Great Country Academician

The existence of titanium-rich metal deposits in the Aikent Basin in the lunar South Pole is undoubtedly great news for China, which is about to start building a lunar base.

Although the Xinghai Research Institute has tentatively decided to build a lunar outpost by converting the space shuttle into a base by vertical landing.

But its limitations always exist. They cannot always assemble large-scale lunar bases by piecing together space shuttles.

And more importantly, isn't one of their purposes for building a lunar base to exploit the abundant resources such as helium-3 and titanium on the moon? The space shuttle assembly base does not meet this requirement.

This shallow titanium-rich ore will undoubtedly give them a wealth of experience in mining lunar mineral resources, and it can also provide a large amount of titanium and iron metals.

At least, in the next few years, whether it is building a scientific research base on the moon or other projects such as the lunar biosphere, there will no longer be a shortage of main metal materials.

Meanwhile, on the other side.

In the isolation room, after three days of preliminary isolation and inspection, it was confirmed that the five astronauts who returned from the moon did not carry any bacteria in their bodies and did not have any serious problems. Several people who returned from the moon returned from the isolation room. came out, and then began to conduct further physical examinations in the medical laboratory building.

"Please tell me when we can go home."

In the nursing home, Smedley Moore asked the staff at the space base while cooperating with the medical staff to conduct inspections.

After experiencing the Artemis space disaster, he couldn't wait to return to his homeland and his family.

Hearing his inquiry, the staff member recording the data shrugged and replied in English proficiently: "If you want, you can do it at any time. Helping you with your physical examination is a free service we provide. If you don't want to do it here, , you can also choose to return to your country before proceeding."

After a slight pause, he continued: "But I would rather suggest that you and Ms. McAdam Julia recuperate here for a while."

"Huh? Why?"

Hearing this, the staff of the space base turned over the inspection report sheet in their hands, shrugged and said: "Judging from the preliminary inspection results and various indicators, during the period when you landed on the moon, due to high acceleration, Long-term flight, low-gravity environment and other factors have caused a significant decline in your physical health and immunity."

"The current examination data shows that you and Ms. McAdam Julia need at least two weeks of restorative activities to recover enough to be healthy enough to adapt to the earth."

"If you take a plane back to your country at this time, it is very likely to cause irreversible damage to your body."

Hearing this, Smedley Moore frowned and asked: "But if I didn't confirm the error, your astronauts don't seem to need such a long recovery time."

Hearing this, the youth staff member smiled and replied: "Yes, judging from the test results, their physical condition is much better than yours."

After a slight pause, he continued: "In other words, judging from the data, if not for the fact that survival in an ultra-low gravity environment also had some impact on their bodies, it can even be said that after they went to the moon, they experienced space navigation. The impact on them is close to nothing.”

"watt?"

Upon hearing this reply, Smedley Moore looked over in surprise.

As the three Chinese astronauts who have carried out the moon landing mission like them, space navigation has almost no impact on them?

How can this be?

As an astronaut, he knew his trade.

Generally speaking, when they return to Earth after performing missions in space, they need a long period of isolation and recovery before they can go home and reunite with their families.

This time is calculated in months.

Of course, depending on the specific situation, the longer you stay in space, the longer the recovery training period required.

For a "relatively" short-term moon landing like him and McAdam Julia, due to their excellent physical fitness, the recovery period will not be too long.

Two weeks is actually acceptable to him.

But in comparison, the Chinese astronauts performed the same mission as them, but their bodies were not affected at all, which made him feel incredible.

Are they all supermen? Wouldn’t rehabilitation and rehabilitation be required to readjust to Earth’s gravity?

The youth staff shrugged and did not explain too much: "I will pass your complete physical examination data to NASA. They should make arrangements for you if you choose to conduct restorative training here. .”

"Of course, you can also communicate with NASA headquarters and choose to return to your home country in advance."

After a brief explanation, the youth staff got down to business, asking Smedley Moore some questions, and writing and drawing on the notebook to record.

In about ten minutes, he had filled a whole page of data in the record book.

Then, he closed the record book, looked at the NASA astronaut in front of him with a smile, and said, "Thank you for your cooperation. I won't disturb your cultivation for the time being. If you need anything, you can contact us at any time. "

After saying that, he walked out of the treatment room with his notebook and walked towards the room where another NASA astronaut was recuperating.

After experiencing the manned moon landing, the two NASA astronauts both experienced different extreme reactions in space, and it is true that they need a period of recovery.

It is also true that the three astronauts of the Xinghai lunar landing team are in better physical condition than the two astronauts of NASA.

Although they also carried out manned lunar landings, due to the gap between spacecrafts, they had wider space and sports venues, as well as equipment prepared by the space base in advance to maintain their physical condition.

This leads to the fact that they are also facing a completely different situation from NASA astronauts when it comes to manned moon landings.

If the low-gravity environment was not unavoidable for the time being, I am afraid that the three members of the Xinghai moon landing team would be in even better physical condition.

In fact, this is actually part of the test work for this manned space flight to the moon.

Including providing free physical examination and recuperation to two NASA astronauts, they are also collecting experimental comparison data.

To put it simply, the Xinghai Research Institute and the Aerospace Group are trying their best to find ways to allow astronauts to go through these training periods more smoothly, or to directly 'avoid' this training period.

After all, today, when the Xinghai is flying into the sky carrying space dreams, they need to consider more about the adverse effects of space activities or extraterrestrial activities on the human body.

