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The president and Dean He walked into the hangar. In the huge space, the personnel were busy taking off to prepare.

The first time a Chinese landed on the moon is of great memorial significance. In such an occasion, no one wants to miss it. As the leader of the moon landing team, Xiao Qiang should also come to the scene.

However, the convening of the Standing Committee of the Pangu World Management Committee made Xiao Qiang miss the opportunity and sigh.

For this reason, he sent Austin, general manager of Universal Company, to make up for the regret that he could not come in person.

The length of the space plane is more than 90 meters, which makes it even more daunting in the hangar. The triangular body shape is full of ultra-modern technological beauty.

Next to it, there is an upright cylinder, which is as high as twenty-three meters. This is the moon landing spacecraft.

The top of the cylinder is spherical, which is a cradle. There is also a cylinder more than five meters long connected below to store various equipment needed for detection activities and materials needed for survival.

Below the manned cabin and the lunar landing material cabin is the propulsion department used for long-distance flights.

Austin stood in front of the moon-landing spacecraft, frowned, looked up at the spacecraft without saying a word.

Judging from his appearance, he didn't look like he was here to attend a grand event, but was as sad as he was a close relative and friend, with a solemn expression and a lot of thoughts.

More than a dozen security team members of Universal Corporation, holding laser guns, surrounded the moon-landing spacecraft and were not allowed to get close to them.

Several scientific researchers from Universal Corporation were wearing white coats and carrying special testing equipment, checking each interface very carefully. The inspection of the spacecraft had been dozens or hundreds of times, but these technicians were still as if it was the first time, without any details.

"General Manager Austin, is there anything wrong with it?" Dean Liang and the other two approached and greeted Austin friendly.

"Ah? Oh! No, no, how is that possible?" Austin seemed to be awakened from a nightmare, and his body shook. He used a laugh to hide his inner anxiety, "Did you see it? At the bottom of the material compartment, there is a circle of protrusions, which is an open telescopic landing shelf for slowing down the landing impact. Before landing on the moon, the small rocket outside the spacecraft will emit recoil thrust, allowing the spacecraft to gradually slow down the descent speed, thereby achieving a soft landing..."

Dean Liang and the others have read the information on the spacecraft many times. They are all familiar with what Austin said. As for the relevant data on these devices, they are a hundred times more familiar than Austin.

They smiled and listened politely to Austin for a few minutes. Then they pointed to their wrists politely and said, "General Manager Austin, the time is almost over. Look, is it time to do the pre-lifting work?"

After all, Austin was the representative sent by Xiao Qiang, although they were the top leaders on the scene. They also respect Austin's opinions very much.

Moreover, the security team of Universal Company was guarding the spacecraft and the crane was unable to pass, so they could only stand by not far away.

"Is that right? Ah. Really, time is coming..." Austin glanced at the technicians. They had completed the last inspection work and were packing up the equipment. He looked up at the spaceship and showed a complex expression. The worry about the unknown situation was overwhelming.

A car drove directly into the hangar and stopped slowly.

Three astronauts in space suits got out of the car, and a group of technicians surrounded them, put on their sealed helmets, and checked the sealing of the space suits.

These three astronauts were sent by Universal Corporation.

All departments were not satisfied with the first merit of Universal's moon landing, and the superiors even talked to Xiao Qiang. However, Xiao Qiang, who has always been humble, said this time that he would have to complete the moon landing independently. His arrogance made many people angry, and some even got angry, wanting to stop the moon landing.

In the end, under the persuasion of others, the arrogance of Universal Company was temporarily tolerated.

However, the cracks also arise in the minds of both sides. It is difficult to say whether the two sides can cooperate happily in the future.

"Then let's start!" Dean He saw the technicians gesture to him, saying that everything was normal. He ignored Austin. With a wave of his hand, others surrounded the astronauts and helped them fix them in the cockpit, and then retreated from the spacecraft.

The spacecraft closed door slowly closed, isolating the inside and outside.

The inflatable equipment is started and the mixed gas is poured into the spacecraft.

