"If humans want to live normally on the surface of the moon, they must first avoid the essential fresh water and oxygen. There is neither water nor air on the moon. It may be difficult to build a lunar base."

A discussion about the lunar base is being held in the China Space Administration.

Chen Yuan landed on the moon this time, just like his initial goal, and other think tanks also participated.

"This is indeed."

"But our group found that the sand on the moon contains a lot of oxygen. We can try to use the sand on the moon to make fresh water and oxygen." Tang Jiao suddenly suggested.

This idea is to use a forklift to automatically dig the sand on the moon surface, select oxygen-containing iron minerals from it, and then use hydrogen to reduce the oxygen-containing iron minerals to produce fresh water.

"With water, electricity is used to electrolyze the water, and what is obtained is oxygen and hydrogen. Oxygen is liquefied and stored and can be supplied to the residents of the base at any time." Seeing everyone's concentration, Tang Jiao continued.

The hydrogen originally used as a reducing agent can be transported from the earth, and the hydrogen obtained by electrolyzing water after production begins can be recycled.

Soon, Tang Jiao began to list the data on the screen.

"190 tons of lunar sand contains 15-16 tons of iron ore, which can produce 1 ton of oxygen. Only 1 ton of oxygen is required in a year to maintain the survival needs of 10 people on the moon."

"But if humans want to live self-sufficiently on the moon, they must also ensure food supply. I would like to ask where does the food come from?"

Someone suddenly raised his hand to ask questions.

This is indeed something that others are concerned about.

The moon is no better than other places. If it were just on a space station, it would be fine if it was a few rockets traveling to and from.

However, the moon is so far away from its parent planet that it consumes a lot of resources just to transport materials.

In order to reduce costs, the resources and food carried by a single launch will be very large, even enough for people on the lunar base to eat for one or two years.

But subsequent problems have also been exposed.

Just talking about how to preserve these foods is a big problem.

"The environment on the moon is very harsh, with high temperatures during the day and extremely cold at night. There is no air, water, and life."

"If food is not contaminated by bacteria is placed on the moon, it will not rot, because food on the moon will not infect microorganisms and then cause microorganisms to decompose the ingredients in the food. However, not rotting does not mean it will not deteriorate. Food on the moon may no longer be suitable for human consumption."

Think tanks quickly pointed out the problem.

The high temperature and low air pressure there will cause the water in the food to evaporate rapidly. Coupled with strong radiation, some chemical changes will occur in the food, and the nutritional value of the food will be reduced or lost.

Unlike the earth that uses rays to extend the shelf life of some food, the radiation on the moon is extremely strong, and the radiation of strong rays is likely to make some atoms in the food radioactive, making it unsuitable for human consumption.

The food may even lose moisture and become dry-fried, and if it is a little extreme, it will become ice.

"If you only rely on caves to preserve these foods, it may not be realistic, and the astronauts and even scientists in the base, if you can't eat enough fresh food, it's not a good thing for your health."

Tang Jiao nodded and smiled, "Indeed, Lao Chen has discussed these problems with us before, and the solution he gave is to feel that he dares to do it."

Everyone still didn't understand what this said, but Tang Jiao quickly presented an experimental report, "Recently, our Nantianmen Laboratory has conducted a large number of biological experiments on the space station and has cultivated more than 100 space plants. These include wheat, corn, oats, soybeans, tomatoes, radishes, cabbage, beets, etc."

"We also prove that under weightless conditions in space, plant seeds germinate higher, grow faster, and bloom or head earlier in lunar soil. Some animals have even been tested to prove that weightlessness will not affect the birth of new life, and the most suitable organism for feeding is fish."

"amazing!"

After everyone finished reading the experimental report, they felt that the progress of Nantianmen Laboratory was too fast.

There are more than one hundred space plants, which is far more than they imagined.

"But there is a problem that plants grown using lunar soil are much smaller than those on Earth, especially those exposed to the lunar surface, because cosmic rays and solar wind damage lunar soil, which may even cause the seeds to not germinate at all."

Tang Jiao's meaning is also very clear, that is, a larger base is needed to be established on the moon.

If the base is built, finding suitable lunar soil, coupled with various rays in space and control by artificial technical means, can not only make the plants safe, but also grow larger.

After a long discussion, it seemed that it finally returned to the establishment of the moon base.

"The moon base is very important. Apart from the rabbit's special skills, we don't have any good plans to come up with now." Wang Shenlan smiled helplessly.

But soon, the ground command center received news from the Xuannv Moon landing issue.

"This is the command center, and we have received news from the Xuannv Moon landing issue."

Wang Shenlan quickly opened the data sent by Chen Yuan.

This is a blueprint involving the construction of a lunar base.

Chen Yuan ordered the plan for Guanghan Palace.

This plan will be carried out in stages, with the initial establishment of a temporary base, that is, a cave, so that astronauts and scientific researchers who are coming one after another can have a place to live.

The number of people gradually increased from more than a dozen to dozens.

At the same time, mineral mining and smelting tests will be carried out on the moon, and preparations will be made for the construction of a permanent base.

The second step is to build a small and medium-sized permanent base, with the number of people increasing to more than 100, and gradually form a complete production system from mining, smelting to transportation.

Finally, a moon city that can accommodate thousands of people was built on the moon - Guanghan Palace.

It took everyone an hour to read the contents of the blueprint and took a deep breath.

"It is possible to achieve whether it is based on theory or current delivery technology."

"It seems that Old Chen had already expected it and made preparations in advance."

"I don't know how to describe this child anymore. I just hope to live in Guanghan Palace for a while in my lifetime."

"In fact, Guanghan Palace was in the South Tianmen Plan since early on. It will become our transit station to the universe in the future." Tang Jiao said with a smile as a flower.

The Guanghan Palace plan was soon implemented, and at the same time, the space agencies of other countries gradually saw the crisis.

The two planets that humans are most concerned about.

One is the moon, the other is Mars.

Especially the moon is closest to the earth, and it also has many advantages, allowing various countries to explore the moon continuously.

It is precisely because of this that the space agency, including Nasa, has become more and more restless.
Chapter completed!