"The leaders of the Great Unification are very disappointed in us!"

In the conference room of the Merrican Space Agency, Kuna, the spokesman of the Grand Commander whose work is in jeopardy, patted the table and said.

The classic scene was recreated, and everyone else in the room felt that this scene had appeared several times, and some even wanted to laugh.

"Tianxia will carry out a manned lunar mission on the 16th of this month, so according to our previous plan, we must launch our manned lunar spacecraft before the end of the month, but now our lunar spacecraft has not yet been decided!"

"Before, you all said that your plan was 99% in progress, and it was not easy for us to judge or choose, but now it's okay, Tianxia made a choice for us!"

"Therefore, after the meeting of the think tank, it was decided that the standard for the adoption of the scheme is now unified, and there is only one rule, that is, whose spacecraft can be launched at the earliest, and it must be launched within this month, we will adopt whose plan!"

Well, some people can't laugh anymore now.

The previous plan was indeed like this, and at that time, Tianxia rescheduled the manned lunar mission to be carried out so early, and they did not expect the other party to advance so much.

The progress is 99% or something, everyone is just talking, after all, you have to compete for orders, how can you look like you are a bull if you don't blow it bigger?

If you don't criticize yourself, how can NASA choose its own plan?

It's like when you're late for work, do you tell your boss "didn't get up" or "on the road"?

You play for a day, and the client comes to urge you to work, do you say "didn't start" or "did you do it"?

The answer is obvious.

On the way (just got up) .jpg

After doing (turning on the computer) .jpg

It's just that now Tianxia has directly set the launch date on the 16th, and all the systems are moving, and the equipment needed for the mission has been on the road, obviously playing for real.

It's really good to play on the other side, the situation on Merrican's side is like the boss coming directly to your door, whether you are going out or almost at the company, the result will come out soon.

So the three companies are a bit numb at this moment, but fortunately, not all three are "99% (new folders)", and two of them are still progressing well.

It's that netizens are not optimistic, but industry insiders are optimistic about the two companies and two lunar landing equipment.

The "National Team" lunar landing equipment of Deep Blue origin is a replica of the "Apollo" lunar landing equipment of that year, and it is also a classic upgrade and descending structure, stacked up and down.

It's just that the "national team" moon landing equipment is bigger and stacked higher.

The height of the Apollo lunar landing equipment was 7 meters, while the national team lunar landing equipment reached 12 meters.

The weight has also changed from 15 tons to more than 30 tons.

To say that it is an enlarged replica, it is really an enlarged replica, when the Apollo spacecraft came down the stairs, it also took the stairs.

The key is that even if the stairs of the original Apollo lunar spacecraft were only 2 meters high, the astronauts still had a lot of effort to come down, but the stairs of the national team's lunar spacecraft were as high as 9 meters......

This......

It was really straight and tall, and it was old and magnificent.

But it looks spectacular on the ground, but it is a fatal flaw on the moon.

When an astronaut goes down the stairs in an extravehicular spacesuit with reduced mobility, it can take him a day to descend to the surface of the moon.

Fortunately, because the spacecraft has become larger, the spacecraft has also stayed on the lunar surface for a longer time, the Apollo lunar landing spacecraft has a maximum stay time of 3 days, while the national team spacecraft can stay for 7 days, which is enough for astronauts to get on and off the spacecraft.

The take-off is also a traditional take-off method, throwing away the large descent stage, the upgraded jet module lifts off with the manned capsule, and then docks with the Orion spacecraft in lunar orbit to return to Earth.

Because it is not very breakthrough, its progress is really good, and it is the fastest progress among the three options.

Then there is the "Base" moon landing equipment of Power Systems.

It is so named because its shape looks more like a lunar base than a spaceship.

Its technological breakthrough is not large, but there is no small breakthrough in the arrangement of power modules.

Compared with the national team lunar spacecraft, which has become larger and has a height of more than 12 meters, the height of the base lunar spacecraft has dropped in the opposite direction, to only 4 meters.

Of course, the manned cabin is low, and if the solar panels are unfolded upward, it is not low, and the height is more than 10 meters.

