Great Country Academician

Chapter 1015 Unprecedented Moon Landing~

It's a long journey from the Earth to the Moon.

Even though aerospace technology has made major breakthroughs compared to five years ago, it still takes at least three to four days to go to the moon by space shuttle.

For astronauts who perform space missions all year round, this is a boring and long journey.

But for these doctors and researchers on the space shuttle who first set foot in space to go to the moon, this is undoubtedly a wonderful journey.

At the tail of the Fuyao space shuttle, the blue-white tail flame swayed in the dark deep sky.

Leaning next to the porthole, Zhang Kangshun looked at the scenery outside.

Weaving together while sailing with our backs to the sun, the outer universe is pitch black.

It was a kind of dead silence and coldness that was completely different from the night on earth.

This kind of darkness seems to come from the abyss and can swallow everyone up, making people feel palpitated.

In the crew cabin, Professor Li Rui, another microbiology expert from the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences who lived with him, pulled the armrest twice, floated over from the bed and asked with a smile.

"I've been watching this for three days, haven't you seen enough?"

Hearing this, Zhang Kangshun turned his head to look at him and said with a smile: "After all, this is my first time in space, so appreciate it more."

Li Rui smiled, took off his glasses, wiped the lenses with his clothes, put them back on, and looked out through the porthole.

After staring at the deep and dark starry sky for a long time, he suddenly asked: "Do you think there would have been advanced intelligent life like humans on Mars more than a billion years ago?"

Hearing this question, Zhang Kangshun thought for a while and said with a somewhat uncertain tone: "Maybe, after all, we have discovered life up there, right?"

"Those Martian microorganisms may be remnants of ancient times."

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment, seemed to remember something, and then said:

"And I heard that more than a billion years ago, the ecosystem on Mars was more lush than on Earth, but I don't know if it's true or not."

"But perhaps if we conduct in-depth research on Mars in the future, we may be able to find fossils or relics of ancient life."

Hearing this, Li Rui suddenly turned his head curiously, looked at Zhang Kangshun and asked, "If there were advanced intelligent life on Mars, what do you think they would look like?"

Hearing this question, Zhang Kangshun thought for a while and then hesitantly said: "Like the octopus on Earth?"

"I can't think of it. After all, human imagination is basically based on seeing or knowing something."

After a slight pause, he looked at the microbiology expert from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and asked curiously: "What do you think?"

With some fantasy, Li Rui said, "I think they might be more like bugs in StarCraft."

"Zerg? Do you also play StarCraft?" Zhang Kangshun looked over curiously and said with a smile: "I prefer the Protoss, what about you?"

"I don't play games."

Li Rui shrugged and said, "But I have read the data sent back by the manned mission team. If it is inferred from these data, there may be people on Mars who are covered with hard carapace, have well-developed limbs, and are tall. biology."

"After all, the gravity of Mars is only more than one-third that of Earth. In a low-gravity environment, their size may be much larger than that of Earth."

Zhang Kangshun pursed his lips and spread his hands: "These are just guesses. The specific situation still depends on whether we can dig something out of the rock formations on Mars."

"Perhaps there are no advanced creatures on Mars from the beginning to the end?"

"Maybe."

While the two were chatting, the dark gray planet in the distance finally gradually came closer.

"We're almost there!"

Leaning by the porthole, looking at the moon in the distance, Zhang Kangshun took a deep breath and spoke with some excitement and excitement in his tone.

"Are we going to the moon in a lunar module?"

On the side, Li Rui thought for a while and said hesitantly: "It seems that this was not notified?"

"Then how do we land on the moon?" Zhang Kangshun asked doubtfully.

Li Rui shook his head and said, "I don't know. If it is a lunar module landing on the moon, there should be training related content at the Xiashu Space Base, but it seems that there is not much emphasis on this."

After a slight pause, he continued: "Wait a moment, I should let you know later."

As soon as he finished speaking, the voice announcement in the crew cabin rang.

"Dear passengers, we are about to arrive at Yuehuatai Space Airport. Before arriving safely at the destination, the plane will need to land at the designated parking space. To ensure your safety, please sit in your seat now. And fasten your seat belt.”

"Please do not stand up until the "seat belt signal light" goes out. Your luggage will be taken to the designated collection point by the staff. Please stay quiet and wait for the flight to arrive."

“Dear passengers and friends”

After hearing the announcement, Zhang Kangshun and Li Rui looked at each other. They hurriedly flew back to the cabin, fixed themselves with safety buckles, and muttered.

"Why does this broadcast word sound so familiar?"

Li Rui pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose and said, "They were taken from the broadcast on the plane and modified, right?"

"It seems so"

Zhang Kangshun's mouth twitched, and he said: "This is too casual. This is a moon landing. Can't we make a cooler broadcast?"

As the two communicated, the Fuyao space shuttle had already cut into the lunar low-Earth orbit.

Although the moon is close at hand, it is almost impossible for the Fuyao space shuttle to land directly on the moon.

Even if the second-generation aircraft has the ability to take off and land vertically on the moon, it still requires complicated steps to safely park this behemoth on the moon.

After cutting into the lunar low-Earth orbit, the Fuyao space shuttle adjusted its orbit and then cut into the extremely low launch orbit to change its orbit.

Soon, under the control of the intelligent system, the trajectory of the Fuyao orbiting the moon has successfully changed from a circle to an ellipse.

At the same time, under the adjustment of the auxiliary thrusters, the speed and direction of the space shuttle were also adjusted to a relatively safe level.

Gradually, the speed of the space shuttle from the lunar surface is getting closer and closer. Driven by the vertical take-off and landing engine under the cabin, the Fuyao, which was descending to the moon, drew an arc in the moon sky like a UFO alien spacecraft.

