China's largest space infrastructure - Tiangong Space Station
moon landing can bring about a big explosion in space technology. Whether it is a rocket with greater thrust, more accurate positioning technology, deep space communication technology, and the research and development of new materials used in the lunar base... it can be reflected in the moon landing plan . These technologies can provide strong support for future spatial infrastructure construction.
This is just like why we have to develop high-speed rail technology even though we have to fight our lives, because high-speed rail technology can drive the development of technologies such as power semiconductors, power grids, signal communications, new materials, shield structures, and complex terrain construction. High-speed rail is far from providing fast travel methods, but has driven the entire industrial chain and promoted the industrial development of the entire China.
With China's industrial upgrading, it will surely move towards higher and more sophisticated fields. The construction of manned lunar landing and the construction of lunar space stations provide us with a clear route and goal. First, it can drive the development of a large-scale aerospace industry chain, second, it can promote the research and development and application of various new materials, and third, it can lay a solid foundation for future space infrastructure construction.
If we do not have a very clear goal and rely solely on pure scientific research to study related technologies, it will be difficult to find application scenarios, and without application scenario technology, it will be difficult to commercialize and popularize.
Professor Hubbard from the Department of Aeronautics and Aerospace Engineering at Stanford University in the United States pointed out that every dollar the government invests in NASA, it will generate goods and services worth $7 to $8.
And in the Apollo moon landing plan, more than 4,000 high-tech patents and technologies were converted into civilian use, driving the development of science and technology and industrial prosperity of the entire United States. The benefits of its secondary development and application far exceed the direct economic and social benefits brought by the "Apollo" plan of itself.
U.S. Apollo moon landing program in the 1960s
IBM, Microsoft , HP , Qualcomm and other American technology giants have all been developed by the transformation of the Apollo program technology. Companies such as Boeing and General Electric are direct beneficiaries of Apollo's moon landing program.
includes down jackets, travel shoes, wireless vacuum cleaner , water purifier, implantable cardiac defibrillator and other products we use every day all come from the civil conversion of the Apollo program; the software used in the credit card swiping machine was predecessored by software designed to manage a series of complex systems in the orbital chamber ; the liquid cooling suit worn by racers and firefighters was predecessored by equipment worn in the space suit made for "Apollo" astronauts; the field rations eaten by soldiers were predecessored by freeze-dried food prepared for astronauts in space.
Apollo plan has laid a solid foundation for the United States to lead long-term communications, electronics, synthetic materials, aerospace power and other fields.
followed by , there are a lot of resources on the moon. Moon rocks contain all the elements in the earth and about 60 minerals, 6 of which are not available on the earth. The moon has extremely rich mineral resources, and the 17 most common elements on the earth are everywhere on the moon. Take iron as an example. Sand soil with a thickness of 5 cm of sand on the surface of the moon alone contains hundreds of millions of tons of iron, while the entire moon surface has an average of 10 meters of sand on the surface. The iron on the surface of the moon is not only extremely rich, but also easy to exploit and smel. It is reported that the iron on the moon is mainly iron oxide , which is enough to separate oxygen and iron; in addition, scientists have developed ways to use lunar soil and rock to make cement and glass. On the surface of the moon, the aluminum content is also very rich.
In addition to these minerals, there is also a kind of material that can be almost no longer available on the earth that controllable nuclear fusion can be used inexhaustible on the earth: helium-3, which is widely distributed on the moon. The content of helium-3 in lunar soil is estimated to be 715,000 tons. It is calculated that each kilogram of helium-3 can generate 19 megawatts of energy, while 100 tons of helium-3 can provide the total amount of energy used in the world for one year.
In addition to helium-3, a fuel that performs controllable nuclear fusion, the total resource of rare earth elements in Krip rock , one of the three major rock types on the moon, is about 22.5 billion to 45 billion tons. Among them, thorium, uranium, etc. are also important mineral resources that can be used in nuclear fission power stations.
Again , the unique weightless environment provided by the moon, and the back of the moon always faces the earth, can allow us to conduct many scientific experiments and space observations on the moon that cannot be carried out on the earth. For example, various drug development, plant breeding, and new materials can all be carried out on the moon; for example, deep space observation can also be carried out on the back of the moon without any interference.
lunar base imagination
In short, the development of space such as manned moon landing, Mars exploration, and deep space exploration is not about spending money desperately just to compete with the United States, but has a huge industrial chain driving ability and can lay a solid foundation for us to move towards the stars and seas in space in the future.