Well, actually, the idea was that Xu Chuan initially thought that he would go to the moon for 'scientific research' in a while, but he didn't want to suffer the consequences of astronauts, so he put forward this kind of suggestion before the moon landing project.

However, for aerospace, these are indeed stages that must be faced in future development.

After all, as time goes by, they will need more people to go to the moon and even Mars to carry out construction, scientific research, and even travel for ordinary people.

The various adoptive reactions of outer space travel are undoubtedly problems that must be solved.

As a result, this suggestion was quickly approved and was studied by established aerospace companies such as Aerospace Science and Technology Group and Xinghai Research Institute. At present, they have conducted part of the experiment on the Xinghai, and will further optimize it based on the experimental data.

After receiving the physical examination data of the two astronauts passed by the Xinghai Research Institute, NASA finally chose to let Smedley Moore and McAdam Julia recover in a dedicated sanatorium at the Xiashu Space Base. Body.

After all, it is quite difficult to train an astronaut, and its value is even more valuable than a space shuttle in this era.

Of course, considering the importance of the astronauts, they also arranged for a medical team to come over to cooperate with the recovery work.

However, these matters are outside the scope of Xu Chuan's work.

After the Xinghai successfully completed the manned moon landing project, his attention and energy was withdrawn from the Aerospace Research Institute.

Although the research and development of the second-generation space shuttle is still in progress, with the general direction given and the leadership of Academician Chang Huaxiang, an experienced astronaut, he does not need to worry too much about these things.

Including the subsequent construction of lunar surface bases, these projects are also guided by the space agency.

Although Xinghai Research Institute's current aerospace technology is powerful, it is only a research institution after all and cannot replace the country's layout work for these future developments.

Although he has the ability to do so.

But to be honest, after experiencing a manned moon landing and lunar rescue operation, he increasingly felt that one person's power was insignificant in the face of the vastness and greatness of the universe.

If we talk about mathematics, he can still rely on his own ability to decipher and solve world-class unknown problems.

So in the fields of physics and aerospace, when countless complex problems are integrated into a super project, it is far from being able to be solved by him alone.

The advancement of these disciplines and fields often requires the joint efforts of thousands of different scientific researchers, engineers, and even ordinary people, and it is possible to build them up bit by bit.

Just like the Xinghai manned moon landing project, although the small controllable nuclear fusion reactor and aerospace engine were designed by him, manufacturing them also requires the efforts of countless other scientific researchers and even ordinary workers.

When manpower is exhausted, there is no way we can reach it.

If he wants to start this space age in his own hands, he must rely on the power of more people and even more countries.

Of course, now his status in China, in academia, in the scientific research community, and even in the world is no longer that of a traditional academic.

Although he has never given up on academic research and exploration, he has now transformed into an academic leader.

In the field of mathematics, whether it is the 'microelement construction method' that solves the NS equation or the 'algebraic variety and group mapping tool' that solves the Hodge conjecture, they have become the subjects of study and research by many mathematics graduate students and even mathematicians.

In the field of physics, controllable nuclear fusion technology has opened a new 'fusion era', leading China, and even all mankind, towards a new energy revolution.

In addition, there are also fields such as astrophysics and materials science that also have his voice.

Now, whether he wants it or not, the direction he is facing has become a corner of the future.

Of course, for Xu Chuan, he is still willing to shoulder this responsibility.

After all, this is the only way to realize his dream.

After the preliminary completion of the Xinghai manned moon landing project, Xu Chuan temporarily returned to the Xinghai Research Institute from the Xiashu Space Base.

At the suggestion of life assistant Tang Sijia, he chose to temporarily put down his work and recuperate for a week, and also had a comprehensive physical examination.

After all, the moon landing project lasted for nearly a year, and the continuous busyness easily accumulated some unnoticeable backlog.

However, within two days, Xu Chuan discovered that he had no time to spare.

After the manned moon landing project was completed, a plan for the "lunar biosphere project" emerged in his mind.

Although their aerospace history has just begun, this does not prevent him from conceiving in his mind the blueprint proposed by Academician Wu Weihua and further promoted by him.

Compared with academician Wu Weihua's proposal of building a Chinese Biosphere 3 in the Taklimakan Desert, he is more interested in building a "lunar biosphere" project on the moon.

Building Biosphere 3 on Earth will, after all, only simulate the environment of outer space and extraterrestrials, and it cannot be exactly the same.

But it's completely different on the moon.

Whether it is lighting, low gravity, or vacuum conditions, they are all real environments.

Especially after the discovery of titanium-rich metal veins in the lunar Antarctic, the feasibility of the lunar biosphere project has been further improved.

Water resources, metal resources, basic materials (such as silica, silicate ores), etc., these basic materials for building the lunar biosphere have been found, and the feasibility has been greatly improved.

Of course, feasibility is feasibility, and theory is just a matter of words. But it is not an easy thing to actually turn it into reality.

In fact, this may not be something that China alone can do. Perhaps China has enough ability to support such a huge project, but there is no doubt that this kind of project that is beneficial to all mankind will be more cost-effective if more countries are involved.

After all, the lunar biosphere project does not have many cutting-edge technologies, and it will not immediately make a qualitative leap in the development of the country. But its investments are made in units of hundreds of billions.

On the basis that two hundred-billion-level projects, including the Large Strong Particle Collider and the Space Race, have been launched, Xu Chuan felt that it was still necessary to consider funding for the country.

After all, no matter how rich you are, you can't squander it like this. It's still good to be able to draw some funds from other countries and invest them in this project that is beneficial to all mankind.