Outside the porthole, the silver-gray moon surface was getting closer and closer to the Fuyao. With a jolt, the huge space shuttle landed at the Yuehuatai Airport.

When the broadcast in the cabin sounded again, the space shuttle had already landed safely at the airport of the Yuehuatai Outpost Research Station Base, and was directly connected to the interior of the research base through the corridor bridge device.

After unfastening the nylon buckle that fixed his body, Zhang Kangshun lined up, looked around and waited to get off the plane.

"Have we reached the moon?"

As he walked slowly to the cabin exit, he took the time to whisper to the staff on the space shuttle.

With a standard smile on his face, the young staff member nodded and said, "Yes, Professor Zhang, we have arrived at the Yuehuatai Outpost Research Base. You can enter the base along the corridor bridge."

"There will be special staff to receive you there."

Hearing this, Zhang Kangshun couldn't help swallowing his saliva and asked in surprise, "Now there is no need for a lunar module to land on the moon? Can the space shuttle land directly on the moon?"

"Of course."

The staff nodded and smiled, "The second-generation aircraft can already take off and land vertically on the lunar surface, so it is much more convenient and faster than the previous manned lunar landing."

Nodding subconsciously, Zhang Kangshun carried a bag, crossed the cabin door, and walked towards the corridor bridge.

In the fully enclosed corridor bridge, his face was full of curiosity and shock. While following the team forward, he looked around.

If it weren't for the lightness of his feet, he felt that he would jump into the sky at any time with a little effort, and he even seriously doubted whether he had really reached the moon.

After all, the process of landing on the moon was really amazing.

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There is no space suit, no lunar module, and no small step for all mankind.

This made all his original thoughts about what it would be like to step on the moon go awry.

It felt like taking an international flight that took a little longer, which was completely different from the moon landing he imagined.

In the corridor bridge, it was obvious that Zhang Kangshun was not the only one who was shocked by this advanced way of landing on the moon.

Almost everyone who stood on this land for the first time was shocked to the point that their expressions were out of control.

Is landing on the moon so convenient now?

It's incredible!

Walking in the corridor bridge, Zhang Kangshun kept taking deep breaths to adjust his mood. He felt that his heartbeat might be 140 to 150 at this moment.

Half of it was because of excitement and shock, and half of it might be because of a feeling that he couldn't describe himself.

About five minutes later, when the scene in front of him came into view, he suddenly stopped, staring at the scenery in front of him with his eyes wide open and his mouth wide open.

"Fuck!"

After uttering a classic exclamation, Zhang Kangshun walked over quickly.

Outside the transparent high-strength tempered glass corridor is a vast open space.

In this open space, there are silver-white "buildings". These buildings that look like large yurts are connected by semi-cylindrical corridors and are located on the surface of the lunar soil.

Through the clear glass, his eyes with 5.2 vision can clearly see the solar photovoltaic panels laid on these buildings, shining under the sunlight.

In addition to these buildings, he also saw several lunar rovers driving in the base, and the astronauts wearing white space suits who were doing unknown experiments.

Looking blankly at the buildings not far away, Zhang Kangshun couldn't help swallowing his saliva again.

After being shocked by the way the Fuyao space shuttle landed on the moon, he thought he would be quite calm even if he stood on the moon. After seeing the lunar research base in front of him, he was deeply shocked again.

".Is this the Yuehuatai outpost research base?"

Muttering to himself, Zhang Kangshun stared at the research station not far away, unable to move.

At this moment, an astronaut who happened to pass by him looked over, and when his eyes fell on the buildings not far away, he smiled and replied.

"Yes, this is our Yuehuatai outpost research base, but this is only part of the research base."

His eyes fell on the building outside the corridor that looked like a yurt, and he continued: "The base here is an animal training research base."

"On the one hand, it is to study organisms from the earth."

"On the other hand, it is to breed some common meat animals, such as pigs, sheep, cattle, chickens, ducks, fish, etc., to supply food inside the research base."

"Food?"

Hearing this answer, Zhang Kangshun asked in surprise: "I thought it was where astronauts or staff lived."

"Of course not."

Hearing this, the astronaut smiled and shook his head, and then continued with a tone full of pride and pride: "Look here, this is where we live."

As he said, he pointed to the other direction of the corridor.

Following the direction pointed by the astronaut, all the people who stayed inside the corridor looked over.

On the other side of the corridor is a research base built on a medium-to-large cave in the Aitken Basin.

Compared with the previous yurt, the diameter of this base is much larger, and it is estimated to be at least 70 meters.

Looking at the main scientific research base not far away, Zhang Kangshun's eyes were dazed again.

Before he came, he knew that the Yuehuatai outpost scientific research base was a semi-underground base, and most of its buildings were actually in underground caves.

However, this tip of the iceberg on the ground was enough to shock everyone.

Unknowingly, their development on the moon has reached such an amazing level.

At the same time, on the other side.

In the distant deep space, on the Hanhai space shuttle, four astronauts who were going to Mars were undergoing four physical examinations a day as usual.

It has been more than a week since they left Mars, and they have been millions of kilometers away from Mars.

"37.3 degrees, Liu Yang, your body temperature is a little high."

In the space shuttle, Zhai Zhigang frowned slightly after taking a look at the data on the temperature gun in his hand.

The orange-yellow temperature measurement background on the display screen made him feel a little uneasy and a little worried.

Although 37.3 degrees is still a normal temperature for the human body, compared with the average temperature of 36.8 degrees in the previous week, Liu Yang's temperature has risen to a certain extent.

Although the increase is not large, at the critical point where they come into contact with Martian microorganisms, any disturbance is not a good thing.