From black technology to super engineering

Linda faced the microphone, stood beside the camera, and introduced the scene amid endless cheers.

"...We can now see that the Yaoyue has successfully landed, but the hatch has not yet been opened."

"Over there, the welcome team has come out of the building, and they are standing outside a temporary welcome passage..."

"You can hear the cheers behind me. This is the audience waiting for their space hero to return smoothly-through the camera, we can also see the families of the Artemis astronauts standing up, anxious Waiting for the hatch to open."

"...The cabin door of the Yueyue opened, and the astronauts began to disembark one after another."

"It can be seen that the astronauts are not wearing bulky spacesuits, but wearing cabin action suits - this should be thanks to artificial gravity. I heard that the astronauts have a very pleasant journey in space and on the moon..."

Linda raised her voice, speaking with excitement, as if the astronauts were from her country.

Of course, there is a reason for adopting such a broadcasting method and tone - because her country has already confirmed a list of valuable astronauts, who will go to the training base in Gobi to participate in international training at the end of this year. If there is no accident , will be able to set foot in space next year.

Compared with Linda's excitement, Kobayashi Yukata was much calmer. He found a relatively quiet place, held up the binoculars, and introduced the scene he saw in a very calm tone.

"The astronauts have started to disembark, and it looks like the Artemis astronauts are behind - oh, see, they're coming out."

Kobayashi Yugata's tone began to rise a little.

From the screen of the telephoto lens, he saw that astronauts wearing different types of spacesuits began to disembark one after another, and soon he saw the astronauts from Niguo: "Matsushita Laizi also came out."

"We can see that the astronauts are now walking through the passage one after another while waving. The welcome team kept a safe distance of two meters and waved to them."

"Next, the astronauts will enter the hotel for isolation observation and medical examination-this is a necessary measure for all space missions..."

As countless reporters sent their on-site reports back to their own media and channels, the return ceremony of Yaoyue also officially ended.

But the news is far from over.

Two hours later, Linda and Yugata Kobayashi joined hands again to enter the press conference.

...

The press conference was still held by Ye Ming, the person in charge of the aerospace department and the commander-in-chief of the moon landing operation.

But what is different from the past is that in this press conference, the two people did not sit in the middle of the rostrum, but reserved the middle position for a 50-inch TV.

As Director Zhang chose the press conference to begin, a middle-aged man in an astronaut uniform also appeared on the TV screen.

"Hello everyone, due to the principle of space exploration, astronauts must go through observation and physical examination after returning to Earth, so our Captain Yang Hongbo can only meet with you in this way."

Director Zhang looked sideways at the TV beside him, laughed and said, "Captain Yang, can you hear me, can you see it?"

"Director Zhang, I can see it. It's very clear. Friends from the press, hello. I'm Yang Hongbo, the commanding officer of the Yueyue mission. I'm very happy to meet you all."

Following the sound of Captain Yang's voice, bursts of applause also came from the venue.

Director Zhang waited until the applause stopped, looked at Ye Ming and continued: "Then Captain Yang, please come and briefly introduce the mission of Yaoyue this time."

"OK."

"The Yueyue landing on the moon lasted 75 days, and successfully completed the establishment of multiple facilities including scientific research outposts, lunar soil test bases, and energy systems. At the same time, it also successfully completed the geology and mineral studies of the south pole of the moon. They also established a lunar geophysical data network, set up volcanic sensors, detected Antarctic volatile materials, obtained a large amount of cosmic ray data, and brought back five tons of various lunar soil and water ice resources..."

""

Captain Yang answered sternly, as if he was reading a manuscript.

"...We can responsibly announce that this mission to the moon has achieved complete success."

The applause broke out again.

"Okay, thank you Captain Yang, let me announce the follow-up plan of the moon landing project."

Following Director Zhang's voice, the reporters off the field immediately became serious.

It goes without saying that Yaoyue has successfully returned, and the working status of Yaoyue on the moon has always been "open"—except for the official social media accounts of Yaoyue, the social media accounts of each astronaut Many pictures and videos were also published.

There was even a live broadcast on the Yueyue account.

With such a comfortable working state and such superior working conditions, if they can't complete the task satisfactorily... then they will feel sorry for Yaoyue's black technology.

Therefore, compared to listening to Captain Yang read the manuscript, everyone is more concerned about the next move of CN Aerospace.

"First of all, as Captain Yang said just now, this time Yaoyue brought back five tons of various lunar resources." Although Director Zhang was smiling, his voice was very solemn: "These resources will be established by CN Aerospace. A space scientific research cooperation organization facing the whole world, which is provided free of charge to all scientific research units that join the organization for research.”

"Any slogan is not as important as actual actions. Sharing lunar soil and lunar water ice represents CN Aerospace's principles and attitudes towards space development and space utilization."

