The year 2030 has just begun, and the world is in a state of excitement. In this year, China, the United States and SpaceX all implemented their own space programs in this year, which can be called the second space climax after the "Apollo moon landing program".

On the shore of the vast Atlantic Ocean, at the Cape Canaveral launch center in Florida, USA, stands an SLS rocket with a height of 97 meters and a total weight of nearly 2,500 tons. SLS is a high-thrust rocket of the new century developed by the United States, which can launch astronauts to the moon, and is the same level as the thrust rocket Saturn V in the famous "Apollo moon landing program". Saturn V was also lifted off at Cape Canaveral.

As the countdown to launch begins, the SLS rocket thrusters spit out flames and fly towards the moon with a bang.

The SLS rocket carries the Orion spacecraft, a new spacecraft designed for the moon landing in the U.S. "Return to the Moon" program, which can accommodate six astronauts. The Orion spacecraft separated from the SLS rocket in the top layer of the atmosphere and headed directly to the "Deep Space Gate" of the US lunar orbital space station.

The Deep Space Gate orbital station was originally intended to replace the International Space Station, which will be decommissioned in 2024. The Deep Space Gate is located at 2 o'clock in the Earth-Moon Lagrange on the far side of the Moon. Earth-Moon Lagrange 2 is not an actual point, it is almost a vacuum. But the deep space orbital station can rotate around this point of nothingness, maintaining itself on the far side of the moon.

It would take several times more energy to transport a kilogram of an object to a deep space portal than it would also need to reach the ISS, and much more massive rockets would be needed. The reason why the orbital station was chosen here is that it is also easier to get to Mars from here. For the purpose of the Mars mission, the United States established this deep space portal.

After a three-day flight, Orion arrived in orbit around the moon, and after orbit adjustment, it successfully docked with the Deep Space Gate orbital station. Six U.S. astronauts entered the orbital station from the Orion spacecraft, where they will survive a year-long life in Earth-fire transfer orbit with supplies stored at the orbital station

On February 2, also at Cape Canaveral, but this time there was an even bigger rocket, SpaceX's Big Fucking Rocket and Big Fucking Spaceship. The diameter of the rocket reaches 12 meters and the height reaches 122 meters, while the diameter of the spacecraft is 17 meters and the length is 49.5 meters. The combination of a rocket and a spaceship is the largest rocket ever built. After the rocket sends the BFS to low Earth orbit, it will use the re-entry technology to return to Cape Canaveral to reload the fuel and take off again. After several repeated launches over the next few months, the manned spacecraft had enough fuel to fly to Mars.

On March 15, the Wenchang launch center in Hainan, China, also stood the huge Long March 9 rocket, which is no less impressive than the SLS rocket. The Long March 9 will push the lunar spacecraft into low-Earth orbit, where it will dock in low-Earth orbit for three days and wait for docking with a manned spacecraft.

Three days later, the Long March 5 on another launch pad in Wenchang was ready. The Long March 5 rocket carries a new generation of manned spacecraft "Nuwa", which carries six astronauts.

"5, 4, 3, 2, 1 ignition!"

With an order, the Long March 5 thruster spewed flames, and the rocket slowly lifted its body.

"Wenchang radar tracking is normal, telemetry signal is normal, Wenchang flight is normal"

......

"The ship and the arrow are separated."

In the Beijing Aerospace Command Hall, hundreds of people held their breath and waited for the final news, and the entire hall could almost be said to have a sound of needles falling.

Suddenly, a voice came, "Beijing! Nuwa is normal. ”

"Wow!" The command hall burst into applause. Many old astronauts shed tears of excitement, and the Chinese are finally going to the moon.

The Nuwa manned spacecraft and the lunar spacecraft will successfully dock in low-earth orbit, and the thrusters will accelerate the transformation of the combined earth's orbit into an Earth-Moon transfer orbit.

As Nuwa docked with the lunar spacecraft, a floating space station not far away watched all this. This is the Chinese space station officially in operation in 2022, which can accommodate six astronauts for a certain period of time. Located at an altitude of 500 kilometers above the ground, China's space station has a botanical laboratory that can use the microgravity environment to carry out plant experiments.

