As the closest natural celestial body to human civilization, the Moon has accompanied the Earth 380,000 kilometers away for billions of years, and it is a witness! Since the beginning of the space struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union in the last century, the moon has become the main battlefield of human space exploration! The second wave of lunar exploration is about to reach its climax, and all countries of the world will fly to the moon, and there will be no restrictions on freedom!
Nelson, the head of NASA, once shouted in a public interview that China is increasingly exploring the moon in order to occupy the moon, mainly by controlling specific areas on the moon, such as the south pole of the moon with high water ice content, in order to achieve the goal of controlling and occupying the moon.
But in fact, Nelson's statement also exposes their own ambitions, not only that, the United States has also legislated for this, and it also has a special name, that is, "a small step to protect human space". The way of thinking of the Americans is very interesting, the head of NASA always emphasizes that China wants to occupy the moon, but in fact they themselves have been enclosing land!
In the context of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, in 1969, the United States successfully launched Apollo 11, took three astronauts straight to the moon, and finally successfully sent two astronauts to the surface of the moon.
Armstrong's footprints in the Moon's Silent Sea are likely to remain unchanged after the baptism of time, because the Moon is close to an absolute vacuum, and there is no atmosphere and no wind, and it remains the same as it was at that time!
In the three years following the successful completion of the Apollo 11 mission, NASA launched Apollo 12-17 one after another, and all but Apollo 13 were successful. Now the United States wants to pass legislation to protect the sites of the six manned moon landings, and other countries, groups, institutions or individuals are not allowed to visit or destroy them without the consent of the United States!
To put it simply, it is forbidden to approach irrelevant people, this decision seems to be more reasonable, but many netizens still have a skeptical attitude, what is the United States doing this for?
The white cloth bag in the picture is the excrement left by the astronauts, should it also be protected by legislation?
At present, China's Chang'e-6 has completed its journey to the moon and is waiting for the best time to land on the moon in orbit around the moon, and Chang'e-6 aims to make a soft landing on the far side of the moon and return samples from the far side of the moon to Earth.
The only successful soft landing on the far side of the moon was China's Chang'e-4, which landed in the Fonton Kármán impact crater in the Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon. This time, Chang'e-6 will also go to the Aitken Basin, but the detailed landing site has become the Apollo Basin. Regarding China's two runs to the far side of the moon, the head of NASA also publicly commented last month: I don't know what China is doing on the back of the moon, it's dark there, and we won't go anyway!
Then Nielsen emphasized that NASA was going to the south pole of the moon, not the far side of the moon! This once again proves that NASA's thieves shout to catch thieves, and the south pole of the moon has water resources, and the United States is actually running for this resource.
What exactly are the manned moon landing sites in the United States? Why protect it?
To put it simply, there are three Apollo manned landers on the moon and lunar scooters. In addition to this, there are experimental supplies, equipment and other extravehicular activity hardware left on the surface of the moon. What is more interesting is that it also contains exclusive marks left on the lunar surface when the manned moon landing, such as footprints, rover tracks, etc. These ruins have been photographed by orbiters in recent years, such as astronaut footprints and rut marks on lunar scooters!
Of course, regardless of whether the United States legislates to protect its own manned lunar sites, we will not go to the far side of the moon for the time being.
We know that so far human lunar exploration has sampled the surface of the moon 10 times, including the six manned lunar landings of the United States, which brought back 380 kilograms of lunar samples from the lunar surface, as well as the Soviet Union's Luna 16, 20 and 24, and China's Chang'e 5, all of which were on the front side of the moon without exception!
And China's current mission Chang'e-6 is going to the far side of the moon to sample, so it has nothing to do with the Apollo manned moon landing, but the moon landing point is just the Apollo basin on the far side of the moon, which is a proper noun, not the basin of the Apollo manned moon landing as many people misunderstand!
Chang'e-7 and Chang'e-8, the follow-up to the fourth phase of China's lunar exploration program, will go to the south pole of the moon, and the same will be true for the manned moon landing before 2030, so we will not go to the front of the moon in a short time, and we will not be bored to go to the Apollo manned moon landing site, in case we can't see the so-called ruins, it would be too embarrassing!
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