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Chapter 48 The Artemis Project

Time flies, and two months pass in a flash.

During this period, Du Xingyu's research progress on the lunar spacecraft has reached 71%, and it should be completely done in another month.

At this time, the China Space Administration finally announced the updated space plan.

In the plan, in addition to some meteorological and communication satellites, the most obvious thing is to be ahead of this year's moon landing plan!

The relevant departments also sent a new message that the budget of 20 billion yuan will be added each year in the future to be used for aerospace science and technology research and development, and will increase year by year in the future.

In the past ten years, the cost of China's aerospace research was less than 50 billion.

In comparison, the US Space Administration's annual budget is about 20 billion US dollars, and the European Space Agency, the French Space Agency, and the Russian Space Agency are all higher than China.

As soon as this news was released, it immediately attracted widespread attention from the society.

People's newspaper: "The Ministry of Aerospace announced the latest aerospace plan, and the moon landing plan will be ten years ahead of schedule! It is planned to increase the annual investment budget of aerospace scientific research in the future by more than 20 billion!"

Bingshuangchen: "Support!"

Black Egg: "Ten years ahead of schedule, 666!"

Xiao G: "It seems that the moon landing is coming soon!"

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With policy support, the moon landing plan has also gone much smoother.

"Let's start the last few parts of the research and development, now it should be...the development of the lunar rover." Du Xingyu began to smash the energy point into the technology simulator.

"Start the lunar rover simulation..."

The lunar rover will be the main means of transportation for lunar astronauts on the moon, including light machinery, mechanisms, remote control and other parts.

Because the temperature difference between day and night on the moon surface is large, the materials used to make lunar rovers must also be specially designed. Fortunately, the Space Administration has cooperated with hundreds of universities and thousands of companies in China, and as long as there are material tasks, they can be arranged.

Due to the complex gravity and surface environment of the moon, the performance of the lunar rover is stronger than that of the Earth's military off-road vehicles, and the lunar rover is also suitable for carrying the lunar module!

It is worth mentioning that in 2013, the Chang'e-3 launched by the China Space Administration had already sent an unmanned "Yutu" lunar rover to the moon.

The last time Chang'e-5 also has a small unmanned lunar rover, responsible for collecting and transporting soil and rock samples on the moon's surface.

Du Xingyu developed this time a manned lunar rover was driven by astronauts, which is relatively more complicated.

He directly imported the existing lunar rover data from the Space Administration. On the technology simulator, the research progress of the lunar rover soared to 75%.

"Considering that it may enter complex terrain such as craters, the battery engine is not powerful enough, and the ejection system must be added..." Du Xingyu slowly improved the function of the lunar rover, "the main body adopts a folding design to save space in aerospace transportation."

"The main car can take six people, so a folding cargo box is also needed to design a loading box to haul the material."

"The effective load must be miniaturized, so that the installation and power problems of detection instruments and excavation samplers also need to be improved..."

With the investment of millions of energy points, Du Xingyu pushed the research and development progress of the lunar rover to 90%.

"There are some system control parts designed to complete... However, it is better to add two folding lunar motorcycles so that astronauts can quickly rescue or deal with the crisis if any accident occurs."

Du Xingyu continued to add the functions of the lunar rover. A day later, he completely completed the lunar rover simulation.

"The main design of the lunar spacecraft has been basically completed, the main design of the lunar module has been completed, and the accessories of the lunar vehicle have been completed, and the only thing left is to manufacture." Du Xingyu knew that manufacturing is often more difficult than design.

At that time, he will use technology simulators to simulate, transform and design materials and manufacturing designs.

The moon landing engineering team began to crazily advance the manufacturing speed of the lunar spacecraft... At the same time, space agencies and scientific research institutions in other countries were not idle.

It is still the US Space Administration and the World Space Conference were held, and they announced three things at once.

The first is the matter of jointly building a new generation of space stations with various countries; the second is the United States' plan to return to the moon, which they call the "Attimis Plan".

Artemis is the moon goddess in Greek mythology. The United States used this to distinguish the previous "Apollo moon landing plan".

The US Space Administration announced to the world that the US will return to the moon in the shortest time! They have this technology and strength!

Fifty years ago, the United States landed on the moon and successfully landed the moon six times!

To this day, the United States' aerospace technology is more developed, and landing on the moon will be easier! This plan is already under implementation. Blue Origin Company founded by Bezos, the founder of Amazon, and the Space Exploration Technology Company founded by Musk and the American Power System Company will work with the United States Space Administration.

The third thing is that the US Space Administration officially announced its plan to land on Mars and began to recruit cooperative companies, with related orders exceeding billions of US dollars. Top international aerospace companies including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Thor, etc. have also joined the competition.

The US Space Administration has made huge moves, and once it was announced, it attracted global attention!

There is even more congratulations on the Internet in the United States, and the American people are proud of the strong aerospace power of the United States.

Even the owner of the White Palace proudly announced at the press conference: "We have been on the moon several times. Maybe we should go back to our hometown to take a look and tell others that there is already a master here."

The speech of the US boss naturally caused huge controversy. Scientists and space agencies in other countries accused them, saying that the moon belongs to all mankind and does not belong to any country.

Of course, they also knew very well that this thing could be said verbally. Whoever has the ability to land on the moon will have the resources of the moon!

Just like the Age of Discovery in the past, when it comes to grab territory on the moon, anyone who is one step later will be abandoned by the space age!

Russia, Star City near Moscow, where the Federal Space Administration is located.

"The moon landing is imperative!" Romonlosov whispered in the conference room, "The moon is not the property of the Americans, nor is it the property of the Chinese. There should be a piece of space territory in Russia!"

"We want to rush ahead of the United States and China Space Administration!" Everyone in the conference room was full of fighting spirit.

"We also have the technology to land on the moon!" said one person. "If Korolev hadn't died of illness, we would have landed on the moon as early as the last century!"

When the US-Soviet space competition was in competition, the former Soviet Union also invested a lot of money and scientific research to land on the moon.

Korolev, the chief designer of the moon landing plan, was a space hero in the Soviet Union. Under his plan, the moon landing rockets and spacecraft were only one last step away.

But just before the moon landing was implemented, Korolev died of illness and the former Soviet Union failed to land on the moon, which became a heart disease in the hearts of Russian astronauts.
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