Great Country Academician

Chapter 951 Manned boarding of fire~

After chatting with Academician Chang Huaxiang for a while about the work arrangements related to manned missions, Xu Chuan hung up the phone and sent a message to Zheng Hai, asking him to help book a high-speed rail ticket back to Jinling.

After pausing the work in hand and handing it over to Lin Feng, he said hello to Director Tai Xuewen and his former mentor Professor Edward Witten, asking them to help with the analysis and advancement of sterile neutrinos and massive dark matter particles.

Although Senior Brother Lin can be said to be a leading figure among scholars of the same age, he studied under Edward Witten, a top expert in physics, and he himself has led teams to solve world-class problems. Regardless of his qualifications, In terms of resume, he is very dazzling among the younger generation.

But this time, every team that analyzed the data from the collision experiment of sterile neutrinos and massive dark matter particles came from the top universities or physics research institutions.

Among them, there are even Nobel Prize winners in physics, Wolf Prize winners, etc. who lead the team.

Compared to these people, Senior Brother Lin is indeed a bit unsatisfied.

Taking the high-speed train the next day, Xu Chuan rushed back to Jinling from Star City.

In Academician Chang Huaxiang's office at Xia Shu Space Base, Xu Chuan gently knocked on the open door, walked in with a smile and said hello.

"Chang Lao."

Behind the desk, Academician Chang Huaxiang, who was working on his work, heard the voice and looked up. When he saw him, he stood up with a smile and greeted him.

"Come here? Is the collision work at CRHPC going smoothly?"

Being able to make Xu Chuan almost forget about such an important task as manning a mission to the moon only shows that there are equally important or even more important scientific research work being carried out in other places.

It is really difficult to distinguish between the first manned mission to spacecraft and the first discovery of dark matter particles, as well as the improvement of one's own void field theory.

Both can be said to be a big step forward for human civilization in facing the universe.

Xu Chuan nodded lightly and said: "It went quite smoothly. The collision experiment has been basically completed. All that's left is to analyze the experimental data step by step."

Chang Huaxiang: "Are you sure?"

Hearing this question, Xu Chuan knew what he wanted to ask, and said with a smile: "The existence of dark matter particles can be confirmed. But what does it look like specifically, and is it really as predicted in the void field dark matter theory? The shape is the same, I don’t know.”

"After all, this is the first time that humans have come into contact with particles beyond the standard model. I'm afraid no one will know the answer until the exploration is truly completed."

After handing over the brewed tea, Academician Chang Huaxiang sat on the sofa with a smile and said: "Being able to ensure the discovery of the existence of dark matter is already a great achievement, let alone making it grow according to your predictions. "

"Take your time, don't rush. Anyway, CRHPC is in your hands, and you have enough time to perfect your theory bit by bit."

Taking the tea cup, Xu Chuan nodded with a smile and said, "Well, there is really no need to be too anxious. For the exploration of these frontier fields beyond human boundaries, caution is the most basic building block."

After a pause, he changed the topic to the manned launch project. After chatting for a while, the two got up and walked towards the base outside together, preparing to see the astronauts and space shuttles who were about to carry out their missions.

On the spacious runway, a second-generation aircraft, a first-generation aircraft, and two space shuttles are undergoing strict inspections before performing their missions.

Although Xu Chuan has not managed much specific work except for making decisions on some key issues in the development of the aerospace field. But he has always been paying attention to the manned mission to Mars, the first deep space voyage in human history.

The main body of this manned mission to Mars is the second-generation space shuttle Hanhai. It carried a total of six astronauts to Mars to carry out this mission.

The other first-generation aircraft is an auxiliary aircraft. It not only undertakes the transportation of some supplies, but also serves as a 'rescue aircraft' in unexpected moments to ensure the safety of astronauts to the greatest extent.

After all, this is the farthest voyage in human history. From the Earth to Mars, even in the perigee month, the distance between the two sides is tens of millions of kilometers.

It is no exaggeration to say that the difficulty of manned landing on the moon is ten or a hundred times that of manned landing on the moon, or even higher.

After all, a space journey that can last for several months is a major problem for how to ensure the safety and health of astronauts in space.

In particular, the weightless environment in space for a long time will have a serious impact on the health of astronauts.

Including muscle atrophy, osteoporosis, etc. In addition, space radiation may increase astronauts' risk of cancer and other diseases.

Why every astronaut is a hero is because every time they go to space, they are fighting for their lives and using their lives to contribute to the development of human spaceflight.

Along the gangway, Xu Chuan and Chang Huaxiang walked into the interior of the Hanhai space shuttle.

