"Perhaps... it can start from the earth, sail directly to the moon, and adjust its navigation trajectory autonomously in space..."

After hearing this, Bill Nelson fell completely silent.

If this is true, then this opponent's aerospace strength... may have completely widened the gap with them.

Damn it, how did that Xinghai Research Institute do it?

Is the engine on that space shuttle really a pure electric propulsion system?

What about energy supply? Not to mention whether electric propulsion can do this, just to increase the thrust of electric propulsion to enough to support a space shuttle of dozens or hundreds of tons to fly into the sky, the demand for electric energy is definitely a

Extremely huge numbers.

Staring at the picture on the radar screen, Bill Nelson frowned tightly. He really couldn't think of any energy supply device that could do this.

Could it be that it is a miniaturized fusion reactor?

Suddenly, an even more terrifying thought flashed through his mind.

If we go by this speculation, what kind of monster are they facing?

...

NASA engineers' guess was indeed accurate.

Compared with traditional chemical fuel launch vehicles, the Xinghai space shuttle's autonomy is much higher.

With the miniaturized controllable nuclear fusion reactor as the core of the functional system, its fuel utilization efficiency is far beyond that of chemical fuels such as liquid hydrogen and oxygen, liquid methane, and liquid oxygen and kerosene.

For Xinghai, when sailing in outer space, what limits its range is not the fuel, but the working fluid.

The amount of working fluid is relatively larger than fuel, and the amount that can be carried is limited.

But for the solar system, or for today's aerospace field, the power supply system composed of small fusion reactors and aerospace engines is completely sufficient.

Not to mention the moon, even Mars has enough ability to complete the landing through space orbit adjustment without pre-calculating the orbit.

However, as this was the first manned lunar landing, for the sake of stability, China calculated and arranged the Xinghai lunar landing trajectory in advance based on the experience of the Chang'e series.

...

In the deep black sky, the Xinghai's tail glowed with a blue-white arc, and it was quickly and slowly heading towards the silver-gray planet that was both close at hand and yet far away.

This is a long journey for the three astronauts driving the Xinghai, for the Jinling Space Base on the ground, and for the viewers and netizens squatting in front of computers, TVs and mobile phones.

For the first two, they each perform their duties and concentrate on their jobs.

For the latter, although this journey is long, it is not so boring.

The work that Xu Chuan had assigned in advance and the temporarily added long-focus shooting equipment came into play at this moment.

When Xinghai moved away from the earth and entered the backlight area of ​​the sun, the twinkling stars in the deep space of the universe were completely photographed into the live broadcast room at this moment.

【What a beautiful sea of ​​stars!】

[Didn’t you say that you can’t see stars in outer space? I remember that there were no stars in the photos taken during the Apollo 11 moon landing. Why can they be seen from Xinghai? 】

[New Machine Words: Dig this one, Mohe has more! The American man’s moon landing was faked!]

[In what era, are there still fake moon landings? Apollo 11 couldn’t see stars, our space station couldn’t see stars when taking pictures, and Chang’e didn’t even take pictures of stars when it landed on the moon.]

[Then why can Xinghai take pictures?]

[It’s just a problem with the shooting equipment. For the live broadcast, the Xinghai Kamikawa God specially added a camera that can shoot and expose the star sea for us, so that we can see it. If you don’t believe it, ask the astronauts, they can see it with the naked eye. 】

[Hey, the camera has switched, this is looking back at the Earth!]

[Get out of the way and let me lick the screen a hundred million times! Mother Earth is really beautiful from this angle!]

[Mother Earth is indeed round! The Flat Earthers can leave with peace of mind!]

【In what era do people still believe in the flat earth theory? 】

[That’s not just a little bit, it’s several million (squints and smiles)]
Chapter completed!