Chapter 133: Return To The Moon
Jiang Yang’s hibernation continues.
Under the circumstance where each hibernation means 50 days have passed, he feels that the world he is in seems to have turned into a movie with the fast-forward button pressed, with everything advancing at an incredibly fast speed.
He and Zhou Yu, Lu Zhaoming, Sun Changhe, and others have become the only audience for this movie.
Under this fast-forward, Jiang Yang clearly feels that the world is quietly and rapidly undergoing a series of changes.
Ordinary people who are truly immersed in it might not feel it, but for Jiang Yang, it is very sensitive.
It’s just like ordinary people looking at their own child, always feeling that the child hasn’t changed at all. But for a relative who can only see the child once every two months, this change is very obvious.
Jiang Yang clearly feels that the World Government, taking the promotion of Aerospace Heroes like Tong Zheng as a handle, is intensively carrying out a series of ideological propaganda, quietly changing people’s thinking.
The estrangement and barriers between regions are increasingly reduced, and the nations that still maintain de facto independence are increasingly canceling tariffs, entry restrictions, and such matters between each other, with personnel flow and supplies flow becoming smoother.
At the same time, exchanges and integration in technology and aerospace are leading all fields. A large number of scientific research scholars have begun frequent exchanges, and research institutions that previously strictly kept secrets from each other are also opening their research data under the unified leadership of the World Government, greatly avoiding the phenomenon of reinventing the wheel, thereby greatly improving research efficiency.
In the aerospace industry, the World Government is also using the movie “Doomsday Hero” as an opportunity, through a series of means including movies, animations, novels, etc., to launch a series of promotions, taking the enthusiastic participation of social celebrities, stars, tycoons, and others in space travel and space burial as an opportunity, implanting the impression that space travel and space burial are fashionable and trendy into people’s hearts.
There is even a movie specifically filming this theme that has been released, about a loser on Earth who, in the final stage of his life, wins a prize, the content of which is a space burial service provided by a certain commercial aerospace company, launching the corpse toward the Rose Nebula.
Then this loser encounters aliens by chance during the space navigation process, is revived by the aliens using gene technology, and by a stroke of luck, solves a major problem encountered by the alien fleet, saves the entire alien civilization, ultimately has a sweet romance with the alien princess, and lives happily forever in the vast starry sky.
The release of this movie causes another sensation, and countless people secretly set it as their goal.
Such a great service, I must get one myself!
Amid the booming development of the aerospace industry, the domestic aerospace industry, which suffered major losses due to full mobilization more than ten years ago, has rapidly regained vitality like a grassland after a wildfire.
At this time, a matter that not only the Hibernation Team is concerned about but the entire world is watching can finally be put on the agenda.
Carry out a manned Moon landing operation, dispatch astronauts to investigate that Moon relic on site, search for possible astronaut corpses and alien facilities fragments.
Before this, the World Government had already led several unmanned explorations. But because of the nuclear explosion, the terrain in that area is too complex, and there has been no significant progress. Now with the booming aerospace industry, it finally has the hardware foundation for manned landing and on-site investigation.
In fact, this work has been in preparation since the end of the apocalypse, but at that time the domestic aerospace industry was almost completely destroyed, and other nations had no manned Moon landing plans or capabilities in the short term.
The only nation that theoretically had the capability had long lost its technology inheritance.
This is basically starting from scratch, redeveloping the entire system for manned Moon landing from super-large rockets to manned spaceships, etc.
Advancing to this stage in just over ten years is already quite fast. Without the World Government leading global cooperation, the estimated time would be delayed by several more years.
The plan is announced, with about two years of preparation period. For ordinary people, it might be long and unbearable, but for Jiang Yang, it is only 14 hibernations, a mere 28 days of wakefulness.
It’s like playing a game; every time he sleeps and wakes up, Jiang Yang can see the Moon landing project advance a big step.
“This feeling seems pretty good too. If waiting day by day, it would drive people crazy with anxiety.”
Such a thought naturally emerged in his mind.
After 14 hibernations, all hibernators arrived at the Space Launch Base.
Looking at the Giant Spirit God III rocket, which is over 80 meters tall, 9 meters in diameter, and has a total mass of over 2400 tons, Jiang Yang feels slightly dazed.
At this moment, this rocket is not a hastily made product lacking testing and debugging.
Every step of its production and assembly gathers the efforts of global aerospace elites, undergoes the strictest testing and inspection, and has extremely high safety.
Such a rocket can send approximately 40 tons of mass into the Earth-Moon Transfer Orbit in one launch. And this mass means it can send five astronauts to the Moon and back in one go.
From 3 kilometers away, through thick blast-proof glass, Jiang Yang and other hibernators gaze at the huge figure of this rocket.
Of this rocket’s total mass of over 2400 tons, a full 2100 tons is fuel. If this thing accidentally explodes, the area within a few kilometers would probably be leveled.
Therefore, Jiang Yang and other hibernators are strictly prohibited from approaching and can only watch from afar through the blast-proof glass here.
After a moment of waiting, the countdown reaches zero.
A blindingly hot light erupts from the rocket’s base, so intense that even from 3 kilometers away, it’s hard to look straight at.
At this moment, the huge roar and the slight trembling of the ground underfoot combine, letting Jiang Yang truly feel its immense power.
The rocket ultimately soars into the clouds and disappears.
Jiang Yang knows that it will still take the astronauts several days to reach the Moon, several days to land on the Moon, and after landing, time for initial preparation work and waiting for the second launch to deliver sufficient supplies.
Without more than a month, the astronauts probably won’t reach near that site.
This is, after all, a formal space mission, prioritizing safety, not pursuing efficiency like during the apocalypse.
For ordinary people, waiting another few dozen days would be hard to endure. But for Jiang Yang, it’s no problem at all.
Closing his eyes to sleep again, and instantly opening them.
“How is the Moon Landing Mission going?”
“The astronauts have completed the initial preparation work. At this moment, four astronauts carrying the corresponding tools have arrived near the site, and the exploration mission is expected in three hours. Your awakening this time coincides perfectly.”
