the moon in the distance. At this time, the moon was just behind the earth, and most of the sunlight was blocked.

The deep night sky is like a bottomless ocean, as if it can swallow everything.

However, this scene is not uncommon for them who often enter outer space to perform space missions.

He withdrew his gaze and glanced at the time on the console. He reached out and pressed the button on the helmet of his space suit, communicating with the ground command center.

"Call the ground command center. This is Xinghai. We will arrive over the Aitken Basin in the south pole of the moon in fifteen minutes and request a lunar surface rescue operation."

After a short delay, the voice of the ground command center came from the headset.

"The ground command center has received it and approved the rescue operation. Please pay attention to your own safety and wish you all the best!"

"Xinghai received it!"

Taking a deep breath, Zhai Zhigang unfastened the safety buckle on his spacesuit, floated up, looked at Liu Yang who was sitting in the driving position, and said: "Liu Yang, the task of driving the Xinghai is left to you. "

Unlike previous moon landings for scientific research, this time they landed on the moon for rescue.

Although the damage information of the Artemis lunar module was obtained from NASA, it was only data recorded by the internal equipment. The specific damage to the exterior of the lunar module is temporarily unknown.

So this moon landing rescue might have to involve some physical work. To be on the safe side, he and Chen Dong were the two men who carried out the rescue mission.

After all, it is an undeniable fact that men are indeed better than women in terms of physical strength.

In addition, considering some other circumstances, the combat effectiveness of two men will be higher.

Although you must not have the intention to harm others, you must also have the intention to guard against others.

In the driver's seat, Liu Yang nodded and replied with a serious look on his face: "Well, I'll wait for you to come back in Yuekong. Everything goes well!"

"certainly!"

Zhai Zhigang grinned, stretched out his right hand and bumped fists with two teammates, and said with a smile: "Just enough to satisfy my wish to land on the moon."

For this manned moon landing project, if the American guy hadn't accidentally messed with these things, he would have had no plans to land on the moon.

I thought I would have to wait until at least the next manned landing on the moon to set foot on the planet, but this regret was made up for.

I have to say, fate is really wonderful.

And more importantly, if Xinghai hadn't carried two sets of lunar modules just in case, it wouldn't have been their turn to carry out the rescue operation this time.

After all, based on the current level of technology, the lander will be discarded after the lunar module is used once. It is a one-time use item.

In the end, no one expected that the spare lunar module was not used by themselves, but was instead given to the Americans.

It's really fate that makes people happy.

A quarter of an hour was not long, and the silvery-white sea of ​​​​stars quickly passed through the lunar sky. After a brief navigation and orbit adjustment, the sea of ​​​​stars had already arrived above the Aitken Basin at the south pole of the moon.

As the hatch opened, a silver-white elliptical cylindrical lunar lander that was exactly the same as the Lan Yue used before separated from the Xinghai and fell towards the moon.

After a brief period of weightlessness, along with the slowdown of the propulsion engine, Lanyue 2 has reached the ground.

"Huh, are we here yet?"

The door of the lunar module opened smoothly. Amidst the diffuse moon dust, Zhai Zhigang held his hand on the gangway and looked at the desolate moon.

Behind him, Chen Dong's smiling voice came from inside the space suit: "The things designed by Academician Xu are reliable and much easier to use than the American Artemis."

Hearing this, Zhai Zhigang couldn't help but smile and said, "Of course, don't look at their abilities. Can they be compared to those from NASA and the United States?"

After a pause, he walked out of the lunar module lightly while holding on to the gangway, reached out and pressed the contact button on the helmet, and said:

"This is the Lanyue 2 rescue team. We have successfully arrived at the Aitken Basin at the south pole of the moon."

After a short delay, the voice from the ground command center came over.

"The ground command center has received that the Artemis lunar module is about two hundred meters away from your current position. The relevant coordinate points have been sent to you. Please check them carefully and we will guide you to the rescue."

"receive."

In response, Zhai Zhigang raised his right hand. On his wrist, there was an electronic display screen the size of a palm.

