Hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, on the Moon Palace, an aerospace plane shaped like a bird slowly approached this majestic space fortress.

The alloy round pipe that served as a gangway stretched out from the Moon Palace and inserted into the open connection on the side of the nose of the Xiaguang, pulling the Xiaguang, which had turned off the power system, to successfully enter the port.

The alloy round tube begins to be filled with air.

As the alloy door panels on both sides opened, six astronauts in spacesuits grabbed the handrails on both sides of the corridor and slowly floated over the gangway and into the buffer chamber of the Moon Palace.

Stopped in the buffer room, looking at Liang Youcheng of the moon outside the porthole, with a hint of fascination in his eyes.

"I've heard on Earth that standing on the Moon Palace can see the IMCRC's collider and the Guanghan Special Zone."

"Standing here, I can't see it," Captain Xu Zhenghong, who walked next to Liang Youcheng and was in charge of sending the five astronauts to the moon, said with a faint smile, "But maybe you can wait another hour." ”

"Have you ever been to Guanghan City?"

"Been there twice."

"What it's like there."

"It's moving fast!" Looking at the moon outside the porthole, Xu Zhenghong recalled for a while before he spoke, "I remember the first time I went, it was to deliver supplies to it, and at that time, there was nothing on it, only a lonely scientific research station and a few scientific research workers stationed there. My lieutenant and I even doubted at one point that they would be able to hold out on that little thing. ”

Liang Youcheng asked, "What about the other time?" ”

"The other was to send back to Earth 4.27 tons of lunar ore, 50 kilograms of wheat, corn, potatoes, and some biological reagents and scientific specimens produced from the moon...... I remember it very well, because I counted the goods myself. ”

Speaking of this, a smile appeared on Xu Zhenghong's face, "The current Guanghan Special Economic Zone can not only rely on the lunar ice under the surface to independently produce fresh water and oxygen, cultivate space crops in independent planting units, and even produce rare earth minerals with scarce reserves on the earth. I've heard that there is a space hotel that is open to regular tourists, but it's still more expensive. ”

"I'd love to go up there and have a look."

"There will be a chance," Xu Zhenghong said with a smile, "You seem to be rotating every three years, and the next time you come back from the shift on Mars, I will probably pick you up, and I will take you to Guanghan City when the time comes." ”

Liang Youcheng smiled and stretched out his fist.

"That's okay, don't be the one who won't come then."

"How so?" Xu Zhenghong smiled and stretched out his fist and touched him, "The husband has made a word, and the horse is difficult to chase." When the time comes, you have to be careful over there, and don't have any accidents. ”

"Don't worry," he touched his retracted fist on his chest, and Liang Youcheng said with a faint smile, "I promise that it will be five when I go, and five when I come back." ”

……

The turmoil over the engagement didn't last long.

Gossip is like the wind, which is always a burst of things, and everyone gets tired of it.

After two days, a few more celebrities will get married and break up, and Wei will save Zhao, and soon netizens will run from one hot spot to the next hot spot and eat melons from other families.

Later, as the "day of departure" gets closer and closer, Professor Lu's lifelong event is obviously even less worthy of mention than the lifelong event of all mankind.

The last day of March.

Under the expectation of much attention, the colonists of the manned fire plan finally belatedly appeared in the public eye.

For various reasons, the identity of the colonists who went to Mars was not announced by the Office of the Landing Fire Program before this.

It wasn't until the five of them successfully arrived at the Yuegong, hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, that they were about to land on the Xufu colony ship, that they were given a complete shot, and their names and photos were released.

What is surprising is that in the "Landing Roadmap" and the manned landing plan published by the Office of the Manned Landing Plan, there are only three of the first colonists mentioned in both the drawings and the written word.

Even because of this incident, many people on the Internet are still talking about the fact that the manned fire office is actually a parody of NASA's "New Virginia" program.

Now, however, the number of people landing in the first batch of landings has changed from three to five.

This sudden change, whether it is for netizens who are concerned about the fire plan, or for NASA, is really a little surprising.

After all, taking an extra person to Mars isn't just about adding a seat to the spacecraft. This not only requires the artificial ecosystem deployed on the surface of Mars to have a stronger carrying capacity, but also means that the colony ship needs to consider two more supplies when carrying supplies.

Technically, this is not an easy task.

What's more, coupled with the fact that manned boarding is a thing that attracts attention in itself, its natural political nature makes it difficult not to combine it with the current international situation.

Just a few years ago, NASA crashed on the fiery red planet and almost brought dangerous Martian bacteria back to Earth, causing a serious ecological crisis, and even now an astronaut has not woken up from a research station on the moon.

Considering that there were exactly three astronauts on board the BFS spacecraft sent by NASA to Mars, Hua Guo has now suddenly announced that the number of people on board the fire has been adjusted from three to five, and this special number and special initiative is really hard not to make people think strangely.

Many people regard it as a provocation by China to North America in the field of aerospace.

What's more, it is even interpreted as a high-profile announcement by Hua Guo that they have won the race for the future of mankind.

The result of this was completely unexpected by Lu Zhou, and even made him a little crying and laughing.

The Void testifies that he had never thought of such a childish thing.

At the beginning, the arrangement of three people on the ship was only to take into account the fact that one main and one deputy was substituted, and the three people were just able to be competent for most of the initial exploration work.

Now it has been temporarily changed to five people, and the schedule of the manned fireboarding plan is scheduled for a month, just for the sake of system rewards, and if conditions permit, more experience will be gained.

As a result, I didn't expect those international relations experts to pull a group of netizens who watched the excitement and interpreted so many layers of meaning. Not to mention Lu Zhou's confused expression, Director Li and Director Chang also had unexpected expressions after learning about the situation.

Because there were so many people clinging to this detail, in order to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings, the Office of the Manned Fire Program had to hold a press conference to publicly respond to and clarify these false rumors.

However, what no one expected was that it didn't matter if it wasn't clarified, and when it was clarified, it made people feel that there must be some ulterior secrets in it.

Twitter.

CNN News' official account reprinted the report of the live interview at the press conference.

In the comment section below the tweet, it has been completely fried.

"This is Chi Guoguo's provocation!"

"How dare they...... How dare you do that! ”

"We should immediately restart the manned launch program!"

"That's right! If they send five people, then we will send ten people! ”

“……”

Of course, in the excitement of the crowd, there are also many rational voices.

In addition to those who are clamoring for the resumption of the manned landing program, there are also many people who oppose the resumption of the manned landing program, believing that the White House should pay more attention to the deep space gate and the distant lunar settlement plan, and first catch up with the Chinese people on the moon in a down-to-earth manner, before it is too late.

In fact, it is.

So far, NASA has not completely cleaned up the mess left by the last fire-landing program, let alone recovered from the failure of the New Virginia.

Whether or not limited resources are focused on the exploration and development of the moon, now is not a good time to restart the manned landing program.

But if it is left unchecked, it will undoubtedly be a heavy blow to the current approval rating and national cohesion of the White House.

Astronautics is the pride of Americans.

And this pride has been maintained for half a century.

In any case, it's not something that can be picked up and put down gently.