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“Command Center, we are about to begin our spacewalk.”

This statement was directed to the Command Center, as well as to the viewers watching the live broadcast.

After all, this is a historic moment for Tianxia people to set foot on the Moon, so how could they not properly record and promote it?

The online connection is a three-way link between the Tianxia Aerospace Administration Command Center, the Pathfinder Aerospace Command Center, and the Pegasus spacecraft. In particular, since the astronauts entered the Pegasus spacecraft to prepare for landing, most of the instructions have been issued from the Pathfinder Aerospace Command Center.

This is because, from this point on, all the equipment used by the four astronauts belongs to Pathfinder Company. Although the two parties are currently in a cooperative state, the ownership of the equipment is clear: it belongs to Pathfinder.

Pathfinder Company is not trying to seize command. Tang Chao doesn't care about that. He will arrange large-scale manned lunar landing missions in the future and doesn't need this "second-best first" title.

He's not very interested in anything that isn't truly humanity's first.

The reason for doing this is simply because Pathfinder understands Pathfinder's equipment best. Even if all the information is given to the National Aerospace Administration, it's unknown whether they can quickly grasp it after reading it.

So, from the source, the designers and manufacturers of these devices have a more thorough understanding of them.

Of course, Tang Chao is the top expert in this area.

“The hard-shell spacesuit is even easier to wear than the spacesuit in the Mirage space. You have already tried it when you were in space before. Now that there is some gravity, it should be even easier to wear, right?”

It really is easy to wear.

The four looked at the four powered armor suits standing in front of them... oh, the four hard-shell spacesuits, listening to Tang Chao's words coming from the speakers, of course, they felt they were easy to wear.

The gravity on the Moon is enough to keep them standing, which is much better than the "unsupported" environment of zero gravity in space. They could easily complete the dressing in that environment, let alone here.

The way to wear a hard-shell spacesuit is very similar to the powered armor in science fiction games or TV series. When you need to wear it, you can use the portable computer on your wrist to control it to open, or you can find a password input window on its back and press the password to open it.

The opening method is very... open, because the entire back of the spacesuit will open upwards, and the rear of the armor on the arms, hips, and thighs will also open. As long as you put your hands and feet into the mechanical hands and feet, and then put your head into the helmet, lean your body forward, and the opened armor can be closed.

Skilled astronauts can complete the dressing in 30 seconds, which completely surpasses the speed of traditional extravehicular activity spacesuits.

Originally, so many openings are a big challenge to the airtightness of the spacesuit, but because magical nanomaterials are added, nanomaterials will gush out after the opening is closed to secondary seal the closed position, so there will be no problem at all.

After dressing, the hard-shell spacesuit can guarantee the astronaut's extravehicular activity ability for one hour.

If an auxiliary module is added to the back, the activity time can be extended to 10 hours.

If there is a modified lunar rover nearby, the activity time can be extended to 48 hours.

Any longer than that is not possible. The liquid food and drinking water carried by the spacesuit can only support 48 hours at most, and in two Earth days, the spacesuit's excrement collection capacity will reach its maximum.

Urine collection can last a little longer, and even in extreme cases, it can be purified into water and then drunk, but there is nothing that can be done about feces.

It's not just a matter of not being able to collect it and making the spacesuit dirty, it also concerns whether the astronaut's respiratory system will be polluted.

The Moon is not the Earth, where people's urgent needs can be solved outside. On the Moon, especially when going out, they can only be solved inside.

Pathfinder is already working on the research and manufacture of large pressurized lunar vehicles, which can allow astronauts to go to the toilet and eat inside...

Oh, it's eating and going to the toilet...

Uh, anyway, the two are carried out separately.

It allows astronauts to explore farther distances on the Moon.

Back to the present, when the four astronauts finished dressing respectively, and turned to align with the auxiliary survival modules hanging on the wall, leaned on them gently, completed the module installation, and the spacesuits were pressurized, they were ready to leave the cabin.

“Start depressurization.”

“Hiss——”

At the exit, Cheng Dong stood at the front, Lin Yang slightly behind, and Tong Anfu and Peng Zizhen stood at the back.

