Great warships

Chapter 1188: Drifting back

People say that the Apollo moon landing plan is fake every day, so our moon landing this time must be confirmed!

How can we be solid? There needs to be not only some experiments on gravitational acceleration, but also something more spectacular. The best way is to allow the earth to observe it! Burying mirrors on the lunar surface is one of these operations.

Hongwan astronomy enthusiasts can find it, and then just adjust the telescope accurately and continuously, and then, suddenly, the observer's eyes will be blinded. At this time, the observer will know that he has found the buried mirror!

The mirror surface can be laid directly on the lunar surface. Use special aluminum foil to spread it on the lunar surface, and then press the edge with lunar soil, and the mirror surface is made.

Moreover, the area to do so will be very large!

Carlos and Pan Chun were busy together. One person unfolded the aluminum foil, and the other buried the lunar soil next to it to cover the aluminum foil. The one-meter-wide aluminum foil was spread forward for more than 20 meters, and then came back and spread the second piece. Once it is laid, it will become a rectangular area with a side length of more than 20 meters. Such a large area of ​​aluminum foil can be easily seen on the earth!

"I declare that this lunar surface is called the Mirror of Carlos!" Carlos shouted loudly, declaring his sovereignty. From now on, the area on the moon will be his. If the moon is developed in the future, this area can be changed. It became the villa for his descendants.

It’s not enough to travel to a certain place and leave traces of someone’s visit there. You must find a way to make this place your own. That’s enough! Carlos was satisfied.

NASA.

"Damn it, they are actually engaging in a land enclosure movement on the moon!" The person in charge, Casey, said angrily: "Why do they, they don't have this power!"

"This land does not belong to them, and we will never admit it!"

It was obviously them who initiated the lunar enclosure movement and turned their previous lunar landing area into a cultural relic protection area, prohibiting other forces from approaching. Now, seeing the Easterners doing the same thing, they are very dissatisfied.

"Everyone, you can see clearly. It is not the Orientals who are encircling the land now, it is Carlos. This guy really has an idea and wants to get a piece of land on the surface of the moon. That area should be enough to build a villa." There are also some. The man said.

"Hey, wait, don't be anxious." Pan Chun shouted from below quickly: "We both need to go in together."

As a NASA employee, you actually want to carry a Starship company’s spacecraft? Casey's eyes were gloomy: "If we want to go up, then quickly build our own lunar spacecraft! How is the research on our Orion spacecraft going?"

"According to the design instructions, the lunar landing suit can support up to eight hours of activity, but they cannot act according to this limit time. After all, our Mr. Carlos often behaves unexpectedly, and it is easy to cause some surprising things. It’s a dumbfounding thing, and if it’s delayed, it may be dangerous.”

Casey's eyes looked at the TV screen, which was still playing the moon landing video. The camera was almost entirely focused on Carlos. Carlos was wearing an advanced moon landing suit, and the filter window on the helmet had been closed. The outline of the earth is printed on the face, which looks so eye-catching.

"They also need more funding."

The lunar landing suit can maintain a battery life of eight hours, which is very good. After all, human physical fitness has its limits. It is impossible to work outside all the time. It has to be a combination of work and rest. Within these limitations, the energy source is okay. The key is Oxygen, after leaving the cabin, you can only rely on the backpack at the back. There are two oxygen tanks and an emergency oxygen supply system. The combination can provide eight hours. People can not eat or drink water, but they cannot do without. breathe.

Zhang Zhong watched the video and introduced it one after another. After all, this time was too long. If he had to explain the whole process, he would be exhausted. Let the people on earth watch Carlos's funny video, which is both attractive and attractive. People can also reduce their own workload, so why not do it.

"If you do this, we won't have enough oxygen and will have to cancel the second EVA."

In short, they all require money, but there is no hope of success. The limelight has been stolen by Starship Company!

If they are well-trained astronauts, they can return within seven hours, but if Carlos is not good enough, problems may occur.

If the hatch is locked from the inside, it cannot be opened from the outside. Sure enough, Carlos will still be in trouble. Pan Chun is very nervous now. If Carlos leaves himself outside, how long will it take to know that someone is missing? ?

"I have a way to shock Congress into agreeing to our plan." A voice sounded.

With Carlos as a living treasure, all kinds of accidents may happen.

This starship company is really good at publicity!

Carlos stopped quickly. He didn't want to go back now. He had to play all day tomorrow.

"I just think the airlock is too crowded and I want to come one at a time."

"Okay, let's check the time. It has been more than five hours. They have begun to return to the lunar module. After resting in the lunar module for a night, there will be a second extravehicular activity tomorrow, and then they should take off. Returning." Zhang Zhong looked at the two people who brought the lunar soil onto the lunar rover and continued to explain.

Fortunately, there were no problems during the return process. The Wangshu Chariot stopped next to the lunar module. Carlos was the first to climb up the gangway of the lunar module, opened the door, got in, and then planned to close the module. Door.

NASA also wants to land on the moon again, mainly relying on the Orion spacecraft. This spacecraft is larger. In addition to landing on the moon, it can also fly to Mars. However, the unit responsible for research and development has been delaying and asking for money. This is simply not possible. hope!

