On April 10, at a joint press conference, U.S. President Joe Biden announced that two Japanese astronauts would participate in a future U.S. mission to the moon, and the U.S. goal is to make Japan "the first non-American to land on the moon"
On the same day, Japan signed an agreement with the director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under which the United States will provide Japanese astronauts with two opportunities to land on the moon for scientific research and research activities on the moon.
According to the agreement, Japan will be responsible for the development and construction of the manned lunar rover developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and other parts for future lunar landings. According to Japanese estimates, the cost of the lunar rover will be as high as hundreds of billions of yen.
If this cooperation does succeed, then the United States will let Japanese astronauts land on the moon first, and Japan will become the first country not to land on the moon from the United States. This will be the first time that humans have descended on the lunar surface after Apollo 17 left after a hiatus of more than 50 years of lunar missions.
The first shot didn't even use the monkey, and sent it directly to the Japanese?
After this news was announced, they looked at this issue from different angles, and of course they were very happy for Japan, and the United States was also very happy (how happy the NASA director must be to laugh like this!), and they all wanted to get what they wanted.
Japan gets the name it wants and can become the second country to go to the moon, and the United States gets the benefits, and Japan will invest huge sums of money to support the moon landing program. However, Chinese netizens look at this issue from a different angle, that is, Japan not only pays for it, but also is a "test product".
We all know that in the space missions of the United States, the Soviet Union and the United States liked to experiment with animals the most, the Soviet Union liked to use dogs, and the United States liked to use monkeys. In the eyes of Americans, primates are similar to humans and have more experimental value.
Long before the establishment of the U.S. Space Center, dozens of monkeys were identified for space experiments, and it can be said that Apollo 11 was able to successfully land on the moon at that time, and those monkeys also contributed a large part of the credit.
However, this time, the United States only completed a round of unmanned missions around the moon, and the space launch system sent the Orion spacecraft to the lunar orbit for testing, and after returning to the earth, there was a large area of damage, which NASA has also made a public statement, which shows that the test was not successful, and the problem is not small, in this case, it announced that it will send the Japanese to the moon next time.
Just ask, how big is the psychological area of the Japanese?
No wonder some netizens ridiculed: After so many years, the moon landing was restarted, and the first shot didn't even need a monkey, and it was sent directly to the Japanese.
It is also true that since Apollo 17 left the moon in 1972, more than 50 years have passed, and many American missions to the moon have not gone well. In this case, it is a dare to send, a dare to sit.
If Japan wants to become the second country to land on the moon, it depends on whether China agrees
Judging from the fact that the United States and Japan signed an agreement, the Japanese believe that they are advantageous, and the United States is even more happy and more advantageous. What the United States has paid is only a big pie, and it is a cosmic pie, while Japan is really paying real money!
And in this matter, if Japan wants to become the second country to land on the moon, there are three prerequisites:
1. Whether the United States can fulfill its commitments on time
In recent years, the United States has also repeatedly mentioned returning to the moon, but the plan has been postponed again and again, remembering that in 1961, the then President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, delivered the famous speech "We Choose the Moon".
It took only 8 years to send astronauts to the surface of the moon from scratch, and today's United States, it seems that every president has to mention the moon landing after taking office, but after such a long time, it still has not been possible.
In 2020, NASA administrator signed the Artemis moon landing program, which meant that the United States restarted its mission to the moon, and it was planned to send astronauts to the moon in 2024.
Now that the time has come, the result is known to everyone, and the time has been postponed to 2027, and if it continues to be postponed, then by 2030, it will be the day of China's moon landing.
2. Does Biden's promised successor recognize it?
One thing we have to understand is to separate Biden's promise from the agreement signed, and make Japan "the first non-American to go to the moon," Biden said.
At the time of the signing of the agreement, it was said that Japanese astronauts would be given two chances to go to the moon. Once Biden leaves office, if his successor does not admit this account, this is very likely.
Then the United States will not fail to settle its debts on the agreement, and it is not impossible for the United States to carry the Japanese on the fifth moon landing, or to carry the Japanese on the sixth moon landing, and with the character of the United States. Didn't Biden say it? Then you go to him!
