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On May 8, 2024, after several days of flight, our lunar probe successfully reached the predetermined lunar orbit, and then successfully entered the orbit and began its flight on the moon, according to the predetermined location on the far side of the moon in early June.
As soon as the news came back, it was not us who were most excited, but Pakistanis. Because compared to our probes with follow-up missions, Pakistan's goal this time was to launch their exploration satellites, and on the afternoon of the 8th, their satellites were successfully separated into orbit, and then the first images of the moon were transmitted back through the mainland's relay satellites.
Guest speeches in DW talk shows
This not only ignited the enthusiasm of their people, but also "broke the great defense" for certain countries, and even began to secretly slander us in a foreign talk show, saying that we actually want to "occupy" the moon, and even said that we want to carry out "military purposes" to engage in outer space combat preparations, and want us to "let go" of the moon, claiming that "this belongs to all mankind." I have to say that the imagination is still quite rich, why does the continuous success of China's lunar exploration program make them "break the big defense"? [Beer]
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The wind rises at the end of Qingping
Dongfanghong No. 1
When it comes to our aerospace project, we have to mention the phrase "the east is red, the sun rises" Many people have heard this song, and it is closely related to this song that the first satellite successfully launched by the mainland, "Dongfanghong 1". In 1970, after all kinds of difficulties, we finally successfully delivered this satellite to the scheduled orbit.
Photographs of manned moon landings
Although the whole country is jubilant, many of the people involved are very dignified. Because just a year before the successful launch, the world received a major news, that is, the Apollo spacecraft, the "manned spacecraft" of the United States, successfully arrived on the moon with three astronauts and filmed a documentary about the moon landing.
At that time, the huge scientific and technological "generation gap" between the two countries in aerospace exploration was like a bottomless chasm, and all scientific researchers engaged in related fields were probably in deep despair in the face of the powerful scientific and technological strength of the two "superpowers". But what everyone didn't expect was that after decades, the situation has changed a lot. It echoes the sentence "Thirty years in Hexi, thirty years in Hedong" Don't bully young people to be poor!
Why is our country's outer space program causing such a violent response around the world? I'm afraid an important factor is "doing what we say", for the whole project, we are not going fast, but very "stable", compared to many slogans shouting "earth-shattering" for players who have not yet seen the progress.
We can even post all our "schedules" and break down the original complex work into understandable steps, and the most important thing is that we have the determination and ability to achieve it, and we are really moving forward. On the other hand, many former "space powers" even "reproduce" the "hard work" of their predecessors decades ago have layers of resistance.
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Ridiculous mistakes
Nielsen was in session
Although the technology may be "not very good", the lip service is getting more and more powerful, I have to say that many people in the West may not be as good as their predecessors in real technology, but the ability to engage in small tricks is not small. Even NASA, the US space agency, which was once the "pioneer" of human spaceflight, is now "degenerate", and their director poured dirt on our plans at the hearings.
But I didn't expect that because his speech was so outrageous, even many foreign netizens felt unbearable. This is because for him, in order to "devalue" our engineering value, he actually said that the back side of our probe is forever in darkness, and there is no exploration value, and they don't bother to go to such a thing at all.
Simple schematic diagram of tide locking
I guess what he didn't expect was that his remarks, to be honest, did not bring any blow to our plan, but made netizens from all over the world begin to question his professional knowledge, because we all know that the far side of the moon is not forever in darkness as he said. In fact, it needs to be made clear that due to being "tidally locked" by the earth. The moon we see on Earth every day is actually its face.
However, this does not mean that the far side of the Moon will never see sunlight, and due to the tilt of the Moon's orbit and its rotation, the far side of the Moon will also periodically receive sunlight. And this level of knowledge, I'll be honest, in the field of aerospace should be something that everyone knows. But as the director of NASA, the strongest space agency in Bluestar, he actually said such an obvious lack of "common sense" in this field in front of everyone, which can be described as a "big joke".