"Yes, the success of research and development is still far away. The heavy-lift rocket is also not progressing smoothly, and a large amount of funding is also needed."

"Humph, we know that we need to allocate funds every time. Last time Starship Company flew around the moon, we allocated a large amount of money to them. Now that Starship Company has set foot on the moon, they are still asking for money. They can't feed them enough. !" Casey was very annoyed.

"Yes, should we go up there and enclose our own land?"

"Okay, everyone in front of the TV, we will end the live broadcast here today." Seeing both of them entering the airlock, Zhang Zhong also breathed a sigh of relief. The explanation for the day was completed, but this was too much. are you tired? Can I ask for a substitution?

Zhang Zhong opened the door and walked outside. At this time, he felt that he had no strength in his body and just wanted to sleep.

In the Aerospace Measurement and Control Center, a group of people continued to be busy as if they had been given chicken blood.

"Today's extravehicular activity is normal, and there will be a second one tomorrow. After that, it's time to return. We need to accurately calculate the return orbit and absolutely cannot go wrong." Max looked serious.

"We will do it. This is not the first time we plan a route..."

Qin Tao rubbed his red eyes: "I think I need to go to sleep. I don't understand this anyway."

"Yes, Mr. Qin, you can go and have a rest." Max said: "We will call you when we return so that you can continue to watch our wonderful performance. In order to reduce fuel consumption, we will use the floating method to land. "

A waste of time? This sentence attracted Qin Tao: "What's the point?"

Qin Tao only knew that ballistic missiles flew this kind of drifting trajectory when attacking, but he had never heard of a spacecraft flying this kind of trajectory when returning home.

"That is, to slow down the spacecraft when it enters the atmosphere, then fly out, and then enter again." Max said: "This time, the main purpose is to reduce the speed of the spacecraft, eliminating the need to use the rocket engine to slow down. , using atmospheric drag to slow down.”

Returning from the moon to the earth is the second cosmic speed, which is a full 11.2 kilometers per second. If it does not slow down, it will break away from the earth's gravity and fly into space, never to come back.

If you want to slow down, you have to either use the engine or use water. With Max's stingy character, it's better to choose the latter.

"Actually, as early as 1968, when Lao Maozi's Probe No. returned from the lunar orbit, it used a splash method, but it was not accurate at the time. It was originally intended to land in Kazakhstan, but it finally splashed down on Pacific, however, the technology of that era was too backward, and with the technical strength of our Starship Company, there will definitely be no problems."

In later generations, the first spacecraft to successfully use this method of drifting was Chang'e-5. It drifted 7,000 kilometers across the Pacific Ocean and finally successfully landed at the alternate landing site.

Now, Starship Company uses the Qiongzhou base to launch its rockets, and the return is the same grassland alternate landing site. If it misses, the consequences will be disastrous. Fortunately, there is a powerful navy in the east now. If it really happens, In that kind of accident, all we can do is ask the Navy to dispatch the spacecraft.

Max's words were categorical, and there must be no problem. Even though Qin Tao was a little worried, he knew that he, an amateur, had no need to question the professional. Since Max was confident, he should do what he thought.

The sunshine time on the moon is 14 days. Carlos was too tired after going out, so he came back to eat some food, fell asleep, and slept for more than ten hours before finally waking up, and Pan Chun had already prepared the second Preparations for the first departure. Of course, the live broadcast will continue this time, and the audience is even more impressive. The last live broadcast was watched by hundreds of millions of people around the world, and this time it was watched by more than one billion people. A certain country even gave its citizens a special holiday, so everyone could enjoy it. Watch the moon landing live.

People from any country should be excited about this, because it is the pride of mankind, and this is just the beginning. The ultimate goal of the Starship Company is to land on Mars!

While people around the world were watching the live broadcast, in Chicago, USA, on the tall Willis Tower.

This is Chicago's landmark building, formerly known as the Sears Tower. Even though it was built in 1973, it maintained the record as the world's tallest building for 25 years until it was surpassed by the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.

Today, it is still the tallest building in the world.

The 442-meter-tall building can be called towering. If you fall from it, you will definitely die. But now, there is a young man standing on the top of the tower, and then he turns on his mobile phone. , start live broadcast.

Without Dongfang's technology, current mobile phones would not be able to transmit videos at a high enough speed, and there would be no such industry as mobile phone live broadcast. Now, he looked at the signals and felt mixed.

If it weren't for NASA's $100,000 bonus, he wouldn't have done such a dangerous thing. Now, I hope he's lucky enough.

"Everyone, I'm on Willis Tower now. This is the highest place in the world and the pride of our United States. However, I don't feel proud. Our aerospace technology should be the most advanced in the world. Now it has been Starship Company surpasses!”

The young man has already memorized the script and just follows the lines: "This makes me very disappointed. I don't want to see us falling behind in this field. I don't want to see those politicians scheming and not funding the aerospace sector. As a proud American, , I can’t stand this humiliation, so next, I’m going to jump off the tallest building in the world!”

The number of people in the live broadcast room increased rapidly.

