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Chapter 400 Lunar Spaceport

July 2029, 7, after nearly three months of space travel.The Endeavor spacecraft arrives at the lunar spaceport.

Xinghuo Technology is one of the major shareholders of the Lunar Spaceport, Zhou Yu decided to inspect the Lunar Spaceport for a period of time.

The Endeavor spacecraft returns to Earth carrying scientists and unknown life discovered on Ceres.

The unknown life on Ceres is very fragile and needs to be transferred to an advanced laboratory on Earth for preservation as soon as possible.

Its existence plays an important role in the study of the origin of carbon-based life. This is also the first time that humans have discovered living cells outside the earth.

Its role in biological science is indescribable, which marks that the science of biology has officially extended its scope to the universe.

Zhou Yu led some people to stay at the lunar spaceport, and he watched the Endeavor spacecraft leave.

They carried a small spacecraft similar to a flying car to experience life at a lunar spaceport.

The lunar spaceport is very busy, it is the only spaceport on the moon.

Now that China has developed the moon to a great extent, major aerospace companies no longer drive their own space shuttles to and from the moon.

The Lunar Spaceport and the Bohai Sea Spaceport on Earth have dedicated traffic routes.

Xinghuo Technology launched a dedicated cargo space shuttle and passenger space shuttle.

They go back and forth between the earth and the moon according to their shifts, continuously transporting materials and personnel to the moon.

The lunar spaceport is also the largest cargo distribution center and human resources deployment center on the moon.

Some vendors buy supplies at the lunar spaceport and send them to expeditions operating across the moon.

Aerospace companies that have established lunar bases also come to the lunar spaceport to purchase necessary materials and recruit staff.

Zhou Yu came to the material distribution center of the lunar spaceport.

The materials sent by the earth to the moon are mainly industrial products and food.

Only a small amount of industrial products can be produced here on the moon, such as some basic machinery and intelligent robots.

The components required for the space shuttle, intelligent mining robots, quantum computers and other sophisticated equipment cannot be produced here on the moon, and can only be supplied by the earth.

Industrial products are not the largest commodities that the earth sends to the moon, but food and fresh water are the largest commodities that the moon sends to the earth.

Human survival is inseparable from food, water and air.

The Huaxia Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed an air self-circulation system that requires only a small amount of compressed oxygen, and the air self-circulation system can continuously convert oxygen and carbon dioxide.

A man on the moon only needs a small tank of compressed oxygen, and he can use it for a long time.

Water can be recycled to a certain extent. Through water purification technology and water ecological cycle, 95% of water can be recycled.

However, with the increase of the population on the moon, the total amount of water they need is also increasing, but there are basically no water reserves on the moon.

There are no huge water resources found in the planets around the earth, and they can only rely on the earth to transport water resources.

Desalinated water resources on the earth are abundant, and each ton costs only 5 cents.

This price is still the price of Huayuan after constant inflation.

The main cost of transporting fresh water from the earth to the lunar spaceport is freight, and its wholesale price is as high as 200 yuan per ton.

The most material that the earth sends to the moon is food.

There is no agriculture on the moon at all, and basically all food needs to be delivered by the earth.

The space plants that Xinghuo Technology is experimenting with have passed safety tests, but they are far from being practical.

The technology and cost required for the cultivation of space plants are very high, and there is no systematic breeding plan yet, and it is only in the experimental stage now.

The bulk commodities sent from the moon to the earth are mainly various initially purified materials.

These materials are mainly metal materials, and also include many materials unique to the moon.

The moon has now become a veritable materials processing factory.

There are many metal space smelters around the orbit of the moon, which are responsible for smelting the ore dug on the moon and the ore collected in the asteroid belt.

In addition to providing metal materials and the most well-known energy material helium-3, the moon can also provide tens of thousands of materials such as special glass materials, semiconductor materials, and high-density materials.

The moon is in the overall industrial layout of the solar system, and it is a material processing center.

The moon is responsible for initially processing the mineral resources collected by people in space into various raw materials.

These raw materials are transported to the earth and turned into various industrial products.

The natural environment of the moon is not suitable for most industrial industries.It is not a problem to specialize in the material processing industry.

Zhou Yu inspected the material distribution center for a period of time to understand the material needs of the explorers at the bottom of the moon.

He left the material distribution center and went to the human resources center next to him.

Not many people come to the moon, but there are thousands every day.

The people from China who came to work on the moon had the same reasons as their predecessors who made similar decisions in ancient times.

Just like the age of great voyages, the first explorers are driven by interests.

Most of the immigrants who came with the crowd were unable to survive and were ready to fight.

Now there are only two kinds of people in China who come to work on the moon.

One is to be hired by aerospace companies with high salaries and to be indispensable experts in the relevant industry chain.They make up a very small share of the total.

The vast majority of people do not live well on Earth.

The old industries they work in are being impacted by new technologies such as intelligent robots and quantum computers, and they are bankrupts who cannot adapt to the new industries.

They can only receive a small amount of unemployment benefits, which is only enough to maintain the most basic survival.

They either choose a job that pays a lot of hard work.

When lunar space companies hire workers at high salaries, they certainly can't turn down the job.

Zhou Yu checked the treatment of ordinary workers recruited by Lunar Aerospace Corporation.

The treatment of these companies is similar, and the larger aerospace companies have better benefits.

The most common worker works on the moon, and his monthly salary is between 1.5 and 2 yuan.

Aerospace companies provide the most basic free board and lodging and medical services.

They can only get a monthly salary of about 3000 on the earth, but the same job on the moon can increase their salary by 5 times.

This is the most important reason why many people choose to work on the moon.

Working on the moon is not difficult. As long as it is a regular aerospace company, the safety of workers is also guaranteed.

The only difficulty these workers have to overcome is loneliness and boredom.

Working on the moon is basically all year round, and there are basically no entertainment activities.

The most important thing is that the ratio of men and women on the moon is very different, which has reached the level of 1000:1.

When a man comes to work on the moon, he can hardly find a girlfriend while he is working.

Zhou Yu inspected the lunar spaceport, and based on his observations, put forward rectification suggestions for the management agency of the lunar spaceport.

On August 8, he left the moon in a spacecraft returning to Earth from the lunar spaceport, ending this space activity.

(End of this chapter)