On the other side, Jinling.

Xinghai Research Institute in the Xiashu Space Base.

Wu Yuankang, the director of the space agency, is quietly admiring the beautiful scenery of his astronauts working on the moon.

After confirming that there had been an accident in NASA's Artemis lunar module, the corners of his mouth never closed.

Although the occurrence of a space accident is not a thing to celebrate, at least now the two astronauts of the United States are still alive, and people are still saved without sacrifice, right?

In the traditional Chinese people's concept, the loss of equipment is a trivial matter, as long as the person is safe.

What's more, this accident is still beneficial to them.

After staring at the live broadcast screen for a while, the door of the general control center was suddenly knocked on.

A middle-aged man walked in quickly, walked to Xu Chuan and Wu Yuankang's side, and said with a smile: "The latest news, five minutes ago, NASA made a request for 'lunar rescue' to us through formal channels. ”

Hearing the news, Wu Yuankang's eyes suddenly lit up.

The lunar rescue is not only a proper achievement and political achievement for the space agency, but more importantly, being able to carry out a lunar assistance to NASA can not only prove to the outside world the strength of China's aerospace strength, but also the first victory in the space race.

In the current situation where the world recognizes the other side as the first space power, they can overtake in a corner and rescue the other party in the opposite direction, which will play an extremely key guiding role in the future changes in the space pattern.

After quickly reporting a piece of news, the middle-aged man stepped forward with a smile on his face, warmly stretched out his hands to greet Xu Chuan, and introduced himself with a smile: "Hello Academician Xu, I'm Fu Qing." ”

Xu Chuan shook his hand with a smile, said hello and said, "It seems that NASA and the White House are quite fast this time, calculate the time, from the Artemis accident to now, it should not be more than fifteen hours." ”

Fu Qing nodded and said with a smile: "Well, we got some information about the Artemis lunar module from NASA, and according to the data they provided, it has only been fourteen hours since the lunar module accident. ”

"Also."

As he spoke, he handed over the brown paper he had brought with him.

"Here are some summary materials that I hastily prepared before I came, and there is also a USB flash drive in it, which contains the detailed data of the Artemis lunar module transferred by NASA, you can take a look at it first."

Xu Chuan took the file bag, opened it, took out the USB flash drive and handed it to a staff member next to him, and he picked up the summary information and looked at it.

Looking at the information above, he touched his chin and thought: "More than three days is less than four days of oxygen reserves, NASA's preparation this time is a bit insufficient." ”

Fu Qing smiled and said: "Not really, it can only be said that they are more unlucky." ”

"How?" Xu Chuan asked curiously.

"The oxygen and supplies they carried on the moon were actually sufficient, enough for two astronauts to be on the moon for a whole month. But the Artemis lunar module actually carries only two days' oxygen reserves, and the rest of the oxygen reserves are on that life support unit."

Before he finished speaking, Xu Chuan suddenly understood.

In fact, as long as the astronauts can get out of the lunar module smoothly, they will be able to turn on the life support unit and hold on until NASA relaunches the BRF heavy rocket to send personnel to rescue.

But unfortunately, the lunar module was damaged during landing, and the hatch could not be opened, so there was no way to get oxygen supplies from the life support unit.

After briefly explaining the relevant information, Fu Qing looked at Xu Chuan, the smile on his face retracted, and he said seriously: "There are still about forty hours of oxygen on the Artemis lunar module. In other words, we need to get those two astronauts out within forty hours. ”

"Of course, if you can't do anything, then forget it, everything is about ensuring the safety of our own astronauts."

Lunar rescue is actually very difficult in terms of current aerospace technology.

After all, human beings have only just taken their first step towards the universe, and a manned landing on the moon has to do quite a long period of preparations, such as calculating orbits, simulating experiments, and so on. Not to mention the temporary orbit change and dispatch the spacecraft to another place for rescue work.

Although it is not difficult to switch orbits to the south pole of the moon in terms of Xinghai's performance, it is not Xinghai that really landed on the moon, but the lunar module that was launched.

The launch and docking of the lunar module still cannot guarantee 100% stable success with the current space technology. Once the docking fails, it will have a great impact on the life safety of astronauts.

Just like the Artemis lunar module of the United States this time, the failure of the launch led to the damage of the lunar module, endangering the lives of astronauts.

If it weren't for the fact that their Xinghai was also on the same moon landing mission this time, the two astronauts would have died on the distant moon.