In the east, Qin Tao was woken up from his sleep. He rubbed his eyes and looked at Xu Zhengyang: "What's the matter?"

"Mr. Qin, it's inappropriate to disturb your rest rashly, but..."

"Let's get down to business, did something happen on the moon?"

Of course Qin Tao knows the severity and will definitely not lose his temper at this time. After all, he also knows that accidents may happen at any time.

"It's not the moon, it's the United States."

Qin Tao breathed a sigh of relief, as long as nothing happened on the moon! Although a large amount of insurance has been purchased, if something happens, a large number of people will come to throw dirt on their Starship company. What other big things can happen to the United States?

"Go on."

"There is a young man who wants to commit suicide by jumping off the tallest Willis Tower in the United States. Millions of people are already watching in the live broadcast room."

"Suicide? His life is his own. He can die if he wants. What does it have to do with us?"

"He said he was behind on the moon landing and was very angry. He wanted to commit suicide to wake everyone up and demand funding for NASA."

"It turned out to be a trustee." Qin Tao finally realized.

This kind of thing happened in previous eras. At that time, Lao Maozi successively achieved leading positions. The first earth communication satellite, the first spaceship, and the first human being to travel in space were all the glory of Lao Maozi. The United States People are completely backward!

At that time, a young man wrote a letter to the president and committed suicide due to the humiliation! As a result, the whole country was shocked, and the whole country concentrated its efforts to land on the moon. It was the most glorious era of NASA at that time.

Now, NASA is going to take this path again, and wants to use suicide to wake everyone up and let them continue to support the aerospace industry.

Are you kidding me, times have changed a long time ago! Why do Americans care about these things now?

However, what should be prevented should be prevented. Qin Tao thought briefly and then said: "What live broadcast software is he using? If it is in our hands, just pull out the network cable. If it is in their hands, they will organize hackers to attack. In short, it makes it impossible for him to broadcast live.”

If he wanted to jump off the building, he would have jumped a long time ago, but now he has been live broadcasting on the Internet. This is obviously to attract other people's attention and attract fans. He has no intention of actually jumping. I can't tell him to jump quickly, but I can unplug the network cable for him.

"It is a live broadcast software from the United States, but this software is rewritten using our Goose Factory software. The underlying code is the same."

"Then what are you waiting for? Just do whatever you have to do. I'll sleep a little longer."

For Qin Tao, this is really a small thing.

The young man standing on the tall Willis Tower is very happy. The bonus given to him by NASA is linked to the number of people in the live broadcast room. The more people there are, the more he will earn. Looking at the current number of people, he should You can get a bonus of half a million dollars, or even one million!

Continue to be miserable and continue to cry! Just as the young man was about to continue, he saw that the image on the screen was stuck!

How is this going? The phone actually dropped at a critical moment!

He tried restarting his phone, then re-entering the system, and then entering the live broadcast room, but he still couldn't get in! This bitten apple is really not easy to use. If I had known it, I would have used Dongfang's mobile phone. Dongfang's mobile phone will definitely not be stuck.

He continued to fiddle with it, but he never got it right. Suddenly, his hand slipped and the phone fell from a tower more than 400 meters high!

Within ten seconds, the mobile phone fell to the ground, and there happened to be a passing modern girl. The mobile phone immediately smashed open her skull and embedded itself in her head. Blood spurted out, and everyone around them shouted in horror.

A few minutes later, the ambulance arrived, and countless reporters arrived to record the surprising scene.

The guy who was live broadcasting the jump from the building did not die. The mobile phone he was broadcasting fell down and killed a passerby!

So, a large group of police officers went up and arrested the young man who was at a loss. If you want to jump, just jump. If you really jump and kill one of them, then we will go to heaven together, and we will not be lonely on the road. What's going on now?

When the police came to arrest him, the young man was so scared: "Hey, don't come over, don't come over, or I will jump down!"

"You jump now so we don't have to do anything!"

"If I don't jump, I don't want to die yet. I want to get the bonus from NASA!"

The reporters who followed immediately realized that this was big news. Soon, the incident spread all over the world: In order to attract attention, NASA actually hired a young man to play a trick of jumping off the building. Unfortunately, it was not done well and he was injured. Innocent has become a joke to the whole world!

This incident passed quickly. The world's attention is still on Starship Company's moon landing operation. The second extravehicular travel has ended, and it's time to go back!

The garbage in the cabin was thrown aside, and the lunar rover was not taken away. This can save the weight of the ascent and make the return flight smoother.

Carlos sat on the seat, looking a little dazed, it's over, it's over! He looked at the screen in front of him, which was still showing the scene outside the cabin. He knew that if he left this time, he would never come back again. It was not because he was reluctant to spend the next two billion, but because of his physical condition. He was not allowed to fly a second time.

How great it would be if I were a young boy! With such emotion, Carlos looked at Pan Chun beside him. At this time, Pan Chun was preparing to take off in an orderly manner.

The screen in front of him changed to a countdown, and Carlos counted to zero silently in his mind. A huge pushing feeling came on his back. The lunar module rocket successfully ignited and took them on the return journey!

(End of this chapter)