The existence of titanium-rich minerals in the Akent Basin of the South Pole of the lunar surface is undoubtedly a huge good news for Huaguo, which is about to start the construction of the lunar base.

Although at present, the Xinghai Research Institute has tentatively decided to build an outpost in front of the moon by converting the space shuttle into a base by vertical landing.

But its limitations have always been there, and the construction of large lunar bases cannot be assembled all the time by a patchwork of space shuttles.

And more importantly, one of the purposes of their construction of the lunar base is not to exploit the abundant helium-tri, titanium and other resources on the moon, and the space shuttle assembly base does not meet this requirement.

This shallow titanium-rich ore will undoubtedly give them rich experience in mining lunar mineral resources, and can also provide a large amount of titanium and iron metal.

At least, in the next few years, whether it is the construction of scientific research bases on the lunar surface, or other projects such as the lunar biosphere, there will be no shortage of main metal materials.

At the same time, the other side.

In the isolation room, after three days of initial isolation and examination, it was confirmed that the five astronauts who returned from the moon did not carry any bacteria and did not have any serious problems.

"When can we go home?"

In the sanatorium, Smedley Moore asked the staff at the space base while cooperating with the medical staff to conduct the examination.

After the Artemis space disaster, he can't wait to return to his home country and his family.

Hearing his inquiry, the staff member who was recording the data on the side shrugged his shoulders and replied proficiently in English: "If you want, you can do it at any time, and it is our free service to help you check your body." If you don't want to finish here, you can choose to do it after you return to your home country. ”

After a slight pause, he continued, "But I would recommend that you and that Lady MacAdam Julia recuperate here for a while. ”

"Huh? Why? ”

Hearing this, the staff of the space base flipped through the inspection report in their hands, shrugged their shoulders and said: "Judging from the preliminary inspection results and various indicators, during the period of your landing on the moon, your physical health and immunity have decreased significantly due to high acceleration, long-term flight, low gravity environment and other reasons. ”

"Current examination data shows that you and that Ms. McAdam Julia will need at least two weeks of restorative activity to regain enough to readjust to the health of the planet."

"If you take a plane back to your country at this time, there is a great possibility that it will cause irreversible damage to your body."

Hearing this, Smedley Moore frowned and asked, "But if I don't confirm the error, it seems that your astronauts don't need such a long recovery time. ”

Hearing this, the young staff member smiled and replied, "Yes, judging from the test results, their physical condition is much better than yours." ”

After a slight pause, he continued: "In other words, judging from the data, if it weren't for the fact that the ultra-low gravity environment also had some impact on their bodies, it could even be said that after they went to the moon, the impact of space travel on them was close to nothing. ”

"Watts?"

Hearing this reply, Smedley Moore looked over in surprise.

As three Chinese astronauts who have carried out the same mission to the moon as them, the impact of space travel on them is close to nothing?

How is this possible?

As an astronaut, he knows his profession well.

In general, they return to Earth after a mission in space and need a long period of isolation and recovery before they can return home to their families.

And this time is calculated in months.

Of course, the longer you stay in space, the longer you need to recover from training.

For a 'relatively' short-term moon landing like his and McAdam Julia's, the recovery period will not be too long because of their excellent physical fitness.

Two weeks is actually acceptable for him.

But in contrast, the Huaguo astronauts performed the same mission as them, but their bodies were not affected, which made him feel incredible.

Are they all Supermen? Doesn't need rehabilitation and rehabilitation to readjust to the Earth's gravity?

The young staff shrugged their shoulders and didn't explain too much: "I will pass on your physical examination data to NASA in its entirety, and they should make arrangements for you whether you choose to do recovery training here." ”

"Of course, you can also communicate with NASA headquarters and choose to return to your home country early."

After a brief explanation, the young staff went to the point, asked Smedley Moore some questions over and over again, and wrote and drew in the notebook with a pen.

In ten minutes or so, he had already filled a full page of data in his notebook.

Then, he closed the notebook, looked at the NASA astronauts in front of him with a smile, and said: "Thank you for your cooperation, I won't disturb your cultivation for the time being, if you need anything, you can contact us at any time." ”

With that, he walked out of the recuperation room with his notebook and walked towards the room where another NASA astronaut was recuperating.

After the manned landing on the moon, the two NASA astronauts both had different space overreactions, and it is true that they needed a period of recuperation.

And it is also true that the three astronauts of the Xinghai moon landing team are in better physical condition than the two astronauts of NASA.

Although they also carried out the manned lunar landing work, because of the gap in spacecraft, they have more space and sports fields, as well as equipment prepared in advance by the space base to maintain their physical condition.

As a result, the same manned mission to the moon is faced by a completely different situation from NASA's astronauts.

If it weren't for the low gravity environment that couldn't be avoided for the time being, I'm afraid that the three members of the Xinghai moon landing team would be in even better physical condition.

In fact, this is actually part of the test work of this manned space landing on the moon.

This includes providing free medical check-ups and recuperation to two NASA astronauts, as well as collecting comparative data from experiments.

To put it simply, the Xinghai Research Institute and the Aerospace Group are trying their best to find ways to make the astronauts go through these recuperation periods more smoothly, or directly 'exempt' from this recuperation period.

After all, today, when Xinghai carries the dream of space and soars into the sky, they need to think more about the adverse effects of space activities or extraterrestrial activities on the human body.

Well, in fact, this idea is that Xu Chuan originally thought that he would also go to the moon for a 'scientific research expedition' after a while, but he didn't want to suffer these sins from the astronauts, so he made such suggestions before the moon landing project.