Their landing order had been arranged on Earth. As the commander, Cheng Dong would take the first step.

“Inhale~ Exhale~ Inhale~ Exhale~”

Only his own breathing could be heard in the strong and sealed spacesuit. As the display screen next to the hatch showed the cabin pressure gradually returning to zero, Cheng Dong suddenly became nervous.

From being identified as a lunar landing crew member, all the way to the landing just now, he had been nervous, but not this kind of sudden nervousness.

“Cheng Dong, your heart rate suddenly accelerated. What happened? Others, pay attention to Cheng Dong's condition.”

Tang Chao's voice suddenly sounded in the four people's earphones.

“Uh, Director Tang, I'm fine. I'm just a little nervous when I think about stepping on the surface of the Moon.” Cheng Dong quickly adjusted his mindset and replied.

Because Tang Chao had taught them in the Mirage space, explaining the use and maintenance of a series of equipment such as the Pegasus, Moon Palace II, spacesuits, and lunar rovers, as well as a bunch of messy things, they were very familiar with each other. In addition, the command center decided whether or not to broadcast the voice during the live broadcast, and it didn't matter if there was voice in the exit screen, so the live broadcast to the audience shielded the sound, and Tang Chao could chat with them casually.

So after hearing Cheng Dong say this, Tang Chao complained, “If you're nervous, come back and let me replace you. I'll go to the Moon for you.”

“Hehe, Director Tang, your identity is special. Let me explore the way first. I'm not nervous anymore.”

Having stayed with Tang Chao for so long as a lunar astronaut, how could he not know Tang Chao's views and thoughts on this lunar landing? Because of his special identity, he couldn't participate in this lunar landing. Tang Chao had complained to them many times.

As soon as Tang Chao said this, not only Cheng Dong couldn't help but smile, but the other three astronauts were the same. They could hear the resentment in Tang Chao's tone.

With just these few words, the atmosphere at the exit calmed down.

Both on a literal and emotional level.

“Ground Command Center, Pegasus depressurization is complete. Request permission to conduct extravehicular activity?” Cheng Dong requested instructions from the Command Center.

This sentence was addressed to the Aerospace Administration. No matter what, this mission was a national mission.

“You may exit the cabin!”

“Understood!”

Cheng Dong reached out and grabbed the handle on the hatch, pulled it up, and then pulled it down.

“Hiss~ Click~”

A slight unlocking sound rang out. The hatch unlocked, and with a gentle push, the door to a new world opened.

Outside the door was the surface of the Moon.

On Earth, from the moment Cheng Dong reached out, the live broadcast screen switched to the camera on Cheng Dong's spacesuit helmet. So what he saw was what the live broadcast audience saw.

The ultra-high-definition lunar surface was actually not new. After Moon Palace II landed, it sent back videos every day, all of which were ultra-high-definition pictures. But now it was different. The audience knew that this was from the helmet perspective of an astronaut, basically at a person's height, so it was very immersive.

This sense of immersion was not over. As the astronaut moved, people's sense of immersion became stronger and stronger.

The lens was shaking, the hatch disappeared, and the view was completely space and the lunar surface. That was the astronaut walking out of the hatch.

One step, two steps, three steps. The mechanical feet in the lens stepped on the metal ladder one by one, and the last foot stepped on the lunar surface where the rut marks were blown away by the jet plume.

The lunar soil sank slightly, and the other mechanical foot also stepped on the lunar surface.

“Inhale~ Exhale~ Inhale~”

Slightly rapid breathing spread to every corner of the Earth with the live broadcast, followed by a standard Chinese sentence.

“I have landed on the Moon and I feel good!”

At this moment, people all over the world watching the live broadcast were boiling, even more enthusiastic than the cheers when Pegasus successfully landed on the Moon before.

Success! Humans have once again set foot on the Moon, and this time there is a qualitative leap compared to the previous lunar landing.

Behind the astronaut was the lunar landing spacecraft.

In front of the astronaut was the lunar survival cabin.

Next to the survival cabin were seven lunar rovers.

Here is the first human lunar forward base!

Chapter 2 will be released at 12 o'clock.