Chapter 504: History of Astronautics

Shangguan Yang paused for a minute, gathered the hair on his forehead, and glanced at the audience seriously, especially on Li Baoqiang's face for two seconds.

Li Baoqiang, surrounded by the stars of the governors in the audience, with his mighty military uniform and heroic face, made Shangguan Yang intoxicated, this little soldier, in just four years, actually unified the entire earth and established the Earth Federation.

What a miracle in the world, and the one who created this miracle was her husband, the father of a two-year-old boy, thinking of this, Shangguan Yang was proud for a while.

And Li Baoqiang and his son, Li Xiaoshuai, turned out to be as naughty as his father, and at the same time extremely smart,

Shangguan Yang, who is now thirty-seven years old, finally had the crystallization of love with Li Baoqiang two years ago.

For Shangguan Yang, this is great news, elderly women are full of hardships in giving birth to children, but fortunately, Li Xiaoshuai, who is healthy, lively and smart, makes Shangguan Yang breathe a sigh of relief, and also attaches more importance to her career, she wants to help Li Baoqiang complete more big events,

For example, the development of aerospace science and technology,

"Hehe, in fact, interpreting the "Earth Federation Charter" is really boring, but for the sake of the future of mankind, I think no matter how boring it is, everyone must sit still, there is no YY plot here, dog blood shots, not those messy Internet city little yellow texts, I try to be interesting, not so boring, please understand."

Shangguan Yang spoke again, making everyone smile knowingly, expressing understanding,

Indeed, this morning's interpretation made everyone a little unbearable, boring data, jerky terminology, so that these governors are a little brainstormed, and they are all waiting for the final interpretation of military development, that is what they are most concerned about,

However, the reason why these bigwigs can become bigwigs is that they do have something extraordinary, they know that science and technology and military are complementary to each other, and the latest scientific and technological achievements are generally used in military development, and the latest theories and requirements in military development have also become the driving force for scientific and technological development.

Therefore, they listened to the ten major scientific and technological development trends of mankind in the future that Shangguan Yang just said, and they were full of expectations for the history of human aerospace development and the next action of the Earth Federation to develop the universe.

Shangguanyang turned on the projector, and with the pictures, coupled with Guanyang's eloquent narration, the footsteps of human exploration of space were displayed in front of all the bigwigs of the Earth Federation, especially when they rushed out of the atmosphere yesterday and were stimulated by the unique experience of a bird's-eye view of the earth from space, a pride in conquering the universe arose.

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"Human beings' exploration of the universe is like rushing at night, with a flashlight illuminating a small piece of road in front of us, but when you look up, there is a vast unknown.

From the first artificial satellite to the sky, mankind finally sent the creation of its civilization to outer space; and then looked up at the bright moon for hundreds of millions of years,

Looking down and seeing the narrow but meaningful "step" of human beings,

The achievements we have made are placed in the vast universe**, like the afterglow of fireflies on a summer night, and the small dust on a drop in the ocean.

With the power of human beings, we have not given up the opportunity to write legends, and we are actively searching for the "neighbor" who hears the echo in the corner of the universe: Earth, hello. ”

Shangguan Yang's voice is full of charm, it is not the gender temptation of a bewitching female scientist, but a mysterious voice from space, especially Shangguan Yang's PPT is quite exquisitely made, which makes all the Earth Federation bigwigs including Li Baoqiang full of reverie,

Breaking Out of the Atmosphere: The Power of Human Fantasy

Before the power of science and technology could send humans out of the atmosphere, the energy of the space had to be dispersed in a series of prophetic science fiction.

In 1638, John? In his book Discovering New Worlds, Wilkins describes what it would be like for humans to walk on the moon in low gravity: "Standing on the moon is as steady as standing on the ground...... Moves faster than any living thing on Earth. ”

In "The First Man to Walk on the Moon", the British writer Wells imagined the feat of human landing on the moon and the conflict of lunar civilizations.

From Nazi weapons to space weapons: the birth of the V-2 legend

The study of modern space technology using launch vehicles that do not rely on air jet propulsion as means to enter space began at the beginning of the 20th century, during World War II, Germany launched the world's first ballistic missile V-2 rocket for the first time in 1942, and realized the technical vision of the pioneers of space theory in engineering.

Originally, the German army developed the V-2 missile with the aim of directly and accurately hitting targets in Britain from the European continent, and the emergence of the V-2 meant the strategic and tactical use of various emerging ballistic missiles.

"Paperback needle" plan: the battle for the V-2 rocket between the United States and the Soviet Union

As soon as the war ended, both the United States and Russia were anxious to master German rocket technology, but according to the Yalta Treaty, Penemünde, the main location of the V-2 rocket production plant, was assigned to Soviet Russia for trusteeship.

The U.S. military formed a commando team to urgently carry out a mission codenamed "Paperback Needle" to rush out the V-2 rocket and related semi-finished products and materials within 10 days from May 22 to May 31, 1945.

What is even more rare is that the US military persuaded a number of German rocket experts to work for it,

Since then, the United States has accumulated experience in developing launch vehicles and established supporting industrial facilities that have begun to take shape.

The curtain of the Cold War: "Star Wars" conceived by the United States and the Soviet Union

In a certain sense, the "space race" is also a manifestation of the "arms race" during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.

More than its practical significance, space technology is the focus of this competition because of its potential for military applications and its inspiring role.

The U.S. side even believes that the battlefield of the future world is likely to include extraterrestrial domains in addition to the earth.

From another point of view, the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union for many years has also improved the progress of human space exploration.

A "war over the head" has begun,

The USSR was the first to score, and the Sputnik satellite went into the sky

On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched the first artificial satellite in orbit around the earth, Sputnik-1, which officially became the beginning of the space race and opened the space age of the Soviet Union.

This greatly boosted the morale of the Soviet people after the war, and the satellite was involved in the measurement of the density of the upper atmosphere,

The Soviet Sputnik, which was widely reported by the Western media, led to panic and political controversy in the United States,

This response is known in history as the "Sputnik crisis", and four months after the successful launch of Sputnik I, the United States launched its first artificial satellite, Explorer 1.

However, it has also paid countless embarrassing failures for this,

Gagarin: The brightest starry sky ever

April 12, 1961 Soviet cosmonaut Yuri? Gagarin flew into Earth orbit on Vostok 1 and became the first human to go into space,

Gagarin saw the brightest starry sky in history, when there was one less atmospheric barrier between him and the stars than we do.

In addition to routine debriefings such as "I feel good", he described to the people on the ground: "The sky is completely pitch black, and the horizon is a beautiful light blue".

Soon after, in order to seize the title of "first" spacewalk, the Soviet Union risked sending Leonov into space with the immature "Ascent" 2 spacecraft.

Leonov cautiously floated 5 meters away from the spacecraft and "held his breath as he watched the star-studded dark space change dramatically...... The stars are much more visible than those seen on the ground, brighter and do not twinkle. ”