v2 Chapter 65： Moon landing (2/2)
”Eagle, this is Houston, please confirm that your spacecraft is using vinyl glycerin line 1.”
”Here is the Eagle, we are on line 1, finished.” Zhang Hengdao.
At this time, the voice of Corinth also came from the communicator. ”Here is the command / service cabin Columbia. All 12 pairs of pins are sealed. Next I will turn on the manual mode. It is expected that the Hawk will be separated in 20 minutes.”
”Roger that.”
”Wish you guys good luck.”
In order to reduce the weight as much as possible, there is no seat in the lunar module. Zhang Heng and Armstrong are standing in front of the control panel. As the driver of the lunar module, Zhang Heng will take on the main driving task in the next. He needs to drive the Eagle smoothly. Landing at the designated location.
This will be a challenge for him, but the more calm Zhang Zhang's heart is at this time.
Armstrong was a little worried that Zhang Heng was training for too short, but seeing the latter's eyes, he knew that Zhang Heng was ready.
”OK, we are about to start.” After the countdown, Collins pulled the joystick to separate the command / service module from the lunar module.
”Here is Houston. Please keep flying, Eagle. Pay attention to your fuel. The continuous ignition time is up to 910 seconds.”
”Received, Houston ~~ Zhang Heng carefully controlled the landing of the lunar module to the surface of the moon.
Before long, however, they were in trouble, and the alarm light on the dashboard suddenly flashed.
”The computer is overloaded, we lost the radar.” Zhang Heng glanced at the indicator.
”Received, Eagle. Please choose your landing location.”
”Received, Houston,” Armstrong replied.
But the two hadn't had time to take a sigh of relief, and the alarm light on the dashboard turned on again.
”Procedural alert,” Zhang Heng frowned, ”Error code 1202, what is this Houston?”
”1202, received, we are checking, Eagle.”
Zhang Heng turned off the alarm manually. However, less than half a minute later, a program alarm sounded, and the altimeter stopped at 4,000 feet and stopped working, which meant that Zhang Heng could only land by naked eyes.
The situation began to change and was not optimistic, but the two had no other choice at this time. When they landed at about 2500 feet, Zhang Heng and Armstrong realized that they had deviated from the target location.
However, what really killed is the next failure of the fuel meter.
When Zhang Heng confirmed for the last time, the remaining fuel of the propulsion system could still ignite for about 30 seconds, and a huge deep valley appeared in front of the Eagle, and the radar failed. Zhang Heng did not know how wide the deep valley was. I don't know how deep it is.
He needs to make a decision in the shortest time, whether to risk an accelerated landing before the deep valley, or to find a way to fly past the deep valley.
At this critical juncture, the AirPods wireless Bluetooth headset that Zhang Heng put together with those game props suddenly started on his own.
A familiar voice came from the communication channel, ”Friendly reminder, you still have 23 seconds of fuel available.”