The United States successfully implemented the "Apollo manned moon landing program" in the 70s of the 19th century, so NASA is more interested in Mars than the moon. Curiosity and Mars 2020 rovers were launched to Mars ahead of schedule to collect information. After three successful manned missions around the moon, NASA decided to march to Mars in June 2030.

SpaceX originally planned to land on Mars in 2020, but postponed its maiden manned flight to 2030 due to financial and technical problems. This time, the BFS spacecraft carried half of the designed crew, and 100 space tourists will spend almost a year in weightlessness in the spacecraft.

China has chosen a steady manned mission to the moon at its own pace, but the mission also happens to be in 2030.

As a result, mankind has ushered in the second space upsurge, and eight billion earthlings have watched the pioneering steps of China and the United States, which is the glory of all mankind.

But under the light, there are shadows.

Not to be left alone, the terrorist group orchestrated several joint bombings in Seoul, Tokyo, and New York in February, and directed the line to North Korea. For a time, the world's major powers put pressure on North Korea, and the United States and South Korea held large-scale military exercises in the Sea of Japan and south of the 38th parallel. This move completely angered North Korea, which conducted several nuclear explosion tests and missile launches.

A series of events have made the situation in East Asia tense to the extreme. At this time, the Nuwa successfully docked with the lunar spacecraft, and the assembly adjusted its orbit and flew to the moon. SpaceX's BFS spacecraft is still docked in low-Earth orbit and needs to replenish the remaining two fuel spacecraft.

Countries around the world held emergency talks, and the five permanent members unanimously agreed to a peaceful settlement of the DPRK issue. North Korea also put down its posture and agreed to ease the atmosphere.

But on April 1st, it was as if God had played a joke on April Fool's Day. Satellite early warning systems of various countries detected a missile taking off the east coast of North Korea. It was the Hwasong-20 intercontinental nuclear missile of the DPRK, which flew straight to New York. The THAAD system deployed in South Korea failed to intercept the North Korean nuclear missile in time, and the Hwasong-20 nuclear missile flew out of the atmosphere and then crashed into New York.

"Woo! Woo! "The alarm is being raised across the United States. Nuclear bombs were lifted off from the west coast of the United States, Alaska, and flew to Asia.

In an instant, the Chinese and Russian early warning satellites captured the signal of the US intercontinental missile launch, and the air defense alarms of the two countries sounded at the same time. Somewhere in Siberia, a square forest suddenly moved, revealing missile silos buried below. Tongues of fire spat out from silos, and thousands of Topol missiles appeared in the skies of Siberia. Together with the east wind, the aspen pulls countless bullet marks in the Asian sky.

At the time of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the nuclear powers formed a nuclear bundling strategy in order to ensure nuclear deterrence and to ensure that their own people would have a living space after a nuclear war. Once a country starts a nuclear war, all nuclear countries will distribute their nuclear bombs to other countries as planned.

Once the nuclear bundling strategy is in effect, nuclear war is the end of the world.

The human sky resounded with sirens and heart-rending cries, and warheads cut countless death ballistic paths.

"Boom!" The dazzling light is followed by a bright red mushroom cloud that rises. One after another, they grew in human civilization. Like a beautiful mushroom on a rotting corpse.

The ghosts lurking at the bottom of the deep Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Arctic Ocean - nuclear submarines collectively floated up. Nuclear bombs are fired from the bottom of the water.

From Europe, South Asia, East Asia, North Asia, and North America, missiles have streaked across the sky one after another, bombarding human cities with mushroom clouds. The city, which symbolizes the existence of human civilization, was razed to the ground in an instant, and then it rained black radiant rain, and half-acquainted people struggled uselessly on the ground.

Billions of tons of dust were thrown into the stratosphere tens of kilometers high by a nuclear explosion, and gradually spread around the world with the air current, blocking the light from the sun, and the earth fell into eternal night.

SpaceX's BFS spacecraft was the first to discover the anomalies of Earth.

At this time, Nuwa was in the Earth-Moon transfer orbit, and the six astronauts were carrying out their work step by step.

"Commander, I have received a link request for the BFS spaceship!" Liu Yangdao.

"Permission to link." Jing Haipeng replied.

