September 26th, Mid-Autumn Festival.
At this time, the Mid-Autumn Festival is not a national holiday, but everyone is still working hard.
Although even if it is a holiday, everyone in the institute rarely has time to rest.
But even so, the institute still thoughtfully prepared mooncakes for everyone on this day.
And in the evening, various laboratories and processing centers ended their work for the day early.
A simple moon-viewing party was held.
The full night of the 15th lunar month of the Mid-Autumn Festival is when everyone is homesick.
Looking at the bright and round moon, Zhang Xingyang took a bite of the moon cake.
Yeah, stuffed with five nuts.
Although compared to the fruit mooncakes and hot pot mooncakes with various fillings in the future.
The five-nut mooncake is indeed not that delicious.
But Zhang Xingyang has not eaten mooncakes for many years, so it still feels strange to eat them.
Su Xiao, who had been looking at the moon next to her, didn't have such a foodie mentality as Zhang Xingyang.
Just when Zhang Xingyang was about to have another piece of almond mooncake to taste.
Su Xiao looked at the moon: "Brother Xingyang, when do you think we can go to the moon?!"
Although legends about the moon such as Chang'e flying to the moon, Wu Gang cutting down trees, and the Jade Rabbit pounding medicine have been circulating on this ancient land since ancient times.
But it will probably take decades before Chinese people actually set foot on the moon for the first time.
Even with its own bonus, it is estimated to take ten years at the earliest.
"About 2010."
After taking a bite of the almond mooncake, Zhang Xingyang felt that the taste was okay and answered Lidya Su's question casually.
Although Zhang Xingyang himself felt that his answer was quite serious, to Su Xiao's ears, he just felt that the other party was joking.
Yes, manned spaceflight has not even started in China at this time.
How could it be possible to land on the moon in just a dozen years?
Although everyone in the institute works very hard, we all live in the material world after all, and we cannot achieve things by willpower alone.
In more than ten years, if a lunar probe can land on the moon, Su Xiao will be very satisfied.
"In 10 years, I will be satisfied if our detector can go up there."
"Moreover, when I think about the fact that there were people who went up to Yingjiang more than 20 years ago, I feel that our skills are really inferior to others now and we are far behind."
Lidya Su frowned her beautiful eyebrows, and her whole little face twisted into a ball.
In 1969, the Saturn 5 super-heavy launch vehicle carried the Apollo 11 spacecraft into space.
Subsequently, Apollo 11 crossed the distance of 380,000 kilometers between the earth and the moon and sent three astronauts to the moon.
Although Eagle Sauce spent more than 20 billion US dollars on this, which exceeded 0.57% of Eagle Sauce’s annual GDP at that time.
It can be called a modern technological wonder.
But it also brought a lot of benefits. Not to mention the scientific discoveries in lunar geology, it just greatly inspired the hearts of the people in Yingjiang, which was worth the huge expenditure.
It also allowed Eagle Sauce to move back in the space race with Mao Xiong.
However, by the 1990s, Mao Xiong had split. Da Mao could survive for decades relying on the old foundation left before. Unfortunately, the Buran gradually rusted away at the Baikonur Space Center. Yingjiang no longer needs to compete with others, so it gradually reduces its investment in space exploration.
At this time, the country can grab a lot of orders in international commercial rocket launch missions.
Zhang Xingyang glanced at Su Xiao, who was still staring at the Sea of Tranquility on the moon. She seemed to want to see the traces of Apollo's first moon landing.
During the Apollo moon landing, the lander remained at the landing site in order not to waste the capacity of the return capsule.
"Don't watch it. You'll get tired of it if you watch it too much. It's not as good as the earth."
Zhang Xingyang swallowed the last piece of almond mooncake and said nonchalantly.
In his previous life, Zhang Xingyang lived in the space base city on the moon for a long time.
I have long been tired of the bare, dusty scenery above the moon, which would remain unchanged even if there is no construction work.
Only humans who are still in the star table era yearn for life on the moon.
As everyone knows, what humans in the space age like most is the rest time when they return to Earth.
In the space age, the earth mainly existed as a tertiary industry area for the cultivation of humans who worked and lived in space for a long time.
"What do you think is on the far side of the moon?"
As an aerospace worker, Su Xiao has extremely strong curiosity.
At this time, the far side of the moon is still relatively mysterious.
Due to tidal locking, only one side of the Moon is normally visible from the Earth.
Therefore, the backside of it cannot be seen by others, which naturally arouses everyone's endless reverie.
Especially now, no lunar probe has actually landed on the back of the moon. This situation will not change until Chang'e 4, launched in 2018, lands on the back of the moon.
Of course, people at this time still had many weird ideas about the far side of the moon.
For example, there is an alien base on the back of the moon, and they have been secretly monitoring humans on the earth.
Or, there actually is a Gundam on the back of the moon.
Of course, as a veteran lunar man who has actually lived on the moon for more than ten years and visited almost every corner of the moon.
Zhang Xingyang can responsibly say that there is nothing on the back side of the moon except for many more meteorite impact craters than on the front side.
"In addition to the honeycomb-like impact craters, there is just a steady stream of meteorites."
After taking a sip of Bingfeng soda, Zhang Xingyang burped and said.
"They all say there are aliens on the far side of the moon?"
"It is said that Yingjiang and his friends stopped going to the moon after 72 years because they were afraid of aliens."
Lidya Su opened her eyes wide and asked curiously.
In fact, it is no wonder that Su Xiao would ask such a question. Although she also works in the aerospace system, she is mainly responsible for the research of materials.
They are not as good as some students who graduated from aerospace majors or astronomy majors, and they are even not as good as some high-level private aerospace or astronomy enthusiasts in these aspects.
"It's not that mysterious."
Zhang Xingyang was half leaning on the chair, admiring the moon comfortably. The moon is quite beautiful when viewed from the earth.
"They will no longer carry out the moon landing plan, simply because they don't want to continue to burn money. They burned 0.57% of GDP in 11 years."
"Even if Taka-chan is wealthy, he can't afford it."
"And their moon landing plan at that time had no actual output, except for some pitiful scientific research value, and it was almost a pure waste of money."
After listening to this, Su Xiao did not continue to say anything, but looked at the bright and round moon and sighed.
"I really want to go to the moon and see it!"
"Live hard. I guess if you live for a few more decades, travel between the earth and the moon will become more normal."
Zhang Xingyang also looked at the moon and replied.
