Regardless of who the informant was, The New York Times was full of sh * t this time.
The next day, the headline of the latest issue of the newspaper reported the latest progress of China's moon landing program. There was a major design error in the core module cooling system of the Moon Palace, and the Lunar Orbit Project might be delayed!
According to insiders, the reason for this error was that China lacked experience in the space station field. The other reason was that the Lunar Orbit Committee set the mission schedule too hastily.
The latter was probably the main reason.
The space race between China and the US was in full swing. This news immediately set off an uproar in North America.
NASA confirmed this speculation on their official Twitter account. They said that they had heard the news, but they weren't sure how things were going.
Compared to The New York Times, NASA's statement was undoubtedly more credible. This tweet immediately caused a heated discussion among North America netizens.
[Jesus … We were waiting for our opponent to punch us, how come they're already down?]
[I told you, this isn't a space race. Even though they did what the Soviets couldn't, they're still half a century behind us. : D]
[Maybe we should donate to the Yuegong organization? : P]
[I agree! The competition is about to end, this is so boring! XD]
[I'm looking forward to the end of the month! I hope Space-X doesn't disappoint us!]
[…]
What was interesting was that even though most people were laughing at the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation and the Lunar Orbit Committee, NASA didn't mock them like they did last time. Instead, they expressed their regret for the Moon Palace incident.
The China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation was a respectable opponent. Even though Congress and the White House were happy to hear this news, NASA didn't want to see this respectable opponent fall.
It wasn't that they appreciated each other, it was purely because China's aerospace program had brought them a huge amount of funding and political capital.
Therefore, they all hoped that the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation could survive.
At the very least, he should not fall so quickly and thoroughly. It would be best if he could struggle a little more …
What was even more interesting than NASA's careful planning was that, compared to the White House and Congress, a small group of people had even opened the cap of the champagne bottle and watched the fruity bubbles spray up to the ceiling.
For those who invested heavily in the low-Earth orbit launch plan, there was nothing more exciting than hearing that the lunar orbit construction plan was blocked.
Almost on the same day that the new edition of the New York Times was published, the news was all over the Chinese Internet.
Among them, the most representative was the anonymous account that published the article "We Are Losing This Competition" on Weibo. This time, it stood out again.
Unlike last time, this time, he stood up as a prophet … or even as a "savior", and he continued to write energetically.
[It's a pity. Although I'm very unwilling, reality has proven my conjecture once again. However, I didn't expect everything to happen so suddenly and so tragically.
[The design failure of the Moon Palace core module, which is worth billions of yuan, was not an accident. In a sense, it was inevitable. From the beginning of this irrational competition, I already knew this was going to happen. Even if the problem wasn't with the loop heat pipe, the problem could be with the engine rubber or the solar panel circuit.
[Like I said, the controllable fusion technology directly led to the successful launch of Skyglow. The successful launch of Skyglow is like a black curtain covering up all the problems that should have been exposed. This caused us to walk further and further away from arrogance and false prosperity.
[The entire China aerospace industry is like a tightened clockwork machine. For the sake of some people's unrealistic vanity, they were forced into a boxing ring.
[From the moon landing project to the Lunar Orbit Committee, all of the policies are like a whip, being waved by a madman and driven forward. However, no one put oil in this machine, and no one gave it enough time to think about the immature details.
[Maybe Professor Lu is an excellent mathematician, physicist, and chemist. His achievements in the field of controllable fusion are enough to be recorded in the history of the world. However, after all, he is only an ordinary person. As long as he is an ordinary person, there is a limit to his abilities. History has taught us countless times that blind worship will not bring about a good outcome.]
[Now that the Lunar Orbit Committee has been established, Professor Lu got what he wanted and became the chief designer of the Lunar Orbit Committee. His prestige in the academic community also gave him a large number of firm supporters … You could even say that they absolutely support his authority in the academic community, even though sometimes his approach is not so correct.
[The failure of the Moon Palace core module is a wake-up call.
[May scholars around the world think about this!]
Just like last time, after the article was published, it accumulated tens of thousands of likes in less than a day. With the help of some people, it was forwarded to major social media platforms and spread like a plague.
This anonymous netizen found a very appropriate entry point. He used this method to raise the issue of the loop heat pipe to the entire moon landing project. He transferred the problem of the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation to the Lunar Orbit Committee, and pointed the spear at Lu Zhou.
If it weren't for the fact that Lu Zhou set the lunar orbit as the goal, if it weren't for the fact that the Lunar Orbit Committee arranged the launch mission in such a tight schedule, if it weren't for the fact that some people were overjoyed …
Maybe all of this could have been avoided!
Even though there were many voices of support for Lu Zhou, it turned out that in this era of big data, human posts were inferior to computers.
Especially for the vast majority of people who weren't good at independent thinking, it was too easy to sway their opinions.
The official Weibo accounts of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Space Administration, and the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation finally stood up after being tagged by netizens for three days.
They all posted on Weibo at the same time.
The content of the Weibo post was very short, so short that it could be explained in a few words. However, the amount of information was unusually large.
The text of the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation's official Weibo only had six words and one punctuation mark.
[The launch plan remains unchanged!]
There was a picture of Skyglow parked on the runway of the Jinling launch site, as well as the Moon Palace core module "boarding"!
The arrow was nocked!
The target —
Lunar orbit!
The entire Internet went crazy!
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