On July 30, after 98 hours of flight, the Explorer Lunar Module carried by Titan 2 successfully landed in the Lunar Nearside Arctic Rainbow Bay Area. Van Attivius became the first astronaut to set foot on the Moon after the Hercules Program returned to the lunar surface.
On the fourth day after Titan 2 launched, NASA announced news that stirred up a worldwide frenzy.
After nearly sixty years, humanity had successfully returned to the Moon.
The impact of the news was no less shocking than Ant Army Group's retrieval of lunar soil from the far side of the Moon. America once again proved its strength to the world.
Before the news had even cooled down,
on August 3, SpaceX successfully launched Genesis 2, Island Nation's lunar probe, from Kennedy Space Center.
With the strength of a small nation, Island Nation displayed its ambition to become the fourth country, after Huaxia, America, and Russia, to successfully explore the Moon.
Compared with America's successful manned lunar landing, this news was not particularly eye-catching.
However, amid this wave of space exploration, Island Nation's move still drew considerable attention.
On August 6, before Island Nation's probe had even reached the Moon, NASA announced another piece of news.
The three astronauts who had remained on the lunar surface for a full week had completed their mission of deploying a research module and a small ecological module, as well as collecting 50 kilograms of rocks. The lunar module had successfully ignited and lifted off from the Moon, and was on its way back to Earth.
As soon as the news came out, it overshadowed the news of Island Nation's probe preparing to land on the Moon.
The announcements did not stop there.
On August 7, Island Nation announced that Genesis 2 had successfully landed in Oceanus