The rise of a great power: starting with military industry
Chapter 1424 Manned moon landing?
Unparalleled blessings, misfortunes do not come singly!
The China Space Administration held a press conference and, facing media from all over the world, officially announced the timetable for manned lunar landing.
Back then, all countries boasted about sending manned missions to the moon. The U.S. kept postponing its timetable for “returning to the moon,” and the Bharat Space Research Organization has even closed down. Japan announced that it would build a base on the moon by 2025 and let robots be “pioneers” on the moon. Now, Japan is clearly unable to do so.
That year, Russia also announced that it would develop a new lunar spacecraft and carry out manned lunar landing, but so far there is no hope of manned lunar landing.
Only China is implementing all its plans step by step.
From Shenzhou, to Chang’e, to Tiangong, not a single step was delayed.
China’s three-step lunar exploration plan has also been completed.
In fact, China not only has a lunar rover on the moon, but also robots on the moon.
Everyone knows that China theoretically already has the technology for manned lunar landing, and the next step will inevitably be manned lunar landing.
However, the China Space Agency has never given an exact timetable for manned lunar landing.
Not long after announcing the complete success of the first test flight of the “Panshan” space plane, the China Space Administration officially announced the launch of the “manned lunar landing” project.
Manned lunar landing is a key indicator to measure a country’s space capabilities, and it represents a new milestone in a country’s space technology.
“At the same time, we will establish a scientific research base on the moon for humans on Earth to study the moon.” The spokesperson of the China Space Administration threw out a nuclear bomb-level news.
The reporters attending the press conference were stunned.
The China Space Agency will not only carry out manned lunar landings, but also establish a lunar scientific research base.
In other words, China plans to carry out not just one manned lunar landing, but multiple manned lunar landings, and have astronauts conduct scientific research at the lunar research base for a long time.
This difficulty is extremely high.
After the news came out, it quickly caused heated discussions on the Internet.
“We should have carried out manned lunar landings long ago to see if there is Guanghan Palace and laurel trees on the moon, and whether Chang’e and Moon Rabbit are there. If we don’t send people to the moon, I will never believe that there is no Guanghan Palace, laurel trees, Chang’e and Moon Rabbit on the moon.”
“It would be best to go to the place where the Americans landed on the moon to verify whether the Americans actually landed a man on the moon or it was a hoax.”
“Do you really believe that a thing made of steel pipes, aluminum plates and copper foils, which looks like a concrete mixer on a construction site, carrying two astronauts, a tractor, various camera equipment and scientific research equipment, can safely land on the surface of the moon, carry two astronauts off the moon, and dock with the lunar command module at an altitude of 2 kilometers?”
“The lunar soil obtained by the Apollo spacecraft before did not contain water, but the lunar soil brought back by the Chang’e probe and obtained from different locations all contain water. How can I not be suspicious?”
“Don’t blame me for being skeptical. The Americans themselves are questioning America’s manned moon landing.”
“I also want to know whether the Americans really landed a man on the moon. There is no way. We Chinese have been deceived. For example, the U.S. dual-pulse air-to-air missile, Japan’s high-strength metal materials, and the ultra-light Soviet heavy machine guns. So many lies have deceived the kind-hearted Chinese people. Missile designers slapped themselves in the face, firearms experts were so angry that they cried, and the old professor who worked on materials shouted in anger, “Give me back my academician.”
“I can’t tell the difference. If you want to blame someone, blame the public intellectuals. The Japanese cars that have been praised for decades are all fake. Isn’t it normal to question the earlier manned moon landing? If you have the ability, do it again! Wait until our space agency sends a man to the moon and you will know. I prefer to trust our own space agency.”
“Remember when we put men on the moon, we went to see the landing site of the Americans to dispel everyone’s doubts.”
“Finally, we will be able to see a manned moon landing in our lifetime.”
“Woo woo woo~~~ Manned moon landing, just reading the news makes my blood boil, I’m so excited.”
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As the news of the China Space Administration announcing the timetable for manned lunar landing and the establishment of a scientific research base on the moon spread, it immediately made the front page of the news and sparked widespread heated discussion.
It is difficult to avoid the discussion about the authenticity of the US manned moon landing in the 20s.
This questioning did not originate in China at first, but in the United States. The questioning voices have been high and low, but have become louder in recent years.
