Landing on the moon was a high-tech term that ordinary people would hear. To the Xi Ling Apostles, it was an everyday term that was akin to buying a bottle of soy sauce. To Qian Qian, it was a term that was equivalent to "the TV series is starting". In short, it was a term that suddenly became closely related to many people.
Even though I didn't know how the last sentence was connected to the first three.
Even though I was already used to relying on Xi Ling technology to travel across multiple worlds in an instant, I was still surprised when I found out that humans could send the most advanced exploration vehicle to the moon with just a few days of emergency preparation. I was surprised that the world was developing so quickly, and I was also surprised that so many countries had secretly prepared probes and spaceships that could be launched at any time.
Many people questioned the original purpose of the large launch vehicles and precision-guided landing capsules that had been hidden for a long time. However, such voices were quickly suppressed by the world's emergency joint lunar exploration mission. Ordinary people could only see the bright side of things, such as world peace and harmony. Humans were racing against time to explore the mysterious dark side of the moon to find the source of the disaster that almost destroyed the modern human communication network. In a way, this was not wrong, as long as we could ignore the military shadow in the spacecraft.
Yes, "those" spacecraft, not "that" spacecraft. After discovering that the number of countries that were interested in participating in this operation exceeded their expectations, the United Nations "Dark Side of the Moon" operation team temporarily expanded the plan. While maintaining the original launch mission, countries that had spare space to launch more probes were allowed to send satellites or landing capsules to the Moon. This was probably the first time in human history that such a hasty plan had been implemented. It also showed how radical humans were after their current technological development had reached a bottleneck. The three impacts on the Moon shook human society, but it also inspired humans to explore space again. Some people said that around 1960 was the era when humans truly began to grow their technology tree. Now, the lunar impact event had obviously given humans a new talent point to allocate.
Today was the critical moment of the lunar exploration mission. At least a billion people around the world were sitting in front of their TVs, watching the largest group of spacecraft launched at the same time to the moon's synchronous orbit. This included us. However, the First Family's equipment was more advanced, and their observation methods were more advanced. We had a large holographic projection in the living room. One of the projections was monitoring every spacecraft from Earth, and the other projection was from the moon's perspective. There were only a few small bright spots flying across the sky.
"They have already begun orbiting the moon. Almost half of their spacecraft have crashed. Many of the probes and spacecraft are experimental products. They don't have the ability to break away from the gravitational balance point. The ones that are coming are also out of control." Sandora sat on the sofa in the living room with popcorn in her mouth. She looked at the holographic projection in front of her and commented, "Ha, I didn't expect humans to be so reckless. If they had made this decision a few days earlier, I would have given them a higher evaluation."
"It doesn't matter." I shrugged. "We can't let them see the impact crater, and we can't let them see the wreckage of the starship. Visca not only fixed the lunar surface, but he also folded the air defense positions in the shadow zone back under the armor. This is equivalent to the largest money-burning activity in the history of mankind. "
After all, no matter how strange my own race was — fine, it was strange to the point where it could be picked out of all living creatures to form a class of their own. As for Void creatures, there were only three of them in my entire race, and one of them was probably on the other side of the Void that I would never be able to see. I had been completely kicked out of the human race — anyway, I had been born and raised on Earth for twenty years, and my feelings for this world were exactly the same as the people on Earth. Now, because of the military secrecy regulations and the [Conventional Civilization Evolution Speed Limit Law], I had no choice but to watch as the humans traveled 380,000 kilometers in vain to see a bunch of craters. This really made me sigh.
Of course, Sandora knew what I was conflicted about. She only needed to look at my expression to know what I was thinking. Our communication was even simpler than the communication between Pandora and Visca. Thus, the Queen put down the popcorn in her hand and shook her finger at me mysteriously and mischievously. "Ah Jun, I didn't say that the humans have to return in vain."
"Huh?" I was stunned. "You can't be thinking of catalyzing human civilization, right? Let me tell you, if that's the case, I would rather the people on Earth be ignorant for another two hundred years. I have seen the historical materials of ancient civilizations in the database. With Earth's current level of civilization, it would be a dead end for them if they tried to catalyze human civilization. "
"Of course I know that. I was the one who showed you those historical materials." Sandora rolled her eyes at me. "I won't give the people on Earth any technology that would allow them to develop explosively. This is what we agreed on. But this time … I have to reward them for their efforts in advancing into space and knowledge. So, I got Visca to put some things in the shadow zone."
"A few stones." Visca had actually learned to be mysterious. He didn't say anything but just blinked at me. "There are …"
"Cough cough!" Sandora quickly coughed and Visca didn't say anything else. This girl's mysterious effect seemed to last for less than a second.
