Chapter 1276 Moon Travel

"Dear passengers, please note that we are about to arrive at the Jinghai Base. After we took off from the Dhahran Base, about ten hours later, we changed to the lunar space shuttle and finally approached the destination." The graceful voice of the flight attendant was heard inside the space shuttle.

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 has become highly integrated. While the economy has developed significantly, more funds have been invested in the aerospace field.

Due to its geographical advantages, Dhahran replaced Baikonur and became the largest space launch base, while Baikonur mainly became a space tracking and control center. At the same time, the lunar base has become the largest base!

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

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The early pioneers built a rough base. Later, as the tools for landing on the moon increased, various lunar factories were built on the surface of the moon. Large-scale underground bases were built using local materials! There are more than 10,000 people working in the entire lunar base!

Moreover, the lunar base is open to the public. Rich businessmen on Earth and even married couples will consider traveling to the moon as one of their projects.

First, take the commercial Shenlong space shuttle from Dhahran base to reach the space station in space.

The Shenlong space plane was improved based on the Aurora. It adopts a large number of repeatable components to reduce the launch cost. In particular, it uses certain special elements mined from the moon as parts of the space plane, which makes the operating cost of this space plane very low. It can be said that buying a ticket for such a plane is about the same price as taking a high-speed rail in later generations.

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This type of space shuttle only transports 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 also undertakes civilian tourism projects.

There are always four or five lunar space shuttles docked on the International Space Station. These space shuttles use nuclear power systems and are used to travel between the moon and the space station.

These are exactly two different plans. The space shuttle uses a variable cycle engine and can fly within the atmosphere and in outer space, while the lunar space shuttle uses nuclear power and does not have to worry about polluting the atmosphere.

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

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At the same time, experiencing the feeling of weightlessness and traveling in space have become our favorite activities on Earth.

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

"Yes, it looks rather desolate on the surface, but it's lively inside the base." The boy next to him said, "On the moon, we can jump several meters high, and we can also wear moon suits and walk around outside. Especially, the Spirit spacecraft is about to take off, and we can just watch the launch of Spirit."

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Courage!

Over the years, through continuous investment in the space field, the Soviet aerospace technology has been constantly improving. The most important of these is the technology needed for interstellar flight!

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If you want to carry out interstellar flight, you need a lot of epoch-making technologies. Unfortunately, after so many years, there is still no fundamental breakthrough.

For example, space-time warping technology, first proposed by Miguel Alcubierre, a physicist at Cardiff University in Wales, UK, in 1994, uses undiscovered "exotic matter" with negative mass and negative pressure. It can warp space-time so that the spacecraft quickly approaches the space in front while the space behind is constantly expanding. The spacecraft is like being in an expanding "warp bubble", and can fly faster than the speed of light without violating the principles of relativity.

However, this technology is only an ideal. To distort time and space, it requires huge energy, even greater than the total energy of the entire universe. Moreover, there is no evidence that such a special substance exists.

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Similarly, there is wormhole technology. Based on Einstein's general theory of relativity, the famous American physicist John Wheeler proposed that there may be narrow tunnels in the universe that connect two different time and space. This tunnel is called a wormhole.

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

There is also an exaggerated technology, which is multidimensional space. The universe that humans can see is three-dimensional, but in fact there are higher-dimensional spaces in the universe. If we can master higher-dimensional spaces, then spacecraft can travel through them and achieve extreme speeds.

Unfortunately, these ideas have remained only ideas. There are many technical difficulties that cannot be overcome in order to realize them, and some are even incomplete in theory.

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Therefore, if a spacecraft wants to conduct interstellar flight, current technology can only rely on conventional power to achieve it!

What the Soviet Union had already developed was nuclear-powered rockets. With nuclear-powered rockets, spacecraft could carry less fuel and fly farther!

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

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

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Just from a reaction equation, the energy released by a fusion reaction is several times that of a fission reaction, which means that fusion can release more energy. At the same time, by comparing the atomic weights, we can get a higher average energy! Fusion is a reaction of light nuclei with fewer nucleons. The energy released per nucleon is hundreds of times that of fission!

In other words, for the same mass of fuel, fusion provides hundreds of times the energy of fission!

Relying solely on the original fission, it is possible to explore within the solar system. For example, more than a decade ago, fission atomic rockets frequently flew to Mars for exploration, and fusion engines are enough to propel spacecraft 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.