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In the conference room of the Pioneer Aerospace Company, Tang Chao is explaining the manned moon landing to the moon landing committee and the future lunar base vision.

"You have seen it just now. Because many devices are installed on the outer shell of the Benyue spacecraft, it cannot directly land on the earth like a starship moon landing spacecraft, but it doesn’t matter. The Starry Sky Inn can be used to dock."

"This is equivalent to returning to Earth. Our orbital shuttle can take off at any time. Although its carrying capacity is not good, the spacecraft returning from the moon can't carry much. It is nothing more than the return of the astronauts to the earth and the moon. For samples or something, the orbital shuttle has enough capacity."

"Moreover, the return process of the shuttle is more comfortable compared to the fall type returning to the earth."

"The space station and the orbiting shuttle are already in earth orbit, don't be a fool."

Hearing Tang Chao's sentence, everyone in the conference room burst into laughter.

Indeed, compared to directly falling and then entering the atmosphere, although it takes two more steps to stop at the space station and then transfer, it is the most appropriate in every respect.

Two more steps, but the design of the spacecraft is much simpler.

Without these two steps, the spacecraft has more things to consider.

Having more things to consider will not only increase the complexity of the spacecraft, but also increase the difficulty of manufacturing.

At the same time, the versatility is better, which also means that you can't specialize in anything.

The earth environment, space environment and lunar environment are three completely different environments.

If you extend it, the three different big environments are countless different small environments.

"Benyue" only considers the space environment and the lunar environment. They have one thing in common, that is, a vacuum.

Moreover, the moon's gravity is not too large, it belongs to low gravity, and the gap between it and the microgravity illusion before the Earth-Moon Passage is relatively small.

This is the case when comparing Earth's gravity and space microgravity.

However, when returning to Earth this time, the orbital shuttle will not be used, but the new manned spacecraft of the national team will be used.

One of the design purposes of this type of spacecraft is to manned missions to the moon. As a result, the times have developed so fast that it has not been used yet and has been replaced by other programs.

But the capital has been created. Instead of sealing it up, it is better to use it in the first manned mission to the moon.

At the very least, add your own legendary attributes before entering the museum to show that you are not a display of wasted money.

Ahem, although the design and manufacturing personnel are reluctant to give up, this is the reality, so the focus now is on the "Benyue" spacecraft.

Both the space station and the orbital shuttle are off-the-shelf, and the national team and the Navigator are off-the-shelf. Then, the most important "Ban Yue" spacecraft, can it get fuel supply on the moon?

"of course can."

Tang Chao answered in the affirmative.

With that, he opened a picture sent back from the moon, which is also one of the top secrets of Navigator.

"hiss--"

"Ah this..."

"Could it be..."

"No way?"

"Several groups, I have several groups directly!"

As soon as the picture came out, there was a shock in the meeting room.

I saw that most of the picture was pitch black, and only the middle part was illuminated by light. Because the photo was black and white, the bright part only had different depths of gray and white.

The bright part looks very ordinary, like a place full of soil. The soil particles are very fine and the stones are very ordinary. The most eye-catching is the "shiny" part in the picture.

That is a bare piece of ice!

If it is an ordinary person, you may not see any famous names, or even look at it, but the people in the conference room are different.

Since it is the committee for manned landing on the moon, it is natural to understand the moon, not only full-time scientists, but also administrative staff.

Otherwise, what do you do if you don’t understand the fart?

"Xiao Tang, is this?"

Mr. Long was sitting next to Tang Chao, he turned his head and asked, Tang Chao knew his guess by looking at his expression.

"Yes, you are right. It is lunar water ice, the basis of all human activities on the moon."

Although I guessed it, when this fact was told by Tang Chao, the people at the scene were still shocked.

This is water. It is not after analysis and then "suspecting", "probably" or "probably" that there is water in a certain place. It is not that water molecules are detected by the probe satellite, but the big ice block is completely seen!

