Actually, there was a lot of controversy at the high-level eting regarding the work plan for Zhao Yi and the senior leaders to inspect the Lunar Base last month, mainly because it felt too risky.
No matter how you look at it, going to space always feels dangerous, let alone landing on the Moon.
A spaceship landing on the Moon requires astronauts to wear spacesuits to enter the Lunar Base and carry out a series of inspection tasks, during which safety risks are very likely to occur.
However, precisely because there were many controversies in the high-level eting, the senior leaders and Zhao Yi were determined to make the trip. They were very confident in technology and wanted to demonstrate to others through practice that space exploration technology had matured significantly.
This was very important for boosting confidence.
No matter how rapidly space exploration technology had advanced, it seed disconnected from ordinary people. In the eyes of the public, space exploration was still very dangerous. This was reflected in Li Renzhe’s reaction; even after more than half a year of training, he still felt worried and had the impulse to leave a last ssage before going to space.
If Zhao Yi and the senior leaders went in person, it would greatly increase public confidence in space exploration, letting people know how mature the technology was and that traveling in a spaceship was very safe.
With assured safety, people would have more confidence in space exploration, and many enterprises and individuals would beco more interested in investing in it.
Although space colonization wasn’t achievable yet, increasing public confidence in space exploration would allow more resources to lean towards it, enabling related industries to develop rapidly.
In the current plan to land on the Moon, the fleet of spaceships was crucial. Xuanhuang and the K02 escort vessel were continuously being tested and perfected. There weren’t any major issues, but there were still so minor ones.
Because the technology for launching and landing on the Moon could be said to be mature, the focus was on the nuclear power device of Xuanhuang. Up to now, only five nuclear fusion devices had been built dostically: one was used for experintal power generation, one was installed on a spacecraft, one was on a large ship, another was used by the nuclear fusion research team, and the last one was mounted on Xuanhuang, creating a mid-sized vessel only second to the spaceship.
Xuanhuang, compared to the spaceship, had significant differences, the main one being the lack of a large Z-wave device, which made autonomous space shuttling impossible.
However, Xuanhuang was much more agile than the spaceship and could frequently land on planets. Its electronic systems were also very advanced, with many technologies inside the vessel more advanced than the spaceship.
This was mainly because Xuanhuang was built later, benefiting from the construction experience of the spaceship and the rapid developnt of the latest technologies. The anti-gravity device equipped on Xuanhuang perford quite high-end.
Of course.
Even if the technology of the spaceship was a bit outdated, it didn’t affect the overall operation of the vessel. The massive spaceship could autonomously shuttle through space and, taking a bit of a risk, could even accomplish interstellar crossings.
The spaceship team was now preparing for its first long-distance voyage. Their goal was to take a trip around the Oute Nebula and return, which was a genuinely massive space exploration plan.
This was a major international space exploration initiative. Scientists, workers, and managers involved, totalling over two thousand people from thirty-seven countries, were all paying close attention to this voyage.
The spaceship’s voyage plan was unrelated to Zhao Yi. He was only responsible for high-end technological developnt and wasn’t involved in the voyage plan. Instead, he was very much looking forward to the Moon landing.
He had previously ntioned to Li Renzhe that he might be going to the Moon soon. Li Renzhe thought it was a joke, but Zhao Yi wasn’t joking; there was an actual plan in place.
At the sa ti, Zhao Yi was also looking forward to the gravity-creation technology.
So when Xuanhuang was still being tested, Zhao Yi submitted a technical test proposal, hoping to incorporate the gravity creation project onto Xuanhuang.
"This is Academician Zhao’s application, let’s not joke around!" Zhao Yi’s application was placed directly in front of the senior leaders, who looked at the word ’test’ and felt sowhat helpless, "Can’t we conduct the technological test sowhere else? Why must it be on Xuanhuang?"
The person responsible for submitting the report from the Science and Technology Departnt explained, "It’s not the entire Xuanhuang, but just a single room, occupying an area of only twenty-three square ters."
The senior leader thought for a mont and then asked, "This test won’t pose any safety risks, will it?"
"Hard to say."
The person submitting the report had only read through it and couldn’t guarantee there were no safety risks. This non-committal attitude left the senior leaders quite exasperated. In the end, they sought out professionals from the Space Science and Technology Information Company who were involved in the developnt experint.
"I participated in the gravity developnt experint. It’s quite astounding, able to create one-tenth of the Earth’s gravity."
"There shouldn’t be any danger. Theoretically speaking, having gravity confined to a fixed area inside wouldn’t affect the entirety of the vessel, and the device would only be activated after the ship has departed from Earth."
"It’ll just be an experint conducted in one room. If any danger arises midway, we can simply turn off the device, and there will be no further impact."
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