The melon-eating masses warmly welcomed the landing of the world's largest space shuttle, Pioneer, and witnessed five experienced astronauts walk off the shuttle with their heads held high to receive flowers on the ground.
However, they did not leave because across from the airport, the assembly building at Launch Site No. 2 of Qiongzhou was brightly lit.
The CZ-10A Remote 2 Rocket had been fully assembled and was scheduled to launch within the next three days.
According to disclosed information, this flight mission was to carry a fully intact new-generation manned spacecraft along with four test dummies (gender unknown) to the Moon's orbit, conducting an unmanned circumlunar flight mission.
The CZ-10's lunar orbit payload capacity was 45 tons, and the new-generation manned spacecraft weighed around 22 tons, so the remaining 23 tons were not wasted.
