November 5th.

The Moon 8 spacecraft, which had been flying around the moon orbit for almost three days, finally began to enter the landing procedure at around 3:30 in the morning.

At this time, both Houston Space City on the ground and Outpost 1 base were extremely nervous.

You should know that the two consecutive failures have hit the limit on the morale of NASA and North American people.

If it fails again, the NASA Director can choose to resign, and the subsequent development of North American aerospace will also fall into an extremely passive stage.

Outposts in the moonlit night period 1.

Wade and Hawke, who were constantly reducing the daily food ratio, looked a little scary.

On the one hand, the two consecutive failures of replenishment have put unprecedented psychological pressure on them; on the other hand, they are in a semi-hungry state due to insufficient nutritional intake.

In this case, their health problems have aggravated. After all, living in outer space for a long time, space syndrome is difficult to avoid.

The two are in the temporary reconstruction of scientific research cabin B1, staring at the radar monitoring data.

This time NASA learned a lesson and gave Wade and Hawke the right to make decisions on the spot. If an emergency occurs, he can manually intervene in the control of the spacecraft.

The command center of Houston Space City has no choice but to adopt this expedient measure. After all, the communication delay between the moon and Houston is difficult to react in time once unexpected situations occur.

The time on the instrument is beating minute by minute.

Wade, who was about to intervene in the control of the spacecraft, had sweaty palms, and he stared at the radar data.

Hawke was not idle either. He was following the data transmitted by the Moon 8 spacecraft.

The spacecraft began to dive to the moon's ground. In order to ensure safety, NASA and General Electric adopted a very conservative plan to reduce the original 12.2 tons of payload to 8.7 tons.

The extra payload is used on fuel and is intended to use super slow landing.

Under the recoil adjustment of the auxiliary engine, the Lunar 8 spacecraft slowly landed to a designated position. This landing method can only be smoothly implemented by a low-gravity planet like the moon.

Although some fuel will be wasted, the safety is relatively high. Even if the spacecraft loses control, it will not completely crash. At least there will be no major problems with the supply compartment.

175 seconds of execution of the landing program.

The spacecraft successfully landed at about 1.13 kilometers northwest of the outpost, with no dangers in the process.

"Huh! God bless!" Wade was exhausted.

Hawke was not much better than that. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and immediately sent the successful landing report he edited in advance to Houston Space City.

Inside the command center of Houston Space City.

It was also a boiling moment, and NASA executives including Director George and General Electric were also secretly relieved.

Success this time is too important. If you fail again, the problem will be very big.

Of course, George did not take it lightly. After receiving the confirmation report from Outpost 1, he called several executives and General Electric people to his temporary office.

NASA's trouble is not over yet.

Although Moon 8 successfully delivered 8.7 tons of supplies to Outpost 1, there are still a lot of things to do next.

For example, Wade and Hawke have physical health problems, and Outpost 1 must be rotated in about 100 days.

Next, there will be the expansion of the Outpost 1 base, the establishment of the lunar route, and the increase in space transportation capacity.

If it weren't for the continuous failure of Lunar VI and Lunar VII, NASA would not have been so passive, which led to many previous plans being disrupted.

Originally, according to the plan, Moon 8 or Moon 9 might be used for astronaut rotation, sending Hawk and others back to Blue Star, and sending two new astronauts to the outpost 1.

But now, the plan is completely messed up.

However, although the next two launch vehicles will be postponed for a few weeks, they will transform the previous capsule and prepare the next batch of supplies.

After all, the new astronauts are going to pass, and Outpost 1 will definitely be insufficient at this time. NASA plans to reserve food for Outpost 1 for at least 10 months and ensure that the food reserves at the base will not be less than 5 months when astronauts are stationed.

Only in this way can we avoid a food crisis similar to this time.

This is mainly because NASA's plan is unreasonable and overestimates his own strength.

Seeing that the China Space Administration launched every day and maintained a success rate of 97.5%, they thought they could do it, but they almost failed.

With this painful lesson, NASA has to consider safety issues, although so far, no astronauts have died.

When the wave continues, big problems will occur sooner or later.

Astronauts are also humans. If the mortality rate is too high, no one is willing to go to space, especially after the failure of the first two launches, some astronauts are already a little uneasy.

What's more, it is very troublesome to train professional astronauts. Each one is made of money and sacrificed in vain, and NASA will also feel pain.

NASA readjusted its plans and required major aerospace companies to strengthen assistance and ensure safety performance of launch vehicles and spacecraft, even if it sacrifices part of the payload.

At least this painful lesson is not entirely a bad thing for NASA.

The radical and chaotic development before may transform into a stable and coordinated manner.

I don’t know how long it will take for NASA to complete internal integration. If it cannot be completed within one or two years, the gap between them and Greater China in the aerospace field will continue to widen.

Outpost 1.

The hungry Hawke and Wade did not go to receive the supply cabin as soon as possible, but quickly had a full meal to comfort his Wuyuan Temple.

These days they are so hard that they are worried all day long, and they are not full, so they are almost driven crazy by these days.

After dinner, the two of them wiped their bodies with hot and wet towels, then lay on the ground and turned on the TV.

Now they just want to relax. Anyway, the supply cabin has landed safely, with 8.7 tons of supplies inside, which is enough for them to support for four months.

Changong TV also broadcast the news that the Moon 8 successfully landed. Obviously, every move here did not escape the other party's surveillance.

"Wade, do you think if we lose supplies, the Chinese will save us?"

"..." Wade said with complicated eyes: "It shouldn't be. After all, this kind of thing does not have any benefit to them. Even if you pay, it will be the same."

Hawke also fell silent. In the space race in front of him, the China Space Administration can suppress other forces around the world, and the gap between the two sides is very large.

These days, they secretly watched Changong TV and got a lot of information from it.

The scale of Guanghan Palace Base is now about 8 to 10 times that of Qianshao 1, and the technology is more advanced and various supporting facilities are also very complete.

Hawke can be elected as an astronaut, so he is naturally not an ordinary person. He has a doctorate degree, mechanical design and aerospace engineering majors.

After struggling with NASA for more than ten years, I have learned about some situations in the aerospace field.

Judging from his eyes, the Guanghan Palace Base can already be regarded as a small city. Especially after the Guanghan Palace Base has local industry, its subsequent development will definitely be faster.
Chapter completed!