This star is going to the moon

Chapter 526 American: Does this mean my PowerPoint presentation can only be done by Chinese people? Can't I do it myself?
[Haha, "Walking Alone on the Moon" is hilarious! No wonder it's Shen Teng!]

However, Uncle Teng has really gained weight, which makes him and the movie plot seem a bit greasy to me.

[Ever since Shen Teng established his comedic image, this has basically been his look.]

[As expected of a sci-fi film with Lu Xun involved, the lunar base in "Lone Ranger" looks incredibly realistic.]

(The lunar base in "Lone Wolf on the Moon")

[Haha, could this be the later stage of our manned lunar landing program we're currently working on?]

[Maybe. After all, Lu Yun not only made a cameo appearance as a scientist on the lunar program in the movie, but was also the film's scientific advisor. Furthermore, he was a key figure in the real-world manned lunar landing program. He might have even included the lunar base plan from the later stages of the manned lunar landing program in the film.]

[Wow, that's amazing!]

[I guess "Lone Wolf in the Moon" had all the right timing, location, and people. I wonder how much it will gross at the box office?]

Current forecasts from various agencies are around 50 billion...

This is true.

While keeping track of the return of the Dream Boat spaceship, Lu Yun also paid attention to "Lone on the Moon," since it was a science fiction film he was involved in.

In the previous life, "Lone in the Moon" grossed over 30 billion yuan. In this life, with Lu Yun's participation, and coinciding with the execution of the country's major manned lunar landing project, which also coincided with the maiden flight of the manned lunar rocket and the lunar orbiter's flight around the moon, it was truly a perfect storm of favorable timing, location, and people.

Therefore, many people commented that the science fiction scenes in this film are satisfying. From the lunar base, the lunar surface environment, and the spacesuits, to the lunar rover, the Moon Palace space station, the return capsule, and the underground city, these all have a great sense of realism in scientific detail, allowing people to immerse themselves in the film.

Furthermore, the location of the Lunar Shield project base, the mechanical dog in Collins Crater, and the use of Apollo 18, which was left on the moon, to create the return capsule all conform to the logic of real science.

This is thanks to the fact that "The Lone Moon" invited a team of scientific advisors to join from the pre-production stage, especially with the participation of super aerospace scientist Lu Yun and super movie star, which allows the audience to feel the same way as "The Wandering Earth" through the visuals, and the audience feels respected.

So this lifetime's box office of 50 billion is a sure thing.

Equally successful was the Dreamboat spacecraft, which returned safely.

Unlike the Orion spacecraft's return capsule, which landed at sea, the Dreamboat spacecraft's return capsule landed on land.

Unlike the Orion spacecraft's return capsule, which was burned to a crisp, the Dreamship spacecraft's return capsule's heat insulation layer actually developed a metallic sheen after being scorched.

(Dreamboat test spacecraft)

The two return capsules have many differences, the most obvious being that the Orion spacecraft's return capsule has a heat insulation layer made up of small pieces of heat-insulating tiles.

The heat insulation layer of the DreamZhou spacecraft's return capsule is made up of large pieces of heat insulation panels pieced together.

The Space Shuttle accident was caused by the overly complicated inspection of small pieces of heat-resistant tiles. The Orion spacecraft's return capsule still uses small pieces of heat-resistant tiles, and more than a hundred damages were found during the previous return. This is a continuation of the previous design.

I wonder what Lockheed Martin and NASA think about this?

They are feeling very bad right now, especially after the White House learned that the Chinese Dream Spacecraft's return capsule had successfully conducted a lunar orbit test and landed perfectly. The White House then questioned NASA.

"Can our return-to-the-moon program really get ahead of Laos and China?"

"Furthermore, I noticed that their manned lunar landing bellwether, Lu Yun, participated in a science fiction movie that showcased a lunar base. Do you think the future lunar base of the Lao-Chinese people will be like the one in the movie?"

If you were to ask Old Deng in the White House to explain the moon landing program and lunar base in detail, he might not be able to listen, and even if he could listen, he might not understand. But if you showed him a science fiction movie and some realistic science fiction scenes, he could manage.

That's why this question was asked.

The main reason is that Old Deng knew that the Federation was the first country to decide to build a lunar base!
After all, Dennis was born in 1942. He experienced the peak of manned lunar landings in the last century and knew about the decline after the Federal government abandoned manned lunar landings. In order to increase its power again, NASA proposed a new space exploration strategy in 1989.

At that time, he did not have Alzheimer's disease yet, but was in the prime of his life.

