Chapter 272: Landing on the Moon, Leaving(2/2)
The tail flame spewed out, and the scorching flames made the surrounding air disorder, forming a shaking image, as if in water.
The sky plane slowly glided, and its speed gradually accelerated, and it ran towards the straight runway in the distance. As the speed increased, the ground head of the sky plane was raised upwards at the 15 kilometers of the taxiway, like a huge giant bird, leaving the ground.
Europe!
Countless hats were thrown into the sky, and on the runway, there were media reporters chasing the sky planes, and cameras were aimed at the sky.
More reporters, under the coordination of the command center, rushed into the nearby ground command center, and shot various data from the ground and space planes through the glass window.
Large ground tracking stations across the country have started to track the figures of aerospace planes.
Countless people sat in front of the TV and watched the exciting live broadcast of the moon from the TV screen. Foreign countries also saw countless people caring about this moon landing operation.
The aerospace plane accelerates at high altitude, the turbine engine stops, the scramjet engine starts, and the plane rises rapidly like an arrow off the string.
Twenty kilometers, the scramjet engine was shut down and the rocket engine started.
The airplane raised its head upwards.
After an hour and a half flight, the aerospace plane arrived in low-Earth orbit, and under program control, entered orbit and began to fly around the earth.
In order to obtain a higher initial speed, this moon landing flight adopted a low-Earth orbit of 300 kilometers, which was far lower than the highest flight of aerospace planes.
The cargo hold of the spacecraft slowly opened, and the mechanical claws grabbed the spacecraft.
The spacecraft's power system was turned on, and three astronauts checked the spacecraft's instruments, then turned on the engine, adjusted the spacecraft's attitude, and entered the orbit of the Earth's satellite.
The engine shuts down again.
The spacecraft flew around the earth for a week, and the pilot used these three hours to calculate the flight orbit from the light brain. Then, under the influence of the earth's gravity, the plane was turned on for the second time and used the power of the earth's rotation to throw the spacecraft out. At a speed of 12 kilometers per second, it flew towards the moon at a fifteen-degree angle with the equator.
Get enough initial speed and the engine shuts down again to save fuel.
Interstellar flight is long, from the earth to the moon. It is 380,000 kilometers. Most of the time, astronauts can only check various equipment.
After reaching 100,000 kilometers, the speed of the spacecraft gradually slowed down, lowered to three kilometers per second, and flew to the moon at a slow speed. However, at this time, it had already left the earth's gravitational circle and just wait for a slow speed.
The spacecraft begins to autobiography around the central axis at this time, so as to prevent the scorching sun from always illuminating one direction and reduce the damage to the spacecraft by temperature.
The astronauts on the ship took off their space suits, and they had already entered a long-distance travel time and no longer had to wear bulky space suits.
Now, it's their time to rest.
But Xiao Qiang and the others could not enjoy this kind of treatment. They did not have large-scale survival equipment, so they could only stay in a small space and rely on the space suit's survival system to provide them with enough oxygen supply.
Even the bondage on them was not released.
Because at this time, inertia and gravity are in a state of equilibrium, canceling each other out, the entire spacecraft is in a weightless environment in space without any constraints. Everyone will float around in this small space.
Several scientific researchers were still hit by some impact despite the buffer seats when the aerospace plane was separated from the atmosphere.
Although they had already entered the Earth and Moon flight at this moment. The flight was very stable, they still seemed a little unconscious and did not continue to work. Xiao Qiang had never stopped exercising over the years, and he adapted to space flight for more than a year. He took a breath and recovered.
Gong Wang and others fell asleep without even eating anything.
In the state of weightlessness in space, they have no appetite. Moreover, in order to eat something, they have to squeeze toothpaste and get food out. The same is true for drinking water, otherwise it will float in the cabin and turn into floating water droplets.
Another reason to eat less is to reduce physiological reactions.
It is very painful to relieve your hands in space. Early astronauts were so distressed. If you don’t pay attention, your urine and defecation would float all over the cabin. With the advancement of technology, space stations and large spacecraft can finally collect astronaut excrement using vacuum urinals.
