Standing on the Cold Moon, Gazing at the Great Sun-Above and Below, Only Eternity Reigned Supreme!

There were many routes from low Earth orbit to the Moon, vastly different from the ordinary idea that a straight line between two points was the shortest route when driving.

Lunar landing trajectories fell into three types: direct ascent, Earth-orbit rendezvous, and lunar-orbit rendezvous. The first two involved hard landings, but since Chen Jue would be landing on the far side, he was taking the lunar-orbit rendezvous approach for a soft landing.

Under the influence of Earth's gravity, the lunar spacecraft began orbiting Earth after separating from the space station, jumping from a sixteen-hour near-Earth orbit to a twenty-four-hour orbit, then a forty-eight-hour orbit. Its trajectory resembled three enormous ellipses overlapping along one side.

After three circuits, the lunar spacecraft used Earth's gravitational slingshot to accelerate beyond the escape velocity of 11.2 kilometers per second, also known as the second cosmic velocity. It began breaking free of Earth's gravitational pull and entered a translunar trajectory, racing toward the Moon's predetermined position.

With more than 380,000 kilometers between Earth and the Moon, plus three orbits around Earth, the total flight time before entering lunar capture orbit would exceed two hundred hours.

Since the Moon orbited Earth at every moment rather than remaining stationary throughout the journey, waiting for the spacecraft to arrive, all flight paths had been preset by the supercomputer in the ground monitoring hall.

Meanwhile, Chen Jue remained immersed in training throughout the journey inside the lunar spacecraft's Crew Capsule.

Back at his old home in Chen Village, Chen Jue had already developed a tolerance for solitude. He felt that time passed exceptionally quickly when he devoted his full attention to cultivation and training, and training made him happy, much as ordinary people enjoyed immersing themselves in grinding experience in certain mobile games.

The feeling of growing stronger was