Xia Country News channel.
"Breaking news: at six o'clock this evening, Black Lady One took off from the National Aerospace Research Institute."
"Black Lady One will travel to the Moon to conduct a series of scientific experiments. The lunar landing will be livestreamed across all platforms..."
The three astronauts aboard Black Lady One had no idea how much panic they had caused in the United States.
At the moment, they were bored out of their minds.
Once Black Lady One's speed reached 11.2 km/s, they had begun their journey to the Moon.
The Moon was currently at apogee, roughly 400,000 kilometers from Earth.
In other words, even if Black Lady One maintained a constant speed of 11.2 km/s, reaching the Moon would still take 9.92 hours.
And that did not even account for the need to slow down in advance.
Nine hours flew by.
Outside Black Lady One's side windows, everything was pitch-black.
They lacked any useful frame of reference, and Black Lady One was traveling at a constant speed.
If the Moon had not been filling more and more of the forward window, the three astronauts might have thought they were standing still.
Hong Fan picked up the specially designed cup beside him, took a sip of his drink through its straw, and shouted, "Now this is the life!"
"This is what space travel should be!"
"I honestly don't know how we ever put up with those cramped landing capsules!"
"Too bad Professor Lü didn't come this time. He would've really livened things up in here!"
The moment Hong Fan finished speaking, Bai Yixuan stiffened.
He turned and shot Hong Fan a fierce glare. "Don't say things like that!"
"If Professor Lü managed to sneak aboard Black Lady One again, we'd all be in serious trouble!"
As he