Red Soviet Union

Passengers, please note that we are about to arrive at Tranquility Base. After we took off from Dhahran Base, after about ten hours, after changing to the lunar space shuttle, we are finally approaching the end point. Inside the space shuttle, the stewardess said gracefully. the sound of.

Now, it is 2020. After more than 30 years of development, the world has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Under the threat of aliens, the global economy is highly integrated, and while the economy is developing substantially, more funds have been invested in the aerospace field.

Due to geographical advantages, Dhahran replaced Baikonur as the largest space launch base, while Baikonur was mainly reduced to an aerospace measurement and control center. At the same time, the moon base has become the largest space launch base. base!

Jinghai base covers an area of ​​more than 100 square kilometers, and it has become a city on the moon!

The early pioneers built a rough base. Later, with the increasing number of tools for landing on the moon, various lunar factories were built on the surface of the moon, and a large-scale underground base was built using local materials on a large scale. ! And in the entire lunar base, there are tens of thousands of people working!

Moreover, the moon base is also open to the outside world. Rich businessmen on earth, even married couples, will take traveling to the moon as one of their projects.

First, from the Dhahran base, take the commercial Shenlong aerospace plane to the space station in space.

The Shenlong aerospace plane was improved on the basis of the Aurora Goddess, and a large number of repeatable components were used to reduce launch costs. In particular, some special elements mined from the moon were used as the aerospace plane's The components make the operating cost of this aerospace plane very low. It can be said that buying such an air ticket is about the same price as taking a high-speed rail in later generations.

This kind of aerospace plane is just to transport them to the space station in space. The space station code-named International is the fourth-generation space station launched by the Soviet Union, and it also undertakes private tourism projects.

On the International space station, four or five lunar space shuttles are docked at any time. This kind of space shuttle uses a nuclear power system to travel between the moon and the space station.

These are exactly two different solutions. The aerospace plane uses a variable-cycle engine, which can fly in the atmosphere and outer space, while the lunar space shuttle uses nuclear power, so there is no need to worry about polluting the atmosphere.

After decades of development, these technologies are quite mature, with almost 100% reliability!

At the same time, experiencing the feeling of weightlessness and space travel are already my favorite projects on earth.

The moon is really too desolate. At this time, looking at the potholed surface of the moon outside the glass of the space shuttle, the girl said dissatisfiedly among a young couple who came to travel.

Yeah, it looks desolate on the surface, but it's lively inside the base. The boy on the side said: On the moon, you can jump several meters high, and we can also wear moon suits and walk outside. Walking around, especially, the Spirit spacecraft is about to take off, and we can just watch the launch of Spirit.

Courage!

Over the years, after continuous investment in the space field, the Soviet space technology has also continued to improve, the most important of which is the technology required for interstellar flight!

To carry out interstellar flight, a lot of cross-age technologies are needed. Unfortunately, after so many years, there is still no fundamental breakthrough.

For example, space-time warping technology, which was first proposed by Miguel Alcubire, a physicist at Cardiff University in Wales in 1994, uses as yet undiscovered exotic matter with negative mass and negative pressure. It can distort space-time, so that the spaceship is rapidly approaching the space in front, while the space behind is constantly expanding. The spaceship seems to be in an expanding bending bubble, which can fly faster than the speed of light without violating the principle of relativity.

However, this technology can only be an ideal. If you want to distort time and space, you need a huge amount of energy, even greater than the entire energy of the entire universe. Moreover, there is no evidence that such a special substance exists.

Similarly, there is also wormhole technology. According to Einstein's general theory of relativity, proposed by the famous American physicist John Wheeler, it is believed that there may be a narrow tunnel connecting two different time and space in the universe. Such tunnels are called wormholes.

Dr. John is the scientist who proposed to create the term black hole. His theory has also been accepted by many physicists, but until now, no such space-time tunnel has been found.

There is also an exaggerated technology, which is multi-dimensional space. The universe that humans can see is three-dimensional, but in fact, there are higher-dimensional spaces in the universe. Run through it at extreme speeds.

It's a pity that these ideas are only ideas. If they want to realize them, there are many technical difficulties that cannot be overcome, and some even have incomplete theories.

Therefore, if the spacecraft wants to carry out interstellar flight, the current technology can only rely on conventional power to achieve it!

What the Soviet Union has matured is nuclear-powered rockets. Relying on nuclear-powered rockets, the spacecraft can carry less fuel and fly to a longer distance!

Therefore, Soviet aerospace experts can only continue to work hard on nuclear-powered rockets. They did not simply increase the thrust of nuclear-powered rocket engines, but adopted more advanced controllable nuclear fusion engines!

Fission and fusion are two different methods. Comparing these two methods, fusion is far ahead.

As far as a single reaction equation is concerned, once fusion occurs, the energy released is several times that of fission, which means that fusion can release more energy. At the same time, comparing the atomic weight, you can get higher average energy! Fusion is a reaction carried out by light nuclei. There are fewer nucleons, and the energy released on average to each nucleon is hundreds of times that of fission!

In other words, with the same mass of fuel loaded, fusion provides hundreds of times more energy than fission!

And only relying on the original fission, it is possible to explore in the solar system. For example, more than ten years ago, the fission atomic energy rockets frequently flew to Mars for investigation, and the fusion engine is enough to propel the spacecraft. Fly out of the solar system!

However, fusion is not easy to control. In later generations, fission nuclear reactors are everywhere, but fusion can only appear in nuclear bombs, because fusion is uncontrollable.