From black technology to super engineering

Regardless of rural villages, bustling cities, regardless of men, women, old and young, urban white-collar workers or rural farmers.

At this time, there was only one thing everyone was doing, which was to hold their mobile phones.

Everyone watched the graceful figure of Yaoyue skimming the clouds and heading for the distant moon.

At this moment, I don't know how many people toasted and drank, and I don't know how many people cried with joy.

And the Internet has already fallen into madness.

Regardless of the country, all the live broadcast platforms were filled with messages in an instant, and there was a short downtime.

"Salute to the aerospace of the motherland! Salute to generations of astronauts of the motherland!"

"I'm going to cry, Yaoyue, come on!"

"I'm already crying! I didn't expect to see the fusion engine going to the sky in my lifetime!"

"The fusion engine goes to the sky, is interstellar travel still far away? Give me a beautiful answer!"

"Raise a glass to invite the bright moon, and the world will share this moment together. Brothers, I will do it first as a respect!"

"From then on, the galaxy is far away, and it is no longer distance."

"Our journey is the sea of ​​stars, pay tribute to the aerospace industry of the motherland!"

"Thousands of words converge into one sentence: the motherland is awesome!"

...

at the same time.

Kennedy Space Center.

Invitation to the moon has successfully lifted off for 20 minutes and entered the cruising stage.

For the audience, this also means entering "garbage" time.

But all the participating engineers and aerospace experts did not leave, but left their positions and stood at the front of the big screen.

On the big screen, the scene of takeoff began to be replayed.

In the picture, although the "launch frame" supporting the entire spacecraft is raised when it is about to take off, the spacecraft is facing the sky at an elevation angle of 60 degrees. However, there are indeed no "wheels" on the contact surface between the bottom of the spacecraft and the launch pad.

The lack of wheels means that the landing gear of the spacecraft will directly rub against the launch pad.

"Play back frame by frame."

"pause!"

"Did you see it? When it finally took off, the attitude engine of the spacecraft did not output too much power, but the attitude of the spacecraft changed."

Everyone is silent.

Needless to say, even a middle school student knows that it is impossible to "lift" a cargo weighing several thousand tons with the plasma jet sprayed by the Hall attitude engine.

The same is shown in the screen. Although the attitude of the spacecraft changes very slightly, everyone can still see it.

The landing gear and launch pad have completed disengagement.

Then I thought of the phrase 'the force field device is good' in the previous self-test response from the control center...

Everyone fell silent.

In silence.

Commissioner Powers let out a long sigh.

Now that the opposite side has settled the anti-gravity force field, all problems are solved.

"It seems that they are going to block the force field technology." Director Bowers looked at Musk, he knew that the reason why the latter brought everyone from SpaceX here to watch the live broadcast with his own people, except In addition to satisfying "curiosity", I still hope to gain experience from this launch.

After all, this was the first launch of a self-propelled spacecraft, not one of those propelled rockets that were too ripe for maturity.

Any frame of takeoff and landing is precious.

but now……

People have force field technology, what experience do you have?

"We are more than one generation behind." Musk's eye sockets were sunken, and the look in his eyes was extremely complicated.

"Before, even if we were on different sides, I still hoped and would like to congratulate them on reaching the moon. But now..."

Musk said and closed his mouth.

The aerospace experts present all had expressions like his.

As a scientist and engineer who aspires to aeronautics.

The simple thinking of most people is to look at the launch of the Yueyue from the perspective of the future of the entire human race-they admit that they will be a little sour, but if they really want to say that the opposite side will fall... This kind of thing is still impossible arrived.

But now, after the opponent showed the force field technology that has been hidden all along...

Just then, the door of the conference room opened.

A correspondent from the command center stood at the door.

"Gentlemen, there is news from Artemis that they want to implement Plan B, carry the material module into lunar orbit, and complete the landing a day earlier and carry more materials."

Director Bowles immediately turned his head: "What?"

"They learned about the situation on Yaoyue and strongly demanded that the plan be implemented."

Director Bowers frowned immediately.

It is impossible for any space mission to have only one plan and plan.

Especially the feat of sending 18 people to the sky this time - not surprisingly, this will be the last time humans use a traditional working medium high-thrust rocket to perform the moon landing.

More prudence and prudence are required.

Artemis, which is currently decelerating in orbit around the earth and docking with the material module, proposed plan B, which is actually the original plan A, the scheduled plan-this plan will carry more materials and reach the moon faster.

However, due to the difficulty of landing the plan will increase, the current plan was adopted later.

Of course, there's also Plan C - mission abort to orbit.

This is the equivalent of a space rescue program. (Note, there really are.)

If the current progress is followed... there will be an unacceptable fact.

That is, Artemis took off five days early, but landed one day behind.

Just as everyone was silently thinking, another commander came to the door.

"Director, White House is on the phone."

...

white house.

"Sir, I just need you to answer me, are we going to land earlier than them as planned?"

"Yes."

"Then why amend it?"

"because……"

"Okay, you don't need to answer, there are two roads before us now, the first one is to step on the moon first, the second one is to launch missiles to shoot down that ship - you choose!"

"... yes, sir."

"Then tell the girls and boys on the spaceship, I support them! Bai Gong supports them, and the whole country supports them!"

...

ESA.

"We support the implementation of the original plan."

JAL.

"We agreed on a plan B."

Alitalia.

"If it's the astronaut's choice, we agree."

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Xichang Satellite Launch Center.

Invitation to the launch command room.

Since the launch and ignition, Ye Ming has kept standing and looking up at the big screen. Even with the BOSS standing beside him, he was not distracted at all.

Even when Yaoyue was successfully ignited and lifted off smoothly, he only applauded lightly with everyone.

Afterwards, calm was restored in the entire command hall.

There are only data from various radar stations, satellites, and Yaoyue itself.

For the common man, it's a day to binge.

But for those in the command hall...

Ignition and take off is just the beginning.

The real difficulty is to release satellites into orbit, de-orbit to decelerate, and de-orbit to land.

Only a safe walk on the moon is worth celebrating.

Only then can we really raise our glasses!

Until then, no one can relax and must not relax.