Chapter 1271 Landing

There is no air on the moon, so there is no way to rely on lift. What can be used is the spacecraft's own engine! Whether it is deceleration or landing, it needs to rely on the engine!

At this time, the lunar spacecraft was sideways.

During takeoff, the lunar spacecraft was mounted on the side of the Energia. It was a long strip of payload. After leaving the Earth, the Energia fell and was destroyed, leaving only the lunar spacecraft.

Unlike all previous spacecraft, the long structure of the lunar spacecraft does not have the engine at the tail, but directly below! It looks like a space battleship.

In fact, when it was first designed, the original intention was to design the engine at the bottom as usual. However, if a lunar spacecraft that is more than 30 meters long is vertical, it is not easy to land on the moon!

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The lunar module of the Apollo program of the United States consists of two parts, the descent stage and the ascent stage. The total length is only 6.79 meters, and even when the four legs are extended, the diameter is 9.45 meters. It weighs 4.1 tons, and only weighs 14.7 tons including fuel. The descent stage is also equipped with scientific instruments for exploring the lunar surface. When the ascent stage flies away from the lunar surface, the descent stage acts as a launch pad.

Such an aircraft actually looks rather bulky, while the current Soviet lunar spacecraft is rather slim and slender. It is quite difficult to make this 30-meter-long aircraft stand upright on the surface of the moon, and it is very easy to collapse!

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So, the Soviet engineers came up with a new idea. Since it was inconvenient to hold it upright, why not just lay it down? The aircraft landed and took off sideways!

On Earth, this is absolutely impossible, because it will greatly increase air resistance and it will be impossible to escape from the atmosphere. But now, on the moon, there is no atmosphere anyway, so there is no need to consider any aerodynamic aspects!

At the same time, if it is placed sideways, the height is greatly reduced, which makes takeoff and landing very convenient, and it is also easy to arrange various equipment. This thing no longer looks like a spaceship, but more like a starship, but without weapons.

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The horizontal layout also makes it easier to set up more hydraulic legs underneath. After all, this is a big guy weighing dozens of tons! Under the legs, there needs to be a flat plate to relieve the pressure! At this time, with all the legs spread out, it looks like a centipede.

There are four engines at the bottom, and the thrust is being released steadily. In order to land on the moon, the thrust of the engine must be adjustable. In the era of liquid engines, this required superb technology, but now, with nuclear-powered engines, it is very simple to control.

Forward, forward! At this time, the lunar spacecraft was on the surface of the moon, almost moving forward and landing at the same time, flying over the equator of the moon and flying towards the direction of the Jinghai base.

As you get closer to the lunar surface, you can see the unique craters with pits and undulations on the lunar surface. They seem a bit hideous and desolate everywhere.

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Moon, here we come!

The engine at the bottom gently adjusted its thrust. Manual control had not been activated. The automatic system had already stopped the spacecraft steadily on the surface of the moon! Countless dust spread on both sides of the spacecraft.

"Kurlenko, you stay here. The rest of you, take over the lunar work clothes and prepare to deploy the base." Onuflenko said.

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In space travel, it is enough to wear an ordinary space suit inside the cabin. The Soviet Union already has the Mir space station, which is fully mature in this regard. At the same time, there are also extravehicular space suits that can meet various tasks of space walking.

However, there are still many differences in requirements between this and the space suit used on the surface of the moon. For this reason, the Soviet Union specially developed a lunar space suit. The most important point is that in order to facilitate walking and working on the moon, this space suit is both soft and hard!

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In the past, space suits were all soft, except for the helmet, which was a hard shell. But now, space suits use a lot of titanium alloys and other metals for support, making the space suit a semi-hard shell structure with movable supports at various joints.

In addition to being strong, the biggest advantage of this space suit is that it can create a higher pressure inside! Therefore, the astronauts no longer need to breathe oxygen and expel nitrogen before putting on the space suit! It greatly reduces the time required for putting it on!

In the airlock behind the flight capsule, four astronauts put on their space suits one after another. The first extravehicular operation of Soviet astronauts was about to begin!

The sound of pressure release echoed in the airlock chamber, and soon the airlock chamber became a vacuum.

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Let’s go! Following the ladder below, Onuflenko was the first to climb out of the lunar module. At this time, through the camera, his moon landing footage had been transmitted to the whole world!

The Soviets finally landed on the moon! Unlike the Americans who landed on the moon with trepidation, the Soviets this time wanted to build a base on the surface of the moon! This time, 5 astronauts came at once!

The gravity on the moon is only one sixth of that on the earth's surface. Therefore, when you go to the moon, you will feel light and floating because the gravity is too small. In many cases, it is more appropriate to jump rather than walk directly!

After a few preliminary attempts, Onuflenko made the same choice and jumped forward!

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He jumped to the side of the lunar spacecraft, then opened the hatch. Inside, the package of a lunar rover was slowly pushed out.

If you want to build a base on the moon, you must have a means of transportation. For example, although the base components launched two days ago have been sent up by an unmanned lunar rover of the same type, the landing site is a full five kilometers away! If the astronauts walk there, they will be exhausted.

At the same time, although we have landed here, the specific site selection of the base still needs to be cautious. Even if the base is established, there may still be a certain distance from here. In this case, the existence of a lunar rover is quite necessary!

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This lunar rover is much larger than the one the United States used when it landed on the moon! When unfolded, it is made up of twenty wheels!

The gravity on the moon is small, which also makes the soil on the surface of the moon very soft. If there are too few wheels, there is a possibility of sinking!

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Moreover, there is more than one lunar rover of this type. Two were transported here at once! Enough for use!

It took about ten minutes for the two lunar rovers to finally unfold, and two people in each lunar rover began to walk on the surface of the moon. So far, everything has gone smoothly! The camera footage was broadcast to audiences around the world.