While Nagaoka Keiichi was feeling hopeless about losing an order worth tens of billions of yen, on the Moon more than 300,000 kilometers away, there was a festive atmosphere.
Under the gaze of the Moon Palace and all of the lunar scientific research station staff, Wu Gang, who was wearing a spacesuit, skillfully operated a heavy-duty engineering vehicle connected to two pairs of robotic arms. He placed the assembled rail parts on the T-shaped track dug by the shield tunneling machine.
"Beautifully done!"
When he heard the excited shouts coming from the communication channel, Wu Gang smiled faintly. He skillfully controlled the joystick and steadily disconnected the mechanical arm before retracting it.
He had repeated the same operation countless times, so there was no way he would make a mistake.
Wu Gang turned off the engine and squinted his eyes to look at the skyline.
The track was hundreds of kilometers long, and it was moving in a straight line.
Like a silver needle, it pierced through this bright jade plate. It drilled in from one side of the lunar soil and came out from the other side, pointing to the Earth-Moon transfer orbit.
According to the engineering data disclosed by the lunar scientific research station, its maximum depth, which was the depth of the center section of the track, could reach 1 kilometer.
With the solid lunar soil surface, this design could avoid the threat of meteorites as much as possible under the premise of meeting the launch needs.
To put it simply, they had pierced through a satellite, although only on its surface.
The minerals mined from the Moon could be shot directly to the Earth-Moon transfer orbit by electromagnetic acceleration through this vacuum track that traversed the lunar soil surface, saving a lot of chemical propellants.
Once the lunar landing activities and lunar mining reached a certain scale, this track would become the transportation hub of the entire Earth-Moon system. The development plan of Earth's civilization on the Moon would also enter the fast lane!
There was no doubt that this was a miracle in the history of engineering!
It was also a wonder in the history of aerospace!
Of course, this track was not yet completed.
However, there was only one section left …
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Lunar scientific research station.
Wu Gang drove the heavy-duty engineering vehicle into the garage. He pulled out the car key and opened the driver's door.
He stepped on the robotic arm that was drooping on the ground and grabbed the door handle with one hand. He then jumped forward and skillfully jumped out of the driver's seat.
Strictly speaking, this was not in line with the standard operating procedures. The correct operation should be to climb down from the ladder. However, staying on the Moon for a long time made people forget the feeling of height. Over time, people stopped caring about those things.
If it was on Earth, jumping from a height of three to four meters, even if he didn't break his leg, he would at least suffer a fracture.
But here, this height was just child's play.
Wu Gang changed out of the spacesuit and put on the spacesuit with the electromagnetic gravity belt. He then passed through the airlock and went inside the lunar scientific research station.
At this time, the young man named Xu Chengli had already jogged over with a can of water.
"Thank you."
Wu Gang took the water can from his hand and inserted it into the nylon buckle in front of his chest. He pulled out the straw and took a sip before putting it back into the slot next to his collar.
Xu Chengli said with a smile as he followed Captain Wu into the elevator.
"The Labor Day celebration is about to begin. The kitchen made cabbage and meat dumplings today. If you're done resting, let's hurry up and go."
"No rush." Wu Gang took out his card and swiped it on the elevator door. He pressed the number of the dormitory floor and asked, "Speaking of which, did the Moon Palace send any new work plans?"
"Not yet! But boss, aren't you going to rest for a while? "
"Rest?" Wu Gang looked back at the new engineer and said with a smile, "What's there to rest for? I just want to finish this project as soon as possible. "
"What happens after you finish it?"
"Go back to Earth for a while." After a moment of silence, Wu Gang looked up at the jumping numbers on the elevator dial. There was a hint of longing in his pupils as he said, "My child is about to go to high school. I haven't been back for a long time."
No matter how far away he went.
The most difficult thing to give up was his hometown …
…
The more isolated people were, the more they longed for a sense of ritual in life.
This was the only way to make lonely people feel like they were not separated from their own people.
In a sense, the people on the lunar scientific research station were a group of marginalized people who were exiled from the civilized world. The one-second delay made real-time communication an extremely difficult task. The precious communication resources made the information that everyone could obtain from Earth very limited.
The Lunar Orbit Committee did their best to give the people living here a half-hour phone call once a week.
In addition, in order to ensure that the staff living here were in a good state of mind, the management of the scientific research station would do everything possible to organize various activities during every festival, no matter how big or small, to make the people living here feel the joy of the festival and the warmth of home.
Yu Fei stood at the door and looked at the lively cafeteria. He had a gratified smile on his face.
As the stationmaster of the lunar scientific research station and the first group of "colonists" to arrive on the Moon, he watched as the place became more and more lively day by day. He believed that one day in the future, the lunar scientific research station under his feet would become a lunar village, a lighthouse and port for humans to spread the fire of civilization to more distant worlds …
At this moment, a voice came from behind him.
"Stationmaster Yu, why are you standing at the door? Don't you want to go in and eat something?"
Yu Fei looked back and saw Dr. Yang Xingyu, who was stationed here from Earth some time ago. He smiled and said, "Oh yeah, Dr. Yang, how is your project going?"
"It's going very smoothly." Yang Xingyu said with a smile, "The Dr-111 active material likes the environment on the Moon very much.
By controlling the ratio of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and oxygen, we have explored the most suitable gas environment for their reproduction. It shouldn't be long before we can try to use these microbes to transform the organic matter circulation system of our scientific research station. " "No problem, if there is anything you need, please tell me." Yu Fei looked at Dr. Yang and said solemnly, "When our scientific research station can become a colony depends on the progress of your project."
"No problem, if there is anything you need, please tell me." Yu Fei looked at Dr. Yang and said solemnly, "When our scientific research station can become a colony depends on the progress of your project."
"Stationmaster Yu, you're being too serious. Dealing with the metabolite cycle is only one of the prerequisites for large-scale transportation of people and labor from Earth to the Moon. If we want to truly utilize this fertile land, there are still many things waiting for us to solve." After a pause, Yang Xingyu continued, "Speaking of which, how is the construction of our lunar mass accelerator going? When will it be finished? "
This huge project started two years ago. Yang Xingyu still remembered the first time he saw the term lunar mass accelerator. It was on a headline in Everyone Daily.
Now that two years had passed, the collider that had dug through the crater had been completed for almost half a year. No one knew how far the construction of the legendary "Lunar Cannon" had progressed.
When Yu Fei heard Dr. Yang Xingyu ask about this, a smile finally appeared on his face.
If everything went according to plan, the lunar mass accelerator was probably the greatest achievement of his tenure as the director of the lunar scientific research station.
He responded to Dr. Yang Xingyu's curious gaze and spoke in a high-spirited tone.
"Before National Day, there should be no problem!"
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