Chapter 503: The Vanishing Space Shuttle
Fans on Earth can clearly see the space shuttle on the moon, and NASA uses a space telescope in Earth orbit to observe the crater base. Space telescopes, which were supposed to observe the changes of planets hundreds of millions of light-years away, are used to observe the moon at hand, and you can't wait to see it clearly.
Under the lens of the Sky Telescope, NASA was horrified to find that space shuttles shuttled back and forth on the surface of the moon, as if cleaning, the moon was completely cleaned, and all man-made objects on the moon were collected and transported back to the crater base.
Since the development of space technology, all kinds of satellites, probes, landing modules, and lunar rovers have been thrown onto the moon in different ways. Problem: Human beings use fuel rockets to send things to the moon, and the biggest feature of fuel rockets is that they are one-way tickets, except for extremely valuable parts, such as astronauts or something, the other parts are disposable, and they are thrown away when they are used up.
If you want to return any item to the moon, it will cost several times more, so everything thrown on the moon can basically be thrown away.
Launch a rocket today and throw a probe up, and throw it away when the power runs out; Tomorrow, launch a rocket to get a satellite around the moon, and play for a few years to directly hit the moon; Otherwise, send a lunar rover up and throw it away after driving; The lunar module or something, the part that can be discarded is resolutely abandoned, and only the necessary part is left to return to Earth.
Therefore, countries with lunar exploration technology have thrown a total of more than 140 things on the moon in the past few decades, some are intact, some are wreckage, and some are abandoned and malfunctioning.
All these things are recorded, basically where the specific location is in your own country has a spectrum, and other countries also have a spectrum. As a result, NASA witnessed a group of spacemen flying on the moon to search the mountains and seas, and transported all this 'lunar garbage' back one by one.
NASA suddenly had a sense of foreboding!
Sure enough, it didn't take long for the crater base to release several large space shuttles, which returned to Earth in teams and headed to several major space nations under the eyes of the world and the gossip of fans.
Several space shuttles went their separate ways to their respective targets as soon as they entered Earth orbit, and just as the White House and NASA were in fear, one plane broke through the atmosphere and flew straight to the east coast of the United States.
"President...... Do we need to take him down? "The Secretary of State has a feeling that he can't bear to read it, and now that everyone has speculated about what was in the shuttle, maybe it's another shame!
"Officially declare war on the Lunar Development and Management Center?" The adviser to the Security Council said that he scoffed, on the one hand, there is a mess, and on the other hand, there is war, isn't the answer obvious?
All right...... In the absence of superiority in space, the United States does not seem to have the position of solving the problem by force, and it is still exchanging fire with an unknown force, which is really a dizzying idea.
The White House did not give the order, the shuttle was not intercepted, and as it entered the bottom stratosphere, several fighter jets came forward, half surveillance and half escort, following the shuttle.
In the anticipation of American fans and anticipation, the shuttle kept lowering altitude, skimming over the White House, dropping more than a dozen huge packages, which were lined up in the sky with parachutes to look spectacular.
Before the package landed, groups of reporters who had already prepared rushed up, and all kinds of live broadcast equipment were set up in the blink of an eye, ready to broadcast the grand occasion of the US president receiving the express delivery.
At this time, the space shuttle flew into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean under the tailgating and tracking of several fighter planes, and landed on the surface of the sea surrounded by radars, ships, and satellites.
"President, the space shuttle is trying to land on the surface of the sea, what should we do?"
"Send a ship and get the shuttle in its entirety."
Under the president's order, the U.S. Navy, which had been waiting for a long time, mobilized nearby warships and rushed to the landing site of the space shuttle at high speed, while the fighters following began to circle over the space shuttle.
Before the U.S. warship could take position, the space shuttle stirred up huge waves on the sea, slid for several kilometers and slowly stopped.
"The space shuttle landed on the sea!" The news was transmitted to the White House as soon as possible, and the Americans clapped their hands in celebration, although they were slapped in the face in public, but having a space shuttle is also a good compensation.
The US Navy immediately turned on its radar and unlimited broadcasting, immediately designated the landing site of the space shuttle as a military zone, forbade all unrelated ships from entering, mobilized all military ships around the landing site nearby, and quickly rushed to the scene, towing the space shuttle away first, and striving to catch the astronauts, so that the lunar development and management center would be able to get out of the way.
As a result, before the US warship arrived, the space shuttle had just stopped on the surface of the sea and began to sink, confusing several fighters that were tracking and surveillance. Should the quality be so bad?
"Command Center! The shuttle is sinking, and at its current speed, it will be completely below the surface in about three minutes. "One of the pilots hastened to contact the command center.
"See an astronaut escaping?"
"Nope!"
"Did the shuttle malfunction?"
"I don't know, there is no flame or smoke, no anomalies are observed."
"Throw smoke beacons and throw a few more lifebuoys down."
"Yes!"
Immediately a fighter jet flew low over the shuttle, and several smoke buoys and several lifebuoys were thrown around the shuttle.
But this did not prevent the sinking of the shuttle, and soon the shuttle disappeared from the view of fighters and completely sank to the bottom of the sea.
After more than an hour, several frigates and destroyers arrived, followed by helicopters and various ships, and the landing area was soon crowded with naval ships.
Groups of active sonar were thrown into the sea to reconnoiter the space shuttle, and frogmen and operational submarines were sent to the bottom of the sea to search for the shuttle with smoke beacons as coordinates.
The active sonar array emitted a series of sonar waves that swept across the entire ocean area, but did not encounter anything resembling the shape of a space shuttle in the sonar echo.
The command center felt strange, could it be that the space shuttle sank into the mud at the bottom of the sea?
The active sonar of nearby warships was also turned on, and countless sonar waves swept the nearby seabed over and over again, but found nothing.
Soon the submarine sat on the bottom, and it was reported that the seabed was only half a meter thick, and it was completely impossible to hide the shuttle, and no signs of the shuttle were found around.
The entire U.S. Navy was stunned...... What about the Space Shuttle?