In the conference room of Pioneer Aerospace Company, Tang Chao was explaining to the people of the lunar landing committee about manned lunar landing and the subsequent lunar base idea.

"You have seen it just now. Because many equipment is installed on the shell of the Benyue spacecraft, it cannot land directly on the earth like a starship moon spacecraft. But it doesn't matter, it can be parked on the space station, and it can be docked whether it is Tiangong or Starry Sky Inn."

"At this point, it's equivalent to returning to Earth. Our orbital shuttle can take off at any time. Although its load capacity is not good, the spacecraft returning from the moon cannot carry much. It's nothing more than astronauts returning to Earth and bringing some lunar samples. The orbital shuttle's capacity is enough."

"And the return process of the shuttle is more comfortable than the fall-type return to the earth."

"The space station and orbit shuttle are already in Earth's orbit, so you don't have to be a fool."

Hearing Tang Chao's words, everyone in the conference room burst into laughter.

Indeed, compared to falling directly and entering the atmosphere, although there are two more steps to dock at the space station and turn around, it is the most suitable in any aspect.

There are two more steps, but the design of the spacecraft is much simpler.

Without these two steps, the spacecraft will have more things to consider.

Once you consider more things, it will not only increase the complexity of the spacecraft, but also increase the difficulty of manufacturing.

At the same time, the versatility is better, which means that you cannot specialize in anything.

The earth environment, the space environment and the lunar environment are three completely different environments.

If extended, the three different large environments are countless different small environments.

"The Moon Run" only considers the space environment and the lunar environment. At least they have one similarity, that is, vacuum.

Moreover, the gravity of the moon is not large, it is a low gravity, and the gap is smaller than the microgravity illusion before the Earth-Moon Channel.

This is the case with Earth's gravity and Space Microgravity.

However, when we landed on the moon and returned to Earth this time, we did not use orbital shuttles, but used the national team's new manned spacecraft.

One of the design purposes of this model of spacecraft is manned lunar landing mission. As a result, the times are developing too fast. Before it can be used, it has been replaced by other solutions.

But all the creations were created, and instead of directly sealing them, it would be better to use them in the first manned moon landing mission.

At least add your legendary attributes before entering the museum to show that you are not a display that is wasted money.

Ahem, although the design and manufacturing personnel are reluctant to leave, this is the reality, so the focus is now on the "Moon Run" spacecraft.

The space station and orbital shuttle are both ready-made, and the national team and Pilot Space are dually released. So, the most important "Moon" spacecraft, can it obtain fuel supply on the moon?

"sure."

Tang Chao answered affirmatively.

As he said that, he opened a picture sent back from the moon, which is also one of the highest secrets of Pilot Space.

"hiss--"

"Ah..."

"Is it..."

"No way?"

"Several groups, I'm just a few groups!"

As soon as the picture came out, there was a sound of shock in the conference room.

I saw that most of the pictures are pitch black, and only the middle part is illuminated by lights. Because the photos are black and white, the bright parts are only gray and white at different depths.

The bright part looks ordinary, like some kind of soil full of soil. The soil particles are very fine and the stones are very ordinary. The most eye-catching thing is the "shimmer" place in the picture.

That was a piece of naked ice!

If you are an ordinary person, you may not be able to see any reputation or even have no interest in watching it, but the people in the conference room are different.

Since it is a manned lunar landing committee, it is naturally very clear about the moon. Not only full-time scientists must understand, but even administrators must know a little about one, two, and three.

Otherwise, I don’t know anything about it, how can you command it?

"Xiao Tang, is this?"

Mr. Long sat next to Tang Chao. He turned his head and asked. Tang Chao knew that he had guessed it when he looked at his expression.

"Yes, you're right, it's the moon's water ice, the basis for all human activities on the moon."

Although I guessed it, when this fact was told by Tang Chao, the people at the scene were still shocked.

This is water. It is not after analysis, then "suspect", "probably", "probably" there is water somewhere, nor is it that the detection satellite detected water molecules, but that it completely saw the big ice!

