Even though aerospace technology has made major breakthroughs compared to five years ago, it still takes at least three to four days to go to the moon by space shuttle.
For astronauts who perform space missions all year round, this is a boring and long journey.
But for the doctors and researchers on the space shuttle who first set foot in space to go to the moon, this is undoubtedly a wonderful journey.
At the tail of the Fuyao space shuttle, the blue-white tail flame swayed in the deep black sky.
Leaning next to the porthole, Zhang Kangshun looked at the scenery outside.
Weaving together while sailing with our backs to the sun, the outer universe is pitch black.
It was a kind of dead silence and coldness that was completely different from the night on earth.
This kind of darkness seems to come from the abyss and can swallow everyone up, making people feel palpitated.
In the crew cabin, Professor Li Rui, another microbiology expert from the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences who lived with him, pulled the armrest twice, floated over from the bed and asked with a smile.
"I've been watching this for three days, haven't you seen enough?"
Hearing this, Zhang Kangshun turned his head to look at him and said with a smile: "After all, this is my first time in space, so appreciate it more."
Li Rui smiled, took off his glasses, wiped the lenses with his clothes, put them back on, and looked out through the porthole.
After staring at the deep and dark starry sky for a long time, he suddenly asked: "Do you think there would have been advanced intelligent life like humans on Mars more than a billion years ago?"
Hearing this question, Zhang Kangshun thought for a while and said with a somewhat uncertain tone: "Maybe, after all, we have discovered life up there, right?"
"Those Martian microorganisms may be remnants of ancient times that have survived."
Speaking of this, he paused for a moment, seemed to remember something, and then said:
"And I heard that more than a billion years ago, the ecosystem on Mars was more lush than on Earth, but I don't know if it's true or not."
"But perhaps if we conduct in-depth research on Mars in the future, we may be able to find fossils or remains of ancient life."
Hearing this, Li Rui suddenly turned his head curiously, looked at Zhang Kangshun and asked, "If there were advanced intelligent life on Mars, what do you think they would look like?"
Hearing this question, Zhang Kangshun thought for a while and then hesitantly said: "Like the octopus on Earth?"
"I can't think of it. After all, human imagination is basically based on seeing or knowing something."
After a slight pause, he looked at the microbiology expert from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and asked curiously: "What do you think?"
With some fantasy, Li Rui said: "I think they might be more like bugs in StarCraft."
"Zerg? Do you also play StarCraft?" Zhang Kangshun looked over curiously and said with a smile: "I prefer the Protoss, what about you?"
"I don't play games."
Li Rui shrugged and said: "But I have read the data sent back by the manned mission team. If it is inferred from these data, there may be people on Mars who are covered with hard carapace, have well-developed limbs, and are tall.
biology."
"After all, the gravity of Mars is only more than one-third that of the Earth. In a low-gravity environment, their size may be much larger than that of the Earth."
Zhang Kangshun pursed his lips and spread his hands and said: "These are just speculations. The specific situation depends on whether we can dig anything out of the rock formations on Mars."
"Maybe there are no advanced creatures on Mars from the beginning to the end?"
"Maybe."
While the two were chatting, the dark gray planet in the distance finally gradually came closer.
"We're almost there!"
Leaning by the porthole, looking at the moon in the distance, Zhang Kangshun took a deep breath and spoke with some excitement and excitement in his tone.
“Are we going to the moon in a lunar module?”
On the side, Li Rui thought for a while and said hesitantly: "It seems that this was not notified?"
"Then how do we land on the moon?" Zhang Kangshun asked doubtfully.
Li Rui shook his head and said: "I don't know. If it is a lunar module landing on the moon, there should be training related content at the Xiashu Space Base, but it seems that there is not much emphasis on this."
After a slight pause, he continued: "Wait a minute, I should let you know later."
As soon as he finished speaking, the voice announcement in the crew cabin rang.
"Dear passengers, we are about to arrive at Yuehuatai Space Airport. Before arriving safely at the destination, the plane will need to land at the designated parking space. To ensure your safety, please sit in your seat now.
And fasten your seat belt."
"Please do not stand up until the "seat belt signal light" goes out. Your luggage will be taken to the designated collection point by the staff. Please keep quiet and wait for the flight to arrive."
“Dear passengers and friends....”
After hearing the announcement, Zhang Kangshun and Li Rui looked at each other. They hurriedly flew back to the cabin, fixed themselves with safety buckles, and murmured.
"Why does this broadcast word sound so familiar?"
Li Rui pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose and said, "They were cut from the broadcast on the plane and modified, right?"
"It seems..."
Zhang Kangshun twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "This is too casual. This is the moon landing. Can't we make a more cool broadcast?"
Following the exchange between the two, the Fuyao space shuttle has entered the lunar low-Earth orbit.
Although the moon is very close, it is almost impossible to directly land on the moon with the current Fuyao space shuttle.
Even if the second-generation aircraft has the ability to take off and land vertically on the moon, it still requires complicated steps to safely park this behemoth on the moon.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After entering the lunar low-Earth orbit, the Fuyao space shuttle adjusted its orbit and then entered the extremely low launch orbit and changed orbit.
Soon, Fuyao's trajectory around the moon had successfully changed from a circle to an ellipse under the control of the intelligent system.
At the same time, under the adjustment of the auxiliary thrusters, the speed and direction of the space shuttle were also adjusted to a relatively safe level.
Gradually, the space shuttle is getting closer and closer to the lunar surface. Driven by the vertical takeoff and landing engine under the cabin, the Fuyao landing on the moon traced an arc in the lunar sky like a UFO alien spacecraft.
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Outside the porthole window, the silver-gray moon surface was getting closer and closer to Fuyao. With a turbulence, the huge space shuttle landed at Yuehuatai Airport.