Listening to the request, Xu Chuan smiled and said, "My side will organize the technical personnel of the aerospace side to discuss as soon as possible and come up with a set of safe plans." ”

After a slight pause, he continued: "Don't worry, the moon rescue is not very difficult for us, and there are still more than forty hours to go, and it is completely too late." ”

Fu Qing nodded and said, "Then I will leave it to you about rescuing the astronauts of the United States." ”

In the office, after receiving the information provided by Fu Qing, Xu Chuan immediately organized a small meeting of the technical personnel within the Space Bureau and the Xinghai Research Institute to discuss the relevant rescue operations.

For them, it is not difficult for them to go to the south pole of the moon to rescue the two astronauts of NASA, but it does not mean that they can drive Xinghai directly without doing anything.

At least until then, it's important to have a complete track and a plan.

Of course, it didn't take them long.

The only thing that needs to be discussed for a longer period of time is whether the two astronauts should suspend their scientific research and experiment work and set off now, or wait until their work is completed before setting off to the rescue.

After all, there were still forty hours left, which was quite plenty for them.

In the office, listening to Xu Chuan's preparation for his own astronauts to complete their scientific research work before setting off for rescue, Wu Yuankang of the Space Agency couldn't help but smile bitterly, coughed lightly and interjected:

"Ahem, Academician Xu, since you have decided to rescue, I think it's better to start early. After all, we don't know much about the specific situation of Artemis, and if there is an accident caused by too much time spent in the rescue process, there will be greater pressure on the international public opinion."

After a pause, he continued: "Although this will delay some of my own work, we have not arranged much scientific research work for our first moon landing, and the symbolic significance is greater than the scientific research significance." ”

"And for our current space capabilities, it is not difficult to relaunch the manned landing on the moon and build a base in the future."

"As for the follow-up space-related expenses"

Wu Yuankang knocked on the table with a smile and continued: "The diplomatic side has already thought about it, and we will definitely publicize this rescue, saying that we have to interrupt our moon landing work because of the rescue of NASA astronauts." In this way, when negotiating with the United States side in the future, they can also find a reason to ask for more money, and then give you more points. ”

Hearing this reason, Xu Chuan pondered for a moment, but nodded and agreed: "In this case, it's better to just broadcast the whole process, anyway, our current live broadcast channel is still hanging there." ”

Before he finished speaking, he changed his words and said to himself: "The whole live broadcast doesn't seem to be very good, their life support unit is next to it"

How much money to charge or technology or something, that's something that the state needs to consider. They are only responsible for saving people, no matter how much money they collect, anyway, after collecting money or technology, they will also subsidize them.

But this doesn't mean that they can't take a little autumn breeze in the process of rescue, and the aerospace technology of the Mi Guoyan is still worth looking at twice.

In fact, even if the rice guy didn't ask them for help this time, he was in the life support unit and was in a humanitarian situation, he would probably suggest to the above to arrange an action.

It's just that without the accurate data about Artemis provided by NASA, when his moon landing is completed, there is a high probability that only the remains can be saved.

On the side, listening to Xu Chuan's idea of beating other people's life support units, Wu Yuankang was also a little crying and laughing.

But he didn't say anything about this kind of thing.

After all, if you have the opportunity to get some tech blueprints from that life-support unit, it's also a good choice.

Although in the field of aerospace, they can be regarded as catching up with the footsteps of the United States, and they have also achieved a manned landing on the moon together. Even because of the relationship between miniaturized and controllable nuclear fusion technology and aerospace engines, it has surpassed in some aspects of aerospace.

But I have to say that the rice country has been working in the aerospace field for so many years, and the technology developed is still worth a look.

For example, the life support unit that landed on the surface of the moon with Artemis contains the technology of various high-tech enterprises in the United States.

Such as communication devices, life support systems, superphagocytic propellants, supercritical storage pressurization technology, and so on. These things are still very helpful to them.

Just a glance can help save a lot of time, not to mention the astronauts who find an opportunity to go over and take a picture.

After all, for them who are strong in copying, many things can sometimes be roughly understood at a glance.

That's how their original nuclear submarines came about.

When the nuclear submarine was designed and manufactured, the only information was a few blurry photos of the nuclear submarine of the United States, plus a toy model at most.

And then they just glanced at it twice, and they copied it.

As for the work after the fact, let's talk about it afterwards, anyway, I won't get pregnant if I look at it twice.

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