The reason why the manned cabin has such a "low" degree is that it has removed the power platform that was originally placed below and arranged it on both sides of the manned cabin.

There are two large fuel tanks on each side of the manned capsule, and the injection system is installed on two internal fuel tanks, which consume the fuel of the outer fuel tank when it lands, and then throw away the two fuel tanks on the outside when it is close to the lunar surface, so that it can land smoothly.

It's easy to say that the extra things are already abandoned when they land, so you can just ignite and take off.

The point is that its manned cabin is very low from the ground, so the stairs are also low, only 1 meter!

Not to mention the 9-meter-tall thing, it is lower than the previous 2-meter staircase, which is very convenient for astronauts to get on and off the spacecraft.

Because of the change in structure, its progress is a little slower than that of the ship of the Deep Blue Origin, but it is the same as the Deep Blue Origin, it is led by its own company, and then gathers the strength of several companies to develop it together, if you urge the progress of other companies, it should be faster.

Of course, if it can be fast, the dark blue origin can also be fast, so it is basically not fast.

Finally, there is the space fork "moon landing starship" that netizens are optimistic about.

Compared with the joint development of the other two, it is alone, and not only does it fight alone, but its lunar spacecraft is also super huge.

Its height exceeded 30 meters, and its weight also exceeded 100 tons.

Because the power system and fuel tank are underneath, its exit is more than 20 meters from the lunar surface, and the only way to get up and down is by elevator.

This sounds like it makes netizens enthusiastic, but it also indirectly increases the difficulty of its development and use.

Let's talk about development first, it was originally aiming for the "standard moon landing time" two years later, which was the official time for Merrican's previous return to the moon.

Who knew that because of the sudden appearance of the Navigator company, the time of the Tianxia people's moon landing was directly advanced by several years, and they suddenly ran in front of Merriken's plan to return to the moon, so Merriken was unwilling and asked about the progress of the three companies "99%", and it was also advanced.

In fact, it's nothing to be a little earlier, and it's okay to squeeze in time, who knows that Tianxia jumped three times and two jumps, and jumped directly to the 16th of this month.

At this time, the other two companies have not completed it, let alone the "Big Mac" moon landing starship of the space fork.

There is also the aspect of use, which also requires space orbit "refueling" technology.

The starship is too big and too heavy to go anywhere without refueling in Earth orbit.

If it were two years later, all the problems would not be a problem, and with its "sci-fi" level performance and shape, it would definitely get an order to land on the moon.

It's a pity that there are not two years left now.

So this time I had to give up.

Fortunately, the space fork now holds a large number of orders in the earth's orbit, and does not worry about making no money, and in a year or two, the lunar starship can still grab the lunar market.

The other two also understand this, so they have to take this order down.

Their lunar spacecraft have no late-stage advantage, so they can only do the early stage first, and then figure out a way.

The boss of Deep Blue Origin said: "Choose us, we can set the launch time on March 31, and our equipment progress has really reached 99%, there is enough time to do safety tests, and this mission to the moon is 100% successful." ”

Although the national team moon landing spacecraft is not as close to completion as he said, it is really about the same, working 24 days a day for a month, which is equivalent to three months of working days.

The boss of the power system retorted: "We can set the time for March 30, and we can guarantee that the mission will be 100% successful, and the stairs of the other party's spacecraft are too high, and it is very dangerous for astronauts to go up and down, and it is also an extremely waste of time, which seriously squeezes the time of scientific research." ”

"You ......"

The boss of Deep Blue was in a hurry, and it was not easy to refute if he wanted to, this belonged to direct exposure, so the thoughts in his brain flashed one by one, and he had to think of a countermeasure.

Suddenly he thought of the elevator of the lunar starship, yes, we can also do the elevator!

"Height is not a problem, we can also build an elevator," the dark blue boss slapped on the conference table, and said excitedly: "The 20-meter exit height of the lunar starship can be used as an elevator, and our 9-meter height is not a problem!" ”

"And we can also set the launch date for March 29! If done right, we could land on the moon in March! ”