The core objective of that strategy was to establish permanent facilities on the moon to provide transit support for deep space exploration and Mars missions.

The lunar base is an important part of the "conquering of outer space trilogy," and the phased plan includes milestones such as base construction, lunar soil oxygen production plant, and unmanned industrial production.

At the time, Old Deng was not among the top officials in the federal government; all that was heard was that a $1000 billion space city on the moon was to be built.

The plan will be carried out in phases, starting with the establishment of a temporary base, with the number of people gradually increasing from a dozen to several dozen. They will conduct mineral mining and smelting experiments on the moon and prepare for the construction of a permanent base.

By 2007, a small-to-medium-sized permanent base had been built, and the number of employees had increased to over a hundred, gradually forming a complete production system from mining and smelting to transportation.

Finally, around 25 years later, a lunar city capable of accommodating a thousand people was built on the moon, with various types of production, living, and entertainment facilities becoming increasingly complete.

Not only can the resources be more than enough to be self-sufficient, but they can even be "exported" to the Earth.

He had seen the blueprints for the lunar base at the time. It covered an area of ​​8000 square meters and was a circular, three-story building with a diameter of 64 meters and a height of 4.5 meters per floor.

The roof is constructed of concrete and then covered with lunar soil, which is 0.7 to 2.5 meters thick.

The wall is divided into two parts, an outer wall with 6 layers and a thickness of 1.4 meters, and an inner wall with a thickness of 2.5 meters. Between the inner and outer walls is a 0.7-meter-thick layer of lunar soil, which is mainly used to protect against cosmic rays, solar wind, and meteorite impacts.

In addition, there is a circular air-raid shelter in the middle of the building. If the building is damaged and the atmosphere leaks out, people can take refuge inside.

In order to build the lunar city, federal scientists have made extensive preparations, and even built a closed ground ecosystem simulation system called "Biosphere 2".

The purpose of this system is to simulate the Earth's ecological environment in a closed environment, in preparation for establishing an Earth-like ecosystem on the Moon in the future.

For humans to live normally on the surface of the moon, they first need fresh water and oxygen. However, at that time, humans had limited knowledge of the moon and believed that there was neither water nor air on it.

What should we do?

This is no challenge for federal scientists.

They discovered that lunar sand contains a lot of oxygen, and they proposed the idea of ​​using lunar sand to produce fresh water and oxygen.

The idea is to first use a bulldozer to automatically excavate the sand and soil on the moon, select oxygen-containing iron minerals from them, and then use hydrogen to reduce the oxygen-containing iron minerals, thus producing fresh water.

With water, electricity is passed through to electrolyze the water, producing oxygen and hydrogen.

Oxygen is liquefied and stored, and can be supplied to the base residents at any time.

The hydrogen initially used as a reducing agent can be transported from Earth, and the hydrogen obtained from the electrolysis of water can be recycled after production begins.

It is estimated that 190 tons of lunar soil contains 15 to 16 tons of oxygen-containing iron minerals, which can be used to produce 1 ton of oxygen.

One ton of oxygen produced per year is enough to sustain 10 people on the moon.

Secondly, for humans to live in a self-sufficient lunar system, they must also ensure a food supply.

Where does the food come from?
Scientists have conducted numerous biological experiments on the space station and have cultivated more than 100 kinds of "space plants," including wheat, corn, oats, soybeans, tomatoes, radishes, cabbage, and beets.

Furthermore, it has been shown that under the weightless conditions of space, plant seeds germinate at a higher rate, grow faster, and flower or head earlier in lunar soil.

Scientists have also conducted experiments on some animals, proving that weightlessness does not affect the birth of new life.

On the space station, fruit flies can mate, lay eggs, and reproduce just like on Earth, and bees can build nests and the queen bee can still have offspring.

The 60 quail eggs sent aboard the spacecraft were able to hatch into baby quails after returning to Earth.

The fish eggs that were left on the spacecraft for 59 days all hatched successfully into fry after returning to Earth.

Mammals are no exception. Female and male mice were placed in cages and sent into space, where they still lived together, and the female mice still became pregnant and gave birth to the first generation of "space mice" after returning to Earth. Therefore, as long as lunar agriculture and animal husbandry bases are established on the moon, the food source for lunar humans will be fully guaranteed.

Third, energy supply for the lunar base will not be a problem.

Because the moon is windless and rainless, sunny and without clouds, and receives sunlight all day long, and has no atmosphere to absorb it, the intensity of solar radiation is about 1.5 times that on Earth.

Therefore, solar energy can be fully utilized on the moon for lighting, heating, and power generation.