With Earth's current technology, the speed of the spaceships launched by humans was unbearably slow. For the past two days, we had been watching the spaceships slowly travel in space. Plus, there wasn't anything else that interested us, so it was extremely boring. Liliana couldn't help but want to rush into space to help push the spaceships. I didn't know who was the one who rolled up her sleeves and wanted to use a tree stick to poke all the spaceships down. Even now, she was still yelling as I pressed her down on the sofa, "Go in circles, your sister! How long are you going to go in circles?! You've been going in circles for two hours already. Are you going to stop?! Will you die if you hurry up and land?! I'm talking about you, the idiot with the NASA X on your head. Come down if you have the guts! "
Ding Ling, who had been dragged over by Lin Xue to watch the Super Moon Exploration, stared in horror at Lina, who was still baring her fangs and brandishing her claws on the sofa. She never imagined that a demigod who spoke for God would behave like this. Lin Feng, on the other hand, let out a long sigh. "How many bullets has his sister blocked for his mother …"
Icetis, who was squatting on the sofa and eating edamame, immediately looked at Lin Feng in a new light.
"Exploring the moon isn't like throwing a brick at the moon from Earth. The spacecraft has to follow several elliptical orbits to get close to the moon. Plus, the spacecraft didn't launch during the best launch window, so it's very troublesome to correct the trajectory. Please don't compare the Empire's shuttle to them, okay?" Lina's eyes lit up. She looked at Lena and said, "It's not like throwing a brick at the moon from Earth. The spacecraft has to follow several elliptical orbits to get close to the moon.
Lina pouted and squirmed on the sofa like a caterpillar. "But I didn't waste a few days of my youth just to watch you play cute in a few circles a hundred and thirty thousand kilometers away!"
Alright, the humans present, especially Ding Ling and Lin Feng, had really interesting expressions on their faces. They felt that the space technology that humans had developed over the years was the culmination of civilization. No matter how clumsy the technology was, it was still advanced technology. But now, a 109-meter-tall girl said that it was acting cute in circles. I guessed that the only person in the world who could say that about the human exploration of the moon was Liliana.
Ever since she was reborn, Liliana didn't see herself as a human anymore …
"No, I can't take it anymore!"
Liliana, who was rolling around, suddenly shouted. "I don't want to watch this anymore. It's boring. I'm going to play on another planet!"
After saying that, Liliana disappeared from the living room in a flash.
Ding Ling, Lin Feng, and Sally, who had been looking at the holographic projection in front of her and didn't know what to do, all turned to look at me at the same time. I could only smile awkwardly. "Don't look at me, that's her problem."
Visca suddenly pulled my arm and pointed at the holographic projection. "Brother, the first probe is descending."
I looked, and there was indeed a spacecraft changing orbit. It was the one with the NASA logo and the one that Liliana had scolded. After circling the moon twice, it finally entered the best orbit to drop the probe. A large silver-white iron can separated from the spacecraft and approached the dark side of the moon with the help of a decelerating rocket.
Unfortunately, it was a little far from the impact crater, and the scientists on Earth couldn't accurately determine the location of the impact point on the far side of the moon. The moment the lunar surface exploded, all the probes pointed at the moon were burned. For obvious reasons, we hadn't been able to repair them until now. Therefore, the exploration of the dark side of the moon depended on luck. Their spacecraft had to fly near the dark side of the moon to survey the situation below. The people on the ground would use their intuition to determine which impact craters were new and which ones had suspicious objects in them. Then, they would drop the landing capsule. This way, the probe would most likely not land near the impact crater. NASA was a tragedy. They could collect some lunar soil and then take a bath. In theory, no matter how advanced the Americans' lunar rover was, it shouldn't have the ability to travel two hundred kilometers on the moon's surface, and the first impact crater was at least two hundred and ten kilometers away …
At the same time, the probes from other countries also entered suitable orbits. Due to technological limitations, Earth's spaceships were actually a bunch of inertial cans that relied on predetermined orbits. Their precise maneuverability was abysmal. They couldn't move as flexibly in space as the interstellar shuttles. They couldn't even make an obtuse turn. Therefore, in order to prevent an orbital collision (There have been such accidents in the history of human space travel, but those were satellites that collided with space junk. As for a spacecraft that had just been launched, it was absolutely unheard of. If it happened today, it would definitely go down in history. I really don't know how the two countries involved would meet in the future.) All the spaceships were very far away from each other, and they were traveling in trajectories that would never cross each other's paths. This was the first time that so many countries had joined forces, so everyone was being very careful.
This also ensured that the probes could land far away from the dark side of the moon. At least, the probability of finding the impact crater was much higher.
"I don't feel anything at all."
