I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

June 18, Qiongzhou.

Liu Ming walked on the red carpet with six astronauts and waved to the crowds on both sides.

The Long March 7 rocket is already on standby at the launch station, and above it is the new-generation manned spacecraft "Banchao".

Since the launch of "Shenzhou 11", the last Shenzhou spacecraft, in early 2016, China's first manned spacecraft has quietly ended its mission in an undisclosed state. In the following time, the space agency made several trips H1, the Dawn spaceship was used at the end of last year.

Since the command module of the Dawn spacecraft is reusable and is no longer used once and thrown away like the "Shenzhou", it is a bit confusing to use "XX" in the naming. In addition to retaining the naming convention in the Dawn project, the naming has been changed for regular launches. convention.

The "Shuguang-2" command module, which was shot up and then fell down at the beginning of the year, after undergoing repair and evaluation, decided to convert it into a regular low-Earth orbit round-trip spacecraft with a maximum crew of 7 people.

At the same time, the small service module of the low-Earth orbit version was installed, which reduced the overall mass from 22.6 tons of the deep space version to 14 tons. Theoretically, the Long March 3 Yinu is not impossible to fight with hard work.

There are currently two spacecrafts in service, namely "Banchao" and "Zhangqian". The latter has been reused twice.

This time "Banchao" will replace the seven astronauts on the Tiangong Space Station and carry out a 12-month mission. During this period, a Tianzhou-2 cargo mission will deliver some experimental equipment for scientific experiments.

Compared with the past, the team of astronauts is becoming more and more bold. For example, the seven-person crew of this mission are all fledglings except Liu Ming. This was somewhat unbelievable in the past.

Just counting the professional astronauts registered with the space agency, the number of people who have been in space exceeds 75, and is continuing to increase at a very high speed, and there are even more non-professionals.

Space has become normalized.

Liu Ming is no longer as excited as before, and even misses his time on the ground. More than a year in the sky is actually quite a test for people.

If it is because he has more experience, the other "young birds" are also a little absent-minded, just like the media who are still present but are a little less present.

A "grapevine" has spread across the Internet: Dawn 3 will carry out a lunar landing mission, and will also have a lunar space station at the same time.

The sources of the leak online were all over the place, but they knew it was true and a press release was coming out tonight.

Compared with the moon's distance of 380,000 kilometers, the space station operates at a maximum altitude of only 400 kilometers, without even leaving the atmosphere.

Only after conquering the moon can we qualify to call it space navigation.

The number of people who can ultimately perform the moon landing mission on the Dawn mission is limited. The third mission is still a three-person crew, with two people landing on the moon. I heard that it will be changed to a four-person crew, three people landing on the moon, or all four people going down, but It seems that the remaining total quota is only 40 for the time being, and this still has to include the quotas for astronauts from Italy, Fa, and Lu.

Then the 507 Institute's team of more than 100 people now competes for the remaining thirty or so, of which at least one-third needs to be reserved for load experts, and the competition becomes even more intense.

On the contrary, Xinyuan Company, although it has not yet been clearly announced, everyone knows that they must have a large-scale moon landing plan.

Deng Lei, who is still on the space station and missed the mission to orbit the moon, is one of the people who will take over the mission this time. He must be preparing for the moon landing.

The Storm can transport at least seven people at a time, which is almost twice as many as the Dawn spacecraft. It will not stop until it has sent at least three digits of astronauts, right?

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Beijing, CCAV studio, the host took a deep breath, saw the director's gestures and entered the state, smiled and spoke with pride:

"Good evening, viewers... Today's main news is... The Long March 10 Yaosan rocket was loaded from Jingu Port today and headed for Qiongzhou by the Yuanwang 22 rocket transport ship.

This is the third launch mission of my country's Dawn Project. According to the Manned Space Office, the crew of this mission is Zhang Zhiguang, Fang Lin, and Ding Jihua. They will carry out my country's first manned lunar exploration mission! "

In front of TV sets across the country, people who had heard the news from the Internet finally heard the accurate official information and immediately fell into joy.

How far can this joy go? You can see it with the naked eye.

It was still dark at 19 o'clock in midsummer, but fireworks rising from all directions had already filled the sky, and even the base could see it.

A group of researchers from Laboratory 304 stood happily in the open space, admiring various fireworks.

Most of them come from urban areas, where setting off is definitely prohibited. Now there must be a large group of urban management and fire brigade searching everywhere as if they are facing the enemy, and then a steady stream of people find opportunities to set off.

There is also a "firework" near the base. The short white cylinder can be seen with the naked eye not far away.

That is a Xinyuan-6A solid rocket. The base built this small rocket with a single-digit capacity just to expand the solid fuel technology tree. It rarely undertakes launch missions, but now it is about to put a network-repairing "Jingwei" "Low-Earth satellites are launched.

This satellite is very special. It is an alternative in the Jingwei satellite network. It uses very cutting-edge laser communication technology and has a special orbit. It can be close to Qianjunbang 2 most of the time.

After it is launched, the communication method between the ground and Qianjunbang 2 will be relayed through it and transmitted by laser signals that are almost impossible to decipher, further covering the traces of the latter.

This plan was proposed by Ye Changsi. He believed that the frequent communications between the laser laboratory and Qianjunbang 2 some time ago could easily arouse suspicion, and at the same time, the laser communication technology could be verified.

So this shameless little satellite was launched directly near the base with a solid rocket in the name of "convenience". There were still two rounds in stock in the warehouse, and the preparation for launch was less than 24 hours.

It's just the right time. If you choose to launch it at night, it will definitely be the brightest of all fireworks. Even a small solid rocket with a hundred tons level can have a tail flame comparable to a liquid rocket that is an order of magnitude larger. It can almost illuminate Half the sky.

The base's congratulations on the moon landing only go so far.

Even Xie Miao knew that the warehouse was already stocking various equipment and materials for use in the future lunar base. If it were not for a "meaningful" moon landing, the base would have sent people there long ago.

There is no life-and-death space race, it is just a difficult mining operation.

As they were thinking this, a car with military license plates and two BAIC Warriors drove in from the base gate and parked in front of them.

The people in the car belonged to the Security Bureau and were here to interrogate Liu Si. The purpose of the two military vehicles was also related to him.

A lieutenant colonel and a colonel were followed by three soldiers in training uniforms. The colonel walked up to Semyon and put his arm around one of the soldiers and said:

"Director Xie, these three are my favorite generals. Every army is vying for good soldiers. You have to return them head and foot, even if you become a fool."

Xie Miao: "Ah, didn't you say voluntary selection? I don't dare to accept you like this."

"That's not true. Everything was clearly stated in advance. The three of them defeated other talents in the three-wheel battle."

Xie Miao: "..."