Of course, if necessary, a nuclear power plant can also be built on the moon to ensure a sufficient energy supply for the base.

These plans sound appealing, but Deng Xiaoping knew the federal government very well, and when the $1000 billion budget came out, he knew the plan was doomed.

As he had predicted, the first phase of development was unsuccessful.

Not to mention a lunar city that can accommodate a thousand people.

The Federation even almost completely abandoned the exploration of the moon.

When the new century arrived, in 2007, when "a small to medium-sized permanent base should have been built and the population increased to over a hundred people", the Federation once again proposed the plan to return astronauts to the moon.

Of course, there are also plans for new lunar bases.

However, the timeline and mission objectives have changed to "re-realizing unmanned lunar exploration" in 2014.

Then came the task of restoring the ability to return to the moon, initially sending a four-person lunar landing team to carry out early missions.

Each task lasts approximately one week.

This process will continue until the basic life support facilities are installed, which is estimated to take four years.

It will take at least two or four years for the lunar base to have basic functions. At that time, scientists will need to take turns being stationed on the moon, with each shift lasting up to six months.

With operations at the lunar base becoming increasingly "stable" and scientists having conducted a comprehensive observation of the moon, an even more ambitious expedition is about to begin.

That is, 30 years ago, astronauts were able to leave the base in a spacecraft equipped with an oxygen tank to explore more distant parts of the lunar surface, or even go to Mars.

NASA scientists also released details about the lunar base's landing vehicles and location.

For example, this time they also announced a suitable location for establishing a lunar base, namely Antarctica.

Because there is sunshine most of the time there, and in extreme places it can be 80% to 90% of the time.

In this way, solar energy can enter a long-term working state and generate sufficient electricity.

At the same time, the temperature difference in the polar regions is relatively small, unlike other parts of the lunar surface where there are large-scale temperature changes.

This makes the lunar south pole the first choice for building a lunar base.

It seems that the wonderful prospect of humans permanently landing on the moon is about to be realized...?

not at all.

Instead, the Federation watched as the Chinese gradually began to explore the moon.

Chang'e 1, 2, 3... and now China has also launched a manned lunar landing program!

In recent years, the Federation has not only failed to establish a lunar base, but has even started to compete with China in manned lunar landing!
Having witnessed so much along the way and climbed step by step to the top, Old Deng absolutely would not allow this to happen!

He must restore the Federation's manned lunar landing capability during his term and win the new manned lunar race in the new century!
Of course, as for other space race competitions, or even those that have already fallen behind, that's none of his business.

That's all because the previous Trump administration left too many problems, which led to the federal competition failing.

It's definitely not because China's system is better or its technology is more advanced; only China can complete the PowerPoint presentation made by the federal government!

The federal government's presentation will definitely be completed by the federal government itself!

NASA and Lockheed Martin did not disappoint him, their response being: "China's future lunar base will absolutely not be that magnificent; it's just a fictional creation from science fiction movies."

"And our plan to return to the moon can definitely be ahead of the old Chinese!"

Old Deng: "Great! I knew you guys could do it! I'm so proud of you!"

NASA and Lockheed Martin: "We are also proud of you, Your Excellency, but..."

Old Deng: "But what?"

NASA and Lockheed Martin: "It's no use just feeling proud, Your Excellency."

"We need more funding, more support, we need more scientists involved in the return-to-the-moon program, we need..."

Old Deng: "..."

Old Deng was speechless.

He knew it.

The Federation is still the same Federation.

Even though he became president and tried to change many things, there were still many things that remained unchanged.

Old Deng thought about it and finally agreed.

"Sure, I'll give you more funding and support, but when you recruit scientists, you can't just consider skill levels; you also need to consider diversity, sexual minorities, and LGBTQ+ issues..."

"..."

This time, NASA's Lockheed Martin was speechless.

Old Deng was helpless. As someone who came from the Federation's "Golden Age," he certainly knew how the Apollo manned moon landing program was done, but now... times have changed.

He knows how he got to power, so he has to make things easy for these things, because only in this way will his approval rating not plummet in his next term.

He needs these people to vote.

Moreover, the people there assured him that their professional skills were up to par and could help advance the project.

This will ensure that the process of returning to the moon is not delayed, and may even be accelerated!
Old Deng believed it; he felt that in such an important matter... they wouldn't lie to him.

So he went to rest after getting a satisfactory answer.

There's nothing I can do, I'm really getting old.

He knows his true self, even though he pretends to be young in front of the public.

If he wants to serve another term, he needs to take great care of his health.

He wants to see the Federation return to the moon and regain its former glory!

(End of this chapter)