After waiting for a long time, several probes landed smoothly on the surface of the moon. Visca suddenly shook his head in boredom. "They are too small, and one of them broke the cable when it landed. They are really useless. I should be able to break them all if I shiver. "
"I think you guys are very dangerous, really." Ding Ling hugged her legs and sat next to Lin Xue. She looked at the cat-eyed loli on the moon in horror, but her hand quietly reached out to the table. "What is this? It looks good. Can you give it to me? "
"You want to take advantage of everything." Lin Xue slapped Ding Ling's hand away. "This is a dragon ball. It can really be used to summon Shenron, but it already has an owner. It belongs to Little Bubble."
Ding Ling's eyes immediately lit up. "Shenron? Does that thing really exist? Can it fulfill my wish? Shenron is omnipotent, right? "
Lin craned her neck to look around. After confirming that someone was calling her, she said timidly, "I can sweep the floor, wash clothes, and cook, but I often break things. Don't ask me for help if you have something valuable."
Monina immediately covered her face as she couldn't bear to watch. Icetis, Lin Xue, and I instantly burst into laughter.
At that moment, the probes that had landed safely on the moon's surface began to move. The most unique space operation in human history had finally entered a substantial phase.
Six probes disintegrated or lost contact when they passed through the gravitational equilibrium point. Two probes lost control when landing on the moon. In the end, only three probes landed safely on the moon's surface.
One of them was a lunar rover created by the Americans. This gadget was created by them two years ago. It was originally supposed to be used in a space program in the second half of the year, but now it was unveiled ahead of schedule. As mentioned before, every country that had the ability to launch rockets into space would have something hidden. Space flight, in the minds of ordinary people, would require at least half a year or even several years of planning before it could be carried out. But in fact, in an emergency, there were at least four countries in the world that could launch a probe into space or even the moon within a few days. Even though it was a one-way trip, the success rate was at least 80%. One of them was the Americans who always saved the world in the last 30 minutes of movies. They always had a habit of secretly preparing a lot of good stuff.
Of course, China also participated in this joint operation. Obviously, China didn't have the ability to independently launch a probe to the moon within a few days. That couldn't be helped. But at least China provided a launch vehicle, which was much better than the Koreans who claimed responsibility for the lunar impact …
Now, the American lunar rover had automatically activated. It began to stagger on the dusty, rugged surface of the moon. Its landing point was at the bottom of a large crater on the far side of the moon. Perhaps there was a problem with the spacecraft's judgment. Before the rover was released, the spacecraft had obviously scanned the first impact crater. In the end, it flew more than two hundred kilometers and left the rover alone in the middle of nowhere.
The landing point of the other two probes was very accurate. One of them was the "Dark Side of the Moon" lunar rover jointly launched by many countries. From the launch vehicle to the lunar spacecraft, to the lunar rover itself, this slow little guy came to the desolate gray world with the resources or at least the wishes of at least a dozen countries. The other probe landed on the other side of the impact crater. It was a Russian probe. Just like the lunar rover launched by the Americans, it was a relatively tragic guy. Although it successfully landed, it unfortunately damaged its battery and a cable. The remaining power should only be enough for the ground station behind it to perform a short mourning ceremony. Weska closed his eyes to feel its position, trying to tease the slow little machine.
In other words, the only spacecraft that could complete the mission was the lunar rover launched by the joint efforts of all the countries. It was two-thirds American, but it arrived on the Moon on a transportation vehicle that was hastily put together by twelve countries. It was also the only spacecraft that landed on the edge of the largest and most recognizable impact crater. This was a bit too much of a coincidence.
Wait, it really is too much of a coincidence. I couldn't help but turn to look at Sandora. As expected, she gave me a mysterious smile.
"It's just a small hint. Any independently launched rover can't complete the mission, but this joint rover will safely float to the surface of the moon even if the engine is turned off." Sandora squinted her eyes and said, "Maybe many years later, people will think about today's coincidence. Anyway, that's all I did."
I looked at Shadora in surprise. She had done this without my knowledge, which didn't fit her personality. Even though this was a good thing, Shadora didn't seem like a queen who would do such a 'gentle' thing. She was more suited to a grand style. She would either destroy a civilization or support it on a large scale. She definitely wouldn't prepare such a meticulous' gift '. This didn't fit her style at all!
Facing my confusion, Sandora just smiled and pinched my ear. "It's because of you. You're so slow."
I suddenly understood. Then, Lin Xue and Ding Ling teamed up and looked down on me for half a minute …
Half an hour later, the lunar rover named "Dark Side of the Moon" completed its short climb and entered the third impact crater through a gap.
From space, this large crater was obviously a "fresh" scar on the surface of the moon, and the surrounding area had been blown into a large plain by the shockwave. It was very easy to distinguish. Visca had already repaired the exposed starship armor under the third impact crater, but it still retained the surrounding crater landforms.
At this time, the lunar rover had finished measuring the energy of the crater and finally started moving again. It was heading in a direction that might change the course of human history.
Sandora said that she had prepared a small gift for humanity. Now, I was looking forward to it. What was it?
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