Chapter 1360 Board the Ship and Set Sail!

On the Moon Palace hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, an aerospace plane shaped like a bird slowly approached this majestic space fortress.

The round alloy tube used as a gangway protruded from the Moon Palace, inserted into the open connection port on the side of the Xiaguang's nose, and pulled the Xiaguang, which had its power system turned off, into the port successfully.

The alloy round tube begins to fill with air.

As the alloy doors on both sides opened, six astronauts in spacesuits grasped the handrails on both sides of the corridor, slowly drifted across the gangway, and entered the buffer room of the Moon Palace.

He stopped in the buffer room, Liang Youcheng looked at the moon outside the porthole, with a hint of fascination in his eyes.

"I've heard it on Earth. Standing on the Moon Palace, you can see the IMCRC's collider and the Guanghan Special Zone."

"You can't see it standing here," Captain Xu Zhenghong, who walked to Liang Youcheng's side and was in charge of sending the five astronauts to the moon, said with a faint smile, "but it might be okay to wait another hour."

"Have you ever been to Guanghan City?"

"Twice."

"What's it like there."

"It's developing very fast!" Looking at the moon outside the porthole, Xu Zhenghong said after recalling for a while, "I remember when I went there for the first time, it was to deliver supplies to it. At that time, there was nothing on it, only one A lonely scientific research station, and a few scientific researchers stationed there. My deputy and I even doubted whether they could survive with that little thing."

Liang Youcheng asked, "What about the other time?"

"The other time was to send 4.27 tons of lunar ore, 50 kilograms of wheat, corn, potatoes, and some biological reagents and scientific research samples produced on the moon back to Earth...I remember it very clearly, because I personally counted those goods .”

Speaking of this, Xu Zhenghong showed a smile on his face, "The current Guanghan Special Zone can not only rely on the lunar ice under the surface to independently produce fresh water and oxygen, cultivate space crops in independent planting units, and even It produces rare earth minerals that are rare on earth. I heard that there is still a space hotel that is open to ordinary tourists, but it is still relatively expensive.”

"I really want to go up there and have a look."

"There will be a chance," Xu Zhenghong said with a smile, "You seem to be rotated every three years. When you come back from Mars, I will probably pick you up. Then I will take you to Guanghan City. change."

Liang Youcheng smiled and stretched out his fist.

"That's a good deal, don't be the one who comes here then."

"How could it be?" Xu Zhenghong smiled and stretched out his fist, and touched him, "Once a man speaks out, it's hard to follow. When the time comes, you, be careful there, and don't have any accidents."

"Don't worry," Liang Youcheng said with a faint smile as he touched his chest with his retracted fist, "I promise you will have five when you go, and five when you come back."

...

The turmoil of the engagement did not last long.

Gossip, like the wind, always comes in bursts, and when it is passed on, everyone gets tired of it.

After waiting for two days, a few celebrities will get married and split up, and they will besiege Wei and rescue Zhao. Soon, netizens will go from one hot spot to the next, eating melons from other houses.

Later, as the "day of departure" got closer, compared with the life-long events of all human beings, Professor Lu's life-long events were obviously even more insignificant.

The last day of March.

Under the anticipation of much attention, the colonists of the manned fire plan finally appeared in the eyes of the public belatedly.

For various reasons, the Ascension Program Office did not announce the identity of the colonists who went to Mars this time.

It wasn't until the five people successfully arrived at the Moon Palace hundreds of thousands of kilometers away and were about to land on the colonial ship Xu Fu that they were each given a complete shot, and their names and photos were announced.

To people’s surprise, in the “Fire Ascension Route Map” and the Manned Fire Ascension Plan published by the Office of the Manned Ascension to Fire Program, the first colonists, whether they were drawn or mentioned in written texts, were all There are only three.

Even because of this incident, many people on the Internet are discussing that the manned fire office is actually imitating NASA's "New Virginia" plan.

However, now, the number of people who landed in the first batch of the original plan has changed from three to five.

This sudden change, whether it is for netizens who are concerned about the fire plan, or for NASA, is really a bit surprising.

After all, taking an extra person to Mars is not just a simple matter of adding a seat to the spacecraft. This not only requires the artificial ecosystem deployed on the surface of Mars to have a stronger carrying capacity, but also means that when the colony ships carry supplies, they need to consider more supplies for two people.

Technically speaking, this is not an easy task.

What's more, coupled with the fact that manning a fire itself is an eye-catching thing, its natural political nature makes it difficult not to combine it with the current international situation.

Just a few years ago, NASA failed on the fiery red planet, and almost brought dangerous Martian bacteria back to the earth, causing a serious ecological crisis, and even now there is an astronaut wading on the moon Did not wake up in the scientific research station.

Considering that there were exactly three astronauts on the BFS spacecraft sent by NASA to Mars, Huaguo suddenly announced that it would adjust the number of people on board the fire from three to five. This special number and It is really hard not to have strange associations with special measures.

Many people regard it as a provocation of Hua Guo to North America in the aerospace field.

What's more, they even interpreted it as Hua Guo's high-profile announcement that they have won all the competitions about the future of mankind.

Such a result was completely beyond Lu Zhou's expectations, and it even made him a little dumbfounded.

Void testified, he had never thought of such a naive thing.

At the beginning, three people were arranged to board the ship only considering one master, one mate and one substitute. The three people were just able to do most of the initial exploration work without too much or too little.

Now it has been temporarily changed to five people, and the timetable for the manned fire plan is arranged within a month. It is only for the sake of system rewards, and to gain more experience if conditions permit.

It turned out that those experts in international relations would pull a group of watching netizens to decipher so many meanings. Not to mention Lu Zhou's bewildered expression, Director Li and Director Chang also showed unexpected expressions after they learned about the situation.

Because there are too many people holding on to this detail, in order to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings, the manned fire program office had to hold a press conference to publicly respond and clarify these false rumors.

However, no one expected that it doesn't matter if this is not clarified. Once it is clarified, it will make people feel that there must be some ulterior secret in it.

on twitter.

The official account of CNN News reprinted the report of the live interview at the press conference.

In the comment area below the tweet, it has been completely fried.

"This is Chi Guoguo's provocation!"

"How dare they... how dare they do this!"

"We should restart the manned fire program immediately!"

"That's right! If they send five people up, we'll send ten people up!"

"..."

Of course, amidst the excitement, there are also many rational voices.

In addition to those clamoring for restarting the manned fire landing program, there are also many people who are opposed to restarting the manned fire landing program, thinking that the White House should focus more on the deep space gate and the distant moon In terms of the settlement plan, we should first catch up with the Chinese people on the moon in a down-to-earth manner, before it is too late.

In fact, it is true.

So far, NASA has not completely cleaned up the mess left by the last fire landing plan, let alone recovering from the failure of the New Virginia.

Regardless of whether limited resources are focused on the exploration and development of the moon, now is not a good time to restart the manned fire program.

But if it is left alone, it will undoubtedly be a heavy blow to the current White House's approval rating and national cohesion.

Aerospace is the pride of Americans.

And this pride has been maintained for half a century.

In any case, this is not something that can be gently picked up and gently put down.