Ten months ago, Pilot Space took advantage of the Long March 9 test flight to launch Moon Palace 2, then released eight lunar exploration rovers, and searched for lunar water resources in a high-profile manner.

At that time, people followed it for a while, and the pilots would release the detection video of the day every day, but over time, there was no news about water, so fewer people were following it.

However, netizens will not pay attention, and professional lunar scientists must pay attention.

There was also a news release during this period. Because of a calculation error, a lunar rover that penetrated the permanent shadow area was out of power and stayed there forever, and some people felt sorry.

Then came a few months when nothing was gained.

Until now, even some professional lunar scientists have no attention to this aspect, but regard the daily update of video analysis tasks as the homework of doctoral and graduate students they teach.

Now Tang Chao suddenly showed the moon water ice he found, and the degree of shock can be imagined.

"You should know the lunar rover lost its permanent dark zone a few months ago. This is the picture taken by that car." Tang Chao said, pointing to the picture.

Old Long said curiously: "So is the failure of the lunar rover fake? Is it true that the lunar water ice is discovered?"

"Uh...can't say that."

Tang Chao was stunned for a moment, "It is true that the lunar rover has no electricity in the permanent dark area. It is because the detector detected a large number of water molecules, so he took the risk to go deeper."

"Okay," Old Long was also stunned, "It's worth it to discover the real water ice anyway."

Tang Chao admitted that he was indeed greedy at that time, but it was not greedy in the early stage, but greedy in the late stage.

Moon Palace II stayed on the moon for so long and was in vain. He did a lot of tests and measured many wrong guesses about Earthlings on Earth.

Because of the harsh nature of the lunar environment, although these technologies come from Kanxing, in case of prevention, Tang Chao and the company's scientists prepared a lot of things for Moon Palace 2.

Later, after field testing, I found that some things are really useless.

Some of these devices require power consumption and even need to design separate power supply devices. Now they are no longer used, and they just put the battery to the lunar rover to solve the problem of the lunar rover not far.

The battery is transferred from the maintenance module through the robot arm, and then installed with the robot arms on other lunar rovers, so that the battery life of the lunar rover can be extended and they can go deeper into the dark area.

However, these batteries are not original, so the ground control center set a safety value. When a large number of water molecules were found, it was almost at the safety value. When the water molecules became more and more abundant, but there was no obvious ice cube yet.

But various data show that there must be water here, and it may be just a short distance away. If you don’t see it, you will be unwilling to accept it.

So the power safety value was broken and the limit was opened.

The facts proved that adventure was right, and water ice really appeared in the camera.

You can actually go back here, but you have come and the power is not at its limit. Wouldn't it be better to get a sample back?

With this idea in mind, the lunar rover started mining mode.

The process of ice collection was also very smooth, and the power consumption was calculated, and there was no problem when the ice was placed on the car. As a result, the car stopped when the lunar rover turned and walked back.

The command center was silent at that time.

The final result was that there was a problem with the additional battery pack.

Also... the safety value design is reasonable.

Fortunately, the water was really discovered, and it was not far from the landing site of Moon Palace 2.

Because of the emergence of water, the design of the Benyue issue was established.

It cannot land on Earth, so it does not need to carry more fuel to resist the earth's gravity and stabilize the landing.

Save part of the fuel weight, so what else is there in the weight of the hull weighing 40 tons?

Of course it is a fuel-making device!

If there is water, there is hydrogen and oxygen fuel.

Although the efficiency of directly electrolyzing water to obtain hydrogen and oxygen is very low, which is dangerous and extremely power-consuming, as long as the solar panel is opened on the lunar surface, the electrical energy problem is not a problem.

As for the low purity of electrolytic hydrogen and oxygen, which is more dangerous after mixing, it can be solved with new technology.

There is one on the side of Kanxing.

After all, space and aliens are not as good as the Earth. There are several methods on Earth to produce hydrogen and oxygen in large quantities. In aliens, only water ice exists in large quantities, and the method of upgrading electrolysis is the most useful.

As a race that has entered the space age, the little green man of Kanxing must of course point out his skills in this area.
Chapter completed!