But NASA always makes things unclear.
What technical information has been lost? Why has the “return to the moon plan” been postponed again and again?
If the United States could actually land a man on the moon now, it would surely quell all suspicions.
The current situation is that the Americans themselves were the first to question the manned moon landing and their voices were the loudest, but when it came to China, the Americans themselves were unable to prove it, and a bunch of Chinese people tried desperately to prove it. This is so magical.
Ultimately, this is the Americans’ own fault. They were able to send a man to the moon in 1969, but there has been no progress until now.
Just like some people think, if you want to solve the doubts, you just need to go up again. I went up there several times like it was fun, and I even raced on it. Is it too much to ask for another time?
Of course, many people’s mentality when watching the debate over the truth of the moon landing is the same as accompanying a friend to catch an adulterer. On the one hand, they don’t hope it’s fake, because this is what the popular science books have been telling them since childhood, and it has been ingrained in their thinking; but on the other hand, they hope it’s fake, because it’s fun to watch the fun.
When the news reached the other side of the Pacific Ocean, Michael, the NASA administrator who had been overwhelmed by the first test flight of the Panshan space shuttle, was dumbfounded when he saw the news.
Do not!
No!
My colleagues on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, what should we do if you do this to us?
Michael felt like the sky was falling. To be honest, Michael didn’t care about the US’s “Return to the Moon Plan”. Anyway, according to the postponed time point, he would definitely not be the head of NASA. By then, it would have nothing to do with him. That would be the next director’s business.
But now, Michael has realized that the pressure from the American people will force the United States to advance its “return to the moon plan”, and that is his business.
Sure enough, the entire United States was talking about it, and the discussion was even louder than in China.
“We must land humans on the moon again. NASA must show its strength and crush all doubters.”
“We were able to land humans on the moon easily more than 40 years ago. And we did it not once, not twice, not three times, but many times. We have made great progress in the past 40 years. We can definitely land humans on the moon easily, rebuild the Apollo spacecraft, and use the Saturn V launch vehicle in our inventory. It’s always possible.”
“We successfully landed a man on the moon more than 40 years ago. Why do others doubt us? Let us land a man on the moon again and crush these rumors.”
“NASA, please release all the image evidence and silence those skeptics.”
“We in the United States have the strongest aerospace capabilities and are not afraid of any challengers.”
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Overwhelming pressure poured down on NASA.
Michael sighed. Instead of responding to outside doubts, he wrote a letter of resignation, stating that he had health problems and was no longer able to continue in this job.
A large number of media flocked to NASA and wanted to interview NASA. After all, in the field of aerospace, NASA represents authority, and the aerospace field is the pride of the United States.
And this pride needs NASA to maintain it by sending humans to the moon again.
Ten days later, the new NASA head, Nelson, said that if the United States wants to return to the moon ahead of schedule, Congress needs to allocate more funds. NASA will apply to Congress for more funds in the new budget fiscal year to “return to the moon” ahead of schedule.
Nelson’s answer shocked the entire United States and even the world.
What do you mean?
Does this mean that NASA does not have the ability to return to the moon now?
NASA doesn’t have enough funding? You know, NASA’s annual funding ranks first in the world, far ahead. Logically, the United States should have returned to the moon a few years ago. Later, it was postponed to the end of 2016 or the beginning of 2017.
No matter from which angle you analyze it, NASA should have made sufficient preparations for “returning to the moon” a long time ago, and should have even completed the development of a new spacecraft and a more advanced launch vehicle.
Now Nelson means that NASA does not have enough funds to carry out a manned moon landing.
But the question is, where has NASA’s funding gone over the past decade?
It makes no sense, absolutely no sense!
When asked whether NASA was prepared to release more information about the manned moon landing that year to quell outside doubts about whether there was a manned moon landing, Nelson said that it involved state secrets.
Good guy!
So many years have passed, but it’s still a U.S. state secret.
This is how it is in the United States. Everything is a state secret, and only the President of the United States can decrypt state secrets. But when decrypted, it is often tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of pages. Even after decryption, key information will be blacked out.
Just when the whole world was in an uproar over the NASA incident in the United States.
A team of six astronauts, after gaining a preliminary understanding of the Panshan spacecraft, began their first space operation.
This time, we chose to have artificial intelligence operate the entire process.
