**: Zhan Hao.
Just now, the United States has planted a big heel in front of the world!
What's the heel? Let's take a look at a picture first.
The message on the left side of the picture is a corner of the 2005 "Scientific Discovery", which reads: "The leader of the National Defense Science and Industry Commission announced that China's lunar exploration program has entered the implementation stage, and within three years, a satellite belonging to China will begin to fly around the moon; Within 6 years, the Chinese lunar rover will make a soft landing on the lunar surface; By 2020, a robot developed by China will retrieve lunar soil samples back to Earth. ”
The news on the right side of the picture is also a corner of the newspaper at the time, and the above is the reaction of countries after seeing China's lunar exploration program. As a result of China's stimulus, the United States, Japan and India have all revealed their lunar exploration ambitions. Japan's plan was radical, announcing that it would build a base on the moon in 2025 and let robots be the "pioneers" of the moon, without any basis for lunar exploration at the time. The Japanese are still relatively modest, and considering their technical background, they don't dare to say that they will send people up. India is not convinced, 2025 is too long, we have to come quickly, so it plans to launch the first unmanned lunar spacecraft "Luna Spacecraft-1" in 2008. The United States, as the "big brother" of science and technology that once claimed to have landed on the moon, announced that of course it had to be heavy, so the United States determined that the time for the next moon landing was 2015, no later than 2020, and that it would build a "multinational space station" on the moon.
According to the report in 2005, now that 18 years have passed, what is the situation of various countries exploring the moon and landing on the moon?
China is perfect, the "three-step process" was implemented as scheduled, and in 2020 we retrieved 2 kilograms of lunar soil.
What about Japan's lunar exploration? Just a few days ago, Japan announced that the lunar probe has successfully entered the orbit around the moon and is preparing to land on the moon next year. In other words, Japan has not even sent a probe to the moon yet, and his so-called construction of a lunar base in 2025 is not a joke?
As for India, it was successful to achieve the moon landing last year, but the reality is that you don't know if it is right or not, anyway, it seems to be completed, and it feels like it has not been completed, and in the end, there is no experiment, and then it says "frozen to death".
As for the United States, the biggest protagonist, the so-called 2015 moon landing again has long been a joke, and now it's 2024, and just now the United States lost an adult because of the moon landing program!
On January 9, local time, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) held a briefing and said that the "Artemis 2" manned mission around the moon originally scheduled for 2024 would be postponed to September 2025, and the "Artemis 3" manned lunar landing program originally scheduled for 2025 would be postponed to September 2026. Artemis 4 will remain scheduled for September 2028. The mission, the second manned lunar landing program, will involve four astronauts stationed at the Gateway lunar orbital space station and a lunar landing in due course.
Why have the relevant US plans been postponed again?
Because, the United States has just failed again! According to a report by CNN on January 8 quoted by the Global Times, the "Peregrine Falcon" lunar lander, which carries the vision of the United States to land on the moon for the first time in more than 50 years, suffered a "serious leak" of propellant due to a malfunction less than 24 hours after its launch, and the US Aerospace Robotics Technology Corporation, which developed the "Peregrine Falcon", had to announce that it "gave up its attempt to send it to the moon."
What does that mean? This means that the "Peregrine Falcon" lunar lander just launched by the United States "leaked" less than 24 hours after its launch. This lunar lander, which is mainly responsible for transporting supplies, turned out to be difficult to achieve the goal of the plan because of an "oil leak" as soon as it arrived in space. In fact, the "Peregrine Falcon" lunar lander has not only a problem with propellant, after the lander is put into orbit, the first problem is that the command to adjust the solar panels cannot be executed, which causes the "Peregrine Falcon" to be unable to aim at the sun to charge. Later, although he was able to temporarily renew his life by adjusting the angle, he was still unable to adjust his attitude towards the sun due to the failure of the thruster. Aerospace Robotics believes that the Peregrine Falcon may end up operating for only 40 hours. What can be done now is to get the Peregrine Falcon as close to the Moon as possible before it loses its attitude towards the Sun and loses power. "This means that the mission to the moon, originally scheduled for February 23, has lost its possibility. ”
To put it bluntly, it is the United States' space test program that has come to naught, which is why the aforementioned United States wants to postpone the manned landing on the moon again. Imagine, if there is a problem with such an important device as the thruster, then all the work cannot be done, including the attitude adjustment in the air, especially when the moon falls, all rely on the thruster.
After this failure, the United States was originally preparing to achieve another manned landing on the moon in 2025, but it was postponed to 2026. Now, with just over two years to go until the end of 2026, can the United States return to the moon in more than two years? Looking at it now, it can't be believed anyway.
Why is the United States so desperate to return to the moon? The root cause is China, because China is about to land on the moon. After China achieved the "three-step" lunar exploration in the past, the lunar landing program has been put on the agenda. After much deliberation, last year China announced that it would land a manned moon on the moon by 2030. The United States saw that China's lunar landing program was completely anxious, which is why it was so eager to achieve a manned lunar landing.
However, the United States is clearly ill-prepared, and this is not the first failure, and certainly not the last. Therefore, although the United States announced that it will achieve a manned landing on the moon in 2026, no one knows when it will be realized. However, China is different, China says to achieve it before 2030, then it is before 2030. The so-called before 2030 is 2029 at the latest, so the United States is now announcing that it is 2026, and the difference between China and the United States is 3 years. However, it is unclear who will be the first to land on the moon in the next few years, because the United States has bragged about returning to the moon in 2015, and it has not yet been achieved nine years later.
