Chapter 766: Good news

Jinling Advanced Institute.
director's office.
Lu Zhou, who was sitting at his desk, was also meticulously reviewing the documents on the desk.
Since becoming the chief designer of the Lunar Orbital Construction Committee, his work has been busy.
The entire Chinese nation's funding for the moon construction project has to pass this pen in his hand.
In short, the elders who serve as chairman of the committee are responsible for checking the total amount of funds, and based on the scientific, economic, and cultural values ​​of the lunar orbital project, determine how much the total lunar orbital construction plan can get.
As the chief designer, Lu Zhou is responsible for deciding which of these funds to spend, or in other words, which R & D projects are used.
If the entire outer space exploration plan is likened to a small boat sailing on the sea, then his position is the helmsman. If something goes wrong here, the whole ship will have to follow along.
Therefore, even if he is not interested in these trivial things, he can only sit patiently, read every document from the beginning to the end, identify those reliable projects or schemes, and sign himself on it. name.
Just when Lu Zhou was thinking about a report on the technical feasibility demonstration of the moon mining engineering equipment, the door knocked.
Stopping the pen in his hand, Lu Zhou looked at the door, cleared his throat and said.
"Come in."
The door opened, and a young female assistant in business attire, holding a stack of documents, walked in from the outside.
"Professor, here are the documents sent from Huanong University and the Aviation Bureau. They were sent to me by the External Development and Liaison Office."
Lu Zhou nodded and said.
"I see. You'll put it on the table first."
"Okay," the female assistant nodded, walked to the desk to take the files out of the folder, placed it at the corner of the desk, and asked softly, "Is there anything else I can help you with?"
"Just help me get a cup of coffee."
"Okay, professor."
The young female assistant nodded, turned and walked to the water dispenser, helped Lu Zhou take a cup of instant mocha and brought it over, then left the office lightly.
While drinking coffee, Lu Zhou simply flipped through the two documents sent from the foreign liaison office.
In general, the two documents are good news, especially the documents sent by the space agency, which highly praised the Jinling Institute of Advanced Research for its outstanding contribution to the construction of the moon orbit.
The successful orbit of the Moon Palace's core module has not only established a first-mover advantage for China's development of monthly resources, but also earned China a huge international reputation.
At the same time, in this document, the concept map of the first phase of the space station sent by the Hangke Group and the completion schedule of the remaining components are also included.
Based on this information, Lu Zhou will discuss the meeting of the Lunar Orbit Construction Committee to determine the launch timetable of the next node module, energy module, experimental module, work module and other space station components.
On the other side, not only the good news came from the Moon Palace, but also the good news came from the Gurban Tungut Desert.
As early as a month ago, while Lu Zhou was still studying how to send the Moon Palace to the moon track, the Tinder Plan completed the construction of the first phase of the project, and under the leadership of Professor Hu Yang, the biosphere was started a's operation.
So far, biosphere a has been running successfully for one month. In this month, the volunteers enclosed in the artificial biosphere successfully achieved the expected goals. Through limited water resources input and a small amount of waste discharge, their lives were initially realized. Material cycle.
"Closed loop life support technology" is one of the most important front-end technologies for colonizing the moon and even Mars, and it is also an important link in the entire lunar orbit construction plan.
At present in this field, the United States, which once dominated the "Biosphere 2" experiment, has gone relatively far, and the Ares life support unit that has been launched to Mars is an embodiment of the application of this technology.
If China plans to build a colony on the moon or even more distant planets, it is essential to unlock the branches of this tech tree.
After seeing Professor Hu's report at last, there was a reassuring expression on Lu Zhou's face.
If all goes well, maybe next year, China will be able to send its colonists to the surface of the moon.
Just then, the knock on the door sounded again.
Pointing at the document in his hand, Lu Zhou looked in the direction of the door.
"Come in."
Pushing open the door of the office, Hou Guang, the director of the Institute of Aerospace Science and Technology, walked in with a serious look, before Lu Zhou asked what had happened, he opened the door to see the mountain road.
"Good news, bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"
Seeing the serious expression on Hou Guang's face, Lu Zhou froze slightly, then said with a smile.
"When did you learn to sell?" He paused and said casually, "Then ... let's 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 potatoes!"
Hearing this sentence, Lu Zhou's face gradually surprised.
"Has it been harvested? Is it so fast?"
Although he hasn't planted land, and hasn't done any research in this area, anyway, I've heard that potatoes generally take three months from sowing to maturity.
Today, it takes less than two months from the successful start of the planting unit to the harvest. I have to say that this speed is a bit amazing.
After being aware of Lu Zhou's surprise, Hou Guang smiled and explained, "Okay, we originally used improved potato seeds, coupled with the constant temperature system of the planting unit to keep it at the most suitable growth temperature. Two The time of the month is not too exaggerated. "
Potatoes grown in space planting units are undoubtedly more expensive than the planet.
But even so ~ EbookFREE.me ~ At the moment when the launch cost per kilogram is more than tens of thousands of dollars, the cost of growing food on the moon is much cheaper than growing on the earth.
And even if aside from economic costs, the self-sufficiency of living goods on the moon can be achieved. This kind of psychological satisfaction cannot be exchanged for money alone ...
"This is indeed good news," Lu paused, Lu Zhou continued with a smile and asked, "What about the bad news?"
"The bad news is that we received the news this morning ..." After a moment of hesitation, Hou Guang took a deep breath and said, "The BFR rocket launched by Space-X last month has landed on Mars at 13:00 Beijing time today surface."
Already landed? !!
With a serious expression, Lu Zhou sat upright on the office chair and immediately continued to ask, "How is the landing?"
Hou Guang looked at him gravely and said.
"Supposedly ... they succeeded."