Chapter 392 No One Will Suspect that You Have Done Something Bad

When Jim heard Li Changheng's words, he was taken aback for a moment, and then jumped in small steps to check the lunar rover.

"Damn."

But after he walked over, he saw that the power indicator light on the car was also off.

Needless to say, this thing must have shorted out, or been destroyed by the current.

"Houston, Houston, this is the Titan Lunar Module."

"Got it, please tell me."

"For unknown reasons, the solar panels suddenly sparked, stopped working, and even burned out the battery of the lunar rover."

"damn it."

In the command center, the people from Boeing started cursing after hearing this.

Then the others looked at the commander-in-chief in blank dismay.

Without the charging battery board, that is to say, Jim and Henry's stay on the moon will be shortened rapidly.

Even a few hours after the insurance period, you have to take the ascending module of the lunar module to leave the moon, so as to avoid another accident due to insufficient power.

Moreover, because of the existence of solar charging panels, a lot of electronic equipment was added to the Apollo 14 lunar module, which means that the power consumption rate will be faster than that of the 11 and 12 lunar modules.

"Check the remaining power, and prepare for ascending to lunar orbit and docking with the command module."

"Understood, Sir".

While Jim and Li Changheng were making preparations, Houston was also noisy and busy.

Someone is calculating when the command module flying around the moon will be able to fly above the lunar module.

Someone is looking at various data in hopes of finding the cause of a solar panel short.

Horn, the commander-in-chief on the scene, looked at the Boeing engineer, who frowned and found a reason to reply, "It is likely that the lunar module shook during the moment of landing on the moon, or there was a collision when it was unloaded."

"It may also be that the battery of the lunar rover is not resistant to low temperature enough, or there is a problem with the circuit, right?"

"this,,."

Seeing that Horn couldn't be fooled, the Boeing engineer could only say, "It should be like this, otherwise the solar panels we designed would not be short-circuited."

As for artificial nonsense, let alone Horn and Boeing's engineers, among the more than 100 people present, no one would think about it at all.

Because no one can find out why Lee Jang Hyung and Jim did this.

Then Li Changheng and the two received orders to collect ore and soil samples near the lunar module, and then lift off 15 hours later.

In other words, he and Jim set the record for the shortest stay on the moon.

1 hour and 21 minutes shorter than Apollo 11.

After that, the two began to divide the work. Jim controlled the scientific research equipment and finished the scheduled research projects as soon as possible.

Li Changheng, who offered to collect specimens, took a hammer and began to pick up ore.

After 12 hours, when his physical strength was several times higher than that of ordinary people, he felt exhausted, and Jim almost fell down from exhaustion.

The two collected about 110 kilograms of rocks and soil and transported them into the ascending cabin.

Then started throwing away everything that could be thrown away, climbed into the ascent module, and waited for Houston's remote-controlled ascent module to lift off.

Three hours later, the two of them, who were trying not to close their eyes, immediately became nervous when they heard the sound of the countdown to liftoff in their ears.

As soon as the 15-second countdown ended, a "bang" vibration sounded in the ascending cabin, and I felt that I was starting to fly upwards.

Eight minutes later, the ascending cabin rose to an altitude of 107 kilometers. Through the glass window, Li Changheng saw the command module slowly appearing in his eyes from far to near.

Fortunately, Lothar's ability is indeed fine, and the docking was successful after more than an hour.

Li Changheng and Jim took the specimen box and climbed into the command module one after another.

After abandoning the ascending module, while the Titan continued to orbit the moon, it also spewed out streams of air from time to time to accelerate.

After circling three times, the speed of the Titan has almost reached the time when it was thrown out and escaped from the gravity of the moon.

The thrusters under the service module started firing.

The huge thrust pushed the Titan out of the orbit of the moon, showing an arc and starting to fly to the earth.

Moreover, because it is ignited in space to propel it forward, the effect brought by only 1 ton of fuel in the service module is 50% faster than the speed brought by more than 3,000 tons of fuel lifted from the earth.

That is to say, it takes 80 hours to fly to the moon, but it only takes a little more than 52 hours to fly back to reach the earth's orbit.

After the news was known to the outside world, while people were worried about the three of Li Changheng, some people soon shifted the responsibility to Boeing.

Because of what Li Changheng said during the moon landing, countless people knew that he was extremely dissatisfied with the 140 kg lunar rover carried by the lunar module.

Moreover, during the moon landing process, there was indeed a danger that the remote control ignition could not be ignited, and finally had to be manually ignited.

As a result, although the propeller was successfully started, it also deviated from the scheduled landing area.

If it weren't for Li Changheng's calmness and courage to land in the crater, it might have been a more serious aviation disaster than Apollo 13.

Although no one from the aviation center has come forward to explain the reason for the early return trip, there are still gossip that the lunar rover battery design is not up to standard, or the solar charging board is short-circuited and burned due to a short circuit on the circuit board.

As a result, the power of the lunar module could not last for 66 hours, and it had to return to the Titan 21 hours after landing on the moon.

Now, Boeing directly became the culprit. Not only was it accused by the public, but even members of Congress jumped out and said that they would thoroughly investigate the accident.

Two days later, Titan officially entered Earth orbit.

Start to fly around the earth, look for a suitable opportunity to enter the atmosphere, and land in the Atlantic Ocean accurately.

Otherwise, if there is a problem with the angle of entry of the command module into the atmosphere, then even if the outer layer of the command module is covered with a heat insulation layer, it will not be burned by the high temperature.

However, the parachute installed above the command module with a pointed top and a round bottom will be 100% burned or unable to open normally.

February 7, 70, 3:24 p.m. New York time.

Lothar on the Titan looked at Commander Jim after receiving Houston's reply.

Seeing Jim nodding, he opened the protection button and pressed it.

"Command module and service module disengagement countdown, 10, 9, 8,,."

Li Changheng, who was holding a live broadcast device, kept filming the service cabin that was going away a little bit through the window.

It wasn't until the service module was out of sight that he sat back on the flight chair and began to fasten the seat belt on himself.

Normally he and Jim and Lothar would have to wear spacesuits.

But not only the three of them understood, but also other astronauts in the past.

It doesn't matter what goes wrong when going through the atmosphere, it really makes the same thing with or without a spacesuit.

Either the insulation layer of the command module had a problem and burned to death, or the parachute could not be opened, and it crashed into the sea like a meteorite and was shocked to death.

So unless it's like Iron Man's armor, it's actually the same whether you wear a spacesuit or not.