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Academician Wu Weiren, chief designer of China's lunar exploration program, said that the original planning of circumnavigating the moon, landing on the moon, and sampling and returning are now basically completed. The establishment of a basic lunar scientific research station will be completed before the manned landing on the moon. It is expected that by about 2028, the basic type of lunar scientific research station can be built, and mainland astronauts are expected to land on the moon between 2025 and 2030.
Lunar probes and lunar rovers
(1) Chen Dong, Ye Guangfu and Wang Yaping have the opportunity to join the first batch of lunar landing teams on the mainland
The first batch of astronauts of the mainland aerospace is about to retire, and people turn their attention to the second batch of astronauts. Among the second batch of astronauts, Chen Dong, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu are the youngest, and they will be close to 50 years old by 2030, and they are the most promising to become the first echelon of China's lunar landing.
Ye Guangfu, Wang Yaping and Zhai Zhigang
The astronauts who landed on the moon on the Day of Virtue paid more attention to cave survival training. This is because hundreds of natural caves have been discovered on the moon, and astronauts can protect themselves from cosmic rays and micrometeors in underground caves, as well as avoid the huge temperature difference between day and night on the surface of the moon. With the help of 3D printing tools, astronauts can easily build living facilities in caves.
Ye Guangfu, Wang Yaping and Zhai Zhigang
Ye Guangfu once completed six days and nights of cave survival training with foreign astronauts in Sardinia, Italy. The training requires participants to complete the exploration and survey of unknown areas of the cave, analyze the survey data and perform 3D modeling, and monitor environmental parameters in real time. With the advantage of this experience, Ye Guangfu is likely to become the first person in China to land on the moon.
Ye Guangfu worked with foreign astronauts to complete six days and nights of cave survival training
(ii) Conspiracy theories that Americans have never been on the moon
Just as China is intensively carrying out lunar exploration activities, the United States on the other side of the ocean announced in a high-profile manner that it will carry out a manned lunar landing in 2024 before China. Why is the United States in a hurry to land on the moon again after 50 years?
At 2:56 a.m. on July 21, 1969, American astronaut Armstrong stepped off the lunar module and stepped onto the moon, announcing to the world: "This is a small step for me personally, but a giant leap for all mankind." "From July 16, 1969 to December 19, 1972, the United States successfully sent 12 astronauts to the moon in six times. The duration of stay on the lunar surface ranges from a few hours to 3 days.
What is puzzling is that the U.S. moon landing came to an abrupt halt since then. Today, 50 years later, science and technology have long since changed with each passing day, and it seems that the United States still has technical difficulties in launching the moon again. As a result, there are suspicions that the videos and photos taken by the United States on the moon are artificially faked. In response to such questions, the United States has never responded to them.
Academician Ouyang Ziyuan, chief scientist of China's lunar exploration program, said in an interview that it is a fact that American astronauts did land on the moon 50 years ago. I believe in Academician Ouyang Ziyuan's judgment that the conjecture of conspiracy theories is untenable.
See the Earth from the Moon
(iii) What drives the United States to rush to the moon again
The United States launched the Apollo program because the Soviet Union was the first to launch an unmanned probe to the moon on September 12, 1959, and on April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Gagarin became the first person to travel into space. Later, the Soviet Union's manned lunar landing program was never successfully implemented, and there was no need for the United States to continue to land on the moon. The Apollo program cost $20 billion, which is GDP7000 billion compared to the United States that year, which is also a big burden, so that the United States can use this money where it is more needed.
Now the United States is in a hurry to relaunch the lunar program, the reason for which is to deal with the challenge of China. Just as it did with the Soviet Union, the United States will never allow China to take the lead in developing the moon. What's more, the United States already has an advantage in manned landing on the moon.
The United States' decision to restart manned lunar landings at this time is by no means arbitrary. On December 13, the US media reported that Silicon Valley had successfully achieved a net gain of 120 percent in laser fusion, which meant that fusion energy was one step closer to commercial application. Zhang Jie, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, answered this question in an interview with reporters: There is a high probability that there will be hope in the next 20 years.
Schematic diagram of controlled nuclear fusion
Once the technology of fusion energy matures, humans can establish a permanent base on the moon. Both China and the United States have found that in addition to abundant rare metals, the moon also contains a large amount of helium-3, with a preliminary estimate of 1 million tons. Helium-3 is the raw material for fusion power plants.
Since the 70s, the United States has continuously launched probes to the major planets of the solar system and collected a large amount of planetary data. After more than 50 years of scientific research and technical preparations, we already have the ability to explore other planets, and it is a matter of course to build a space capsule or scientific research base on the moon.
Lunar base image
(iv) The lunar base is the best transit point for human exploration of other planets
After the first three phases of exploration, China's lunar exploration program has basically mastered the knowledge of lunar soil, climate, space environment, topography and landform. This has laid a good foundation for the establishment of initial lunar base facilities in the fourth phase and the manned moon activities in the fifth and sixth phases.
Scientists have found that there are hundreds of craters on the surface of the moon, ranging from tens to hundreds of meters in depth, through photos sent back by probes around the moon. When the bottom of the crater is directly illuminated by sunlight, the images and temperature data received show that many of the structures of these craters are connected to the underground network structure, and the temperature inside the crater is maintained at 17 degrees Celsius to 19 degrees Celsius for a long time, which is very suitable for human beings to establish a lunar base here.
Looking at the Earth from a hole in the moon
In this lunar landing program, both China and the United States have chosen to build a lunar base near the south pole of the moon. This is because astronauts can get water ice from the inner shadow of the mountains at the moon's south pole. The base not only obtains water from water ice, but also splits it into hydrogen and oxygen, which are the main components of rocket fuel. The mining of water ice is also extremely important for future Martian landings.
The first planet that humans are going to land on the solar system in the future will be Mars. It is only a matter of time before a human base is established on Mars. However, to send large amounts of material from Earth to Mars, rockets with high thrust are needed to overcome the gravitational pull of the Earth's center, and they are also not cost-effective. The Moon's gravitational pull is only 1/6 that of the Earth, and the Moon is very suitable as an ideal transit point for human exploration of Mars, where large quantities of material can be produced or assembled on the Moon and then sent from the Moon to Mars.
The Earth's atmosphere is not conducive to the reception and transmission of information between the Earth and the Martian base. At the same time, both Earth and Mars are spinning. The Moon base can also be used as a relay station for signal transmission between the Earth and Mars bases.
Mankind will certainly develop the moon in the near future, and China's lunar exploration program will continue to create good results, gradually moving from following to leading.
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