Why is the United States desperate to land on the moon before China?
Many people wonder why the United States achieved the moon landing more than half a century ago, why can't it now? Is the United States a fake moon landing?
In the past, Zhan Hao thought that there should be no problem, but when Zhang Bonan, chief designer of our manned spacecraft system, said that from an objective point of view, even today, it is very difficult for the Americans. The Apollo moon landing was the result of the Cold War between the two superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union at that time, and many of the technologies used by the American and Soviet spacecraft at that time were very risky, and if we objectively evaluate them now, the reliability could not reach 50%, and many structural coefficients were very low. Including the demonstration of the manned lunar landing carried out by our current team, it is very difficult to design the Apollo lunar module or spacecraft with current technology, including the return of the United States to the moon, in fact, it has been carried out for a long time, and it is still very difficult.
The reliability is less than 50%, and you can't say that he didn't achieve it, because there is still a probability of success. Let's assume that the U.S. moon landing was a success. So, this raises another question, if it was successful before, why is it still unsuccessful after a decade or two now? Later, Zhan Hao looked at a series of materials, one of which may be reasonable. The analysis said that the reason why the United States cannot do it now is because the United States now has no relevant industrial workers. More than half a century ago, the accessories related to the manned landing on the moon were not all machine-made as they are now, but were completely handmade, so this required extremely high industrial workers, so only the industrial workers at that time had the ability at that time. Later, of course, these people were gone, the United States did not go to the moon, and the related craftsmanship was lost, and now it is completely industrialized, and some technical logic has undergone major changes. What's more, considering that the reliability at that time was not 50% at all, which meant that a lot of technology had to be restarted, then of course there was no way to achieve the moon landing casually.
So, why did the United States see that China was going to land on the moon, and he would also go to the moon? Zhan Hao (WeChat *** Zhan Hao) believes that it is nothing more than the following reasons:
The first reason is that the United States cannot afford to lag behind China in top technology.
There is no doubt that a manned landing on the moon is the top technology for all mankind. Whoever has the stronger scientific and technological strength of the United States or the Soviet Union actually started with the manned landing on the moon. The United States achieved a manned landing on the moon, but the Soviet Union failed, which proved that the Soviet Union's science and technology were inferior to those of the United States. Last time, the United States received strategic dividends from the moon landing, and this is well known to the United States. Later, why didn't the United States continue to register? It is because the cost is too great, and it has already been proven that the USSR lost and the United States won.
It was on the basis of this logic that the United States later abandoned the project to continue the moon landing. However, now China is going to the moon, and China is really going to be able to do it step by step as planned. When China retrieved lunar soil in 2020, the United States panicked. Why? Because since the lunar soil can be retrieved, it means that there is no problem with the technology of landing and returning to the moon, just amplifying this ability, which means that it is only a matter of time before China realizes a manned landing on the moon.
Against this background, if the United States cannot land on the moon earlier than China, it means that the United States will be at a disadvantage in the competition for top science and technology in the future, and China will gain the same strategic advantage that the United States did over the Soviet Union in the last century.
So, from a strategic point of view, the United States must be one step ahead.
The second reason: the United States must dispel the world's doubts about the American moon landing.
The manned landing on the moon in the United States has been questioned from the very beginning, and it was the Americans themselves who were the first to question it. However, because it is too difficult to refute the fact that the United States did not land on the moon, the United States simply ignored the doubts, after all, the Soviet Union failed, and no one can falsify the United States, so the United States manned the moon landing is true.
However, the question now is that China will achieve a manned landing on the moon in a few years. If China's manned lunar landing is not the same as that of the United States, it will prove that the United States is a fake lunar landing. In other words, even if the U.S. moon landing was real, as long as the state of China's manned lunar landing was different from that of the United States at that time, the world would think that the U.S. manned lunar landing at that time was fake.
Once the world widely believes that the United States has a manned landing on the moon is fake, then the entire character of the United States as a scientific and technological power will collapse, and China will replace the United States, which the United States cannot strategically bear.
The third reason: the realization of the moon landing occupies the commanding heights of human science and technology
The manned landing on the moon will inevitably be the commanding heights of human science and technology at some point in the future. Of course, China has more than just a manned lunar landing program, including the establishment of a scientific research base on the moon, which will be completed in 2035. This thing is terrible, if China already has a base on the moon, and the United States can not land on the moon, then the United States will be strategically backward, who will believe that the United States is the most powerful country in science and technology? Therefore, the United States must hold on to this commanding heights of science and technology.
However, the current situation is indeed not optimistic, the United States has failed again and again, postponed again and again, how can this be compared with China's steady and steady, step by step? China wants to realize all the boasts that the United States has bragged about, and if the United States cannot realize it first, it will be slapped in the face again and again.
In fact, China has repeatedly slapped the United States in the face. For example, the United States developed hypersonic missiles many years before China, and it was the United States that came up with a plan to fly around the world in one hour. The result? China's hypersonic missiles are all equipped with serial models, but the United States still hasn't come up with them. There are quite a few similar situations, so the United States is becoming more and more afraid!