On the other hand, the agreement only says that Japan will be given two chances to land on the moon, but it does not say that it will bring them back? That was easy in the past, but it will be difficult to return, and if you want to return, will you have to add money? Don't laugh, do you think it is possible for the United States to do such a thing, is it possible?
3. China will not agree
The United States and Japan have not considered China after talking for a long time? Japan wants to be the second country to land on the moon, and has it asked China if it agrees?
China has set the time for the moon landing in 2030, so this time is the latest time for China to land on the moon, that is, in 2030, China will definitely land people on the moon.
Even at this point in time, 2030, whether the United States will guarantee to complete the moon landing program by this point in time is really hard to say, after all, their moon landing program has been repeatedly postponed, and it will not be surprising if it is not possible to postpone it for a few more years.
If this is the case, the Japanese dream of becoming the second country to land on the moon will be shattered, and the second country to successfully land on the moon will be China, or the first country to land on the moon.
Why was it that more than 50 years ago, the United States was able to successfully land on the moon, but now it can't?
As mentioned earlier, the "Artemis" moon landing program jointly developed by the United States and 29 other countries has been dragging its feet for several years, and so far there has been no progress except for sending an empty spacecraft and returning from a walk, and the time for landing on the moon has been delayed and postponed.
What the United States is doing today does not seem to be the same as the United States, which carried out the Apollo moon landing more than 50 years ago. So why was the United States able to go to the moon in the past, but not today?
There are many reasons why the United States cannot do it now, and the key is "people". More than 50 years ago, the United States mobilized the whole country to carry out the moon landing, and at that time, thousands of scientific research institutions and more than 300,000 people participated in it, stimulated by the powerful enemy of the Soviet Union, and joined forces.
And today's situation is not the same as then, the United States can also make up 300,000 people, but this group of people is not comparable to the group of people 50 years ago, the 300,000 people at that time, all of them were the strongest brains in the United States, and they are all engaged in the most arduous scientific research, and the strongest brains in the United States today are on Wall Street, thinking about how to harvest the world.
So, what those Americans were able to do more than 50 years ago does not mean that all Americans today can do it.
Even if all the drawings of the Apollo moon landing were given to the Americans today, they would not be able to build the Earth Star 5, nor would they be able to build the "Eagle lunar module", and the reason is not complicated.
At that time, science and technology were not as developed as they are today, and intelligence was not as high as they are today.
This not only requires superb technology, but also requires decades of accumulated experience, and what the United States lacks most today is this kind of industrial workers, who rely very much on intelligence, and today's intelligent machines simply cannot manufacture the Earth Star 5 out, because when designing, it is ready to be knocked by hand.
After more than 50 years of hiatus, the United States has almost broken the inheritance of the moon landing, and the group of people who supported the Apollo 11 moon landing have all grown old, and many may have been buried in the ground.
In a sense, the current moon landing program of the United States is on the same track as other countries, and with the industrial capacity of the United States today, it is not a stumbling to land on the moon.
In February of this year, the United States returned to the moon after more than 50 years, but it was only half the success, and it was a failure. As for the reason, it is because although the lunar probe landed on the surface of the moon, it did not land "standing", but "lying down".
Can you imagine what the consequences would have been if the lunar spacecraft had landed lying down like this when manned? Maybe you said that people were fine, but standing and lying down might not be a big problem for the people inside.
But there's a question, and that's how to get back? Suppose that when Apollo 11 landed on the moon, the lander was lying down, and when it came back, let Armstrong and Aldrin straighten the lander and then drive the spacecraft back?
Epilogue:
In the matter of landing on the moon, it is still necessary to rely on itself, and the United States succeeded in eight years on its own, with the strength of only one country.
Now that more than 20 countries have been pulled in, stumbling along the way, Japan thinks that if it is next to the big tree of the United States, maybe the United States is looking for the big culprit.
The United States doesn't do anything, just draw a big pie, and it's a cosmic-level pie to get everything it wants, high, really high!
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