Chapter 759

In an office at the base, Gu Lu, Wu Zheng, and Jiang He sat down.

Wu Zheng pondered for a few seconds and said to Gu Lu, "Gu Lu, the reason why I called you back so urgently this time is really because the research and development work of the lunar spacecraft is in a predicament. ”

Gu Lu nodded, expressing understanding, "What are the specific difficulties encountered in the research and development of the lunar spacecraft, can you tell me about it?"

Wu Zheng fell on Jiang He, "Jiang He, you can talk to Gu Lu." ”

Jiang He bowed his head slightly, and then a wry smile appeared on his face, "Hey, I'm still to blame for this matter, it's because I thought about the design and development of the lunar spacecraft too simply." ”

Then, Jiang He told Gu Lu about the research direction of the lunar spacecraft department in the past two years and the huge problems it has faced.

Just in the beginning.

The idea of Jiang He is simple.

Now that the Apollo 11 lunar spacecraft of the United States has successfully completed the manned lunar landing project.

So......

Isn't it just a matter of borrowing from 'Apollo 11' and building a Chinese version of the lunar spacecraft!

There's no shame in that.

Because that's the most efficient and fast solution.

Thereupon.

After determining the direction of this research, Jiang He led people to do it.

The design drawings and various data of the Apollo 11 lunar spacecraft are all locked up at the headquarters of NASA in the United States, and there is definitely no way to get them on the river side.

However, according to some information disclosed on the Internet and some information obtained through special channels, it is not difficult for the river to copy Apollo 11.

In fact.

The Apollo 11 lunar spacecraft can be divided into three parts: the lunar module, the service module, and the return module.

The essence of this is the design of the lunar module.

The Apollo spacecraft lunar module has a two-cabin structure, consisting of two parts: a descent stage and an up-to-upgrade stage.

The descent stage is responsible for deceleration braking into the moon-landing course, as well as moon-landing cushioning soft landing, and the main power is a 44.4 kN variable thrust engine.

The upper upgrade is an enclosed capsule in which astronauts ride, and after landing on the lunar surface, the upper upgrade hatch opens, and the astronauts climb the gangway and step onto the lunar surface to start their work.

When the astronauts return to the upper upgrade after completing the lunar surface work, and then the upper upgrade 15.6 kN engine ignition takes off into the orbit around the moon and docks with the circumlunar spacecraft, the astronauts enter the return capsule and return to the earth, and the descending stage is left on the lunar surface to become a lunar landing relic, and the upper upgrade will eventually fall to the lunar surface and become a pile of wreckage.

According to these data, Jiang He led his team and finally copied Apollo 11 in more than two years.

But after the test, what made Jiang He and others dumbfounded was that the manned spacecraft they built did not meet the safety assessment at all.

Later, Jiang He and others discovered the cause of this phenomenon after continuous testing.

This was because many of the technologies used by the Apollo spacecraft at the time were very risky.

Now if you evaluate objectively, the reliability assessment is not up to 50%, which is very, very risky, and many structural coefficients are very low, and the safety risk is home.

Even if the lunar spacecraft built by Jiang He and others is designed using current technology, its reliability is still very low.

Other words.

At that time, when the United States launched Apollo 11, there was a half chance that the two astronauts would not return.

Mi Guo is gambling.

Bet on that 50 percent chance.

If you fail to launch again, there will always be a time to make the right bet.

But China can't do that.

The lives of astronauts cannot be taken as a gamble.

They weren't that cruel.

Not to mention a 50% chance of failure.

Even if it is 10 percent, Huaguo will not take the risk of trying.

At the time of the implementation of aerospace engineering.

Huaguo always puts the safety of astronauts first.

This is the reason why there have been no space accidents in Huaguo so far.

But......

Since 50 percent defeat may not be doomed, the problem comes to the side of the river again.

The safety factor of the imitation version of 'Apollo 11' does not meet the requirements, which means that the efforts of the previous two years or so have almost been useless.

The lunar spacecraft, especially the lunar module department of the lunar spacecraft, will definitely have to be redesigned.

However, in terms of time, it can be regarded as very short.

Although Jiang He is proud, he is not blindly arrogant.

Jiang He believes that with the ability of his team, it will be difficult to design a spacecraft that can achieve a manned landing on the moon and have a high safety factor before 2025.

That's it.

Jiang He chose to turn to Wu Zheng for help.

And Wu Zheng recommended Gu Lu to Jiang He.

“...... That's pretty much it. Jiang He breathed a long sigh of relief and ended his tirade, "Anyway, the situation we are facing at the moment is quite bad, it took too much time to imitate Apollo 11 in the past, but who knew that a group of people on the NASA side were so dark that they built a defective product, and this matter did not take the lives of astronauts seriously! If it weren't for the good luck of Armstrong and his teammates back then, maybe they would have turned into sky garbage now!"

Speaking of this, the more Jiang He thought about it, the more angry he became.

Gu Lu smiled bitterly after hearing this.

It stands to reason that Jianghe's idea is fine.

But no one expected it.

Back then, in order to be the first to land on the moon, the United States would be so cold-blooded.

"It's the age of the Internet, and the speed at which news spreads is fast, and the United States will definitely not do what it did back then. Therefore, there has been no plan to restart the manned lunar landing project in recent years. However, the basic scientific and technological strength of the United States side is much stronger than ours, and it is estimated that it will complete the research and development of a lunar spacecraft with a very high safety factor earlier than us. Wu Zheng spoke softly on the side.

Gu Lu and Jiang He nodded with heavy faces.

"What do you need me to do?" Gu Lu raised his head, his gaze meeting Jiang He.

"Design the lunar module!" Jiang He spit out a few words without hesitation, "The lunar module is the most complex and critical department of the entire lunar spacecraft, I will leave it to you to design, and all the resources and equipment in the base are all at your disposal." ”

"Lunar module......" Gu Lu pondered for a few seconds, then nodded slightly, "No problem." ”

As Jiang He said, the lunar module is the key to a spacecraft that lands on the moon.

There can be some flaws in the service module and the return capsule of the lunar spacecraft, but the lunar module is absolutely not.

Because the mission of the lunar module is to transport astronauts to the moon and then transport the astronauts back to the moon after the astronauts have completed their survey mission.

Space and the moon are dangerous.

In this back-and-forth process, once there is a small mistake, the personal safety of the astronauts will face a serious threat.

Therefore, the design of the lunar module was not at all sloppy.