Jack West Jr and the Chinese Splashdown by Matthew Reilly

Author:Matthew Reilly [Reilly, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781760982720
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
Published: 2020-06-04T22:00:00+00:00

On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the Moon. It is the greatest and most astounding achievement in all of human history.

In the half-century since that day, however, there have only been five more manned missions to the Moon and, to date, only twelve men—all men, no women—have walked on the lunar surface.

There have, however, been many unmanned missions to the Moon.

The earliest missions by the US and the Soviets—and more recently by China—involved crashing an unmanned spacecraft directly into the Moon. Later missions performed controlled landings and deployed rovers to collect surface samples which were returned to Earth for later analysis.

All were well-documented and could often be followed in real time by amateur astronomers on Earth.

And China was usually very happy for the world to watch its achievements in space. It yearned more than anything to successfully land people on the Moon, for that would prove that it had finally matched the United States of America in such a sophisticated field.

As such, it was most unusual for China to perform a moon landing in secret.

Yet this was exactly what had happened here, Jack saw.

Jack was also intrigued by the mention in the intercept of the Sea of Rains. He knew of this land formation on the Moon because it was where the fourth Apollo mission, Apollo 15, had landed. That mission, interestingly, was the first one to bring a lunar rover with it, so that its astronauts could venture farther than ever before from their lander.

With his intercept, poor Wally had discovered a secret Chinese mission to land a remote vehicle on the surface of the Moon right near an old Apollo landing site and collect data, make measurements and take photos of something there, and then return with that information without anyone knowing.

Discovering this had got Wally kidnapped and, if it hadn’t been for Jack, would have got him killed.

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