Great Country Academician

The evening news was still playing, and after the special blessing from the moon, the main text followed.

Just when everyone thought that the blessing from the moon was this special gift, the male host's deep and dignified voice sounded again on TV.

"Looking back on history, the vast number of aerospace people have always kept a close eye on the world's technological frontiers, focusing on self-reliance, insisting on independent innovation, scientific and realistic, and working together to overcome key technologies one after another, and achieved brilliant achievements one after another, and achieved the status of a major aerospace power."

On the side, the female host took over the words.

"In this great process, we have many 'predecessors' who have fought for it, such as 'Dongfanghong-1', 'Shenzhou-5' and 'Chang'e flying to the moon'."

"After completing their missions, some have disappeared in the vast space, while some are still staying in the distant starry sky, looking at their hometown."

"During this special festival, the Space Administration and Xinghai Research Institute launched a special 'reunion' event."

"In this space arrangement, the space shuttle launched by Xinghai Research Institute and Xiashu Space Base will welcome back those 'family members' who are staying far away."

"Chang'e-1, Chang'e-3, Yutu-1 and Yutu-2, those names we are familiar with, will board the Hanhai space shuttle in this space mission, return to the motherland, and reunite with us."

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A news broadcast rarely rushed to the lively Weibo.

Chang'e series of lunar probes and Yutu rovers, these names that once made people remember deeply, once again appeared in the eyes of the public.

On Weibo, an account that had been stagnant for eight years sent a new post.

‘Lunar Rover Yutu’: “Hi! Hello everyone, with the help of my brother Hanhai, I have regained my energy!”

“La la la la~, my third brother is here to take me home, did you miss me?”

“Oh, by the way, there are also my eldest sister and third sister, and my second sister can also go home with us this time. We will reunite together in the @Xinghai Research Institute·Aerospace Exhibition Hall. Welcome everyone to visit us in the future.”

“It’s great to be home!”

(This is a screenshot from Weibo, you can search it, I am personally very moved)

A post quickly became the number one hot search with countless likes and comments.

Countless netizens who are looking forward to Yutu waking up again crowded in.

[Rabbit! It’s our Rabbit! ]

[Woo woo woo, Rabbit, we miss you so much. ]

[It’s late at night, I was moved to tears, and finally someone went to take our Rabbit home. 】

[Twelve years have passed, and the zodiac has gone through a cycle. Our Yutu can finally go home. That's great! 】

[Good evening, Laotu, happy Mid-Autumn Festival! Welcome home! 】

[Pfft, I was so touched, but this sentence of Laotu almost made me laugh to death. 】

[I really live in Bengbu, Laotu, hahahahaha. 】

[Xinghai Research Institute·Space Exhibition Hall, is there anyone who wants to go with me! 】

The Yutu rover, which has been lonely on the moon for more than ten years, is about to embark on a journey home. Official accounts such as the Space Administration and Xinghai Research Institute have also forwarded relevant news.

At this moment, the mood of reunion reached its peak.

As the signature of the Yutu rover: "The moon is the destination, the earth is the home."

Everyone believes that no matter how far the journey is, no matter how long the time is, the motherland will definitely take them home.

After confirming the authenticity of this news, many people went to Xu Chuan's Weibo account to ask him when he would go to Mars to pick up the Zhurong on Mars.

After all, he was also a wanderer.

At the foot of Zijin Mountain, watching the news broadcast program continue to be broadcast, Xu Chuan's mouth curled up a smile.

Life needs a sense of ritual, and so do aerospace and scientific research.

Although this time sending the Hanhai to the moon to greet the spacecraft watching on the moon will consume a lot of aerospace resources and funds.

But if every thing needs to be considered whether it is worth investing in and whether it will bring returns, it would be too boring.

After all, not all behaviors can calculate their value.

On the sofa, Xu Xiao crossed her legs and looked at the news on TV with surprise. She didn't come back until other reports sounded.

"Brother, this is the special news you said, right?"

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "It's okay, right?"

Xu Xiao smiled and praised, "Great! Brother! When the Yutu car comes back, I must go to see her!"