While engineers were conducting final inspections on various components of the space shuttle, the various instruments and equipment that needed to be put on Mars through this manned mission were also transported to the cargo bay in a tight and orderly manner.

After these staff members have fixed the relevant equipment, another safety engineer will conduct a round of rigorous testing on the fixed buckles and equipment to ensure that no problems will occur during the voyage.

After all, the flight patterns of space shuttles and commercial airliners are different.

Especially when breaking through the earth's gravity and entering outer space, the angle is almost perpendicular to the ground. In addition, with the switching of various flight postures, if the transported materials are not fixed well, they will fall off and cause serious hidden dangers to the safety of the fuselage.

After taking a look at the materials fixed in the cabin by buckles and seat belts, Xu Chuan's eyes fell on one of the folded devices.

This is the "space planting unit" jointly developed by Xinghai Research Institute and Agricultural University. At present, the relevant technology is very mature. They have been applied on a large scale on the moon and achieved self-sufficiency in some fruits and vegetables.

And this time, carrying a set of equipment over is also to cooperate with astronauts to carry out the "Mars planting" business on the moon.

After all, compared with the soil on the moon that is full of helium-3 and is not very suitable for planting, the soil on Mars is completely suitable for crop planting from the current exploration results, but it lacks nutrition.

And as a country that has insisted on "food is the first priority for the people" since ancient times, farming has always been deeply rooted in the bones.

Looking at the 'space planting unit' in front of him and understanding the relevant parameters, Xu Chuan suddenly remembered another thing and asked Academician Chang Huaxiang.

"By the way, Mr. Chang, has the tug of war over the lunar biosphere project not ended yet?"

Hearing this question, Academician Chang Huaxiang shook his head helplessly and said, "Not yet, but it should be soon."

Xu Chuan sneered and couldn't help but mocking, "If I remember correctly, it was said to be soon at the end of last year. Now it's mid-to-late June, and another half a year has passed, and it's still soon. Those people really eat and hold meetings every day and do nothing."

Hearing this, Chang Huaxiang also sighed.

Although he is not in charge of the lunar biosphere project, as the only aerospace agency in China that has mastered large-scale earth-moon material transfer, Xiashu Aerospace Base is also involved in the project throughout the process.

From the proposal to now, it has been more than a year. The progress of the 'lunar biosphere project' can be described as a turtle crawling. The countries and organizations involved in this project are still tug-of-war.

But there is no way. This involves the distribution of international interests, especially in the situation where they kicked out NASA first. It is really too difficult to accomplish this.

On the one hand, the resource allocation and project responsibility planning itself is a huge problem, and on the other hand, they have to deal with the provocation from the United States.

After all, they have never kicked the United States out of an international cooperation super project under pressure from all sides.

Especially this year, after NASA proposed the "Lunar Ladder" plan, in order to attract investment from the European Union, Tsarist Russia and other countries, and to counter their development in the aerospace field, they will definitely try their best to create various troubles for them.

Of course, compared with other international cooperation super projects, such as the previous CERN organization, ITER organization, and SKA radio telescope array project, the negotiation speed of the lunar biosphere project is actually very fast.

However, compared with the speed of various projects independently hosted by China, such as the lunar outpost scientific research station, lunar electromagnetic catapult and other projects, it seems completely insufficient.

Their development speed on the moon is far beyond international imagination.

Take the issue that Chinese people are most concerned about, whether vegetables can be grown on the moon, for example. They have made a major breakthrough.

Today, the vegetables and fruits at the Yuehuatai Outpost Research Station have reached a self-sufficiency rate of about 20 to 30 percent.

This is still the case when the power resources on the moon are relatively limited.

After all, the main power source for their current development of the moon still comes from the photovoltaic solar panel arrays laid on the moon.

Although the second-generation space shuttle can indeed take off and land vertically on the moon, there are only three second-generation aircraft at present, each with its own aerospace use. For the time being, it is impossible to realize Xu Chuan's idea of ​​using space shuttles to assemble the base to provide energy, etc.

However, with the expansion of the industrial production line at the Xiashu base, they are currently mass-producing miniaturized fusion and small ion power generation devices.

It won't take long before they can build fusion reactors and power generation equipment on the earth, assemble them in parts first, and then transport them to the moon by space shuttle for complete assembly.

This can solve the problem of insufficient power in the early scientific research base at one time.

By then, their development of the moon and project construction speed will be improved by at least one level again.

After all, whether it is construction, mining, planting, etc., large-scale energy supply is required.