Chapter 434 The First Step_1

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Stepping out was merely the beginning of extravehicular activity.

Inside the ground command center, Lin Ju held the detailed checklist for the current landing mission.

The next item was the critical flag installation; two astronauts had to take down two foldable electric flagpoles and raise a pair of flags.

Unlike the Apollo missions that "just took a look," the Dawn project was serious about building a permanently manned Moon Base; just planting a small flag wouldn't be enough to make a statement.

The foldable flagpoles carried by Dawn III had an "L"-shaped cross-section with grooves, consisting of twelve 1.8-meter segments that could be assembled into two 10.8-meter flagpoles, then secured with thin steel cables and ground spikes, which were quite sturdy on the windless and rainless Moon.