After a week-long voyage, the Chang'e spacecraft successfully "docked" at the Moon Palace spacecraft.
The colonists arriving at the port underwent one final medical examination aboard the space station. After three days of basic training, they began taking landing capsules down to the lunar surface in batches.
Over the past few days, more than half the news on television and online had revolved around the colonists' daily lives, from meals and housing to bathroom routines. Even variety shows had jumped on the bandwagon.
Lu Zhou had also learned from Director Liu that quite a few satellite TV stations had recently come to Jinling to film variety shows at the Space Launch Center or the astronaut training base. They paid hundreds of thousands, even a million a day in facility rental fees without batting an eye. Their extravagance was staggering.
Although Lu Zhou had little interest in variety shows, using mass media to get more people interested in spaceflight was certainly worthwhile.
Only a handful of people currently had the chance to travel into space, but as technology advanced, space travel would sooner or later become accessible to the general public.
With the first batch of colonists successfully settling in Guanghan City, it was not just domestic onlookers who were interested. People overseas were also full of curiosity about these "spacefarers."
What no one had expected was that this craze would spread from science and technology into culture, carrying domestic space-related cultural products onto the world stage. Even Hollywood, across the Pacific Ocean, felt its influence.
Meanwhile, few people paid much attention to the military conflict in western Somalia.
Only intelligence officers from various countries were tearing their hair out over it, while some arms manufacturers and military security companies bitterly lamented the loss of such a sizable market.
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