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When the broadcast in the cabin sounded again, the space shuttle had safely parked at the airport of the Yuehuatai Outpost Scientific Research Station, and led directly to the interior of the scientific research base through the corridor bridge device.
After unlocking the nylon lock that fixed his body, Zhang Kangshun lined up, looking around and waiting to get off the plane.
"Have we reached the moon yet?"
As he walked slowly towards the exit of the cabin, he took the time to quietly ask the staff on board the space shuttle.
With a standard smile on his face, the young staff member smiled and nodded: "Yes, Professor Zhang, we have arrived at the Yuehuatai Outpost Scientific Research Base. Install along the corridor bridge and you can enter the base.
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"There will be dedicated staff there to receive you."
Hearing this, Zhang Kangshun couldn't help but swallowed, and asked in surprise: "Does the lunar module no longer be needed to land on the moon? Can the space shuttle land directly on the moon?"
"certainly."
The staff nodded and said with a smile: "The second-generation aircraft can already take off and land vertically on the moon, so it is much more convenient and faster than previous manned moon landings."
Nodding subconsciously, Zhang Kangshun carried a bag, crossed the cabin door, and walked towards the corridor bridge.
Inside the fully enclosed covered bridge, his face was filled with curiosity and shock. He followed the team forward while looking around.
If it weren't for the lightness under his feet, and the feeling that he would jump to the sky at any time if he exerted force, he even seriously doubted whether he had really reached the moon.
After all, the process of landing on the moon is really amazing.
There was no space suit, no lunar module, and there was no one small step for all mankind.
This made all his original thoughts about what it would be like to set foot on the moon come to nothing.
It felt... like taking a longer international flight, almost completely different from the moon landing he imagined.
On the covered bridge, it was obvious that Zhang Kangshun was not the only one who was shocked by this advanced method of landing on the moon.
Almost everyone who stood on this land for the first time was shocked to the point where their expressions were out of control.
Is it so convenient to land on the moon now?
Simply incredible!
Walking on the covered bridge, Zhang Kangshun took deep breaths to adjust his mood. He felt that his heartbeat might be one hundred, forty or fifty.
Half of it was because of excitement and shock, and half of it was probably because of a feeling that he couldn't even describe.
After about five minutes, when the scene in front of him came into view, he suddenly stopped and stared at the scene in front of him with his eyes wide open and his mouth wide open.
"Fuck!"
After a classic exclamation came out of his mouth, Zhang Kangshun walked over quickly.
Outside the transparent high-strength tempered glass bridge is a vast open space.
In this open space, there are silver-white 'buildings'. These buildings, which look like large yurts, are connected by semi-cylindrical covered bridges and are located on the surface of the lunar soil.
Through the clear glass, his eyes with 5.2 vision can clearly see the solar photovoltaic panels laid on these buildings, which are shining in the sunlight.
In addition to these buildings, he also saw several lunar rovers driving in the base, as well as astronauts wearing white spacesuits who were doing unknown experiments.
Looking blankly at the buildings not far away, Zhang Kangshun couldn't help but swallow.
He originally thought that after being shocked by the way the Fuyao space shuttle landed on the moon, he would be quite calm even standing on the moon. After seeing the lunar scientific research base in front of him, he was deeply shocked again.
"....Is this the Yuehuatai Outpost Scientific Research Base?"
After muttering a question to himself, Zhang Kangshun stared at the scientific research station not far away, unable to move.
At this moment, an astronaut who happened to be walking by him looked over, his eyes fell on the buildings not far away, and he replied with a smile.
"Yes, this is our Yuehuatai outpost scientific research base, but this is only a part of the scientific research base."
His eyes fell on the building that looked like a yurt outside the covered bridge, and he continued: "The base here is an animal training and research base."
"On one side is the study of organisms from Earth."
"On the other hand, some common meat animals are raised, such as pigs, sheep, cattle, chickens, ducks, fish, etc., to supply food within the scientific research base."
"edible?"
Hearing this answer, Zhang Kangshun asked in surprise: "I thought that was where astronauts or staff lived."
"Of course not."
Hearing this, the astronaut smiled and shook his head, and then continued with a tone full of pride and pride: "Look here, this is where we live."
As he spoke, he pointed in the other direction of the covered bridge.
Following the direction pointed by the astronaut, everyone inside the passageway of the covered bridge looked over in unison.
On the other side of the covered bridge is a scientific research base built on a medium-to-large cave in the Aitken Basin.
Compared with the previous yurt, the diameter of this base is larger, reaching at least 70 meters by visual inspection.
Looking at the main scientific research base not far away, Zhang Kangshun's eyes glazed over again.
He had learned about it before coming. The Yuehuatai Outpost Scientific Research Base was a semi-underground base, and most of its buildings were actually in underground caves.
However, this tip of the iceberg on the ground is enough to shock everyone.
Unknowingly, their development on the moon has reached such an astonishing level.
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At the same time, on the other side.
Far away in deep space, on the Hanhai space shuttle, the four astronauts who are about to board the spacecraft are undergoing physical examinations four times a day as usual.
It has been more than a week since they left Mars, and they have already traveled millions of kilometers away from Mars.
"37.3 degrees, Liu Yang, your body temperature is a little high."
Inside the space shuttle, Zhai Zhigang frowned slightly as he glanced at the data on the temperature measuring gun in his hand.
The orange temperature measurement background on the display screen made him feel uneasy and slightly worried.
Although the body temperature of 37.3 degrees is still considered the normal temperature of the human body, compared with the average temperature measurement record of 36.8 degrees in the previous week, Liu Yang's body temperature has increased to a certain extent.
Although the increase is not large, at the critical point when they come into contact with Martian microorganisms, any disturbance is not a good thing.