As Wei Wang was the first to step out of the Hou Yi and land on the moon, other astronauts also began to step out of the Hou Yi one after another, and some jumped out directly.
On the moon, walking in a bulky space suit is actually very slow. The most comfortable and simple way is to skip and walk.
Because the gravity on the moon is only one-sixth of that on the earth, even a slight jump is much better than on the earth, and people can jump farther and higher.
There are also astronauts who have begun to drive lunar engineering vehicles one after another. Each lunar engineering vehicle is a specially-made engineering vehicle from Xinghai Technology.
Even on the moon without air, it can still work very well, and the cockpit of the lunar engineering vehicle is also a mobile life capsule. If you encounter a promotion situation, you can quickly run to the nearest lunar engineering vehicle and open the corresponding
A life-saving system can quickly obtain oxygen.
Various engineering vehicles and lunar rovers kept driving out of the Houyi. Some were temporarily parked aside, while others quickly drove in all directions and began to explore the surrounding world.
At the same time, a series of small private anti-gravity aircraft quickly took off from the Houyi and began to patrol around to check if there was any dangerous place.
The reason why Xinghai Technology is confident in building a large lunar base on the moon and even mining resources on the moon is because this possibility and feasibility are already available.
Half a century ago, when humans first landed on the moon, the combined mass of all the objects landed on the moon might not weigh as much as a current engineering vehicle.
It is simply impossible to mine resources on the moon and build a lunar base, because the technology cannot be achieved and the cost is simply unbearable. Even if it is to mine the most expensive resources, the cost will be prohibitively high at that time.
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Things are different now. With anti-gravity technology, Houyi can bring 100,000 tons of supplies to the moon, and it can also carry 100,000 tons of supplies when it returns to the earth.
This time when I came to the moon, I brought enough materials and things to easily build a lunar base, and I could also bring a large amount of lunar minerals back to the earth.
This is the power of anti-gravity technology, which is truly interstellar era technology.
In the past, traditional rocket technology was simply impossible to achieve all of this.
Inside the Houyi, scientists and engineers quickly became busy. Everyone put on spacesuits, and the busiest moment came next.
They need to build the Moon Palace base as soon as possible, and at the same time conduct resource exploration on the moon, search for resource-rich areas, and look for gold mines, rare earth mines, silver mines, copper mines and other high-value minerals.
After all, Xinghai Technology is a private enterprise. Although it is not for profit, it still needs to make money. If it does not make money, it will not be able to support Xinghai Technology's growing size, more and more in-depth scientific research and sustainability.
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Similarly, only if Xinghai Technology makes enough money from mining resources on the moon, others will follow suit, and the interstellar mining industry can truly develop.
The interstellar mining industry can also be considered a huge industry.
Unlike the simple and extensive mining on the planet, there is not much technical content.
Interstellar mining can be regarded as a real technical activity.
Taking lunar mining as an example, you first need to build a base on the moon, which will definitely cost a lot of money. Just building a life support system is enough for you. Secondly, you also need to build a lunar factory.
The mined minerals are smelted. It is impossible to say that the ore and soil from the moon are directly brought back to the earth for refining.
In addition, mining on the moon will definitely require large-scale mechanization. You can't expect people wearing spacesuits to mine for you. This requires the purchase of special lunar engineering vehicles, lunar rovers, etc.
In addition, in terms of energy, the moon is not as good as the earth. You must be equipped with a large amount of solar power to obtain energy, which is the cheapest. This can also promote the development of the solar industry.
In general, lunar mining is not an easy task and can drive the development of many industries and technologies. This also means that there must be sufficient profits and value, otherwise no one will invest money.
I saw scientists putting on space suits and driving lunar rovers in all directions to explore for resources.
As for the engineers, their main task is to build the Moon Palace base.
As engineers continued to drive out one after another, and the hatch of the Hou Yi continued to open, a large amount of materials used to build the Moon Palace Base were transported out.
The temperature on the moon's surface varies greatly. It can reach more than 120 degrees during the day and nearly 200 degrees below zero at night. Such a huge temperature difference is a huge test for the lunar base.