Following Director Zhang's serious, even decisive voice, the audience was stunned, and applause rang out again.

...

Under the stage, Linda kept taking shorthand notes in the notebook with a pen.

Compared with recording pens and cameras, writing down content with a pen is more conducive to thinking-this is one of the secrets of her long-term sharpness.

Hearing that CN Aerospace's first follow-up plan is to share five tons of lunar soil, Rao has been mentally prepared, knowing that when CN is facing competition, it will definitely spread good fortune when Yaoyue returns...but I didn't expect this handwriting to be so big!

Five tons of lunar soil, provided free of charge, all scientific research units!

——According to gossip, the Yaoyue brought 15 Artemis astronauts to disembark this time, but they charged billions of dollars in tickets!

15 people, even if each person weighs 70 kilograms on average, that's only one ton!

Really count by weight...

Well, even if the design of Yaoyue cannot be compared with ordinary spaceships, it is definitely considered a big deal!

"Secondly, it is the inspection and maintenance of the Yaoyue, as well as the service of the new spacecraft. Within this year, we will launch the moon landing again, establish a complete lunar scientific research and production base, and plan to put it into operation before June next year. use."

Linda took another deep breath.

She heavily circled the words "NEW SPACESHIP" before writing "Mars?"

"Then, after the completion of the lunar base, we will launch the space city plan to build a space city at the L1 Langrange point of the earth and moon that can be used for long-term human habitation and scientific research."

Linda held her breath for a moment, quickly wrote "Gravity" and "International", and then she looked around.

Sure enough, after hearing the words "Space City", all the reporters couldn't help but get restless!

The real sign of a civilization going to the stars is not to build a scientific research station on a satellite... but to build a city that can be permanently inhabited in space!

If nothing else, let’s talk about science fiction works. How many science fiction works are written like this?

If you want to write about the future science fiction world, if you don’t write about a space city, you’d be ashamed to say hello!

It's just... Science fiction is science fiction, but the reality is that building a city in space, not to mention the carrying capacity, is doomed to be unable to live permanently just because of weightlessness.

However... when Director Zhang made such an announcement, everyone couldn't hide their excitement.

Because, according to the carrying capacity of Yaoyue, building a space city... is really not a big problem!

More importantly, they have artificial gravity!

Director Zhang seemed to be enjoying the state of the reporters, he paused for a few seconds before he laughed.

"Finally, we will speed up international space cooperation. In June next year, we will send our cooperative international astronauts into space and onto the moon."

As Director Zhang finished speaking, Linda immediately raised her right hand.

In an instant, hands were raised like a forest.

Director Zhang looked around with a smile, his eyes inadvertently bypassed Linda, and landed on Kobayashi Yufang.

"That friend in the black striped T-shirt." Director Zhang made a gesture of invitation.

Everyone's eyes "swipe" to Kobayashi Yufang.

"Hello, Director Zhang, I'm a reporter from the Asahi Shimbun."

Kobayashi Xiongfang didn't expect that he would be selected first, so he immediately took a deep breath and stood up at the same time.

After five years of tempering, especially after getting used to Aita's translation in the past two years, his oral Chinese ability has been greatly improved.

"My question is, is the Space City project an international project? What are the conditions for participation? Thank you."

"Let's ask our commander-in-chief Ye Ming to answer this question."

Director Zhang smiled and changed the topic to Ye Ming.

In fact, there was no need for him to remind, the reporters present had already looked at Ye Ming—everyone had already figured out the rules of the press conference at the CN Aerospace Port, that is, Director Zhang was responsible for the announcement, and Ye Ming was responsible for the answer.

...

Ye Ming also looked away from Lin Xiongfang.

The media present today, one by one, were all carefully selected, not to mention, and each reporter, Aita gave a detailed analysis.

Even who to choose has been arranged long ago.

All of this is naturally in line with the theme of this press conference.

cooperate! cooperate! Still cooperate!

——At the very least, the slogan on the surface must be cooperation.

"Thank you for your question, my friend, but it's a bit different from what I thought - I think it will ask how the space city is built, how the energy works, and what functions it has..."

Ye Ming made a small joke, which also won bursts of laughter in the field.

"Just like all our aerospace programs, the Space City Program is also an international program, but we will take the first step in the initial stage, laying a foundation for everyone and making a way out. Therefore, in the early stage, we will complete the initial stage plan, but in the middle and later stages, we will conduct extensive and in-depth cooperation with all countries and organizations that aspire to space.”

"As for the conditions...don't worry, we will definitely not act like forming gangs in space."

...

Linda listened quietly below, and when she heard "space gangs", she suddenly couldn't help laughing.

This Mr. Ye is really... never forgetting to poke Lao Mei anytime, anywhere!

So she quickly crossed out a line, and then wrote "Project Mars".