Astronauts consume 0.9 kilograms of ground oxygen every day in space. Space oxygen supply is the key to whether astronauts can survive in space.

In the early days, the space supply was to use liquid oxygen to supply pure oxygen. For example, the Apollo lunar spacecraft in the United States used pure oxygen supply of ground at thirds of the atmospheric pressure to ensure the life needs of astronauts.

However, because the risk of pure oxygen is too high, major accidents have been caused many times. Later, both the United States and the Soviet Union used mixed gases to form an atmospheric pressure mixed gas, which not only maintained the uniform pressure of astronauts inside and outside, protected the health of their organs, but also prevented fires. In terms of safety, great improvements have been made.

In one hour, the gas infusion was completed.

The oxygen supply equipment in the spacecraft begins to work, and special equipment recovers carbon dioxide and provides fresh gas.

The astronaut took off his helmet and stopped supplying oxygen to the space suit.

The spacesuit's continuous oxygen supply time is limited, and it usually only provides only a few dozen minutes of pure oxygen for astronauts to use in emergencies. Or, astronauts need to maintain their lives when they are out of the cabin.

The life equipment carried by the spacecraft can maintain the consumption of three astronauts, including oxygen, for fifteen days. To complete the long-term moon garrison, the earth must provide them with various supplements regularly. Every kilogram of materials must be transported from the earth, and the cost is so high that it is amazing!

Now that the airplane is used, the cost is slightly reduced.

However, if there is no other progress in solving the long-term survival of human beings, this will still be an unattainable task for a certain period of time.

The whole country is used to supply several astronauts to permanently garrison on the moon. No one will do such stupid things without gain.

Neither will China.

If not, this is the first time that China has sent astronauts to the moon; if not, all the spacecraft, equipment manufacturing and other expenditures this time will be borne by Universal Corporation, the normal practice of the country is to send people to the moon to simply collect some materials and leave detection equipment after returning here, and they will never be stationed for a long time.

But now Universal Company pays the bill, and the moon landing time has been extended to one and a half months.

During this month and a half, the spacecraft will fly two times in one direction from the earth to provide supplies to the moon. Without a dedicated round-trip space shuttle, the cost of flying between the planets is high, and the spacecraft and propulsion department can be supplied. Because it cannot be recycled, it can only be abandoned in space and the moon.

To this end, Universal's total expenditure reached more than 7 billion euros!

This is why Xiao Qiang became the leader of the moon landing team. He is one of the reasons. When landing on the moon, establishing a full point, building space stations, space shuttles, lunar base construction, power stations, ore refineries, machinery manufacturing plants... is asking for money. This is not a problem of hundreds of millions. The entire system project is completed, without hundreds of billions or trillions, it is impossible to complete it.

And. Its unit of pricing is Euro!

Perhaps it was because of this that Xiao Qiang dared to ask for it all over the sky

The first moon landing is required to be implemented by people from the world.

But is this really wise?

Dean Liang was naturally unhappy, but he was a scientist, and the first place he considered was scientific research. So although he was unhappy, he endured it and tried his best to cooperate with Universal Corporation to complete the first moon landing in China's history.

But in the future, Xiao Qiang will definitely pay the price for his tough decision...

Dean Liang shook his head and did not think about this issue. This was not what he should consider.

Two large cranes are slowly rolling down the spacecraft and lifting it up flat. The cargo hold door of the aerospace plane is opened smoothly, allowing the crane to lift the spacecraft into the cargo hold.

Several staff members wore uniform suits and boarded the cargo hold to check whether the position was correct. The fasteners closed and fixed the spacecraft in the cargo hold.

Compared with the length of the aerospace plane more than 90 meters, the cargo holder is less than 30 meters, the carrying capacity is really limited. The flight performance of the aerospace plane is too poor, which is also a helpless move.

Staff exited and the cargo hold closed again.

The auxiliary personnel in the hangar retreated aside and looked at the airplane excitedly.

Dean Liang and others and Austin left the hangar. At this time, their post was on the tower. Austin turned around step by step, staring at the sky plane reluctantly, not knowing what he was worried about.

