Hearing Chen Jue say this, Wang Zhihai and the other two quietly breathed a sigh of relief. They brought him some nutritional supplements and thanked him several times for his efforts, then chatted as they floated through the Space Station, sharing information about the station and lunar exploration with him.
After all, besides the necessary physical fitness, everyone who became an astronaut aboard the Space Station possessed doctoral-level expertise.
They were exceptionally well versed in everything from general astronomy and mathematics to physical astrophysics, aerospace, communications, and navigation.
At the base, Chen Jue had mainly studied human anatomy, physics, radiation energy, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, and related subjects. His knowledge of astronomy was indeed somewhat lacking, and he gained a great deal from talking with the three of them.
The place where Chen Jue would land this time was not the near side of the Moon, but the Lunar Far Side, making the situation more complicated and difficult than Eagle Country's lunar landings in the 1960s and 1970s.
Unlike other satellites orbiting planets, the Moon did not rotate in the same way. Its rotation was unusual: its rotational and orbital periods coincided closely at one month, leaving only one fixed side facing Earth.
Familiar stars and planets such as the Sun and Earth, as well as other natural satellites, generally had differences in the timing and angles of their revolutions and rotations, allowing their different sides to be observed.
The Moon alone was different. It always kept one side facing Earth, making observing or landing on the Lunar Far Side immensely difficult for humanity.
The straight-line distance from Earth to the Moon at perigee was approximately 384,403.9 kilometers, but traveling around to the far side would increase that distance considerably.
It was just like walking for ordinary people: taking a straight