Infinite Life: Trapped in a lifetime

52 years.

This year, Mo Dao is 58 years old.

After the realization of helium-3 fusion, Qiusuo Research Institute did not stop.

On the contrary, he became even busier.

Although for most people, the past achievements of the Qiusuo Research Institute have led to several more "Era Research Institute" honors from above,

But for the ultimate goal of the Search Institute, even at this moment, they are still far away, and they have not even met the prerequisites for achieving the ultimate goal.

Driven by Mo Dao's will, under the influence of the core researchers of the entire Qiusuo Research Institute, and the common desire of the institute,

The Qiusuo Research Institute is still operating closely and unwilling to stop.

Spring 1952.

In between the various plans of the Research Institute,

Another special thing happened - Mo Dao went to the lunar base.

Although at this moment,

The number of permanent residents on the lunar surface base has quickly exceeded two thousand due to the new round of stimulation brought by breakthroughs in electric propulsion technology and helium-3 fusion technology, as well as when necessary.

The base lying on the moon already looks like the size of a small town.

But this was Mo Dao's first time in this life to go to the lunar base.

Mo Dao chose to take Miss Qin Huaishi with him on this trip.

In addition to informing some necessary personnel inside and outside Qiusuo Research Institute,

This matter was not disclosed to the outside world.

Starting from Qiusuo Research Institute,

Together with Qin Huaishi, Mo Dao basically went through the same journey as most astronauts and payload experts who went to the lunar base.

I didn’t take a special plane, either.

Mo Dao rarely took a ride on the superconducting maglev train that was only completed in the past two years.

A train with a stable maximum speed of 1,600 kilometers per hour is said to make a considerable amount of noise when running.

But in fact, when sitting in it, the noise that can be heard is very weak, and there is almost no fluctuation during driving.

In addition, although Mo Dao didn't mention it, the person who arranged the trip still arranged a separate carriage for Mo Dao and his party.

Along the way, no one else noticed, and we arrived at our destination peacefully.

Located in the Northwest Territories, the Long Road Launch Site.

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The journey that Mo Dao and Qin Huaishi took to the lunar base was the most common and normal process at the moment.

At the Changlu launch site, Mo Dao and the two rested for half a day.

Then we boarded Yuanhang No. 7c03.

The Qiusuo Research Institute's work on spacecraft construction does not include spacecrafts that stay between the earth and the moon space platforms, or spacecrafts that go back and forth between the stars.

As for the Yuanhang 7c electric propulsion spacecraft, the Qiusuo Research Institute has also built several ships in succession with the cooperation of various cooperative units.

It is mainly responsible for breaking through the atmosphere and traveling to and from the long-distance launch site and the near-Earth space platform.

Continuously transport supplies and astronauts from the ground to the near-Earth space platform.

Although the carrying capacity of a single Yuanhang 7C spacecraft is limited,

However, many Yuanhang 7c ships are constantly taking off and landing from morning to night like shuttle buses.

It adds up to a bit of exaggeration.

At this moment, in addition to some larger things, such as some of the cabin systems of the Diyue, Yuanhang 6 still needs to be transported.

Most of the supplies sent from the ground to the outside are completed by Yuanhang 7c.

As for the materials transported by Yuanhang 7c, the transportation cost has been reduced to a relatively cheap level.

In this life,

Mo Dao left the surface atmosphere for the first time. Compared with the previous life, it seemed that it was not a few years earlier.

But even if it is the first time to go to the lunar base,

There is still a big difference between this life and the previous life.

Sitting on Yuanhang 7c, this was a completely different experience from the only time Mo Dao went to the lunar base in his previous life.

Except for Mo Dao and Qin Huaishi,

There are also three senior astronauts accompanying the spacecraft.

Compared with the previous life, at this moment, several people in the spacecraft cabin were only wearing ordinary cabin sports clothes.

He was not wearing a bulky space suit that could carry overload.

This is also the biggest intuitive difference between electric propulsion and traditional rockets.

Yuanhang 7c does not require rapid acceleration in a short period of time to get off the ground.

Instead, it accelerates slowly and for a long time until it leaves the atmosphere and enters a synchronous orbit.

In this process, the most uncomfortable overload is suppressed to a very low level.

Basically there is no special feeling anymore.

People sitting in the cabin can even be in the mood to look at the gradually distant ground and the shrinking earth through the ship's portholes.

And this can be said to be a very important basic condition for realizing large-scale interstellar immigration.

It took three hours before and after,

Mo Dao and Qin Huaishi arrived at the near-Earth space platform.

At this moment, a large ring has been formed. With the help of multiple electric propulsion engines, the near-Earth space platform slowly rotating along the axis has become a truly behemoth.

Many astronauts and even tourists who have arrived here from the ground have been awed by this great human creation.

In geosynchronous orbit, orbiting the large ring around the Earth at a rate of one revolution per day,

It can be regarded as the most shocking product created by mankind to date.

This intuitive feeling is clearer than when facing the lunar base.

After all, although the lunar base occupies a wider area, it still relies on the ground.

The visual impact is far inferior to this large circular near-Earth space platform.

This huge human creation that is slowly rotating seems to be suspended in the empty universe without any support.

In this era,

Many people regard this as a must-see sight in their lifetime.

Many tourists even have wet eyes and want to cry when they arrive here.

From the near-Earth space platform,

You can vaguely see that from time to time, some spacecraft from the ground and the moon are accessing.

The Yuanhang 7c that Mo Dao and Qin Huaishi took was also connected to a cabin interface of the near-Earth space platform.

The driving system in the cabin automatically prompts that the docking is successful.

Open the docking cabin door,

Mo Dao and the two officially entered the near-Earth space platform.

In the slowly rotating near-Earth space platform cabin, there is some gravity simulated by rotation.

Although it cannot completely reach the level of the ground, the feeling is still completely different from that in the Yuanhang 7c.

For astronauts stationed on near-Earth space platforms for a long time, this simulated gravity is also of considerable value.

For Mo Dao and Qin Huaishi,

The near-Earth space platform is the staging post for this trip.

On the near-Earth space platform, led by the person in charge of the near-Earth space platform at the moment,

After taking Mo Dao to look around the various areas of the near-Earth space platform,

The two of them got on the Diyue.

At this moment, the construction of Diyue-2 has not yet been completed.

However, Diyue-1, which uses superconducting batteries as its energy source, has already been put into use.

This is a completely different experience again.

Compared with the previous Yuanhang 7c, the Diyue is a behemoth.

The interior of the cabin is extremely spacious,

In addition, it takes about two days to get from the near-Earth space platform to the lunar surface.

There are also beds, or rest cabins, for passengers to rest inside the Diyue.

If it is not inside the Earth-Moon spacecraft, there is currently no way to simulate gravity, and there will be weightlessness.

The spacious interior of the Earth-Moon can almost give people the illusion of appearing on the ground.

In addition to carrying some supplies, Mo Dao and the two of them did not carry too many astronauts on this trip.

The entire two-day voyage was basically spent in peace.

In addition to talking to Miss Qin Huaishi, Mo Dao also often looked through the porthole of the spacecraft towards the unspeakable universe.

While looking out,

It's a different feeling again,

The Diyue, which originally seemed huge, became extremely small compared to the scene outside the porthole.

This product of the pinnacle of human technology is like a lonely boat, or a fallen leaf in the water.