The spaceship's material compartment was pitch black.

Xiao Qiang was wearing a full space suit, specially cushioned seats, fixed on a cylindrical bulkhead. At this time, the spacecraft was lying flat, and he was also lying on the bulkhead. But he knew that around him and opposite, the others were fasteners and hung in the air.

This time, a total of seven people were working with him on this dangerous outpost mission.

Xiao Qiang, a security team member, Han Kun and another pilot, Wang Gong and three technicians from the equipment manufacturing department.

For this long voyage, they all went through more than a year of adaptive training. Xiao Qiang only showed his face at the Pangu World Executive Council, and then escaped and returned to the country in the form of smuggling. He and others could not show up and hid, and only hid in this cylinder at the last moment and were sent to the material cabin.

The cylinder where they are located is actually a small spacecraft. All indicators are designed according to the spacecraft, with a small thruster and a cockpit. However, the spacecraft is very small. In addition to the propulsion department, the internal space is extremely limited, and some necessary equipment is also stored. There is no large oxygen supply equipment installed inside. Everyone relies on small solid oxygen equipment to supply oxygen in a short time.

This can supply eight of them, five days and earth to oxygen consumption.

In other words, when they arrive on the moon, they need to find another source of oxygen supply, otherwise they will die of collective hypoxia!

There is no power supply in the small spacecraft, but lines of text data are revealed on their round spacesuits' transparent hood. In this closed small space, the colorful lights look particularly beautiful. This is a film-type monitor, which is connected to each other and can monitor the physical condition of people at any time.

Judging from the data, everyone's pulse is stable and all physiological indicators are normal. Because Wang Gong was older, he arranged special life support seats for him during his design to minimize the impact of earthquakes and other earthquakes he suffered. Everything is normal at this moment.

"How are you? Do you feel uncomfortable?" Xiao Qiang asked after breaking the silence.

All the data is clear, so there is no need to ask this. However, except for the two pilots including Han Kun, everyone is flying out of outer space for the first time, and they are still traveling to the moon more than 300,000 kilometers away. It is inevitable that they are nervous. Talking can relieve their tension.

"It's okay. I'm just tied to the seat for three or five days, it's too boring." Han Kun knew what he was thinking and joked in cooperation.

"If you are bored, you can listen to music, or watch movies!" Another pilot, Jiang Cheng, quipped.

Their voices were collected by helmet pickups, transmitted to the optical processor, and then transmitted through the network to other people's helmets, relaxing in the round helmets. They seemed a little empty.

Security team member Du Zisheng also participated and talked and laughed with them.

"Hmph! It's so noisy!" In the message, Wang Gong turned off the internal phone and continued to focus on reading the various materials needed for base construction and related plans through the light brain.

The other three researchers rolled their eyes and turned off the phone one after another. They read the information carefully.

Xiao Qiang smiled. These researchers were more nervous than he thought. In this extraordinary situation, it is really admirable that they can still focus on their own profession.

A signal suddenly flashed on the screen, and a green light flashed for five seconds before disappearing.

This is the pilot of the spacecraft, in this way, remind them: "The space plane exits the hangar. The moon landing is about to begin!"

Xiao Qiang and others looked at the flashing green signal until it disappeared.

They all lost interest in speaking and fell into deep thought.

The Utopian Plan, the source of their motivation, is placed on them. After struggling for so many years, today is the moment that determines the future.

The aerospace plane slowly drove into the dedicated runway under the guidance of a large trailer.

Amid the cheers of numerous people, countless reporters took pictures of this historic moment.

"Air One, everything is ready, please take off!" The pilot of the aerospace plane applied to the tower to take off. They were not members of the Universal Corporation, and they did not know that there were eight additional passengers hidden in the spacecraft he had planted.

"The runway has been cleared and you can take off!" On the tower, Dean Liang excitedly issued a takeoff order through the glass window, looking at the spectacular aerospace plane.

Boom, the engine started, and the huge roar formed a sound of ground, shaking the glass clattered.
To be continued...