A moment for the whole nation to celebrate

The Moon landing was a success!

After the video, which lasted less than a minute, aired during the Spring Festival Gala, the entire Hua Nation erupted in excitement.

For thousands of years, people who gazed up at that land had entrusted their beautiful dreams to it through countless myths, legends, poems, and songs.

And ever since Shenzhou 5 flew into space, making the Hua Nation the third country to send astronauts into space, setting foot on the Moon had been a shared aspiration of countless aerospace workers and, indeed, all the people of Huaxia.

Yet none of this had come easily.

Although the Hua Nation had barely caught up with the United States and the Soviet Union in crewed spaceflight, rocket engines had remained a persistent concern. In high-thrust rocket technology, it lagged considerably behind not only the United States and the Soviet Union, but even the European Union and Japan.

Yet the successful test flight of the Auspicious had not only completely reversed this situation, allowing the nation to leapfrog its competitors with more advanced electric propulsion, but had even delivered its astronauts to the Moon!

When they saw these New Year greetings sent from the Moon, many people sitting in front of their televisions widened their eyes in astonishment.

Others brimmed with tears of excitement...

In a home in Shangjing.

Yuan Huanmin sat at the dining table eating his New Year's Eve dinner, the images on the television reflected in his clouded eyes. Before he realized it, two trails of tears had slipped down the wrinkles at their corners.

As chief engineer of the Aerospace Group, his lifelong dream had been to send the Hua Nation's lunar lander to the Moon and watch its astronauts leave their footprints on the lunar surface.

Now he had witnessed that moment