Chapter 356: The Moonshot Event
It's boring to just talk about it, Cheng Dong and Tong Anfu performed the construction steps of the "artificial lunar soil protective layer" on the spot.
Well, as most people think, it's about loading sandbags, carrying sandbags, and stacking sandbags.
The steps are the same, and the name is the same, but the sandbags in the live broadcast are really a bit of a cow!
First of all, the empty sandbag beef pie, its material is very powerful, tough, lightweight, impact-proof, radiation-proof and so on.
It is then used to hold sand and soil.
Ahem, it's moon dust and lunar soil.
There are only three countries on Earth that have the ability to launch their own space equipment to obtain lunar soil from the moon, and these three countries represent the top three levels in the world, and no other country can do it.
If you want lunar soil, you can only wait for three countries to send it.
It is such a precious lunar soil, and the two astronauts of Tianxia put a spade into the bag one by one, which is really like a sandbag on the earth.
If you dig up too big a piece of moon rock, you have to throw it aside, disgusted.
In addition, the tools for sandbags are also ox batches, and the engineering shovel is a special material, specially made for aerospace work.
Not to mention the spacesuit, a set is at least hundreds of millions, and that is still the price of an old-fashioned spacesuit, and this kind of spacesuit that looks more powerful may be billions of dollars...... One.
The unit of quantity of this powered rigid spacesuit is felt to be more appropriate to use "table" or "tool", after all, it is more like a machine than clothes, and it does not have the characteristic fabric appearance of a spacesuit at all.
The behavior of carrying sandbags lasted for the first half a day, and then it was pushed by a four-wheeled small board car, and the first day of direct resistance with a spacesuit was also a test of the spacesuit.
There is also a skill when stacking sandbags, that is, try to make the lunar soil in the sandbag evenly distributed, not "the middle drum is not good, there is no lunar soil on both sides", try to make a cuboid.
Adjacent sandbags should be close together, and the upper and lower floors should be staggered.
Only in this way can the sandbag wall be tighter and better protected against radiation.
This is the best way to build a wall of protection that is not only effective in the shortest possible time.
To say that the moon base has changed a lot now.
When they first landed, they had only two pieces of equipment, a survival module and a spacecraft, and in the past two days, the number of equipment visible to orbiting satellites has doubled.
One is the large folding antenna with a diameter of ten meters, and the other is an array of solar panels, both of which were assembled by mechanical engineer Tong Anfu.
The signal is so good, of course, let the audience take a look at the big hero, that is, the big antenna.
After watching the heroes, I went to see the spaceship and the solar panel array.
When the spacecraft was in space, the astronauts made an introduction, but some modules were blocked by the guard plate, so the audience did not see it.
Of course, the details of the work cannot be displayed, nor can they be displayed, just take a look at the appearance of the equipment.
There is no shortage of cars in the lunar base, and the eighth lunar rover automatically woke up after being dragged out of the shadow area, and it is a good car with a little modification.
Eight powered cars, leaving two for transportation and emergency, Lin Yang and Peng Zizhen got six at once.
Two of them are manned, and the remaining four are on the trail mode.
Detection equipment was placed there in the ice mine, and it was safe for a distance, so Lin Yang also entered the shadow area, and six cars hung six storage boxes, which could hold a lot of ice at a time.
These canisters were compressed and brought in, some resembling inflatable space stations, others resembling lanterns.
Because it has to open the lid when it holds the ice cubes, they are not inflated and rise, but are completely supported by the skeleton.
Six truckloads of ice cubes were transported back at once, and on the way back, they were directly turned into water, and the pressure in the tank would expand even more.
After returning, it is transported to the lifting platform with a small crane, connected to the conveying pipe, and the lifting platform is raised, and the muddy water can flow into the reformer furnace, which will separate the water and residue, and finally electrolyze and separate it into fuel.
However, the reformer is a bit small, and it takes a while to process six cans of water, which is why it takes a week before it can take off.
In addition to wanting to bring back some more quest items, the main thing is that fuel is slow to be saved.
The three hours passed quickly, and in the final hour, the camera shifted to the permanent shadow area, allowing the audience to see the site of the lunar ice mining.
Seriously, it's not really much to see, it's full of chunks of surface ice, so there's no need to go down to the pit just yet.
The astronauts used a hammer to knock on the ice, and the knocked ones were picked up and put into storage tanks, and there was too hard ice, and if the hammer was not good to knock, they would use an electric pickaxe, which would always dry up the ice.
If it's too small, don't pick it up, and you may not have picked up a lot of lunar soil, as long as the size is right.
Pre-mining is so capricious.
The interactive session was also very interesting, mainly to answer strange questions from netizens, because of the limited time, only 20 questions were answered, and each answer was very short.
After a three-hour live broadcast, most viewers felt that they had gained a lot.
"It's nice to have supervised the progress of human beings to the stars again."
"Haha, I have a feeling of being involved in history, that humanity has finally established a base on the moon, and that it feels very rewarding to watch the base expand little by little."
"Yes, it's really good, it's a good phenomenon that the base can be continuously built, and now there are ice mines, and there are also fuel production devices, if the navigator builds a large fuel production equipment to transport it, the moon can really become a gas station."
"I feel that this lunar base should be built very quickly, and in ten days, the second batch of lunar astronauts in Tianxia will set off, although they will not land on the moon, but they are also very good at doing research on the lunar space station."
"Don't you know who that mysterious astronaut is?"
"A little bit of news was revealed, and it was said that it was someone from the Navigator Company, but there was no official news about which astronaut it was."
"The navigator's secrecy measures are too good, and this time Tianxia's national team has announced the candidates in advance."
"On the surface of the moon is the lunar base, and on the lunar orbit is the lunar space station, and they will meet often, which feels quite romantic."
"I feel that the lunar space station is more dangerous than the lunar base, and the lunar base can also build a lunar soil protective layer, and the lunar space station has no way to reduce weight, and the radiation dose must be much larger than that of the lunar base."
"Well, so didn't the Tianxia Space Agency say that the astronauts on the lunar space station will be rotated once every half a month, just to prevent excessive radiation damage."
"I wish I could go to the lunar space station and the moon base, I've already been to the Star Inn, I need to have a bigger goal."
"emmmm, it's difficult to estimate, it costs a lot of money to go to the moon, and the radiation is so big, it doesn't feel good."
"I don't think it's a matter of spending money or not, it's a matter of whether the moon base is open or not."
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Excited people chatted and chatted, somehow talking about Merriken's return to the moon mission at the end of the month, and from the perspective of humanity going to the stars alone, it is better for two countries to successfully land on the moon than one.
As long as the two countries do not fight on the moon, and by the way, the moon is broken up, but two countries develop and build on the moon together, the faster the pace of human beings will be towards the starry sky.
Since Merrican said that he would not know the pigeon and would launch it on time, then the people waited and watched.
But before that, that is, on March 24, the Luna spacecraft really ran out of fuel, and the astronauts put a lot of lunar soil, lunar rock, lunar ice, and some minerals found on it, activated the unmanned mode, ignited and took off to return to Earth orbit.
The smooth take-off of the Lunar Race has once again raised the importance of the Moon to a higher level.
The transit station of the voyage is none other than the moon!
I don't know if it was stimulated, but the launch time of the mission on Merriken's side was actually advanced by another day.
People are more excited.
On the 26th, the Moonshot will dock at the Tiangong space station.
On the 27th, Merriken's return to the moon mission was launched.
According to the schedule, Merriken's national team spacecraft will enter lunar orbit on the 30th, and then land on the moon on April 2nd.
And April 3 is the day when the Lunar Rush will set off again for the moon.
It's a great show!