There are many people in China who have the same idea as Xu Xiao.

However, Xu Chuan didn't care too much about these.

After all, no matter what, if Yutu is successfully welcomed back, he will definitely be one of the first to see it, even if he is not the first one to see it.

The focus now is whether Hanhai can successfully land on the moon.

After watching the news broadcast, Xu Chuan returned to his study and contacted the Xiashu Space Base.

Hanhai is currently hovering in the polar delivery orbit, performing the task of material delivery, and has not yet started to land.

After all, it has the largest volume and can carry the most materials and equipment.

With the completion of the material delivery mission, Hanhai, which is high above the moon, began a new round of orbit adjustment.

The command center of Xiashu Space Base, through the transmission data of the Queqiao series of relay satellites and the Hanhai itself, the commander of the monitoring center confirmed the status of the space shuttle in real time.

However, at this point, in fact, it is difficult for people on the earth to interfere with the work on the moon.

All of them are handed over to the cooperation of the intelligent control system and the lunar outpost scientific research station base.

Under the adjustment of a series of instructions, the Hanhai passed over the moon, and the matching propulsion engine started, adjusting the flight attitude of the space shuttle in real time.

At the same time.

The lunar sea, east of Hongwan, with longitude and latitude of 19.51W, 44.12N, is the landing site of Chang'e 3, and it is also the area where Hanhai landed for the first time.

Here, the two astronauts who had already been put on the ground have successfully found the "shutdown" Chang'e 3 and Yutu lunar rover.

"Calling the command center, this is the lunar recovery team, we have successfully completed the recovery work."

Standing on the moon, looking at the dusty Yutu lunar rover, Jiang Xinlin smiled, stretched out his hand and pressed on his helmet, and contacted the ground.

"The ground command center received it, thank you for your work. The Hanhai will start landing in ten minutes. If everything goes well, proceed according to the mission plan."

"Received."

Jiang Xinlin responded quickly, and then looked up at the sky.

Under the dark night, the stars twinkled, and the blue and white planet in the distance guided the way home.

"This moon is really desolate."

This is his first time to perform a lunar mission.

Beside him, Zhai Zhigang, who was also responsible for this recovery mission, smiled and said, "It is indeed a bit, but the Antarctic is much more lively."

"Have you been there?" Jiang Xinlin asked curiously.

Zhai Zhigang smiled and said, "I've been there. When Yuehua Terrace was being built, I was responsible for the delivery of materials many times."

"I heard that they have already realized growing vegetables on the moon? Have you eaten them?"

With a smile, Zhai Zhigang said, "I've eaten them twice."

"How does it taste?" Jiang Xinlin asked quickly.

"It's not much different from growing them on Earth, right?" Zhai Zhigang shrugged and said, "At least I can't tell the difference."

"When can I eat a bite of vegetables grown on the moon?" Jiang Xinlin licked his lips and said enviously.

"There will be a chance."

Zhai Zhigang smiled and said, "Aren't we going to start the lunar biosphere project next? At that time, the transportation of various people and materials will be more frequent."

"That's right."

Jiang Xinlin smiled and nodded. As an active astronaut like him, there will definitely be a chance.

After chatting for a while, Jiang Xinlin looked at the craters in the distance, and then looked back at the blue planet. He couldn't help but sighed softly.

"When do you think we can walk across the entire moon?"

Turning his head to look at his companion, Zhai Zhigang smiled and said, "There will be such a day."

After a slight pause, he looked at the distant but brilliant starry sky, and then said, "Not only the moon, but also Mars, Mercury, Venus, and even the more distant Kuiper Belt, our footprints will be printed on them!"

Jiang Xinlin smiled and nodded, and said forcefully, "You are right!"

Ten minutes is not a long time. Soon, a silver-white space shuttle came into the eyes of the two.

It is getting closer and closer to the surface of the moon, and also closer and closer to them.

Six small aerospace engines are swaying bright lights in the night sky.

The huge Hanhai, like a meteorite, draws an arc above the moon and slowly falls on the barren moon soil.

The rolling moon dust is lifted up, and some of it even melts into magma under the hot high-temperature plasma of the aerospace engine.

