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Chapter 392 Only China can save so many people

After more professional answers appeared on Zhihu, they answered everyone’s doubts to a certain extent.

"Really? I remember that when NASA asked about the Starship at the press conference before the return to the moon mission, they said that all the Starships in service would be consumed at once.

Then the reporter asked about the daily maintenance of the International Space Station. They said that the Falcon 9 would return to the International Space Station on a regular basis to carry out cargo transportation and astronaut schedule round-trip missions.

I was wondering what would happen if something unexpected happened, and the Falcon 9 wouldn’t be able to dock in time, and something really went wrong.”

"America is still too impatient. I know you are in a hurry, but don't be impatient. The International Space Station hasn't even been figured out yet. Why are you in such a hurry to go to the moon?"

But not completely.

The comment with the highest number of likes under this answer is:
"What I don't understand is that the Russian Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft should only take three hours to dock.

Why not ask Damao to carry out the rescue mission?"

A netizen who lives near the Guangjia Aerospace headquarters in the YP area ran to the headquarters in the middle of the night to take a photo of the Guangjia Aerospace with lights on:

"It looks like it's real. Just wait for the dragon to roar and it will be over."

All signs indicate that NASA has indeed handed over the rescue of the International Space Station to the Chinese.

As various parties revealed information, the authenticity of the whole incident is rapidly increasing.

The entire Chinese Internet was in an uproar. They had just announced their return to the moon, and now they were asking the Chinese to help save their own astronauts.

Nothing is more intuitive than this

"Why don't they look for Russia instead of China?

Compared to China, Russia poses no real threat to America, and the old men in the White House are not living fossils with Cold War mentality."

From the perspective of the majority of netizens, it is understandable that everyone does not believe Boeing. Letting Boeing carry out the rescue mission would be like watching a big fireworks display.

But seeking cooperation with Russia will in any case cause less damage to America than seeking cooperation with China.

China is the biggest competitor, and Russia is its defeated opponent. The threats posed by the two are not at the same level. China's danger factor is at least 95, while Russia's is at most 50.

In fact, the Chinese people are still a little concerned about the title of being the first person to return to the moon.

Although as long as you add enough adjectives, you can always find a first that is niche enough.

By the time China lands on the moon, there won’t even be a need to find too many attributive prefixes.

For example, the first developing country to land on the moon has only one adjective: developing.

Or the first Asian country to land on the moon, there is only one adjective: Asia.

But deep down, the older Chinese still hope that the prefix will be 21st century: the first country to land on the moon in the 21st century.

As a result, this title was taken by America first. Seeing the crazy performances of the nephews on the Chinese Internet, the old Chinese who are overwhelmed with simple patriotism feel unhappy, but they have to express their appreciation for America's achievements out of the spirit of internationalism.

Anyway, this mentality has completely changed.

This time they finally found an opportunity to mock severely, and the old Chinese netizens generally responded with heavy punches.

Those bloggers who had previously openly praised America's moon landing and implicitly mocked the Wafangdianization of China's aerospace industry were almost all attacked by Chinese netizens.

To put it simply, "Wafangdianization" refers to the process in which a country with low organization level cannot maintain its current level if it loses communication with the outside world and technology input because it has no technology research and development capabilities and relies on technology input and imitation. Even the imported foreign technology will degenerate as the technology input party degenerates. In short, a society with low organization level does not have the ability to develop and inherit technology.

This is totally inconsistent with the facts of the old China, and is a label that has been forced upon us. If China is low in organization, then the rest of the world is zero in organization.

The biggest problem on the simplified Chinese Internet is that the attackers can create unlimited words and theories to attack the defenders. None of their arguments require evidence, and they can fabricate facts out of thin air at will.

Take the issue of Wafangdianization for example. He only needs to cite a few examples to attack all areas of Laozi. In order to refute such arguments, the defenders need to find a large number of cases to fight back. Even from the perspective of journalism and communication, the communication effect is far worse than if others created the concept of Wafangdianization.

So later on, the defenders gradually began to learn the tactics of the attackers.

