Chapter 766

Jinling Institute of higher learning.

Dean's office.

The land boat sitting at the desk is also scrutinizing the documents on the desk.

Since becoming the chief designer of moon orbit construction committee, his work has been busy.

The whole Chinese nation's funding for the moon construction project has to go through his pen.

In short, the Presbyterian as chairman of the committee is responsible for checking the total amount of funds. According to the scientific, economic and cultural value of the moon orbit project, he decides how much money the whole moon orbit construction plan can get.

As for Lu Zhou, as the chief designer, he is responsible for deciding which piece of funds to spend, or in other words, which R & D projects to use.

If the whole outer space exploration plan is compared to a small boat sailing on the sea, then its position is the helmsman. If something goes wrong with him, the whole ship will have to go along with it.

Therefore, even if he is not interested in these trivial things, he can only sit here patiently, read every document from the beginning to the end, identify those reliable projects or programs, and sign his own name on them.

Just as Lu zhouzheng was pondering over a report on the technical feasibility of lunar mining engineering equipment, there was a knock at the door.

Stopped the pen in hand, the boat looked to the door, cleared his throat and said.

"Come in, please."

The door opened, and the young assistant in her professional dress came in with a thick stack of papers.

"Professor, this is the document from Huanong University and the aviation bureau. It's from the foreign development and liaison office

Lu Zhou nodded his head and said.

"I see. You can put it on the table first."

"OK," the assistant nodded, went to the desk and took the document out of the folder, placed it in the corner of the desk, asked softly, "is there anything else I can help you?"

"Just pour me a cup of coffee."

"Yes, professor."

The young female assistant nodded, turned to the side of the water fountain, helped Lu Zhou to make a cup of instant mocha and brought it to him, then left the office easily.

While drinking coffee, Lu Zhou simply turned over two documents sent from the foreign liaison office.

In general, the two documents are good news, especially those from the space agency, which highly praised the outstanding contribution of Jinling Institute of higher learning in the moon orbit construction project.

The success of the core module of the Moon Palace has not only established the first-hand advantage for China's development of moon resources, but also won great reputation for China in the world.

At the same time, this document also contains the concept map of the space station phase I project and the completion schedule of the remaining components sent by the aviation science and technology group.

According to these data, the launch schedule of the next node module, energy module, experimental module, working module and other space station components will be determined through the discussion of the moon orbit construction committee.

On the other side, good news came not only from the Moon Palace, but also from the Gurbantunggut Desert.

As early as a month ago, while studying how to send the Moon Palace to the moon orbit, the "kindling plan" completed the construction of the first phase of the project, and under the leadership of Professor Hu Yang, started the operation of biosphere a.

Up to now, biosphere a has been running successfully for one month. In this month, volunteers who are closed in the artificial biosphere have successfully achieved the expected goal. Through limited water resource input and a small amount of waste discharge, the circulation of living materials has been preliminarily realized.

"Closed loop life support technology" is one of the most important pre technologies for colonizing the moon and even Mars, and also an important part of the whole moon orbit construction plan.

At present, the United States, which once led the biosphere II experiment, is relatively far away in this field. The Ares life support unit, which has been launched to Mars, is an application of this technology.

If China plans to build colonies on the moon or even on distant planets, it is necessary to unlock the branch of this science and technology tree.

At the end of seeing Professor Hu's report, Lu Zhou's face showed a happy expression.

If everything goes well, maybe next year, China will be able to send its own colonists to the surface of the moon.

Just then, the knock rang again.

The document in hand is directed, and the boat looks towards the door.

"Come in, please."

Pushing open the door of the office, the director of the Institute of space science and technology walked in with a serious face. Before the boat could ask what happened, he opened the door to the mountain path.

"Good news and bad news, which do you want to hear first?"

Seeing the serious expression on Hou Guang's face, Lu Zhou was slightly stunned and then said with a smile."When did you learn to sell?" After a pause, he said casually, "then Start with the good news. "

Hou Guang: "the good news is that the planting unit we deployed on the moon has successfully harvested the first batch of potatoes!"

Hearing this sentence, Lu Zhou's face gradually emerged a touch of surprise.

"Has it been harvested? So fast? "

Although he has not planted land or engaged in research in this field, he has heard that potatoes generally take three months from sowing to maturity.

Now, it's less than two months from the successful start-up of the planting unit to the harvest. It has to be said that the speed is amazing.

Aware of the surprise of the land boat, Hou Guang smiled and explained, "OK, we used the improved potato seed, plus the constant temperature system of the planting unit to keep it at the most suitable growth temperature. Two months is not an exaggeration."

The cost of potatoes grown through space planting units is undoubtedly several times more expensive than on earth.

But even then, at a time when the cost of a kilogram launch is more than tens of thousands of dollars, the cost of growing food on the moon is much cheaper than on earth.

And even if we can realize the self-sufficiency of living materials on the moon regardless of the economic cost, this psychological satisfaction can not be exchanged with money

"It's really good news," Lu continued with a smile after a pause. "What about the bad news?"

"The bad news is, we got the news this morning..." After a moment of hesitation, he took a deep breath and said, "the BFR rocket launched last month by space-x has landed on the surface of Mars at 13:00 Beijing time today."

Already landed?!

Expression gradually serious, in the office chair sat on the boat, immediately continue to ask: "how is the landing?"

"Wait for light expression to look at him with dignity, open mouth to say.

"It is said that They did it. "