Chapter 596 The Moon (10)

August 28th.

Moon.

The construction work of Hongwan Guanghan Palace Base and the First Industrial Zone has been initially completed.

The ground is only initially leveled and compacted. In the entire industrial zone, there are currently only three magnetic cage cabins, three silicon steel synthetic cabins, and two electrolytic cabins.

Other industrial cabins are still on the road or in local factories.

After seeing the construction progress of the First Industrial Zone, Nie Changfeng asked Gao Tiansheng, who was in charge of the industrial zone: "Tshengsheng, how is the various production capacities of the industrial zone now?"

"Currently we can only put into production one electrolytic cabin and one silicon steel synthesis cabin. The main reason is that raw material mining and electricity cannot keep up. Manpower is also a problem." Gao Tiansheng replied with a headache.

Nie Changfeng flipped through the relevant electronic documents: "The mining of raw materials requires excavators and transportation vehicles. The local government has already prepared this, and it is expected to be in place from the end of September to the beginning of October."

"As for the power issue, nuclear decay battery cabins and about 3,000 square meters of solar panels will also be put in place one after another, as well as a geothermal power station."

Hearing this, Gao Tiansheng breathed a sigh of relief.

Nie Changfeng thought for a while and then ordered: "Shengsheng, you have to make a preliminary industrialization plan, and the ground command center will cooperate with us."

"clear."

Obviously, this matter is not something that the few people at Guanghan Palace Base can handle. Even if a large number of industrial cabins adopt automation technology, a lot of manpower is still needed.

According to the plan, the living area of ​​the Guanghan Palace base will continue to expand. It is expected to expand from the current 8 cabins to 24 cabins before the end of 2015, enough to accommodate 30 astronauts living here for 6 to 9 months.

In fact, in order to reduce the impact of space syndrome on the health of astronauts, astronauts on duty on the moon can generally only stay here for 5 to 6 months.

Even with centrifugal pseudo-gravity exercise machines and the like, as well as medication and dietary control, it is still difficult for astronauts' bodies to live in space for a long time.

Fortunately, the moon has low gravity, unlike the microgravity of the space station, which allows astronauts to persist for a while.

But constant rotation is indeed a huge limitation to the development of the aerospace industry.

It’s just that the problem of gravity is difficult to deal with. In terms of artificial gravity technology, humans currently have only one technical route, which is centrifugal pseudo-gravity.

The reason for centrifugal pseudo-gravity technology is not that the theory is immature, but that the engineering is too difficult.

Judging from the current development speed, it is impossible to build a centrifugal space city in a short time.

Therefore, we can only take another route, which is the human body modification route, allowing humans to actively adapt to the space environment from a biological level.

But this route is also full of difficulties.

At present, many achievements have been made in the research related to fluorescent fungi. For example, human hibernation technology is becoming more and more perfect; there are also special drugs and vaccines to kill fluorescent fungi, which are all developing rapidly.

The only more troublesome human body modification technology is still in animal experiments. The main reason is that the proportion of malignant mutations is too large. The uncontrollable factors are enough to make this technology not worth the gain.

Especially last month, after a targeted transformation using several death row inmates, the results were worse than what researchers expected. All three experimental subjects developed malignant mutations that were difficult to suppress.

Even the use of three inhibitors similar to cocktail therapy was still unable to change the malignant mutations of the experimental subjects. The experimental subjects even lost their sanity and turned into biochemical monsters.

Human body modification technology has a long way to go!

Noah's Society and Greater China's big moves on the moon naturally cannot be hidden from Blue Star.

Especially the Guanghan Palace Base, the gradually expanding base area and facilities can now be seen as blurred outlines using professional large-scale astronomical telescopes.

Amid all the commotion, Xizhou Space Administration finally launched a lunar lander and prepared to land on the moon, first occupying a piece of land.

September 10th.

After successively receiving a nuclear battery cabin and a CNC machining cabin, the industrial production of Guanghan Palace First Industrial Zone can finally manufacture related products to supplement the needs of the base.

Currently, 1,730 tons of rough silicon foam steel blanks have been stockpiled in the base.

Zhang Kaixuan, an engineer who supports the moon from home, is controlling the CNC machining cabin and rapidly processing the railway rails, sleepers, foundation columns, etc.

The processed spare parts were immediately taken away by Nie Changfeng and others for use in the construction of the base railway.

For example, the railway line connecting the port area to the industrial area, and the railway connecting the industrial area to the mining area.

There are 7 railways planned for the entire Guanghan Palace base. Once the construction of this railway network is completed, the lunar spacecraft will not need to land elsewhere and can land in the port area.

After all, there is no hardened ground elsewhere, and a large amount of lunar dust will be kicked up during takeoff and landing.

The recent frequent transportation of materials has resulted in frequent sandstorms at the Guanghan Palace base, and the solar panels are covered with a thick layer of dust.

Shi Keji and Li Jianxian, who went out to inspect forest protection some time ago, had to take time to clean the solar panels in the base.

Everyone was so busy that they never touched the ground, and the infrastructure of the base was also improving day by day.

In the base, after completing routine communications with the Toad Palace Space Station, the rotating correspondent Huang Qinglan checked some current news on Blue Star.

He needs to summarize the news and make a briefing to send to everyone at the base.

Suddenly he saw a piece of news that had just been refreshed.

[The Xizhou Space Administration is expected to land on the western side of the Moon's Procellarum between 1 and 3 a.m. on September 10th...]

Huang Qinglan looked at the opponent's landing area. It was in the western part of Ocean Procellarum on the far side of the moon, near the lunar equator.

I checked the time again and found that the login would start in half an hour.

Although it was a competitive relationship, he still wished the other party success.

After summarizing this piece of news, he then went on to browse other news. The Chang 13 carrier rocket that failed in its last launch will finally launch its second one for testing on the 15th of this month.

Before he knew it, another hour or so had passed, and he reported to the Toad Palace Space Station on the base situation as usual.

I saw that he had just launched a routine report, and subconsciously glanced at the radar monitoring screen and found that the Xizhou Space Agency's lander was descending.

Huh? This speed?

Huang Qinglan's pupils shrank. He found that the speed of the Xizhou Space Agency's lander was a little too fast. According to the experience of many landings at Guanghan Palace Base, this speed was not conducive to a normal soft landing.

Are you preparing for a hard landing?

He called up the previous news and found that the Xizhou Space Agency was preparing for a soft landing.

At this moment, the speed of the lander did not decrease, and it plunged directly into the lunar sea, splashing a lot of sand and dust in an instant.

Huang Qinglan mobilized a passing high-frequency surveillance satellite and saw an impact crater of several meters in the landing area, with some radiation patterns around it.

Apparently this time the Xizhou Space Agency's lander was directly smashed into pieces.

He wished the other party success more than an hour ago, but he witnessed the lander crashing into the moon sea. After helplessly spreading his hands, he quickly reported the situation of the lander to the Toad Palace Space Station.

In fact, the Toad Palace Space Station already knows.

Thank you for your support (ω｀)