Chapter 602 Reaction
After closing the hatch between living cabins A1 and A2, Hawke began to look at the damage to the base. After looking at the damage, he took a breath.
Due to initial assembly reasons, the space capsule of Outpost 1 is arranged in the shape of a long snake.
As a result, all their space capsules are connected together, and there is only one channel.
The living cabin A1 and the scientific research cabin B1 are connected together, but the living cabin A2 has a hole, while the scientific research cabins B2 and B3 also have several holes. The most serious one, the scientific research cabin B3, even leaked chemicals. Condition.
You must know that the entire Outpost 1 currently has only 6 space capsules, three scientific research capsules and three living capsules.
Two scientific research cabins and one living cabin were scrapped at once, which made Hawke and Wade feel heartbroken.
"Wade, please report our situation to the headquarters immediately, and I will see if we can repair the damaged A2 cabin."
Wade nodded.
At this time, in the command center of Houston Space City.
The management of NASA and the people at Boeing were as anxious as ants on a hot pot.
It wasn't until Wade's report came back that they realized something was serious. Lunar 7 not only failed to land successfully, but also accidentally damaged the three space capsules of Sentinel 1.
This puts the already poor Outpost 1 into an even worse situation.
Baker, the person in charge of NASA's Space City in Houston, was in a bad mood: "What should we do now?"
Walter Lincoln, the other person in charge of technology, calmed down and said: "Baker, don't be nervous, the matter has not reached the point of irreversibility yet."
After he finished speaking, he used a red pen to cross out scientific research cabins B2, B3 and living cabin A2 on the distribution map of Outpost 1.
"There are now three cabins left in Outpost 1. The scientific research cabin B1 and the living cabin A1 are connected together and can be temporarily transformed into a living area. In addition, the food in the base has not been lost and can be used for about 60 days. .”
Baker is still worried: "But the Space Exploration Company's launch vehicle will not be ready until around November 5. General Electric's launch vehicle is not mature. I am worried about problems."
Suddenly his phone rang, and when he saw it was NASA Administrator George, he hurriedly answered the phone: "Mr. Administrator, I'm very sorry..."
"Okay, Baker, now is not the time to blame yourself, but to find a way to solve the problem." George, who sounded slightly tired, continued:
"The Lunar Outpost 1 base must not allow failure. Once it fails, our space strategy will fall into a very passive situation."
In fact, NASA is now in a difficult situation and can only bite the bullet and persevere.
Unless they are willing to pay to be subdued and ask the China Space Administration for help to send a spacecraft to rescue the two astronauts, but doing so would be equivalent to admitting defeat for the entire Noah Society.
Will Noah give in easily? As a subordinate agency, NASA cannot go beyond Noah and ask for help from the China Space Administration.
As for the China Space Administration, although it was aware of the anomaly in Outpost 1, it pretended not to have seen it and continued to advance the expansion plan of the Guanghan Palace Base.
There are even plans to strengthen the number of laser defense satellites in lunar orbit to prevent NASA, Xizhou Space Agency, and Lucia Space Agency from bringing some dangerous items to the moon.
Although nuclear bombs are not very powerful on planets like the moon, precautionary measures are indispensable.
It is impossible to take the initiative to rescue the astronauts of Outpost 1. After all, the relationship between the two parties is now on fire and water, and they wish that the other party would explode on the spot. Carrying out humanitarian rescue at this time will be a big trouble in the future.
Even if NASA takes the initiative to ask for help, the space agency will find excuses to delay it.
After all, a big accident at Outpost 1 would be a huge blow to the Noah Club's overall confidence. Saving the other party would only make them feel lucky.
Therefore, in the case of Outpost 1, both sides are silent.
NASA has planned to launch three heavy-lift launch vehicles in the next sixty days regardless of the cost. It intends to compete with the odds through quantity and maintain this bridgehead no matter what.
The space agency just paid close attention and then went about its own business.
Lunar Outpost 1.
Hawke inspected the damaged living cabin A2 and found that the hole in the bulkhead was about 3.1 to 3.4 centimeters in diameter, which was a repairable hole.
However, the repair work required leaving the cabin. The other piece of wreckage of the spacecraft broke through the bulkhead and broke the thermostat in the cabin. He checked the condition of the thermostat and found that it was basically hopeless.
Of course, he was not too worried. The worst possible thing was to remove the thermostats of the scientific research cabins B2 and B3.
"Hoke, the headquarters has replied to us. They will send three spacecraft over in the next sixty days to ensure normal supplies."
Hearing the news, Hawke breathed a sigh of relief, activated the shortwave channel and replied:
"OK, living cabin A2 can still be repaired. I plan to leave the cabin to fix the vulnerability."
Wade said in surprise: "Really! That's good. I'll go check out the conditions of the scientific research cabins B2 and B3."
"By the way, if you can, remove a thermostat and come back. A2's thermostat was destroyed."
"OK."
The two of them acted separately.
Hawke wore an extravehicular spacesuit and brought a maintenance tool box, then opened the hatch and carefully walked out of the living cabin A1. At this time, the temperature outside the cabin was very high, as high as 172 degrees Celsius.
The sand is extremely hot, and the temperature on the moon's surface is so extreme. The temperature during the white moon period is around 172 degrees Celsius, while the temperature during the moonlit night is as low as minus 180 degrees Celsius.
Without extravehicular spacesuits, astronauts would either freeze to death or be heated to death with only intravehicular spacesuits.
Not daring to waste time, Hawke, like a fat penguin, came to the other side of the A2 cabin and saw the hole that had been penetrated.
He first sanded the area around the aluminum alloy plate with a sander, destroying the composite paint and aluminum oxide film on the surface, exposing the silver aluminum alloy layer.
Then a cut aluminum alloy plate was polished on one side with a sander to expose the silver non-oxidized layer.
Finally, this aluminum alloy plate with a side length of 10 cm was attached around the loophole. Something magical happened. The aluminum alloy plate and the cabin shell gradually merged together.
This is the vacuum cold welding effect at work. After the cold welding was completed, Hawke took out a bottle of hand spray paint and sprayed it on the repair area. This is a specially developed heat-insulating and anti-radiation paint.
After spraying the heat-insulating and anti-radiation paint, he took out another bottle of hand spray paint, which was cured sealant. After spraying five layers alternately, he completed the shell repair work.
Next, the inner insulation layer, lead plate layer, etc. need to be filled.
the other side.
Wade discovered that the damage to scientific research cabins B2 and B3 was more serious than imagined.
Among them, B2 has three holes, the largest one with a diameter of 13 to 15 centimeters. What is even more frightening is that the plutonium nuclear battery on it has penetrated the outer shell and is no longer usable.
He could only remove the thermostat in the B2 cabin.
The situation in cabin B3 was not much better. Although there was only one hole, the storage cabinet storing chemicals was smashed and a large amount of chemicals leaked out, causing a small fire.
Now the B3 cabin can be said to be scrapped.
After thinking about it together, the two felt that the cost of repairing the two capsules was too high, so they finally decided to give up repairing B2B3 and save their lives first.
After repairing A2, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.
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