Screenshot of foreign netizen comments
Even many American netizens are very helpless about this matter, and some local netizens commented that this can actually explain why the United States has made little progress in the field of outer space exploration and aerospace for so many years, and even faintly has a very big "regression" phenomenon. After all, as a person who should know the most about aerospace, he can't even understand the most basic common sense-level questions.
In fact, in addition to this common-sense error, the rest of his speech has no nutrition to speak of, and the whole speech is full of speculation and speculation about "threatening arguments".
Nelson as a young man
Some people may also wonder if it is because this Nielsen itself is not a technical position, so there is such a "misunderstanding"? All I can say is that this technocrat is actually a technocrat who is not an engineer from a professional class. But I have also been to space as an astronaut, and I have been paying attention to the aerospace field for decades, how can I not understand this basic question?
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The wrong way the wrong result
In fact, there have been many, many signs of this, the most intuitive point is that fifty or sixty years ago, human beings began to go to space, step by step to the moon, such a great behavior, even we now think about it is almost a dream, but what have we humans done for so long?
In so many years of rapid development, mankind has made great breakthroughs in many important fields, such as the most intuitive advanced computer field, in the era of the moon landing, the chips and systems that can be used by human beings in the era of the moon landing are completely different from the present, and there are many developments in materials and industrial technology, but on the contrary, the US lunar landing program is constantly delayed and postponed.
It is not difficult to understand the reason for this, that is, there are some groups that frantically suppress latecomers in order to maintain their own interests. The scientific and technological competition, which was supposed to promote the common progress of all mankind, has become not a matter of who develops faster, but who is the hinder of others, and this is an important reason for the current situation.
For example, in the past few years, whenever there has been a little progress in our space technology, a large number of people have begun to come out and hype up some groundless remarks such as the "space threat theory" or why we are going to engage in so-called "space armaments" and so on, and then they can carry out all kinds of sanctioning measures in the name of so-called "national security" to suppress the development of our space technology.
To a certain extent, they did "succeed", and because we couldn't cooperate, we were far behind many countries in the beginning. But in the long run, their actions also allow us to get rid of the road of dependence from the beginning and embark on a path of total independence, the most important thing behind this is that because there is not much "technical dependence", we can completely grasp the steps forward.
We know how much progress is needed, how much technology we have mastered, and how much we can achieve. So you can see that our plan is executed like a "action sheet", which is why many people believe that we say that we will achieve a manned landing on the moon in 2030 or even establish a permanent lunar research station - because we have been doing this for the past ten years.
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Win-win cooperation
And the biggest difference between us and them is that we do not regard this technological advancement as a reason and a tool to suppress those who come after us. We will even actively cooperate with those countries and groups that want to cooperate with us, as long as the cooperation project is meaningful to both parties, and we do not mind sharing the results of our exploration with others.
For example, in this exploration activity, we brought many countries and our cooperation projects, in addition to the previous cooperation of the "lunar exploration satellite", there are also a number of projects from different countries with us, will arrive on the moon in the later time, began to contribute to the progress of the aerospace industry of all mankind, in our Chinese words this is called "reaching the world and helping the world".
It is precisely because of the difference in the fundamental purpose between the two of us that some people who are "angry and corrupt" have more or less "broken their defenses," and what is even more embarrassing is that because they have forbade the exchange of space technology with us in the past various so-called "security bills," they have now become an obstacle to technical cooperation between them and us, and I believe that this kind of angry smear and rumor-mongering will continue to appear as our plans are carried out step by step.
However, I also believe that this kind of false smear fabricated out of thin air will not only not bring any obstacle to our aerospace program, but will make the people of the world see the weakness of some people's hearts and see the "strong from the outside" of certain groups, so that they can truly realize that it is better to do their own things well than to drag down and attack others because of jealousy.
Resources:
[1] China Youth Network - 2024.05.14 "Pakistan's ICUBE-Q Satellite Successfully Shoots the First Image to Ignite Pakistan's Youth Enthusiasm for Aerospace"
[2] Observer.com - 2024.04.24 "NASA Administrator Smears China's Moon Landing, Ignoring Even Professional Common Sense"