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Joseph and Emily felt that today was definitely the luckiest and unluckiest day of their lives.

Being selected as lunar astronauts, and landing on the moon today, is definitely a memorable day for a person's life.

But it just so happened that on this moon landing, an accident occurred, and the lunar module they were riding in crashed directly onto the landing site.

Fortunately, the lunar module wasn't badly damaged. It crashed directly onto the ground, causing some cubic ruptures and leaks. They were wearing intravehicular activity suits, helmets, and seat belts, so it wasn't a big problem.

Although they survived, it was only temporary. They had to quickly repair the manned module. The leakage of the module was too urgent. If it wasn't resolved, they might really die soon.

After a lot of work, they managed to seal the big cracks, but the module had several layers. They didn't know how long the gel they filled in would last, so they applied several more layers of tape to ensure the leakage slowed down.

There was no professional repair shop here, and they weren't professional repair engineers. It was already good enough that they could stick the lunar module together according to their previous training.

After temporarily saving their lives, they began to contact the ground and the orbiter, but there was no response.

They used the computer to perform a self-check on the lunar module and found that the antenna had no signal. They guessed that the antenna was damaged by a collision, so they wanted to go out and repair it.

They had to contact the ground or the orbiter, otherwise they would definitely die here.

The posture of the lunar module after it fell was the worst of the worst. The can-shaped manned module stood upright, making their activity space very small, but if they wanted to open the hatch, both of them had to put on bulky extravehicular activity suits. After all, their manned module wasn't as "luxurious" as the Bending Rainbow, with two separate pressurized chambers.

After finally putting on the extravehicular activity suits, they found that the hatch was stuck.

It must have been the deformation of the can body during the fall that caused the hatch to jam.

Since the regular hatch was unreliable, they could only turn to the docking port for space docking.

Originally, they shouldn't have entered or exited from that port, but the situation was like this now, so they couldn't care so much.

As a result, this side was also stuck.

Fortunately, they tried both sides and found that the space docking port was not stuck, so they tried every means to pry open the docking port and climbed out from inside.

Turning to the waist of the lunar module, after checking, they found that the antenna was indeed broken, and the automatic star-seeking device was broken. He had to do it manually.

The auxiliary computer had the location of the satellite, and then he manually adjusted the antenna position to barely make a call.

This series of lucky misfortunes, unfortunate fortunes, then lucky misfortunes, and unfortunate fortunes, came back and forth, bouncing me, you bouncing me, making them exhausted.

If they had died before, it would have been the end of it, but since they survived, they definitely wanted to live longer.

So one of them manually controlled the antenna to communicate with the headquarters, while the other began to collect available supplies and equipment.

They had to live as long as possible. Only by surviving for a long time could they wait for rescue.

Like "The Martian".

However, the protagonist in that movie at least had a base where he could grow potatoes, sleep comfortably, and take a shower. They only had a broken manned module, and it was the overturned kind.

Huh?

Speaking of the base, more than 300 kilometers away from them... there seems to be a real base!

The Heavenly Summer's lunar base!

More than 300 kilometers, what was the speed of the other party's lunar rover?

More than 30 kilometers per hour.

Three hundred and something divided by thirty-something, that's about ten hours. They have twenty hours of oxygen left. Even if the other party can't drive at full speed, even if they walk windingly on the road, it should be enough!

Joseph excitedly flashed a few sets of data in his mind, and then quickly told the command center about it.

Astronauts are of course the people who have learned the most about space knowledge, and they are also people who have practical opportunities. Naturally, they know that the American agreements have not been signed, and they were later withdrawn, but what time is it now? It is time to save lives. Even if there is a little possibility, he will not give up.

And the command center's reply surprised them even more.

"Yes, we are already communicating with the Heavenly Summer Aerospace Administration and the Pathfinder Aerospace Company, and we are discussing feasible solutions. If you also think of any good methods, be sure to put them forward quickly."

Joseph and Emily were happy, feeling that they were saved and would not die on the moon, but the progress of the rescue plan was not going smoothly at the ground command center.

Saying that they are jointly exploring the rescue plan is actually Tang Chao's home field.

After all, Moon Palace No. 2 is owned by Pathfinder Aerospace Company, the lunar rover is also owned by Pathfinder Company, and the four astronauts are from the Heavenly Summer Aerospace Administration, but in order to facilitate action, they have been arranged to listen to Tang Chao's command.

The most important thing is that the detection satellite with the highest detection accuracy in lunar orbit is also owned by Pathfinder. If you want to plan a rescue route that is both safe and fast, you must use these detection satellites.

"The problem now is that there is not enough time."

Tang Chao held a laser pointer and pointed to the image on the big screen in the conference room, and then the image here also appeared on the big screen in the American Aerospace Administration conference room.

"All the lunar surface terrain between the Moon Palace No. 2 base and the accident site is unfamiliar. Our lunar rover cannot run at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour, but can only travel at a speed of more than ten kilometers per hour. Moreover, the lunar rover cannot travel in a straight line. On the road, it is necessary to avoid many large and small meteorite craters, large rocks, and two small mountains."

"The technicians in the company have found several suitable routes, and finally selected one, its actual passage length reaches 429 kilometers, and the lunar rover at a speed of more than ten kilometers per hour, it is impossible to arrive within 20 hours."

The images Tang Chao showed were very clear, and various annotations were also very clear, with specific times marked on each route.

Everyone looked at the most obvious one, which was the final rescue route selected by Pathfinder Company.

[Time spent 26 hours, safe passage rate 97%]

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Looking at the others, the shortest time is 23 hours, but the safe passage rate is only 62%.

The highest safe passage rate reaches 98.4%, but the time spent directly soared to 34 hours.

Because the capabilities of the detection satellites are limited, the safety of the forward road cannot be completely detected. The situation can only be found when some places are reached at the nearest point, and the astronauts need to analyze it themselves, so the probability of safe passage is not 100%.

Obviously, that 60% probability one definitely cannot go. Even the detection satellite has determined that the situation there is more complicated. The actual situation may be more complicated. The Heavenly Summer astronauts are just going to rescue, not to risk their lives. There is no need to take risks.

Going slowly is definitely the safest, but slowing down will make the time longer. If the time exceeds, the American astronauts will hang up, and it will be meaningless to arrive.

The most suitable one is indeed the 26-hour one.

If the astronauts reduce oxygen consumption, perhaps the "20 hours" of survival time mentioned earlier can be increased, but the problem is that the astronauts calculated it according to the standard of waiting for rescue. Removing some of the oxygen consumed in the early stage of collecting supplies, they have already added the standard of "reducing oxygen consumption".

The experts frowned one by one, this matter is indeed difficult.

"Why not let the astronauts walk closer to the rescue convoy, this can reduce the distance and perhaps shorten the time."

"No, the activity of the astronauts will aggravate oxygen consumption, but will shorten the survival time more quickly."

"This..."

A dead loop.

Fortunately, God never seals off all exits, Joseph suddenly contacted: "Command center, we have checked all available supplies and found that the folding lunar rover can still be used. I think we can take the initiative to approach the Moon Palace No. 2 base for a certain distance."

The people in the conference room were stunned, and then cheered in unison.

"It's done!"

The rest is left to time and the goddess of luck.

Both sides have to drive their cars and drive to each other's lunar landing points, just like a certain American science fiction TV series plot.

But this time it is not stealing each other's homes, but one side reaching out to rescue, and the other side for survival.

For love and peace.

Chapter 2, 10 o'clock