Tang Yue sat down panting. He leaned against the airlock door and looked at the Eagle lander a hundred meters away. Above the white fairing was a painted Eagle that looked domineering.
The Eagle lander was actually a huge object, more than four stories tall. It was supported by four thick hydraulic legs, and the descent rocket had four embedded convergent-divergent nozzles. During landing, these four nozzles would spew out high-temperature compressed gases at thousands of meters a second, providing a lift of 120 tonnes. Apart from the four main nozzles, there were four smaller stabilizers to maintain the lander's attitude.
