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Chapter 234 The Best Moon Landing Spaceship
Starry, an aerospace engineering seminar a long time ago.

Li Future is explaining the "flying to the moon" class spacecraft and the overall aerospace engineering concept to the people of the Aerospace Engineering Committee.

"As you can see just now, the shell of the 'flying to the moon' spacecraft is equipped with a lot of unprotected equipment, so it cannot directly land on the earth like the starship moon landing spacecraft, but it does not matter, it can be parked on the space station."

"Arriving at the space station is equivalent to returning to the earth. The wooden kite space plane can take off at any time. Although its load capacity is only a few tons, the spacecraft returning from the moon can't bring much. For lunar samples and so on, the capacity of the Wooden Kite is sufficient."

"And compared to the falling return to the earth, the return process of the aerospace plane is more stable."

"However, this is only possible in the early stage, because there are not many equipment and material interactions involved in the early stage, and the only interface on the space station can barely handle it, but there are more interactions in the later stage, and the interface on the space station is not enough."

"So the next step is to upgrade the space station, expand the cabin, increase the number of spaceship berths, allowing multiple aircraft to dock at the same time, and increase the mechanical arm to facilitate cargo transfer."

"In this way, the space station will change from a simple space experiment site to a transit station, dock or port for humans to go to space..."

Hearing what Li Future said, everyone in the meeting room thought about it.

Indeed, compared to directly rushing into the atmosphere, although there are two more steps to dock on the space station for material transfer, overall consideration is quite appropriate.

Although there are two more steps, the design and manufacture of the spacecraft are much simpler.

If it goes straight into the atmosphere, it will not only increase the complexity of the spacecraft, but also increase the difficulty and cost of manufacturing.

After all, the earth environment, space environment and lunar surface environment are three completely different environments.

The "Moon Flying" spacecraft considers the space environment and the lunar surface environment. They have one thing in common, that is, vacuum.

Moreover, the gravity of the moon is not too large, it belongs to low gravity, and the gap with the "no gravity" of the space environment is also small.

At least compared to Earth's gravity.

The biggest problem on the earth side is going through the atmosphere, especially when high-speed friction will generate extreme heat and make the flight of the aircraft unstable. In order to cope with these problems, the difficulty of designing and manufacturing the spacecraft will increase linearly.

The "Moon Flying" spacecraft simply won't enter the atmosphere.

At the same time, good versatility also means that you cannot specialize in anything.

Just like the current wooden kite.

Thanks to its excellent flight performance, the cargo capacity of the Wooden Kite is no problem at all, and preparations for the manned spaceship next month have already begun.

That is to start improving the life support system, installing seats, increasing comfort and so on.

But because it is so good, many people have taken a fancy to its cargo capacity. Even though the fuel it uses is more expensive than ordinary aerospace fuel, its superior performance is enough to overwhelm everything.

Not to mention that some people know that controllable nuclear fusion has come out, and it will no longer be difficult to prepare metal hydrogen, and the cost will become lower and lower. Use the wooden kite to transport some sophisticated, urgent, and high-value goods Great deal.

But now there is a small problem, because the wooden kite was developed for carrying people, so the hatch is the same as the docking port of the space station, which is a small round door.

If it’s okay to transport some standard-sized aerospace packages and small things, if the size of the goods is large, such as a complete space station experiment cabinet, this small round door will definitely not pass through.

Therefore, if you want to purely carry out cargo transportation, you have to open a large hatch like the space shuttle cargo bay on the back of the Wooden Kite, and at the same time, some modifications must be made to the structural strength of the body.

Of course, this is actually not difficult to solve, and the cargo version of the wooden kite is not in a hurry, so it can be done slowly.

And this time when the moon landed and returned to the earth, the wooden kite was not used, but a new manned spacecraft was used.

One of the design purposes of the new manned spaceship is the manned mission to the moon. As a result, the times and technology have developed too fast, and before it can be used, the joint plan of the Wooden Kite and the "Flying to the Moon" spaceship appeared.

But the previous plans have been finalized, and the new manned spacecraft has been built. Instead of directly storing it, it is better to use it in the first manned lunar landing mission.

In this way, the new manned spacecraft can enter the museum with the title of "Legendary Spaceship", and the exhibits are also more high-end, that is - the round-trip spacecraft that the stars took to land on the moon for the first time!
Of course, this kind of internal meeting is not known to outsiders, but as the news of the moon landing continues to be released, people's discussions are becoming more and more heated.

"The Enterprise lunar module is really an 'ancient technology'. It feels like it has become bigger, but nothing else has changed."

"So I am optimistic about the moon landing spacecraft and the moon flying spacecraft."

"Haha, as expected of the generation of 'boat', it is better than the generation of 'cabin'."

"I think Emmalon's moon landing spacecraft is the best. It is too big, 50 meters high, like a building. It can transport 100 tons of stuff to the moon at a time, which is incredible."

"It's really against the sky. If you really want to transport 100 tons of cargo to the moon, the moon landing spacecraft will have to refuel several times in orbit, and this technology is not even a shadow now."

"Ah, I thought it was almost done."

"Not only has the orbital refueling technology not been completed, even the front-end equipment 'Starship' and 'Super Rocket' boosters of the lunar landing spacecraft have not made their first successful flight yet."

"It seems that Bald Bei's 'Enterprise' is reliable, ugly is ugly, as long as it can be used."

"There's also Boss Li's 'flying to the moon' spaceship. It's also going to be launched this time. It's not as radical as Emmalon's, but it's also much more advanced than Baldhead."

"Indeed, being small is the advantage of being small. It can fly back and forth with only the fuel refueled on the ground, and even look at the data without bringing a new manned spacecraft."

"The metal hydrogen fuel is still more powerful."

"I don't know if Practical Technology can sell metal hydrogen fuel to Emalon, so that humans can have the strongest starship."

"No, it's against the law."

"No way, it's understandable that technology can't be sold, but fuel can't be sold either? Fanxing is too domineering."

"Did you make a mistake? It's a violation of the laws of the Freedom Federation. People don't allow Starry Space to have any contact with the spaceflight of the Freedom Federation."

"Ah, is there still such a thing to say, hasn't the Freedom Federation always said that technology has no borders?"

"Yeah, did you make a mistake? The Freedom Federation is a beacon for mankind. They can cooperate with Lucia. How can it be possible to prohibit the cooperation of Fanxing?"

"Perhaps Fanxing always steals other people's technology, which makes them very embarrassed, so such a strict law has been introduced."

"Hehe, the ID upstairs is quite interesting, it turned out to be the Federation of Freedom..."

(End of this chapter)