Homo sapiens.

Chapter 561
Moon, South Pole.

Inside a crater basin with a radius of tens of kilometers.

More than a dozen space capsules were piled up in a piece of sand in a disorderly manner. The signs on the space capsules were all ground union + XXX, among which the space capsules with ground union + free association were the most, followed by ground union + Serris, ground union + Europa , Dilian + Lucia.

Apparently these capsules were launched to the Moon by the Earth Federation.

After they had a big oolong last year, they finally dared not let Musk and the Pentagon launch micro-communication satellites casually.

After all, just to remove these space junks, they wasted nearly a year's launch volume of the Jeju Island Space Tower Project on it.

It won’t work if you don’t clean it up. If these space junks are allowed to continue to mess around, Earth Alliance will not be able to compete with Homo Sapiens. Even spacecraft passing through low-Earth orbit will be extremely difficult.

Therefore, the evil fruits they planted can only be swallowed by themselves.

Anyway, Homo sapiens' spacecraft has armor and its own special channel. During the launch window, part of the space junk on the channel will be cleaned up.

Earthlink dare not use the same route as Homo sapiens spacecraft.

Don't ask why.

The question is that they were overshadowed by Homo sapiens.

Obviously, the spacecraft of the wise company can pass through safely. When their spacecraft passes that route, the tiny space junk penetrates the protective layer of the fuel tank directly halfway, and then adds a lot of space junk to the low-Earth orbit.

Therefore, Dilian would not dare to use the same route as Homo sapiens even if killed.

After all, Homo Sapiens' spacecraft has rough skin and thick flesh, and the armor material is also very good. There are also dead light satellites around to watch over it, so it can naturally ignore tiny space junk.

But there is obviously no way to learn from this kind of bold behavior of a skilled person.

As a last resort, the Earth Alliance could only grit its teeth and devote a lot of capacity to cleaning up space junk.

……

Earthlink's Lunar South Pole Base.

It was during this period that the space agencies of the four major powers were pieced together. It took more than a year to launch 21 launch vehicles, and 5 of them failed.

In other words, the base currently has 16 space capsules.

At present, there are no astronauts stationed in this base, but through remote control, the robot is operated to explore the surrounding area, and at the same time, the automation equipment inside the space capsule is used to carry out some simple and pre-set scientific research work.

Recently, the Earth Federation finally made up its mind and decided to send 5 astronauts to the lunar south pole base for an 8-month scientific research.

The reason why the ground alliance made up its mind is very complicated.

On the one hand, Homo sapiens is expanding too fast on the moon. Currently, it has built 3 large bases and 17 small scientific research stations (single space capsule type) on the front of the moon; there is also a large project on the back of the moon. And 1 small scientific research stations.

If the progress of the lunar project is not accelerated, the Earth Alliance may lose the moon completely.

On the other hand, it is the internal pressure from the four major forces. After all, this is a project with an investment of hundreds of billions. Now there is no sound at all. Many people are doubting the ability of the Earth Alliance.

In order to quell internal dissatisfaction, even if the Earth Alliance knows that the current infrastructure of the lunar base is not perfect, it can only bite the bullet.

Another reason is that as space junk becomes less and less, the launch mission of the Jeju Island Space Tower can be gradually adjusted.

At the same time, Serris and Lucia's construction project in the Western Regions has also completed a space tower that is larger than the Jeju Island Space Tower.

This wooden space tower can carry an 800-ton carrier rocket and launch it on a high-altitude platform.

The project has passed three small-scale tests and can be officially put into use.

Sure enough, pressure is the driving force. In order to compete with Homo Sapiens and not lose the future, the construction progress of the woodwork project is simply rapid.

With so much new carrying capacity, the Ground Alliance also has a little bit of confidence, and began to prepare for the manned month.

Finally in June.

Just three days after Homo Sapiens' anniversary celebration, on June 6rd.

From the high-altitude platform of the wooden space tower, a large launch vehicle rises into the sky.

Kong De, the president of the Earth Federation Association, and several other senior executives were under the wooden platform of the Tianshan Mountains in the Western Regions. When they saw the launch vehicle safely lifted off on the big screen, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Zhang, when do you plan to launch the second spaceship?" Kong De asked.

Although he is the president of the Earth Federation, in fact his job is mainly to coordinate the space agencies of the four major forces and reconcile internal conflicts.

In daily work, the Earth Federation Association has no way to intervene in the daily management of the space agencies of the four major forces.

The man thought for a while, then flipped through the small book in his hand: "The second spacecraft has arrived at the waiting area and is undergoing the final inspection. If everything goes well, it is expected to be launched in 10 days."

"OK." Kong De nodded.

However, the man frowned and asked, "Astronauts, haven't you settled yet?"

Hearing this, Kong De and others were also very embarrassed.

Because just half a month ago, the four Europa astronauts (not the same batch) who were originally determined to go to the moon went directly to the Suez branch of Homo Sapiens during their vacation in Sicily.

This made the Europa Federation fly into a rage.

Obviously these astronauts don't want to go to the moon. As professionally trained astronauts, do they know the situation of the lunar South Pole base at this time.

In case something goes wrong on the moon, it will be very difficult for the Earth Alliance to rescue the moon, especially in terms of time, which is a big problem.

Therefore, the four astronauts secretly discussed and then ran away.

Now there is one less astronaut who led to the first moon landing.

"If there is really no way, let our astronauts go!" the man suggested.

However, Bill, the NASA administrator beside Conte, shook his head, and then said with a half-smile: "I have discussed with Chairman Conte, and NASA astronauts will replace the Europa astronauts."

"Oh? That's fine too." The man didn't force it.

After all, in this manned mission to the moon, among the five astronauts, 5 was from NASA, 1 from Lucia, and 1 from Europa.

At this moment, there was a burst of intense applause from the next door.

Kong De quickly changed the topic: "It seems that the launch was successful."

"This is just the first step. Let's stop opening the champagne at halftime." The man calmly reminded.

The others also nodded.

After all, the manned moon landing this time is of great importance. If it fails, it will deal a great blow to the Federation of Earth and the entire free world. They are already lacking in confidence, and if they fail again, it will really be doomed.

Therefore, this manned moon landing can only succeed and not fail.

In order to ensure nothing goes wrong, three manned spacecraft will be arranged, and another three cargo spacecraft will be arranged to go to the lunar orbit in three batches.

Even if there is a problem with one of the batches, the other two batches of spaceships can be used for emergency response.

These spacecraft will temporarily stop at an altitude of 800-900 kilometers in low-earth orbit, wait for all the spacecraft to be in place, and then fly to the moon in groups.

Although this solution is very conservative and slow, the security is guaranteed.

Now the Earth Alliance and the free world really cannot stand the blow of failure.

Apparently they were right to be cautious, because the next day, the cargo lunar landing spacecraft that SpaceX was in charge of launching was attacked by space debris in low Earth orbit.

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