"Come on! Speak! Such an invincible Americana can't even save its own astronauts, right?"

"In the past, these lackeys have always used SpaceX's exceptional achievements as proof that America is invincible in the field of innovation. Has this finally been exposed?
After all of SpaceX's starships are launched, there will be no other company in America that can complete such a rescue mission."

American fans always like to use SpaceX as an example of how American manufacturing has not become hollowed out. Isn't it often said that American manufacturing has become hollowed out? How can America return to the moon before China?
The most typical example is Boeing. The money Boeing gets from NASA for a single launch is more than that of SpaceX's entire project.

The foundation of Blue Origin's survival is the reusable rocket technology purchased from Light Armor Aerospace.

In the eyes of these people, these failed companies are not American companies.

"Do we really want to ask Boeing's Starliner to undertake this rescue mission?" A fierce argument broke out within NASA.

Because the White House is putting pressure on them to give advice from a professional perspective, and the advice is "best" to hand over the rescue mission to Boeing.

The entire NASA top management was scratching their heads because this would make NASA responsible.

NASA decided to hand over the rescue mission to Boeing, and then Boeing's rescue mission failed. The White House said that this was a decision made by NASA from a professional perspective and had nothing to do with us.

Then only NASA will be held responsible, and even Boeing, which caused the accident, will not be held responsible.

Because everyone has known for a long time that Boeing is not capable of doing this, then NASA, which decided to let Boeing take on such a difficult task, is the culprit.

From the beginning to now, they have less and less time, and soon it will be so little that they won't have enough time even to find their Chinese counterparts.

"Since the Starliner, which cost Boeing $45 billion to build, entered space, it has had five helium leaks, five propellant failures, and one propellant control valve malfunction.

I admit that they did successfully dock within 3 hours, but they only succeeded in doing so once.

This time it was sudden and completely unprepared. It was not like in the past when we could calculate the trajectory and time in advance and do everything according to plan.

I don't agree with letting Boeing do it, they will mess up the whole thing.

Have you ever thought about this: if Boeing is asked to come this time and the situation is so urgent, what if they cause another helium leak accident, causing the spacecraft to explode during rapid operation because the propellant temperature is too high and cannot be cooled?
If the 12 people in heaven can't be saved, why send people to die on earth?"

The senior executives at NASA who have some technical knowledge dare not give this task to Boeing. To be honest, they don't know why Boeing can't do it.

You have to know that Boeing has more people in its engineering department alone than in the entire SpaceX. Boeing also has technical accumulation in the aerospace field. In the past decade, it has acquired many entrepreneurial companies in the commercial aerospace field. The talents of these companies have almost been packaged and absorbed into Boeing.

The federal government’s support for Boeing is even more significant, and as a result, Boeing always manages to accomplish great things.

Only the high-ranking officials sent by the Elephant Party to serve as military supervisors were secretly exerting pressure:
"If we give such a task to our competitors, it will be the best advertisement for them in front of the whole world. Have you ever thought about the impact behind this?

In the past, our allies would give most of their orders to American commercial space agencies due to historical reasons. But after this time, our allies have a legitimate reason to give all launch orders to China.

Even after the next generation of space station is launched into space, it is entirely possible that our allies will directly place orders for cargo and personnel transportation to China.

We can’t even find a reason to refute it.”

“In fact, I want to say that it is impossible to find Boeing. There are too many people on board, 12 people, and Boeing’s spacecraft does not have the capacity to carry this amount.

Even if four people were allowed to drift in space via an escape capsule, Boeing would not be able to bring all eight people back at once.

The only thing that can accomplish this task is Boeing's large spacecraft that is still in the laboratory, but the problem is that it has never been launched once.

Including Russia's Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, they can only carry three astronauts at a time.

Even our Chinese counterparts may not be able to bring back so many people at once.

As far as I know, their spacecraft also does not have the capacity to carry so many people."

At this time, organizations with corresponding capabilities in China, Russia and America are waiting for NASA to make the final decision on who to entrust the rescue mission to.

