Red Soviet Union

In the history of human spaceflight, the only visit to an alien planet is to land on the moon!

The moon is the closest celestial body to humans, only 380,000 kilometers away, and the moon is the most reverie. The story of Chang'e is a beautiful legend.

If you want to land on the moon, what you need most is a large launch vehicle. The Americans succeeded because of the high reliability of the Saturn 5 rocket. The Soviet Union failed because they did not have a large rocket engine and only relied on small engines. The parallel connection has greatly increased the complexity of the system. As a result, the launch failed repeatedly and had to be terminated.

And now, after further development of the Soviet aerospace technology, there is already an Energia rocket!

In terms of direct data, the Energy launch vehicle is about 60 meters long, with a total weight of 2,400 tons and a take-off thrust of 3,500 tons, while the Saturn 5 is about 110 meters long, with a take-off weight of 2,950 tons and a take-off thrust of 3,400 tons.

From this data, it can be seen that the total weight of the energy number is small, but the take-off thrust is very strong. All of this is of course because the energy number appeared later, so the applied technology is stronger! The most important of these is his rd-170 engine, which is far stronger than the F-1 engine of the Saturn V, and it is not only strong in thrust, but also the most important indicator: the specific impulse is also much higher.

The Soviet Union was the first country in the world to conquer the oxygen-enriched supplementary combustion kerosene engine, and the rd-170 is his representative work. The advanced engine is the condition for the success of the energy number.

These two rockets have a carrying capacity of about 100 tons in low-Earth orbit, but the Saturn V uses a three-stage rocket solution to land on the moon, while the Energia is a two-stage rocket.

It is perfectly normal to use Energy to launch a spacecraft that lands on the moon, and it can be put into orbit at one time! At the same time, the technology of the Soviet lunar module was almost ready for use.

At that time, in order to land on the moon, the Soviet Union also did everything possible. The Soviets launched several lunar exploration satellites to analyze the surface of the moon and find a suitable landing site. Wait, the Soviet Union has also manufactured them, just waiting for the rocket to send them up. As a result, unfortunately, the rocket does not have this ability!

At the same time, landing on the moon also requires huge financial support. At that time, the Apollo project in the United States almost mobilized the power of the whole country, and put 20% of the expenditure in this plan.

And now, for the Soviet Union, the huge country has already supported them to have a sufficient economic foundation! Among other things, just controlling the global oil supply has made the Soviet the richest country! It can even be said that the funds extorted from Britain were enough to complete the Soviet Union's mission to the moon.

Return to the moon!

The aerospace scientists of the Soviet Union sat together in the large conference room in the Kremlin, and all of them were discussing excitedly. When they learned that the Soviet Union was going to return to the moon, they were extremely excited.

This is especially true for Chelomian!

Now, Chelomyen is the person in charge of the Soviet landing on Mars. Now, the unmanned probe has successfully landed, and the manned landing operation will take a few years.

During this period of time, it will be a rehearsal for landing on Mars, which will be of great benefit to them.

However, no one knew how large the scale of the Soviet mission to land on the moon was.

Everyone, I want you to come here mainly because I want to hear an analysis of the feasibility of our landing on the moon. Finally, after dealing with other matters, Andre came here, and the meeting was officially held.

General Secretary Andrei, more than 20 years ago, our moon landing plan had to come back without success because our space technology at that time was still flawed, especially our rocket technology was backward. We failed in the end. And now, our space technology is developing rapidly, landing on the moon, we don't have any technical problems.

Chelomian said.

There are no technical problems. Now, it depends on how confident the country is!

If we don't try to stop on the surface of the moon like the Americans, just stay for a few hours or take off in a few days, but build a long-term guarded base on the moon, just like our Mir What? Andre said.

On the moon, build a base! Andre's words made everyone even more excited.

The experience of the Mir combat space station shows that Soviet astronauts can live in space for a long time. Now, the longest time has lived on the space station for more than a year!

It can be done on the gravity-free Mir, so it is not difficult to build a base on the surface of the moon with one-sixth of the gravity of the earth!

In the eyes of countless scientists, they are full of fantasies about space exploration, space immigration, and space colonization, which are what many scientists are most looking forward to. Now, finally, the Soviet Union is going to take the most important step, which is to establish a real world on the moon. base!

If this is the case, then we must design a new kind of spacecraft for landing on the moon. This kind of spacecraft can take off and land on the moon, break free from the moon's gravity, and come to the orbit of the earth. Lightning Design Bureau, Blizzard Space Shuttle Now, Demenkiyev, the head of the design bureau, analyzed: We can't be like the American lunar module, nor can we be like the lunar module we designed before.

The Soviet Union designed a lunar module. However, due to the limited thrust, the Soviet lunar module was quite crude and could only accommodate one astronaut. It was undoubtedly very dangerous during the process of landing on the moon and taking off again. big.

Of course, on the other hand, the sacrifice is also the smallest. After all, when Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon, they were prepared. In case the lunar module cannot take off, they can only stay on the moon and wait. die.

But now, the advancement of technology has greatly reduced this risk. Since the request is to establish a base, just like the Mir space station, there must be vehicles that can go back and forth between the earth and space at any time!

I suggest that we can use the Mir space station as a base. Chelomian continued: This kind of lunar landing spacecraft flies between the moon and the Mir space station, which can greatly reduce the difficulty.

The gravitational force of the earth makes most of the rocket's energy consumed in overcoming the gravitational force of the earth! If it is transferred from the space station, the difficulty will be greatly reduced!