Ten months ago, Navigator Aerospace took the opportunity of the Long March 9 test flight to launch the Moon Palace II, then released eight lunar rover vehicles and searched for lunar water resources in a high-profile manner.

At that time, people paid attention to it for a period of time, and Navigator also released the day's detection video every day, but after a long time, there was no news of water, so the following people gradually decreased.

However, netizens are not paying attention anymore, and professional lunar scientists have to pay attention.

During the period, there was a piece of news. Due to a calculation error, a lunar rover deep into the permanent shadow zone ran out of power and stayed there forever. Some people still feel sorry.

After that, it was a few months of nothing.

Up to now, even some professional lunar scientists do not pay attention to this aspect, but regard the daily updated video analysis tasks as homework for their doctoral and graduate students.

Now Tang Chao suddenly showed the moon water ice he found, and the degree of shock can be imagined.

"You should know that the lunar rover lost its permanent dark area a few months ago, right? This is the picture that the rover took." Tang Chao said, pointing to the picture.

Lao Long curiously asked: "So the failure of the lunar rover is false. Is it true that the lunar water ice is found?"

"Uh... can't say that."

Tang Chao was stunned for a moment, "It is true that the lunar rover has no power in the permanent dark zone. It is because the probe detected a large number of water molecules that it took the risk to go deeper."

"Okay," Old Long was also taken aback, "Anyway, I found real water ice, it's worth it."

Tang Chao admitted that he was indeed greedy at the time, but it was not the early stage but the later stage.

The Moon Palace II stayed on the moon for so long and did not stay in vain. A lot of tests were done, and many people on the earth had wrong guesses on the earth.

Because of the harsh environment of the moon, although these technologies came from Kanxing, Tang Chao and the company's scientists prepared a lot of things for the Moon Palace 2 in order to prevent it.

Later, after field testing, it was discovered that some things were really not useful.

Some of these devices require power consumption, and even need to design a separate power supply device. Now they are not used, and the battery is used to solve the problem of the lunar rover not running far.

The battery is transferred from the maintenance module through the robotic arm, and then installed with each other with the robotic arms on other lunar rover, so that the battery life of the lunar rover can be extended, allowing them to go deeper into the dark zone.

However, these batteries are not original, so the ground control center set a safe value. At that time, when a large number of water molecules were found, it was already close to the safe value. It's safe value.

But various data show that there must be water here, maybe not far away, if you don't see it, I really won't be reconciled.

So it broke through the safety value of electricity and drove towards the limit.

It turns out that the adventure was right, and water ice appeared in the lens.

You can actually go back here, but it's all coming, and the battery is not at the limit. Wouldn't it be better to take a sample back?

With this idea, the lunar rover started the mining mode.

The ice fetching process is also very smooth, the power consumption is being calculated, and there is no problem even putting ice cubes on the car. As a result, the car stopped when the lunar rover turned and walked back.

The command center was silent at the time.

The final inspection result is that the additional battery pack has a problem.

There is also... the safety value design is reasonable.

Fortunately, water was found, and it was not far from the landing site of Moon Palace 2.

Because of the appearance of water, the design of Benyue was established.

It cannot land on the earth, so there is no need to carry a part of the fuel used to resist the earth's gravity and stabilize the landing.

Part of the weight of fuel is saved, so what is there in the weight of the 40-ton hull?

Naturally it is a fuel preparation device!

When there is water, there is hydrogen and oxygen fuel.

Although the efficiency of direct electrolysis of water to obtain hydrogen and oxygen is very low, there is a certain degree of danger, and it is extremely power-consuming, but as long as the solar panels are deployed on the moon table, the power problem is not a problem.

As for the low purity of electrolytic hydrogen and oxygen, the more dangerous things after mixing can be solved with new technology.

Kan Xing has it over there.

After all, space and aliens are not comparable to the earth. There are several methods on the earth to produce a large amount of industrial hydrogen and oxygen. In the aliens, only water ice is abundant, and the method of upgrading electrolysis is the most useful.

As a race that has entered the space age, the little green man of Kan Xing will of course want to point to this skill.