In the conference room of the Navigator Space Company, Tang Chao was explaining the manned lunar landing and the future lunar base concept to the people of the lunar landing committee.

"As you saw just now, because a lot of equipment is installed on the shell of the Lunar Spacecraft, it can't land directly on Earth like the Starship Lunar Landing Spacecraft, but it doesn't matter, it can be parked on the space station, whether it's Tiangong or Starry Sky Inn, it can be docked."

"When you arrive, it's equivalent to returning to Earth, our orbital shuttle can take off at any time, although its payload is not good, but the spacecraft coming back from the moon can't bring much, it's nothing more than astronauts returning to Earth and bringing some lunar samples or something, the capacity of the orbital shuttle is enough."

"And compared with the falling return to Earth, the return process of the shuttle is more comfortable."

"The space station and the orbital shuttle are already in Earth orbit, don't be fools."

Hearing Tang Chao's words, everyone in the conference room burst out laughing.

Indeed, compared with a direct fall and re-entry into the atmosphere, docking the space station and then transferring two more steps are the most suitable in either aspect.

Two more steps, but the design of the ship is much simpler.

Without these two steps, the ship has more to think about.

If you think about too many things, it will not only increase the complexity of the ship, but also increase the difficulty of manufacturing.

At the same time, the versatility is good, which also means that you can't specialize in anything.

The earth's environment, the space environment, and the lunar environment are three completely different environments.

If we extend it a bit, three different environments are countless different small environments.

"Running to the Moon" only considers the space environment and the lunar environment, and they have one thing in common, that is, a vacuum.

Moreover, the gravity of the moon is not large, it is a low gravity, and the gap with the microgravity illusion before the Earth-Moon channel is also small.

This is true when compared to Earth's gravity and space microgravity.

However, when returning to Earth on the moon this time, no orbital shuttle will be used, but the new manned spacecraft of the national team will be used.

One of the purposes of this type of spacecraft was to be a manned mission to the moon, but the times have changed so fast that it has been replaced by other solutions before it can be used.

But the capital has been built, and instead of directly mothballing, it is better to use it in the first manned mission to the moon.

At the very least, add your legendary attributes before entering the museum to show that you are not a waste of money to create a display.

Ahem, although the design and manufacturing personnel are reluctant, the reality is like this, so now the focus is on the "Moonshot" spacecraft.

The space station and the orbital shuttle are ready-made, and they are both ready-made for the national team and the navigator spaceflight, so the most important "Lunaga" spacecraft, can it get fuel on the moon?

"Absolutely."

Tang Chao replied affirmatively.

As he spoke, he opened a picture that had been transmitted back from the moon, which was also one of the top secrets of the Navigator's spaceflight.

"Shhhh

"Ah......h

"Is it ......?"

"Won't it?"

"Several gangs, I'm directly several gangs!"

As soon as the picture came out, there was a shock in the conference room.

I saw that most of the picture was pitch black, only the middle part was illuminated by lights, because the photo was black and white, so the bright parts were only gray and white of different depths.

The bright part looks ordinary, like some kind of place full of soil, the soil particles are very fine, the stones are very ordinary, and the most eye-catching is the "flash" in the picture.

That's a piece of bare ice!

If it is an ordinary person, you may not be able to see any fame, or even be interested in it, but the people in the conference room are different.

Since it is a manned lunar landing committee, it is natural that it understands the moon very well, not only full-time scientists, but also administrative personnel who know a little about one, two, three.

Otherwise, you don't understand fart, how do you command?

"Don Jr., what is this?"

Mr. Long sat next to Tang Chao, he turned his head and asked, Tang Chao knew that he had guessed it when he looked at his expression.

"Yes, you were right, it is the water ice of the moon, the basis of all human activities on the moon."

Although they guessed it, when this fact was told by Tang Chao, the people at the scene were still shocked.

This is water, not after analysis, and then "suspect", "maybe", "probably" that there is water somewhere, or that the detection satellite detected water molecules, but completely see a large block of ice!

Ten months ago, Navigator Space took the opportunity of the Long March 9 test flight to launch Yuegong-2, and then released eight lunar rovers to search for lunar water resources in a high-profile manner.

