In terms of ambition, Lu Zhou didn't have any particularly lofty ambitions.
However, he had realized this.
In the face of the mysteries of the universe, a single person's power was insignificant.
For a formula or a conjecture, he could spend a month or even several months in a small room quietly searching for the answer. However, a systematic scientific research project that was made up of countless problems was no longer a task that a single scholar or even a single discipline could undertake alone.
Even if he could design the ion thruster propulsion system perfectly, he couldn't perfect every single screw on the engine. These essential details had to be done by people.
If he wanted to see the distant world, he had to rely on ordinary people.
And as an academic leader, his responsibility was no longer just to explore and discover, but also to guide the latecomers, and so on.
At the same time, the more he ventured into the boundary of knowledge, the more important the latter became …
Just like Lu Zhou expected, less than a week after he joined the teaching and research group, the policy for the class of the Light of Youth was announced by the Ministry of Education.
As a class that specialized in cultivating academic talents, the class of the Light of Youth would allow second-year students to enroll, and the top 30 students would be selected based on their GPA rankings.
Not only was Lu Zhou the chief consultant, but he also gave a lot of valuable opinions on the talent training program for the Youth of the Light class.
No matter how useful these suggestions were, he hoped that his experience could be of some help to his juniors. At the very least, he hoped that his experience could help his juniors a little …
Even though the work of the teaching and research group took up a lot of Lu Zhou's time, it didn't affect his work at the Lunar Orbit Committee.
As October came to an end, there was good news from the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation.
After countless days and months of design and practice, the second component of the moon mining project, the automatic vacuum arc melting unit, was finally turned from a blueprint to a reality with the joint efforts of more than twenty research institutes.
With the ignition and launch of the Long March 5 carrier rocket, the vacuum arc smelting unit was sent to the cargo module of the International Space Station and sent to the Earth-Moon transfer orbit by the Magpie Bridge.
After a week of intense work, the vacuum arc melting unit finally landed on the surface of the Moon under the remote control of the Moon Palace staff. It successfully docked with the previously deployed automated mining unit.
With the start of the automated mining unit, the sharp drill bit crushed the shallow titanium deposit buried under the lunar soil and sent it to the vacuum arc smelting unit to be smelted into titanium ore.
Although the production efficiency of the entire set of equipment was not high, qualified titanium alloy materials were indeed being produced slowly.
Lu Zhou looked at the numbers on the mission list and felt pretty good. It seemed like the system had approved of the automated mining facility he deployed on the Moon.
At this rate, he would be able to complete another Side Mission within a month at the latest.
The side quests were progressing steadily, and the main quests for the second stage of Control of Earth and Moon had not fallen behind.
In order to cure the colonists who were still in a coma, as well as to properly preserve and research the X-0172 bacterial samples, the lunar research facility had been gradually built with funding from various countries.
The results could be seen by the first half of next year at the latest.
On the other hand, after the installation of several experiment modules and multi-function service modules, the second phase of the Moon Palace project was coming to an end.
China's Moon Palace project was about to be completed, while the "Lunar Gateway" project had only just begun. Criticism of the Ares program was like a tidal wave, washing across the east and west coasts of North America.
They had once supported the New Virginia, which had pioneered the frontiers of human civilization. Now, they were disappointed by it all. Looking back at the past two decades, even though NASA had made countless achievements, all of their achievements seemed to have been overshadowed by the failure of the Ares program.
Some famous people in North America said that the past two decades were lost.
They were losing the space supremacy that they had established since the Cold War …
As for the people of China, they didn't have much special feelings towards the so-called hegemony. However, every time they looked up at the jade plate floating in the air, they couldn't help but feel as if it was a lifetime ago.
All of this happened too fast.
It was like a rocket had been inserted …
It was like in the blink of an eye, the entire world had changed …
…
There were only three days left until the return of the two Ares program astronauts.
Lu Zhou took the high-speed rail to Beijing and attended the final Mars rescue work report meeting at the Great Hall of the People.
After the meeting ended, Lu Zhou didn't immediately return to the hotel. Instead, he went to the State Administration for National Defense and sent a prepared plan to Director Li.
"… Lunar Orbit Committee reorganization plan?" Director Li looked at Lu Zhou's report and adjusted his glasses. He looked at Lu Zhou with surprise and said, "You're not … planning on leaving, right?"
This was also the case for the controllable fusion project.
On the eve of the successful fusion project, Lu Zhou began to plan for the future. Not long after the fusion ignition was successful, he resigned from his position as chief designer and handed everything over to his successor.
Lu Zhou looked at Director Li's worried face and smiled.
"It's still early, once the lunar research facility is built, there's still one more big thing waiting for me to do. I have to wait until this big thing is done before I step down from the chief designer position. "
Director Li sighed and spoke emotionally.
"Sometimes I really admire you, you're able to let go of power."
"Alcohol is good, but don't be greedy." Lu Zhou smiled and said, "For me, this kind of thing has nothing to do with the research itself. It's a waste to give me more."
Director Li: "Then what? After the Moon project is done, what do you plan on doing next? Second-generation nuclear fusion? Or Mars? "
"Neither." Lu Zhou shook his head and said, "I've done enough for you guys, the rest … I have to save some time for myself to explore things that really interest me."
"I see …"
Even though Director Li didn't know what Lu Zhou was interested in, he could still understand what Lu Zhou was thinking.
He paused for a second and spoke solemnly.
"After you step down from the Lunar Orbit Committee, if there's anything I can help you with, call me. I'll help you as long as I can. "
Lu Zhou smiled.
"Of course."
Director Li: "Oh yeah, can I ask, before you leave … What is the next big thing you plan on doing?"
When Lu Zhou heard Director Li ask about this, he couldn't help but smirk and speak.
"Remember the Moon landing project conference more than a year ago?"
"Of course I remember." Director Li smiled and said, "Speaking of which, time really flies by. We're no longer talking about how to land on the Moon, we're talking about how to build a house on the Moon."
"Not only can we build houses, but we can also bring back resources from the Moon." Lu Zhou picked up a ballpoint pen from his desk and drew two lines on a piece of white paper.
Director Li looked at the two straight lines and frowned. He was puzzled.
"What is this?"
"I'm the last link of the entire Earth-Moon transportation system." Lu Zhou paused for a second and said, "Remember the mass projector I talked about?
"With current technology, it might be a bit difficult to build one on the Moon.
"But on the surface of the moon, we are fully capable of giving it a try!"
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