At the same time, the high-temperature resistant pure metal landing gear began to touch the ground. The wide metal surface compacted the dust on the moon like the tracks of an excavator, supporting the entire space shuttle.

At the same time, whether it was Zhai Zhigang and Jiang Xinlin standing in the distance, or the people in the ground command center 380,000 kilometers away, watching the aerial photos with a delay of more than one second, they all clenched their fists at this moment, and the string in their hearts was tightly stretched.

"Landing successful!"

In the command center, which was so quiet that a pin drop could be heard, an electronic sound came.

This was the response made by the intelligent driving system on the Hanhai after a systematic judgment.

Everyone's heart fell heavily at this moment.

"Good! Great!"

"Success! We succeeded!"

"Awesome! Academician Xu is awesome!"

"Hahahaha, Sichuan God is awesome!"

Looking at the silver-white space shuttle that had landed on the moon, all kinds of cheers sounded again in the main control room.

Although this is not their first moon landing, it is of great significance to Xinghai Research Institute, China, and even the entire aerospace industry.

The Hanhai can land vertically on the surface of the moon, which means that they can transport a large amount of materials at a lower cost, quickly build various bases on the moon, and mine resources on the moon on a large scale.

After all, the payload of the space shuttle is far from comparable to that of the lunar module.

At the same time, on the other side, in the villa at the foot of Zijin Mountain.

Xu Chuan also received the news that the Hanhai space shuttle successfully landed on the surface of the moon.

Looking at the photos and information sent by the Xiashu Space Base, a sincere smile appeared on his face.

The Hanhai was successful, and it was time to start the next stage of aerospace engineering!

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Xu's father and mother also returned to their hometown from Jinling.

With the help of his elder brother, Xu Xiao began to take over the Neuralink brain-computer interface company under the name of Elon Musk, preparing to continue his research on virtual reality technology.

Although it is a challenge for anyone to master a company with a valuation of tens of billions right after graduation.

But fortunately for Xu Xiao, the backing behind her is enough for her to slowly adapt to these things.

After sending his family away, Xu Chuan came to the Xinghai Research Institute.

In the Aerospace Research Institute, he convened several senior leaders and core scientific researchers here and held a small meeting.

At the first seat in the conference room, Xu Chuan smiled and said, "Everyone, the content of today's meeting is in front of you. I will give you ten minutes to get a general understanding of it, and then we will start the discussion."

These are some things he had thought about seriously during the few days of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and they are also one of the important cores of the third stage of aerospace engineering.

For China, or for the Xinghai Research Institute, the development plan of aerospace is a three-step plan determined after discussion.

The first step is undoubtedly manned space flight and manned lunar landing, sending people to the moon.

They have already achieved this step more than a year ago.

The second step is to establish a semi-permanent scientific research base and lunar biosphere project on the moon.

They have completed more than half of the former. Although the Yuehuatai Qianshou Scientific Research Station Base has not been fully completed, some scientific research experiments can be started.

The latter will be officially launched after the return of the Hanhai.

As for the third stage, it is the exploitation of resources on the moon.

In addition to a large amount of helium-3 resources that are extremely scarce on Earth, the moon also has abundant resources such as titanium, aluminum, iron, lithium, and rare earth elements.

Especially titanium and lithium, for the current human civilization, they are core resources at the strategic level.

Needless to say, the former is extremely widely used.

As for lithium, along with the realization of controlled nuclear fusion technology, the development of new energy vehicles, and the widespread popularization of electric energy.

As the core material of batteries, the importance of lithium is unquestionable.

But with the development, the price of lithium has also soared, from an average of 41,000 yuan/ton of lithium carbonate in 2020 to an average of 2.17 million yuan/ton of lithium carbonate today.

This is when the renminbi has appreciated by nearly one-fold.

If it were before, I'm afraid the price of lithium carbonate would have doubled by at least a hundred times.

And China is a lithium-poor country, and the amount of lithium mineral resources that have been explored is negligible in the world.

So it is crucial for them to develop lithium resources on the moon on the basis of having the conditions.