The green dot in the center of the display screen is their current position, and at the edge of the screen, a red signal is flashing, that is the crashed Artemis lunar module.

After turning his body left and right, a small pointer arrow appeared from the green dot on the display screen, representing the direction they were heading.

After determining his goal, Zhai Zhigang assisted Chen Dong in preparing the manned lunar rover and the tools needed to rescue the astronauts on Artemis, and then the two of them walked towards the lunar module not far away. .

The Aitken Basin in the south pole of the moon is a huge impact crater, almost completely located on the back of the moon. Its diameter reaches an astonishing 2,500 kilometers, and its depth reaches 13 kilometers. Put the peak in and you can't even see the tip.

As for the moon landing, no matter how accurate the coordinates are, the position of the lunar module cannot be 100% accurate every time it is launched.

For every lunar landing, the lunar module needs to accurately control the amount of braking. The engine ignition timing, braking duration and direction are all very critical.

For Xinghai, it is quite good to be able to launch Lanyue 2 to a deviation distance of only about two hundred meters in a temporary rescue operation.

But for Zhai Zhigang and Chen Dong, who were walking on the moon, it took them six to seven minutes to walk the two hundred meters.

The low gravity environment on the moon is an extremely difficult environment for people walking on it to adapt to.

If the lunar rover doesn't have those tools, they can quickly get there by riding the lunar rover. But without being able to determine the specific problems with the Artemis lunar module, they still need a lunar lander to transport these tools to try to solve various problems.

The distance of two hundred meters was not that far. Although it took six or seven minutes to reach it, fortunately, the two of them successfully arrived at the location of the Artemis lunar module.

On the lunar surface, two devices with completely different shapes, one on the left and one on the right, stand quietly in the lunar soil.

Zhai Zhigang and Chen Dong did not contact NASA astronauts first, but first carefully observed the lunar module and life support unit twice.

The photos taken by the spacesuit are transmitted to Xinghai through the special communication channel of Lanyue 2, and then transmitted back to the ground command center.

At the same time, in the Xiashu Space Base, Xu Chuan and the people waiting here also had a close look at the 'wrecked' Artemis lunar module.

It is tilted to an angle of about thirty-five degrees as a whole, standing on the moon in a half-inverted posture.

"The landing gear was damaged, and the mechanical connection between the lander and the ascender was obviously distorted. This should have blocked the hatch, preventing the lunar module from opening normally."

Standing in front of the monitoring station and looking at the images transmitted back by the Xinghai, Academician Chang Huaxiang analyzed it.

With his eyes, observing NASA's Artemis lunar module at such a close range, the external damage can naturally be confirmed at a glance.

"In addition, judging from the upper and lower connections of the Artemis lunar module, they use a compression double-sealed connection. Compared with the explosive bolts we use, this structure has a higher load-bearing capacity and can withstand There is greater pressure. But correspondingly, its structure is more complex, and currently, there is a risk of getting stuck."

Learn from the past and learn from those behind.

For them, the crash of NASA's Artemis lunar module was not only an accident, but also a wake-up call in their hearts, reminding everyone that "aerospace cannot tolerate any sloppiness."

Of course, they can also learn from this accident, further improve the management and technical level of the aerospace organization, avoid making similar mistakes in the future, and avoid similar accidents in the future.

On the side, Xu Chuan nodded and said: "It's not just a problem with the equipment itself, there seems to be a problem with their landing point. I looked carefully and found that one section of the damaged landing gear seemed to have sunk into the lunar soil. . Judging from this situation, they are really unlucky, and the landing point is not so flat."

Rather than analyzing aerospace technology, he focused more on the surrounding environment.

After all, he is not a professional aerospace personnel, and he can't analyze the spacecraft at a half-hearted level.

At the same time, on the other side, the moon is 380,000 kilometers away.

After completely transmitting back the external situation records of NASA's Artemis lunar module and life support unit, Zhai Zhigang reached out and pressed the button on his spacesuit to connect the communication to NASA's channel.

"NASA friends, are you okay?"

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