No matter what time it is, the office buildings of these organizations are all brightly lit as everyone waits for the final decision.

After a thorough analysis, NASA found that none of them worked. No one currently had a vehicle that could rescue all 12 astronauts on the International Space Station at once.

Even 8 people can't do it.

Since it cannot be saved, why not let Boeing give it a try, and it will just be a show.

Half an hour later, Musk spoke to Nelson and said, "I have discussed with Wright and we will leave this rescue mission to China.

Only they can possibly rescue all the astronauts on the International Space Station." Musk said.

"But China's Tianzhou-8 is not capable of bringing eight astronauts back to Earth at once," Nelson asked.

Tianzhou-9 is China's newest manned spacecraft. In the past, it has always been the Tianzhou-9 that has carried out flight missions. It was jointly developed by China Aerospace and Guangjia Aerospace based on the past Tianzhou.

The maximum passenger capacity is 4 people, and it is undoubtedly too late to carry out the modification now.

"Using aerospace planes, China's latest aerospace plane can carry 50 people.

It’s more than enough to rescue the astronauts on the International Space Station.” Musk said, “We are running out of time.”

The Changkong space plane is the biggest news in recent years and a major technological breakthrough in human space history.

Nelson naturally knew very well what the Changkong was, and he even knew its technical parameters.

“But is China’s space plane really possible?

Isn't it used for long-distance voyages around the Earth?"

Nelson feels that the Skyspace is even less reliable than Boeing.

This thing has never been on the space station.

Musk said: "From the beginning of its design and manufacture, one of the main purposes of the space shuttle is to travel back and forth between the near-Earth space station and the Earth.

Because China is not sure whether they can deploy the aerospace plane globally in a short period of time, and how long it will take for Changkong to obtain airworthiness certificates in various countries.

And whether they will face the problem of being targeted by us and being unable to go online.

So from the beginning it was designed for both aerospace and aviation use.

After the transformation of China's Tiangong space station, Changkong will regularly travel between Tiangong and the Earth.

With the flexibility and speed of Changkong, it can reach the location of the International Space Station in 6 hours instead of 2 hours.

They will use ropes to connect the space station and the Changkong, and then let the astronauts enter the Changkong through the ropes.

This does not require any docking experience or adaptation at the docking level.”

After listening to this, Nielsen thought for a moment: “Does the White House agree?”

"I have convinced the president," Musk said.

Nelson felt relieved. If there was any chance, he didn't want to see the astronauts die like this. "Okay, I'll sign it."

Even though he voted for the Donkey Party in 24 years, he is sincerely glad that the person in the White House now is from the Elephant Party.

If we replace the Donkey Party, even if it means the astronauts die in vain, we will never give such an opportunity to the Chinese.

"That means we can see our astronauts successfully return to Earth in four hours," Nelson said.

"Four hours is probably not going to work," Musk said.

They had no way to return to Earth for 40 hours."

Nelson was puzzled and asked: “Why?
It only takes 2 hours to go there. Even if it takes 2 hours to connect, 2 hours to come back is enough.

How could it take more than 40 hours? "

Musk said: "You know, Changkong is an aerospace plane, and the aerospace plane and the spacecraft are different in terms of thermal insulation.

It is true that Changkong is designed for round-trip travel between the earth and the sky, but it is designed for round-trip travel between the earth and the sky that is unique to the Chinese system, not round-trip travel between the earth and the sky in the normal sense.

To put it simply, the Chinese use it to travel between the Earth and the space station, so the space station needs to be modified. The space station needs to have the function of applying a thermal insulation coating on the surface of Changkong.

This is the port that the Chinese have promoted in the media in the past.

This time, the cabin section used to paint the thermal insulation layer of Tiangong has not been installed yet.

That is to say, Changkong needs to first go to the International Space Station to pick up people, and then go from the International Space Station to the Light Armor Space Station in near-moon orbit to complete the thermal insulation layer coating, and finally return to Earth from the Light Armor. It will take a total of about 500 hours, or about 24 days.

(End of this chapter)