Ever since Biosphere A was attacked by unknown militants and some of the experimental data was destroyed, the entire Garden project had come to a standstill.
Even though no research institute had terminated their cooperation with the Garden project, due to security reasons, many experts from foreign research institutes were considering withdrawing from the research.
So far, the project researchers had been transferred to the Institute of Space Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the restoration of Biosphere A had begun. The local forces had increased the security level of the nearby area, but even so, the losses that had already occurred were irreversible.
Nearly half a year of hard work had gone down the drain. Seeing that the Garden project had come to a standstill, Professor Hu Yang, as the project leader, had been suffering mentally, and he had lost a lot of weight.
Even though no one blamed him for this, sometimes the hardest thing to do was to face the consequences.
Therefore, after he received a call from Professor Lu and heard that Lu Zhou had important information to tell him about the Garden project, he immediately left Beijing for Jinling.
Finally, he arrived at the dean's office of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study. He saw Lu Zhou on the phone.
"This is what I want to give you." Lu Zhou took out a hard drive from the drawer and sat down on the sofa. He reached out his hand and handed it to Professor Hu. He said solemnly, "I hope you can make good use of the data inside."
Hu Yang looked at the hard drive in front of him and hesitated for a second. He asked, "What is this?"
"Information from Mars."
The office went silent for half a minute.
Professor Hu gulped and said with difficulty.
"Is this thing … legal?"
When Lu Zhou heard this interesting speech, he smiled and spoke.
"That depends on how you use it. It's definitely not legal to send it to a journal, and it's probably not legal to discuss it with foreign experts. But other than that, it's probably legal."
Hu Yang hesitated for a second and reached out to grab the hard drive. However, he realized that Lu Zhou didn't let go.
Professor Hu Yang raised his head and looked at Lu Zhou.
Lu Zhou looked at Professor Hu and said in a serious tone, "Think about it carefully. If you take this information, you might be on the CIB's list in the future."
Hu Yang was taken aback for a moment before he smiled and said, "Come on, it doesn't mean that I'm not one now."
When China also showed its ambition to colonize space, the Garden Project was destined to be targeted. As the person in charge of the entire Tinder Project, he had probably been targeted since the very beginning.
After saying that, he took the document.
This time, Lu Zhou didn't hold on to it and simply let go.
Professor Hu Yang looked at the hard drive in his hand. He paused for a second and said, "When the Garden project is completed, we will travel across the entire solar system."
After hearing this, Lu Zhou smiled and replied, "Forget about the solar system, maybe even further places would be a piece of cake."
However, he did not know how many years it would take for that to happen.
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After Hu Yang returned to Beijing with the data provided by Lu Zhou, he immediately contacted several key researchers from the Garden Project and set up an independent research team to begin studying this valuable experimental data.
On the other hand, Starlight, which was thousands of kilometers away, successfully entered the Mars return orbit. At this point, the entire rescue operation basically had no more suspense, and the discussion about this matter on the Internet gradually cooled down.
After the astronauts returned to Earth, CTV would do another interview, but this was all in the future …
During the one and a half months since Starlight set off for Mars, a lot of things happened on Earth.
While NASA was busy with the Ares and Lunar Gateway programs, China wasn't idle either. Whether it was Star Sky Technology or the Lunar Orbit Committee, they didn't stop exploring lunar resources.
After the completion of the first phase of the Moon Palace project, the six astronauts officially settled in, and human civilization finally reached the barren land.
The space station suspended in orbit was like a port at the Cape of Good Hope, guiding the way for people from the old world to the new world. Perhaps in ten years, or perhaps in twenty years, the people who looked up at this starry sky would witness the prosperity of this place amidst the countless sunrises and sunsets …
Of course, this wasn't the most exciting thing.
After countless days and months of design and practice, Chief Designer Lu's "Earth-Moon Transfer Orbit Transportation System" finally became a reality.
After soliciting opinions from netizens, the first "Earth-Moon transfer orbit transportation system" spacecraft was named "Magpie Bridge".
The design of the Magpie Bridge was similar to that of the Skyglow. They both had a single engine at the back, and the speed difference between the engines was used to control the direction of the propulsion. The only difference was that the ion thruster propulsion system was reduced from five thrusters to four thrusters. The spacecraft model was also changed from a long shuttle-shaped to a cuboid, and the wing design was removed.
If it used to be like an airplane, now it was more like a ship, the kind that traveled between the Earth-Moon system.
After the "launch" of the Magpie Bridge, it was sent into low-Earth orbit by the Long March 9 heavy-lift rocket. The Lunar Orbit Committee's Earth-Moon transfer orbit transportation capacity once again rose to a new level.
In the future, the transportation of materials from low-Earth orbit to lunar orbit would be completed by this ion thruster propulsion spacecraft, which was specially designed for outer space navigation. On the other hand, the Magpie Bridge, which was equipped with a cargo module, could carry 500-750 tons of cargo at a time while ensuring the efficiency of transportation was ensured!
So far, the Lunar Orbit Committee was considering renting a node module from the International Space Station, which would be used to install the cargo module.
If this cooperation went through, the International Space Station would become a material transfer station from low-Earth orbit to the Earth-Moon transfer orbit.
From now on, if something needed to be sent from Earth to the Moon, it would only need to be sent by a small rocket or other spacecraft, then transported by the Magpie Bridge.
This way, even aerospace companies that didn't have large rocket launch technology would be able to participate in the lunar orbit project!
The high-thrust propulsion system would no longer be a barrier to the Earth-Moon transfer orbit. The most difficult part of the journey to the Moon would be undertaken by Star Sky Technology's "giant ship".
Perhaps even Lu Zhou himself didn't realize that an interplanetary transportation company was being built.
No one would have thought that Elon Musk's dream when he founded Space-X was slowly becoming a reality on the other side of the Pacific Ocean …
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