However, for aerospace, these are indeed the stages that must be faced in the future development.

After all, as time goes on, they need more people to go to the moon and even Mars to carry out construction, scientific research, and even ordinary people's travel.

The various regressive reactions of outer space travel are undoubtedly problems that must be solved.

As a result, this proposal was quickly approved, and veteran aerospace companies such as the Aerospace Science and Technology Group and the Xinghai Research Institute conducted research together. At present, they have carried out some experiments on the Xinghai, and will make further optimizations based on the experimental data.

After receiving the physical examination data of the two astronauts passed on by the Xinghai Research Institute, NASA finally chose to let Smedley Moore and McAdam Julia recover in a dedicated sanatorium in the Xiashu Space Base.

After all, it is quite difficult to train an astronaut, and its value is even more valuable than a space shuttle in this day and age.

Of course, given the importance of the astronauts, they also arranged for a medical team to come and cooperate with the recovery work.

However, these things are not in the scope of Xu Chuan's work.

After Xinghai successfully achieved a manned lunar landing project, his attention and energy were withdrawn from the Aerospace Research Institute.

Although the research and development of the second-generation space shuttle is still ongoing, but under the general direction that has been given and under the auspices of Academician Chang Huaxiang, an experienced veteran astronaut, these things do not need him to worry too much.

Including the subsequent construction of the lunar base, these projects are also guided by the space agency.

Although the current aerospace technology of the Xinghai Research Institute is powerful, it is only a research institution after all, and it cannot replace the country to do the layout work for these future developments.

Although he is capable of doing so.

But to be honest, after experiencing a manned moon landing and a lunar rescue operation, he felt more and more that in the face of the vastness and greatness of the universe, a person's power is small after all.

If it is said that in mathematics, he can also rely on his own ability to decipher and solve those world-class unknown problems.

So in the fields of physics and aerospace, when countless complex problems are combined into a super project, it is far from being able to solve it alone.

The advancement of these disciplines and these fields often requires the joint efforts of thousands of different scientific researchers, engineers, and even ordinary people to build up little by little.

Just like the manned moon landing project of Xinghai, although he designed the small controllable nuclear fusion reactor and the aerospace engine, it also requires the efforts of countless other scientific researchers and even ordinary workers to build it.

When manpower is exhausted, it is beyond the reach of power.

If he wants to start this space age in his own hands, he will have to rely on the power of more people, even more countries.

Of course, now he is no longer a traditional academic in China, in academia, in scientific research, and even in the world.

Although he has never given up on the study and exploration of the academic path, more than that, he has now transformed into an academic leader.

In the field of mathematics, whether it is the 'micro-element construction method' that solves the NS equation or the 'algebraic cluster and group mapping tool' that solves the Hodge conjecture, it has become the object of study and research for many mathematics graduate students and even mathematicians.

In the field of physics, controlled nuclear fusion technology has opened a new 'fusion era', leading China and even all mankind to a new energy revolution.

In addition, there are also fields such as astrophysics and materials science.

Now, whether he wants it or not, the direction he is facing has become a corner of the future.

Of course, for Xu Chuan, he is still willing to shoulder this responsibility.

After all, this is also the only way to realize his dream.

After the initial completion of the manned lunar landing project of Xinghai, Xu Chuan temporarily returned to the Xinghai Research Institute from the Xiashu Space Base.

At the suggestion of his life assistant Tang Sijia, he chose to temporarily put down his work, recuperate for a week, and do a comprehensive physical examination of his body by the way.

After all, the moon landing project lasted for nearly a year, and it is easy to accumulate some imperceptible accumulation of labor due to continuous busyness.

But within two days, Xu Chuan found that he was a life that could not be idle at all.

After the manned lunar landing project was completed, the plan for the 'lunar biosphere project' came to his mind.

Although their aerospace history is now at a good start, this does not prevent him from conceiving in his mind the blueprint proposed by Academician Wu Weihua and further promoted by him.

He is more interested in building a 'lunar biosphere' on the moon than Academician Wu Weihua's proposal to build a biosphere 3 belonging to China in the Taklamakan Desert.

After all, the construction of Biosphere 3 on Earth is only a simulation of outer space and an extraterrestrial environment, and it cannot be exactly the same.

But on the moon it's a completely different story.

Whether it is light, low gravity, or vacuum, these conditions are real environments.

In particular, after the discovery of titanium-rich veins at the south pole of the lunar surface, the feasibility of lunar biosphere engineering has been further improved.

Water resources, metal resources, basic materials (such as silica, silicate ore), etc., these basic materials for building the lunar biosphere have been settled, and the feasibility has been greatly improved.

Of course, feasibility is feasibility, and theory is just a matter of words. It's not easy to make it a reality.

Even, this may not be something that China alone can do. Perhaps, China has enough capacity to support such a huge project, but there is no doubt that this kind of project, which is beneficial to all mankind, will be more cost-effective to join more countries to participate.

After all, the lunar biosphere project does not have too many cutting-edge technologies, and it will not immediately make a qualitative leap forward in the country's development. But its investment is carried out in units of 100 billion.

On the basis of the two 100-billion-level projects of the large-scale strong particle collider project and the space race activity, Xu Chuan feels that it is still necessary to consider the funding work for the country.

After all, even if you have money, you don't squander it like this, and it's still good to be able to allocate some funds from other countries and invest them in this project that is beneficial to all mankind.

(End of chapter)