The huge temperature difference on the moon's surface must be fully taken into account, otherwise something could easily happen.
For this reason, the materials used by scientists to build the lunar base are all specially made.
In addition to the modular design, all materials are easy to assemble quickly. Each piece of wall material is designed using special structures and special materials.
General steel will become very brittle when it reaches a temperature of tens of degrees below zero. Once it reaches an ultra-low temperature environment of minus 200 degrees, its internal molecular activity will be greatly reduced and become more relaxed, thus generating an internal stress. This stress
Once the limit of thermal expansion and contraction is exceeded, the internal structure will fragment, causing the metal's strength to collapse.
In the cold Arctic and Antarctic regions, ordinary steel will break with a light knock. This is the principle.
The temperature of the moon is even lower at night. Without the protection of the atmosphere, the temperature difference on the moon's surface is too great.
Therefore, special alloy materials must be used that can withstand this ultra-low temperature environment and adapt to huge changes in the environment.
At the same time, in terms of design, a vacuum design must be adopted internally, because heat is transferred in three ways: thermal convection, thermal radiation, and thermal conduction, and a vacuum environment has very good heat insulation methods.
One after another, construction vehicles are busy, constantly transporting large amounts of materials.
At the same time, large-scale lunar engineering vehicles began to level the land in the area selected by scientists.
The surface of the moon, which had been desolate, desolate, and deserted for who knows how long, suddenly appeared with dozens of various lunar engineering vehicles busy.
The forklift opened up the lunar soil that had been sealed for millions or even hundreds of millions of years, and a large piece of flat land appeared on the originally desolate moon.
Then pile driving and foundation digging machines appeared, and deep foundation holes were quickly drilled. Then engineering vehicles inserted specially designed weighing columns into them one by one, forming a weighing structure.
Then another engineering vehicle transported the front and front walls piece by piece, and under the control of the robotic arm, these walls were quickly spliced together like building blocks.
All of this has gone through a lot of practice and experiments on earth. At the same time, every step is assisted by a computer-assisted system, and every material is also numbered.
Each engineer also has a division of labor and works exactly according to the pre-numbered procedures for calculation. The whole process may seem very busy, but it is carried out in an orderly manner and in strict accordance with the sequence.
In less than an hour, a house appeared on the surface of the moon, and it was still expanding rapidly. Everything was just like my game of piecing together blocks.
Standardized and modular design, coupled with the help of flexible robotic arms, of course, the more important thing is that this time, Xinghai Technology applied biological virtual technology to it.
Engineers don't even need to use their hands to control these construction machines. They can directly control them with virtual machines and use their minds to control them, which can achieve refined control.
Liu Yuan was not in a hurry to go out, but looked at the busy scene in front of him on the Houyi.
To build a long-term base on the moon without an atmosphere, there are too many factors that need to be considered, such as the huge temperature difference between day and night, radiation from the universe, life support systems, energy systems, air systems, etc. There are too many factors that need to be considered.
If any detail is not considered carefully or is not done enough, it may lead to the failure of the entire base and may also leave huge safety hazards.
So this is a very big test for technology.
But fortunately, these are nothing to the current technology. The really most difficult thing is how to transport a large amount of materials to the moon. Once this problem is solved, the other problems are all minor problems and cannot be troubled by the smart people at all.
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"Perhaps you should go out for a walk and see things like the lunar rover that Armstrong left behind, and the flag that the beautiful fruit left behind."
"These should be good collectibles, but I don't know if they will clamor to take them back if I bring them back."
Liu Yuan, who felt a little bored, suddenly came up with the idea of getting some collectibles.
Thinking of this, Liu Yuan immediately put on his space suit with numbness, and then came to the news media reporter, preparing to call his old classmate Qian Xia to go and see an old object left half a century ago.
In the cabin where the news media reporters are located, these news media reporters have long been unable to hold on any longer. They are all clamoring to put on spacesuits and go to the moon in person to play, walk around, and conduct some related discussions.
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Especially Catalina, Rogowski and Basson, they are each in contact with the earth at this moment, and they have extremely strong demands to go to the surface of the moon, leave footprints, and then light up their flags.