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

"Damn it".

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

Needless to say, this thing must also be short-circuited or destroyed by electric current.

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

"Received, please speak."

"The solar panel didn't know the reason, an electric spark suddenly appeared, stopped working, and even burned out the battery of the lunar rover."

"damn it."

In the command center, Boeing's people scolded violently after listening.

Then the others looked at the commander-in-chief at the scene, staring at each other.

Without the rechargeable battery pack, that means that Jim and Henry will spend time on the moon rapidly shortening.

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

Moreover, because of the existence of solar charging panels, the Apollo 14 lunar module has also added a lot of electronic equipment, 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 to rise to the lunar orbit and dock with the command module."

"Understand, SIR".

When Jim and Li Changheng were preparing, Houston also became noisy and busy.

Someone is calculating when the command module flying around the moon can fly above the lunar module.

Someone is looking at various data, hoping to find the reason for the short circuit of solar panels.

On-site commander Horn looked at Boeing's engineers, and the other party frowned and replied, "It is very likely that the lunar module shook at the moment of landing, or there was a collision when it was unloaded."

"It's also possible that the lunar rover's battery has insufficient low temperature resistance, or there is a problem with the circuit, right?"

"this,,."

Seeing that Horn can’t be fooled, Boeing’s engineers can only say, “It should be so, otherwise the solar panels we designed would not be short-circuited.”

As for artificial discourse, let alone Horn and Boeing engineers, among the more than one hundred people on the scene, no one would think about that.

Because no one can find out why Li Changheng and Jim did this.

Then Li Changheng and the two received an order to collect samples of ore and soil near the lunar module by menstrual flow, and then lift off 15 hours later.

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

It is 21 minutes shorter than Apollo 11.

After the two began to divide the work, Jim controlled the scientific research equipment and completed the scheduled research project as soon as possible.

Li Changheng, who offered to collect specimens, took the hammer and started picking up ore.

Twelve hours later, his physical strength surpassed that of ordinary people several times, and when he felt tired, Jim almost fell on the ground.

The two collected them and transported almost 110 kilograms of rocks and soil into the ascent cabin.

Then began to throw away everything that could be thrown away, climbed into the ascent cabin, and waited for Houston to remotely control the ascent cabin to lift off.

Three hours later, the two of them who tried not to close their eyes immediately became nervous when they heard the sound of the countdown to lift-off in their ears.

As soon as the fifteen-second countdown ended, a vibration of ‘bang’ came from the ascent cabin, and I felt like I was flying upwards.

Eight minutes later, the ascending module rose to a height of 107 kilometers. Through the glass window, Li Changheng saw that the command module was moving from far to near, slowly appearing in his eyes.

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

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

After abandoning the ascent capsule, while the Titan continued to fly around the moon, it also spewed out air currents to accelerate from time to time.

After going around three times, the speed of the Titan was about to reach the time when it was thrown out of the moon's gravity.

The thrusters under the service compartment started to ignite.

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

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

In other words, it takes 80 hours to fly to the moon, but it takes just over 52 hours to fly back to the earth orbit.

After the news was known to the outside world, people were worried about Li Changheng and three people, and soon someone put the blame on Boeing.

Because of the words 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 thruster was successfully activated, it also departed from the scheduled landing area.

If it were not for Li Changheng's calmness and courage to land in the crater, it might be an aviation disaster that was more serious than Apollo 13.

Although no one in the aviation center has come forward to explain the reason for the early return trip, it is still reported in the grapevine that the battery design of the moon rover is not up to standard, or because the circuit board is short-circuited, the solar charging board is short-circuited and burned.

As a result, the power of the lunar module could not support 66 hours, and had to return to the Titan within 21 hours of landing on the moon.

At this time, Boeing became the culprit directly, not only was blamed by the public, but even some congressmen jumped out and said that the accident should be thoroughly investigated.

Two days later, the Titan officially entered Earth orbit.

Start flying around the earth, looking for suitable opportunities to enter the atmosphere, and accurately fall in the Atlantic Ocean.

Otherwise, once there is a problem with the angle of the command module entering the atmosphere, even if the outer layer of the command module is wrapped with a thermal insulation layer, it has not been burned by the high temperature.

However, the parachute mounted above the command module with the top tip and the bottom circle would be 100% burned or unable to open normally.

February 7, 1970, 3:24 pm New York time.

Lothar on the Titan ~lightnovelpub.net~ got Houston's reply and looked at Commander Jim.

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

"The command cabin and the service cabin are separated from the countdown, 10, 9, 8, ...."

Li Changheng, who was holding the live broadcast equipment, kept patting through the window at the service cabin that was a little far away.

Until the service cabin was no longer visible, I sat back in the flight seat and began to tie my seat belts to myself.

Normally he and Jim and Lothar have to wear spacesuits.

But not only did the three of them understand, but other astronauts in the past did.

No matter what goes wrong when passing through the atmosphere, it is the same whether you wear a spacesuit or not.

Either the insulation of the command module was burnt to death, or the parachute could not be opened, and it crashed into the sea like a meteorite and was shaken to death.

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