But it is obvious that it is impossible to install a vacuum sanitary utensil on the miniature spacecraft where Xiao Qiang and others are. Two or three days before boarding the spacecraft, everyone started to save food, eat less and drink less water. At this time, they tried to eat as little as possible, hoping to spend these three or five days of earth-moon flights and solve the necessary physiological needs.
According to the flight plan, they will spend two and a half days in the Earth-Moon flight stage.
However, after checking the intelligent system, the spacecraft pilot changed his plan and once again turned on the afterburner in the middle of the earth-moon flight, increasing the flight speed.
They were afraid that something would happen to Xiao Qiang and others, so they would rather consume more fuel than let Xiao Qiang and others land on the moon as soon as possible.
After two and a half days of flight, they shortened to two days, and bought half a day for Xiao Qiang and the others. The price was that when they returned, they would abandon most of the supplies and equipment, and the data they obtained could only be temporarily saved in the spacecraft database for further analysis when they returned.
Anyway, consuming more fuel can also ensure that they return to Earth.
After all, the gravity of the moon is only one-sixth of that of the earth. The speed required to escape from the moon is much easier than taking off from the earth.
Flying from the Earth-Moon into the moon orbit is not that simple. Astronauts collect ground data through sensors and carefully correct the flight orbit.
The earth and the moon fly very quickly. If you are not careful, you may pass by the moon and enter the vast space.
At this time, the spacecraft was affected by the gravitational force of the moon. The spacecraft, which had already begun to slow down, quietly accelerated and flew towards the moon.
Fortunately, the processing speed of the optical brain is quite fast. Various data are passed to the optical brain and analyzed by the intelligent system, and the results are quickly obtained. The spacecraft adjusted its posture, turned over in space, turned one end of the thruster forward, controlled by the optical brain, started the rocket engine, and slowed down the spacecraft.
Everything is as perfect as before the action, in Pangu's world, without any thrills. The spacecraft was captured by the moon's gravity and became a satellite flying around the moon.
During this process, the spacecraft happened to fly to the back of the moon, cutting off the connection between the spacecraft and the earth.
When the spacecraft entered the lunar orbit, orbited the front of the moon, and established a connection with the earth again, the astronauts reported to the ground command: "I have entered the lunar orbit, and everything is normal." On the screen, all the ground command staff cheered.
The spacecraft circled several times, on the one hand, lowered the altitude, and on the other hand, it was also making final adjustments to the moon's landing area.
An hour later, the spacecraft began to land on the moon.
The moon's gravity drags the spacecraft and descends rapidly.
Based on the data sent back continuously, the intelligent system occasionally starts the engine and uses rocket thrust to slow down the spacecraft. Under the control of the optical brain, this action is extremely accurate, greatly reducing fuel loss.
Due to the precise information sent back by the unmanned detectors in the last two times, the spacecraft landed at the preset location without any suspense. It was not necessary to land like Apollo 11, when they landed, they discovered that the landing area they chose was a rocky crater.
The landing gear fell, the spacecraft bounced and stopped steadily.
The cabin door opened, and the astronaut walked out of the spacecraft cockpit, carefully held the ladder down, stretched out his feet, and stepped down carefully on the moon.
At this moment, the whole country was thundering, and bottles of champagne were opened, bubbles overflowed, and laughter was everywhere.
"We are here for the future of mankind!" said the chief astronaut.
A national flag spreads on the moon and is inserted on it. This is a testimony, a testimony to China becoming a powerful country.
The lunar rover also drove out, leaving only one astronaut on the spacecraft.
These are actually showcases and are for other countries to see. All actions are normal, and it seems to be just an ordinary lunar investigation, or a propaganda.
In a place where the TV camera cannot see, the material cabin door is quietly opening, and the miniature spacecraft Xiao Qiang and others are riding leaves the material cabin.
The power system was started, and flames erupted from the miniature spacecraft, causing the spacecraft to float gradually. As the flames at the tail ejected, the spacecraft thought about the direction they had already chosen, flew out, and quickly disappeared from sight.
Chapter completed!