"Yes, Link Start!" Liu Yang pressed the button.

"Hello, my compatriots. I'm Ankang Zhang, a Chinese American, a tourist on a BFS spacecraft. We have observed that there is a nuclear war on Earth right now, and we suggest that you stop the moon landing program. "There was a Chinese face on the display.

Jing Haipeng heard this and opened the visor of the window. Mushroom clouds are rising on the earth, and black clouds are gradually covering the earth's surface. The facts in front of him made him have to believe that the words of his compatriots were the truth, and although he was shocked, he immediately reacted as a soldier.

"Immediately calculate the orbit and the fuel needed to return to Earth." Jing Haipeng ordered everyone.

"Yes, Commander!" The performance of the commander had already told them that the compatriots on the BFS spacecraft were telling the truth, and there was no room for much thought about getting to work immediately.

At the same time, the connection between the Deep Space Gate orbital station and the Earth was abruptly interrupted. Deep Space Gate's relay satellite connecting with Houston is incapacitated, and six American astronauts are unable to contact Earth.

"In the event of a nuclear war on Earth, without it, it would be pointless for us to go to the moon. The moon currently has no corresponding facilities, and it is impossible to survive with our equipment. The best option at the moment is to abandon the moon landing and adopt the Apollo 13 scheme to use the moon's gravity to pull back into orbit around the Earth. There are currently no astronauts in China's space station, and the design capacity is enough to support the survival of six people, which is enough for us to use. Jing Haipeng calmly analyzed, "After using the moon's gravity to return to low-earth orbit, find a way to dock with the Chinese space station." Only then can we have a glimmer of life. ”

"At the moment when the earth is changing, our loved ones may be in trouble. Although our hearts hurt, we must suppress our grief, and we must live now! ”

"Yes!" The astronauts replied with tears in their eyes.

One day later, the Nuwa dropped the lunar module at the deceleration point of the lunar landing program to reduce the quality of the return home. Just in case, the Nuwa radio-controlled lunar spacecraft crashed on the lunar surface.

Nuwa entered the far side of the moon by inertia, at this time.

"Commander, I received a request for a message link from the Deep Space Gate."

"Build links."

Immediately, six American astronauts appeared on the spacecraft's display screen.

"This is the Chinese name Republic Nuwa spaceship, may I ask what is the matter?" Jing Haipeng asked.

“Hello！ This is the Deep Space Gate orbital station in the United States of America. Can you help us contact Houston? It seems that there is a problem with our relay satellites. ”

The 6 American astronauts do not yet know what is happening on Earth. The Earth cannot be directly observed from 2 o'clock in the Earth-Moon Lagrange.

"Guys, I have bad news. There may have been a nuclear war on Earth 1 day ago, and we have no contact with Beijing. According to our calculations, the Earth will be covered in nuclear fallout for about a year. ”

Jing Haipeng is still kind to these peers, after all, what is happening on the earth. They don't know. The commander even vaguely felt that they might be the only ones left of the human race in a year.

"God!" The six astronauts were shocked by the news, and Buzz Aldrin, the commander of the American astronauts, was the first to react, "Thank you for telling us the news. ”

If they hadn't been told, six U.S. astronauts might have gone on their mission to Mars. At that time, there will be no material supply from the earth, and they will definitely die.

Nuwa successfully ignited on the far side of the moon and returned to Earth orbit following in the footsteps of its predecessor, Apollo 13. Successfully docked with the Chinese space station in a 500-kilometer orbit.

"Commander, I did the math. The space station has only enough supplies to last us for six months, and the space station has a plant experiment module. There are plant seeds such as rice, corn, and kale stored in it. My suggestion is to convert a few of the modules into soilless farms, using the space station's solar panel array to provide light energy. That's enough for us to live another 6 months. Liu Yang said.

"I agree with this approach. I just hope that in a year's time, the earth will be back to its original state. Otherwise......"

Jing Haipeng looked out the window at the gray earth. Originally, this should be the most glorious moment of his life, and it was also another step in the march of the entire human race into space. But at the height of mankind, disaster struck suddenly. The same rocket, a nuclear bomb that delivered almost destroyed human civilization, and a transport spaceship saved hope for mankind.

"This is the end of the world!"