Instead of taking off vertically, a ground takeoff was chosen.
It seemed as if in an instant, a pale blue arc of light lit up from the back of the Panshan spacecraft, pushing the huge fuselage forward.
forward!
Keep moving forward!
The speed was getting faster and faster, and gradually the tires left the runway, the landing gear was retracted into the cabin, and the nose of the plane was slightly lifted up.
Dragging the azure arc of light, the fuselage sank deep into the clouds and headed towards the blue sky.
On the fuselage, the six astronauts looked at each other.
“Director, this ‘Panshan’ spacecraft is much easier to launch than the Shenzhou spacecraft!” Qian Xianghua exclaimed.
In the past, when the Shenzhou spacecraft was launched, the astronauts had to bear great force due to the huge thrust generated by the rocket.
This is why every astronaut selection requires good physical fitness and rigorous training.
Yang Liwei nodded, his eyes full of amazement: “In the future, our Chinese aerospace industry will really usher in a new era, and ordinary people will be able to enter space.”
As the first Chinese astronaut to enter space, Yang Liwei is full of honors.
Although Yang Liwei never went into space again, he made contributions to astronaut scientific research and training as well as astronaut systems in manned space engineering.
For this mission, he went to his leader, who considered it over and over again before agreeing to approve his application.
He also served as the commander of this flight mission.
When the Panshan spacecraft took off, he felt that it was almost the same as riding an airplane. Compared with the training they had undergone, it was nothing and not worth mentioning.
Looking at the various data on the screen and the voices continuously emitted by the artificial intelligence “Panshan”, Yang Liwei can feel the tremendous progress of science and technology.
Looking at the space suits they are wearing, they are so much more advanced than the space suits of the past. The weight alone makes the space suits much more comfortable.
“This time it is all thanks to Comrade Liu Yingqing. If it weren’t for her, we don’t know when we would be able to board such an advanced spacecraft.” Nie Zhiqiang said.
Even though the outside world doesn’t know the situation, they still know it.
They were the first to know about the break in the space rope when Liu Yingqing was conducting an extravehicular activity.
You know, it is very dangerous for astronauts to go out of the cabin, even though China has accumulated rich experience in this regard before.
But no one expected that the space rope would break.
After the incident, they were extremely angry because it was simply a joke with the lives of astronauts.
As a result, not long after, Liu Yingqing had returned to the ground and rejoined the astronaut corps.
Yang Liwei’s face changed slightly, and he said in a deep voice: “Comrade Nie Zhiqiang, be careful of your mouth, don’t say anything you shouldn’t say.”
They all knew Liu Yingqing’s identity.
When it comes to Liu Tao, you can’t say anything.
Only then did Nie Zhiqiang realize that he shouldn’t have said that.
The ‘Panshan’ spacecraft is constantly accelerating, and the display screen shows the speed of the ‘Panshan’ spacecraft, which is increasing very quickly.
Of course, only when the speed of the spacecraft reaches the first cosmic speed can the spacecraft overcome the gravity of the earth and truly enter space.
The Earth’s first cosmic velocity is 7.9 km/s, which is more than 23 times the speed of sound.
At this time, the thrust of the ‘Panshan’ spacecraft has not reached its maximum, but it is still accelerating.
At the same time, the ‘Panshan’ spacecraft is also constantly increasing in altitude.
As astronauts, there is actually nothing to do at this time and they don’t need to do anything.
Unless there are special circumstances that require them to perform manual operations.
Otherwise, everything will be executed by the artificial intelligence ‘Panshan’ according to the pre-set program.
At this time, monitoring stations in the United States, Russia, and Europe were constantly tracking the Panshan spacecraft.
The “Panshan” spacecraft was announced by the China National Space Administration as an aerospace plane, which has greatly increased the enthusiasm for aerospace planes around the world. The United States, Russia, and Europe have all increased their investment in the development of aerospace planes.
This is how science and technology works. Once a country develops a new technology, it means that this path is feasible, and other countries will follow suit. As long as they don’t want to fall behind in this field, they will increase their investment.
The China Space Agency’s announcement of this information is not a conspiracy, but a serious open plot.
I have played my cards, and it is up to you whether to follow or not.
It’s best if you follow the cards. If you don’t want to follow the cards, just go to the kids’ table and stop talking nonsense all day. (End of this chapter)