Chapter XVII
Lu Yu seems to have missed the famous scene again.
When the Scourges worked hard to get a shot at the spherical spacecraft, he and Seven were instead watching the scene of Blue Star through virtual reality.
It's not that he doesn't care, after all, it's been three months since he started to attack the Dyson ball civilization, except for hitting spaceships, fighting spaceships or fighting spaceships.
However, with the goal of attacking the star system, three months is still too short, especially now that Lu Yu can only use this soft grinding method.
After a long time, it is inevitable to relax.
It just so happened that there was a grand event today, and Lu Yu simply took No. 7, who also learned how to touch the fish, to take a look.
In a long electromagnetic orbit, a 100-meter-long space shuttle is poised for launch.
As the orbit was recharged, the shuttle began to slide up in orbit, and a light blue arc light lit up from the rear of the shuttle, pushing the huge fuselage to move forward, it turned out to be pure electric propulsion, abandoning fossil fuels!
As the shuttle got faster and faster, leaving the arc-shaped electromagnetic orbit, the nose of the plane lifted slightly upward.
Dragging the azure blue arc light, carrying the human longing for space, the silver fuselage sank into the depths of the clouds and sailed to the blue sky.
Seeing it go away, the technicians standing next to the runway cheered and threw their hard hats into the sky, venting the excitement in their hearts.
At the same time, in the stands, which are less than a kilometer away from the runway, there are also cheers.
Listening to the deafening cheers, several professors took advantage of everyone's inattention and gently wiped the corners of their eyes with their cuffs.
However, the faces of several foreign friends were ugly, and a middle-aged foreign man who was completely bald was pale, because Huaguo continued to make major scientific and technological achievements year after year, but he failed to find any relevant information, and the former intelligence chief officer was now demoted to a detective, and half bald became completely bald.
And around him are NASA representatives with even more ugly faces, in recent years, China's huge space achievements have continued, especially the mission of the space shuttle, which has made NASA even more difficult to sleep.
It flew to the soon-to-be-completed lunar base with the space planting unit of Huaguo Lunar Base, and Huaguo Aerospace was confident enough to invite global peers to watch the ceremony, which means that they have absolute confidence that the launch will be successful!
As the shuttle disappeared from view, a large screen on the viewing platform connected to the plane's viewfinder.
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Because it is a catapult start, the astronauts are wearing special in-cabin spacesuits, which look barely lightweight, and are made of new materials that have advanced by leaps and bounds in recent years. As for the cost, it is about one million, and it has good pressure resistance.
"Report to Command, everything is fine!"
"Chang'e-9 is heading to the moon as originally planned!"
It's a long journey from the surface to space.
Strictly speaking, an altitude from 100 km (the upper limit of the airspace of various countries) to 2,000 km is counted as low Earth orbit.
The space shuttle's climb speed is quite amazing, and the five engines are at full power, like a retrograde meteor, dragging the blue arc light to continue to climb altitude. The more than a dozen astronauts sitting in the capsule can clearly feel the rise in gravity, and because of the excellent performance of the spacesuit, they can hardly feel it after adapting.
The blue sea and thick clouds converged, and the stars in the night beyond the arc of thousands of lights joined the morning light at the edge of the horizon.
Looking at the distant planet outside the window, the people on the viewing platform and in the plane slightly magnified their shocked looks.
"Call Command! Chang'e-9 has reached its intended orbit. ”
"Everything works."
"It is expected that after three laps around the blue star, the moon operation will be executed!"
Later, images from the moon reappeared in front of the invited guests.
Because the Earth and the Moon are tidally locked, the far side of the Moon has been hidden from human view.
But after a field trip, scientists found that the far side of the moon is rich in oxygen-rich minerals and water brought by meteorites. The site was selected to consider that such resources are the most urgent needs for human survival, so the lunar Antarctic Circle, which can develop resources from both sides at the same time, was selected to build the first permanent space base of mankind.
The shuttle stayed in lunar orbit while the lift module began to work.
With the successful delivery of space planting units and a large number of supplies, the first phase of the lunar base is not far from completion!
On Huaguo Blue Star, a professor announced the news at a press conference with a manuscript that had already been prepared.
"With the completion of the first phase of the lunar base, we are confident that the second phase will be completed in the next five years, and the base will be built into a self-circulating space base suitable for thousands of people!"
"When the third phase of the project is completed and we build a nuclear fusion reactor on the moon, the lunar base integrating scientific research, life, smelting and manufacturing will accommodate more than 10,000 people, and the first space city of mankind will be born on the moon."
"At that time, the lunar base will no longer need Blue Star to deliver materials, but it will be able to deliver a series of resources such as helium 3 and rare earth to Blue Star. At the same time, it will also become a pilot in the field of human space heavy industry and deep space, and when spacecraft are launched to Mars in the future, they may start directly from the moon! ”
"However, considering that the demand for launches on the moon will be more than 1,000 tons in the coming period, we are considering creating a corridor between the geosynchronous orbit and the moon that can be quickly returned to and fro, dedicated to the movement of materials between the Earth orbit and the lunar orbit, as well as ......"
Journalists have been fascinated by the depicted future, and can't help but excitedly ask: "And?" ”
The professor smiled and looked at NASA, which used to be looked up to, and now the people who came on its behalf were like gold paper, and then continued: "Also, it is convenient for us to send more people who are interested in the moon to the moon, and traveling to the moon will become a way of travel that ordinary people can afford." ”
Several reporters who can make trouble hurriedly turned their cameras to give several close-ups to the NASA representatives who were invited.
Thinking that the remarks of using space hegemony to prove that the United States has never lagged behind in science and technology have sounded in China, NASA representatives have been like ashes, and they know that they have completely lost.
At its peak, the organization, which once claimed to be the $26 that every person in the United States paid for every year, lost before the new round of space hegemony began.
They may lose the moon forever, and it will move farther and farther away from them in the new Chinese-dominated order.
Lu Yu didn't bother to care about the narrow thoughts of the Mi Guoyan, he looked at the moon base that was expanding little by little on the screen.
Although these are the results of transforming the technology of the horn clan, and they can no longer get points, there is nothing more important than giving birth to their own civilization and taking an important step towards the sea of stars, which makes Lu Yu happier than that.
Although it is only one step, as long as we keep going, no matter how slow, maybe one day we will meet in the starry sky.