Since Biosphere A was attacked by an unknown armed force and some of the experimental data was destroyed, the entire Tinder project has come to a standstill.

Although no research institute has terminated its cooperation with the Tinder Project as a result, many experts from foreign research institutes are already considering withdrawing from relevant research for security reasons.

At present, the project researchers have been transferred to the Institute of Space Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the restoration of Biosphere A has begun. Local forces have increased the security level in the vicinity, but even then the damage that has been done is irreversible.

Nearly half a year's hard work was burned, and seeing that the Tinder project was at an impasse, Professor Hu Yang, who was the project leader, had suffered mentally during this period of time, and the whole person had lost more than one lap.

Although no one blames him for this, sometimes the saddest thing for people is their own level.

Therefore, after receiving a call from Professor Lu and hearing that he had important information to explain to him about the Tinder Project, he immediately set off from Shangjing to Jinling.

After going all the way, he finally met Lu Zhou, who called the phone in the office of the dean's office of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study.

"This is what I want to hand over to you," took out a mobile hard drive from the drawer, walked to Lu Zhou, who sat down on the sofa in front of the coffee table, reached out and handed it to Professor Hu, who was sitting opposite, and said solemnly, "The data inside, I hope you can make good use of it." ”

Looking at the mobile hard disk handed to him, Hu Yang hesitated slightly, and asked with some doubts: "...... This is? ”

"Information from Mars."

There was a moment of silence in the office for half a minute.

Swallowing a mouthful of saliva, Professor Hu struggled to burst out of his mouth with a sentence.

"This thing...... Is it legal? ”

Hearing this interesting speech, Lu Zhou smiled and said.

"It depends on how you use it, it's definitely not okay to publish journals, and it's probably not okay to put it on the table and discuss it with foreign experts, but other than that, all the uses you can think of are probably legal."

After hesitating for a while, Hu Yang finally reached out and took the mobile hard drive, but after pulling it lightly, he found that Lu Zhou did not let go.

Raising his head, Professor Hu Yang cast an inquiring glance at Lu Zhou.

Looking at Professor Hu, Lu Zhou said in a serious tone: "Think about it carefully, take this information, maybe you will also be on the CIA list in the future." ”

Hu Yang was slightly stunned, and then smiled: "Come on, maybe not now?" ”

When China also showed its ambition to colonize space, it was already doomed that the Tinder project would be targeted. And as the person in charge of the entire Tinder Project, he was probably targeted as early as the beginning.

With that, he took the document.

This time, Lu Zhou didn't hold on to it, and let go of his hand very simply.

Taking a look at the mobile hard drive in his hand, Professor Hu Yang paused, and suddenly said: "When the Tinder plan is completed, our footprints will be all over the solar system." ”

Hearing this, Lu Zhou replied with a smile: "Don't say it's the solar system, maybe it's more far-fart." ”

It's just that I just don't know how many years from now.

……

After returning to Beijing with the data provided by Lu Zhou, Hu Yang immediately contacted several key researchers in the Tinder Project and set up an independent research team to begin to study these valuable experimental data.

At the same time, Xiaguang, thousands of kilometers away, has also successfully entered the orbit of returning from Mars to Earth. At this point, the entire rescue operation is basically no longer suspenseful, and the discussion about this matter on the Internet has gradually cooled down.

After the astronauts return to Earth, CCTV will do another interview program, but these will be for later......

Putting aside the distant things for the time being, in the month and a half since the Xiaguang set off for Mars, a lot of things have happened on Earth.

Just when NASA was in full swing to promote the Ares program and the Deep Space Gate program, Huaguo was not idle. Whether it is Star Science and Technology or the Lunar Orbit Construction Committee, the pace of developing lunar resources has not stopped.

With the completion of the first phase of the Moon Palace project and the official arrival of six astronauts, the tentacles of human civilization finally extended to this barren soil in a real sense.

The space station in orbit is like a port at the Cape of Good Hope, guiding the way for people traveling from the Old World to the New World. Maybe ten years, maybe twenty years, people looking up at this starry sky will witness the prosperity of this place in countless rounds of sunrise and sunset......

Of course, that's not the most exhilarating thing.

After countless days of design and practice, the "Earth-Moon Transfer Rail Transportation System" proposed by Chief Designer Lu has finally come to reality from the drawings.

After soliciting the opinions of netizens, the first spacecraft of the "Earth-Moon Transfer Orbital Transportation System" was named "Queqiao".

The design idea of the whole Queqiao is similar to that of the Xiangrui, which is a single propulsion after the engine, and the speed difference between the engines is used to control the propulsion direction. The only difference is that the electric propulsion system has been reduced from five thrusters to four new models, and the model has been changed from a long fusiform that conforms to hydrodynamics to a cuboid, and the wing design has been removed.

If it used to be like an airplane, now it's more like a ship, going straight back and forth in the Earth-Moon system.

With the "launch" of Queqiao and the launch of the Long March 9 heavy rocket into low-Earth orbit, the carrying capacity of the Lunar Orbit Construction Committee for the Earth-Moon transfer orbit has increased by a new order of magnitude.

Future shipments from low-Earth orbit to lunar orbit will be carried out by this electrically propulsion spacecraft designed specifically for outer space navigation. And the Queqiao, which is equipped with a cargo cabin, has a single carrying capacity of 500-750 tons on the Earth-Moon transfer orbit on the premise of ensuring transportation efficiency!

Currently, the Lunar Orbit Construction Committee is considering leasing a nodal module from the International Space Station to install a cargo compartment "for transit supplies".

If this cooperation can be negotiated, the ISS will be a transit point for supplies from low-Earth orbit to Earth-Moon transfer orbit.

From now on, if there is anything that needs to be sent from the earth to the moon, it only needs to be sent here by a small rocket or other spacecraft, and finally transported by the "Queqiao" once and again.

In this way, even aerospace companies that do not have large-scale rocket launch technology will be able to participate in the construction of lunar orbit!

The high-thrust propulsion system will no longer be the threshold to the Earth-Moon transfer orbit, and the most difficult voyage to the Moon will be undertaken by the "giant ship" of Star Technology.

Perhaps even Lu Zhou himself did not realize that the prototype of an interplanetary transportation company was being built.

Probably no one would have imagined that the dream that Musk had when he founded Space-X is slowly becoming a reality on the other side of the Pacific Ocean in another form......