The Moon is the closest natural object to us, looking at Earth 380,000 kilometers away for 4.5 billion years, but what many people don't know is that in the middle of the last century, the Moon became the most important strategic point of competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. Under the deformed competition, the United States and the Soviet Union once planned to drop nuclear bombs on the moon, and they scrambled to do so secretly.
The simple purpose is to detonate a "big firework" on the surface of the moon and see it on Earth, so that it can be inspiring and encouraging, and eventually gain greater prestige in the space race.
Fortunately, the plan to bomb the moon with a nuclear bomb was not implemented in the end, otherwise wouldn't it be necessary to go to the moon to collect samples now?
The United States and the Soviet Union have their own victories and losses in space hegemony, but in any case, the final result is good, which has greatly promoted the development of human beings in the field of space, and now the status of the United States and Russia in the field of space is still unshakable, of course, with the rapid rise of China in the field of space, it will also occupy an important place in the field of human space.
In the competition for lunar exploration, the United States eventually won with 6 successful manned moon landings, a total of 12 astronauts landed on the lunar surface, while the Soviet Union tried many times without success, and finally had to go to the deep sea to explore and dig the earth.
Now the "long-cherished wish" that the United States and the Soviet Union have not fulfilled will be fulfilled by Musk, but the nuclear bomb has been replaced by a rocket
Recently, according to media reports, Musk's Space Exploration Technology Company (SpaceX) launched the Falcon 9 rocket 7 years ago, will end the disorderly space drifting life, but it is not re-entering the Earth's atmosphere to destroy, but is expected to fall on the lunar surface on March 4 this year.
Of course, the falcon 9 rocket wreckage hit the moon, not Musk subjective wishes, Musk 9 carrier rocket is a medium-sized recyclable rocket developed by SpaceX, in February 2015 Falcon 9 was successfully launched from the United States florida Florida, of course, this rocket is also ready to be recovered, but this time the Falcon 9 due to altitude restrictions, there is not enough fuel to return to the earth, and finally can only carry out disorderly drifting life in space.
Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said that on January 5 of this year, the falcon 9 good rocket wreckage flew close to the moon, it is getting closer and closer to the earth in a series of orbits, based on its current flight speed and dynamic orbit, it is expected that on March 4, the rocket wreckage will hit the lunar surface.
In a sense, Musk's rocket did achieve the goal of bombarding the moon, to know that half a century ago the United States and the Soviet Union tried to carry out, but in the end did not achieve, only this time with rocket debris instead of nuclear bombs, the result is naturally negligible, but the moon on the artificial garbage more than 4 tons.
With rockets hitting the moon or just the beginning, Musk's "space dream" has caused a lot of space congestion
In 2021, the two malicious approaches of US satellites to the continental space station were stirred up some time ago, and the perpetrator was Musk's Starlink satellite, which is a big project, and a large number of low-Earth orbit satellites constitute the Starlink network. SpaceX plans to launch 48 times this year, and if the tradition of 60 stars is followed, it also means that the second-generation starlink will soon complete the deployment, when 48,000 satellites may hang over our heads.
A large number of starlink satellites occupy high-quality low-altitude orbits, and the wanton circumvention also affects the normal flight of other national space stations and satellites, which can be said to be a serious cause of space congestion, coupled with the existence of a large number of probes launched by humans before becoming space junk, there will be more and more "obstacles" around the earth, which hinder human beings from flying out of the earth.
It should be known that the consequences of satellite collisions in space are very serious, because the relative speed is very fast, and the energy destructive force generated by the impact is very strong. Of course, in the face of external doubts, Musk has also responded many times, summed up: space is very large, first-come, first-served.
In the face of many space junk in space, human beings currently do not have a good way to solve, in fact, the reason is very simple, these space junk around the earth are relatively fast, human beings want to clean them up, must have contact, in order to achieve safe contact must be relatively fast to zero, which is more difficult to achieve. These space junks flying near the atmosphere will be slowed down and eventually re-enter the atmosphere, most of them will burn out in the atmosphere, but a small number of them may fall to the earth, which is a safety hazard.
Say at the end
There is already a lot of artificial garbage on the moon, of course, do not care about the 4-ton Falcon 9 wreckage this time, because in the last century, the United States manned lunar landing series program, launched a large number of probes, many of the wreckage has finally been retained on the moon, because the moon is close to the absolute vacuum, these artificial garbage will be preserved on the moon for a long time.
The mainland's Yutu-2 lunar rover is on a mission on the moon, many netizens are worried about not hitting our lunar rover, in fact, this worry is completely unnecessary, this probability is as low as we live on the earth, directly hit on the head by meteorites.
There are also starlink satellites for Musk, many people are worried that its purpose is not so simple, if the future space war breaks out, these tens of thousands of starlink satellites may be tens of thousands of time bombs, its power can be imagined, whether it is for targets on the ground or space station satellites in space.
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