At that time, people paid attention to it for a while, and the navigator would release the detection video of the day every day, but after a long time, there was no news of water at all, so the number of people who paid attention gradually decreased.

However, netizens don't pay attention to it, and professional lunar scientists have to pay attention.

During this period, there was also a news that because of a calculation error, a lunar rover deep into the permanent shadow area ran out of power, and stayed there permanently, and some people still felt sorry.

Then came a few months of nothing.

Until now, even some professional lunar scientists do not pay attention to this aspect, but regard the daily video analysis task as the homework of their doctoral and graduate students.

Now that Tang Chao suddenly showed the moon water ice he found, the degree of shock can be imagined.

"Everyone should know about the lunar rover that lost its permanent dark area a few months ago, and this is the picture that the vehicle captured." Tang Chao pointed to the picture and said.

Long Lao was curious: "So the failure of the lunar rover is fake, and the discovery of lunar water ice is real?" ”

"Uh...... Can't say that. ”

Tang Chao was stunned for a moment, "It's true that the lunar rover has no power in the permanent dark area, and it is because the probe detected a large number of water molecules that it ventured deeper." ”

"Okay," Long Lao was also stunned for a moment, "Anyway, if you find real water ice, it's worth it." ”

Tang Chao admitted that he was indeed greedy at that time, but it was not greedy in the early stage, but greedy in the later stage.

Yuegong-2 stayed on the moon for so long and did a lot of tests, and detected many erroneous conjectures of earthlings on Earth.

Because of the harshness of the lunar environment, although these technologies come from Kanxing, in order to prevent accidents, Tang Chao and the company's scientists still prepared a lot of things for Yuegong-2.

Later, after field testing, it was found that some things really did not work.

Some of these devices need to consume electricity, and even need to design a separate power supply device, and now they are no longer needed, just give the battery to the lunar rover to solve the problem that the lunar rover cannot run far.

The battery is transferred from the maintenance module through the robotic arm, and then installed on each other with the robotic arms on other lunar rovers, so that the endurance of the lunar rover can be extended, allowing them to go deeper into the dark area.

However, these batteries are not original, so the ground control center who was a safe value, when a large number of water molecules were found, it was almost to the safe value, when the water molecules were more and more abundant, but there was no obvious ice cube that had reached the safe value.

But all kinds of data show that there must be water here, maybe not far away, if you don't see it, it's really unwilling.

So it broke through the power safety value and drove beyond the limit.

It turns out that the risk is right, and water ice appears in the shot.

In fact, you can go back here, but it's all here, and the power is not at the limit, wouldn't it be better to take back a sample?

With this in mind, the rover started mining mode.

The process of taking the ice was also smooth, the power consumption was calculated, and even when the ice was put on the car, it was fine, and as a result, the car stopped when the rover turned and walked back.

There was silence in the command center.

The final inspection result was that there was a problem with the additional battery pack.

And then there's ...... The safety value design is reasonable.

Fortunately, water was really found, and it was not far from the landing site of Moon Palace-2.

Because of the advent of water, the design of the Moonshot was established.

It can't land on Earth, so it doesn't need to carry some more fuel to resist Earth's gravity and land steadily.

Some of the fuel weight is saved, so what is in the hull weight of 40 tons?

Naturally, it's a fuel extractor!

Where there is water, there is hydrogen and oxygen fuel.

Although the direct electrolysis of water to obtain hydrogen and oxygen is very inefficient, dangerous, and extremely power-consuming, as long as the solar panels are deployed on the lunar surface, the power problem is not a problem.

As for the fact that the purity of electrolyzed hydrogen and oxygen is not high, and it is more dangerous after mixing, it can be solved with new technology.

Kanxing has it.

After all, space and extraterrestrial are not as good as the earth, there are several methods on the earth to produce a large amount of industrial hydrogen and oxygen, and in the alien world, only water ice is abundant, and the method of upgrading the solution is the most useful.

As a race that has entered the space age, the Canstar little green men certainly need to have skills in this regard.