They did it. They finally did it. The United Plutonic Federation landed on the moon. It was a three-way race between the United Plutonic Federation, South Returia and the UASSR, or the United Arctican Soviet Socialist Republics.
The mission Selene 5, which carried the Plutonic celestianauts Danrey Balton, Bob Kerman and Seested Hajorp, all veterans of the Gorgon and Chimera programmes, lifted off three days earlier. The mission was destined to win the space race, and confirm the UPF's celestial conquest. The UPF, whom started the spacerace, ended it. But it didn't end the future manned Mun landings of the UPF's opponents in the space race.
Now Seested Hajorp was alone. In his one-man lunar lander, the lunar lander was technically called the "Solo", but it's call sign was different. Seested thought about his two other crew members, orbiting the Mun in the Selene spacecraft. He also thought about how much it would take for the UPF to reach Minmus. But that wasn't important.
What was important, however, was making history, and planting the Plutonic flag firmly in the Munar regolith. Seested peered out his lander's window, which provided him with enough viewing space, so he can see where he is landing, and to confirm that he was landed. The contact light dimly glowed in the cabin, along with the SAS light and the MECO light. He sighed. "Lavinia, we have touchdown." Seested said over the comms.
The Plutonic Mission Control, of course, was located in Lavinia, the UPF's largest city. That wasn't important to him. Seested thought about the thousands of people watching, and holding their breaths.
No time for caution now, no time to make mistakes. Seested thought to himself as he got up, walked over, and put his helmet on. The cold hiss of oxygen and nitrogen filled the cabin. Seested then walked over to the airlock. He was getting nervous as the cabin depressurized to he can open the airlock and preform the EVA.
Seested Hajorp opened the airlock door as Mission Control granted him to preform the EVA. He climbed down on the metal ladder attached to the ascent stage of the lunar module. "Solo" was a pretty small lunar lander, too, but it helped with the Delta/V of the Selene spacecraft as it burned for Munar orbit.
Seested's boots on his EVA suit touched down on the Munar regolith. The first footprints. Seested let go of the ladder. "That was the first step, a small one too. But a giant leap in scientific advancement and history." Seested said, as thousands of Kerbals were watching him on live television.
He began bounding across the Munar surface, the regolith gathering in clouds. Seested reached a safe distance as history was being made. Seested grabbed for his foldable Plutonic flag, and firmly planted it in the regolith.
Seested looked around the lifeless, forbidding, grey landscape. The sky was black, there were no constellations or stars visible to him, because of the light of Kerbol reflecting off of the Mun's surface. And the camera there, too wouldn't catch it, either.
Then something caught Seested's eye. Something that made him feel, very, very small.
He saw a blue marble. Kerbin. He could see most of Kolusia, his home continent, the Returian peninsula, and he could make out the mountain chain on the Kolusian peninsula, whom separated the United Plutonic Federation, his home country, from North and South Returia. The United Plutonic Federation was on the eastern coast on the Kolusian peninsula, and it did cover the entire eastern coast of it.
Seested smiled, as he bounded across the landing site.
Seested Hajorp walked on the Mun for 45 minutes before returning to the lunar lander.