Preface
On June 25, the Chang'e-6 lunar exploration was a complete success, and the world's first successful sampling and smooth return of the far side of the moon allowed the world to see the strong strength of China's space technology.
The U.S. media couldn't sit still and began to openly question China's method of allocating lunar soil samples, complaining that we didn't allocate lunar soil to them last year.
This year, I want to be the same as last year, and I want to ask China for lunar soil again?
Chang'e-6 mission
Since China officially launched its lunar exploration program in 2004, the Chang'e series of probes have carried the millennium dream of the Chinese nation and gradually unveiled the mystery of the moon.
The Chang'e-6 mission is the third phase of the mainland's lunar exploration program, and as another important milestone after Chang'e-5, it not only marks a new stage of China's lunar exploration program, but also reflects China's technological strength and international status in the aerospace field.
The main goal of the Chang'e-6 mission is to collect lunar soil samples on the far side of the moon and return them to Earth, which is of great significance for human understanding of the moon and exploration of the universe.
The far side of the Moon is the most mysterious and unknown part of the Moon, and due to the Moon's rotation and revolution, the far side of the Moon is always facing away from the Earth, so little is known about it.
The implementation of the Chang'e-6 mission will unveil the mystery of the far side of the moon and provide valuable scientific data and research samples.
The lunar soil samples brought back by Chang'e-6 may be of high scientific value. Through the analysis and study of these samples, scientists can have a deeper understanding of the geological structure, mineral composition, evolutionary history and other information of the moon, which will provide an important reference for future lunar exploration and deep space exploration.
After a months-long journey into space, the Chang'e-6 probe landed in the planned landing area of Siziwangqi in Inner Mongolia, China.
This milestone achievement marks another major breakthrough in China's space industry, and also demonstrates to the world China's strong strength in the field of deep space exploration, which has provided a lot of help for the subsequent human landing on the moon and later larger and farther plans.
This time, Chang'e-6 not only successfully returned, but also brought back precious lunar soil and lunar gas samples taken from the back of the moon. The value of these lunar soil samples cannot be measured in monetary terms, and they carry the mysteries of the moon and the infinite possibilities of scientific research.
The rare lunar soil that was successfully brought back with such research value naturally aroused the great attention and interest of countries around the world, and the United States was among them.
And the United States is also overly concerned about this
In fact, in recent years, the United States has paid much attention to China's space industry. Fearing that China was developing too fast in the aerospace sector, a ban on China began early on, known as the infamous Wolf Clause.
The content prohibits NASA and NSF from using federal funds to cooperate bilaterally with Chinese government agencies on so-called "national security" grounds. There is even a ban on Chinese space researchers from participating in international conferences.
This caused dissatisfaction among scientists in many countries, and they once jointly boycotted it. Eventually, NASA was overwhelmed and allowed Chinese scientists to attend some of the meetings on the grounds that they were not "official representatives of the Chinese government."
What the United States never expected was that Chinese scientists, with their own excellent knowledge level and without the help of any external force, independently opened up a space road of their own.
In the past four years, China's development in the aerospace field has been extremely rapid, Tiangong-1 and Shenzhou-8 completed the space rendezvous and docking for the first time, and then successively launched Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10, and then to the only two Tiangong space stations in space, which can fully realize the long-term residence of astronauts, and finally the current Chang'e-6 mission has been successfully completed.
In the face of China's astonishing development speed, can the United States not pay attention to it, especially after the completion of the Chang'e-6 mission, the United States is red-eyed.
NASA tweeted: "We hope that China and the global scientific community will share the data obtained from China's lunar exploration program to improve our understanding of the moon, just as the U.S. Apollo and Artemis programs have done."
Is that what we mean? The United States, which is still facing China's "space blockade order", does not know where it has the face to ask us to share data, and even wants to ask for lunar soil.
The United States cares about lunar soil because it can not only study the evolutionary history of the moon, but also may contain helium-3 and other rare resources that can be used by mankind in the future, this potential nuclear fusion fuel, which will play an important role in the future, who can not have an idea.
But if China has worked so hard to get back the lunar soil, does it have to give them a share, and if we don't give it to them, in a few years, will the United States have to say that China's lunar soil production capacity is also overcapacity?
Before Chang'e-6 returned, the Voice of America issued a long article of more than 10,000 words, saying that "the game between China and the United States extends to the moon", as if China and Russia are sorry for not joining the US space exploration program.
In the past, the "Wolf Clause" excluded China from international space cooperation, and later said that China was unwilling to cooperate with the United States, thus giving full play to the "double standard" behavior in the US political arena.
Since the return of Chang'e-6, the US media have begun to express strong dissatisfaction and doubts about the lunar soil allocation plan, and even speculated in a weird way that "this year's lunar back sample is more important, so it will not be assigned to NASA for research."
Thinking of elevating the importance of our Chang'e-6 sampling work, encouraging other countries to ask us for soil, and then, like last year, the United States followed the crowd and came together to force us to give it to them.
As for the distribution of lunar soil, some people must be curious about how China distributes it.
Allocation of lunar soil
In the frontier scientific field of lunar soil research, the United States, China, Russia and other countries are actively investing resources to carry out the collection, analysis and research of lunar soil samples.
As a pioneer in the field of spaceflight, the lunar soil samples brought back by the United States Apollo program have provided valuable information to the scientific community. However, in recent years, China's rapid rise in the space field, especially the success of the Chang'e-6 mission, has brought about new changes in the competitive landscape of lunar soil research.
The successful return of China's Chang'e-6 mission not only marks another major breakthrough in China's space technology, but also wins China more say in the field of lunar soil research.
At the same time, there is an increasing number of cooperation between countries in lunar soil research. The establishment of the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) is also to provide a platform for scientists around the world to jointly study lunar soil.
Through data sharing and experience exchange, scientists from all over the world can have a deeper understanding of the geological structure and chemical composition of the moon, which will provide strong support for future lunar exploration and manned lunar landing missions.
After China's Chang'e-6 successfully returned to Earth, the US media expressed strong dissatisfaction and doubts about the lunar soil allocation plan.
CNN and other mainstream media have reported that Chinese scientists will first share data and conduct joint research with international partners after obtaining lunar soil samples brought back by Chang'e-6, but the international team will need to wait a long time before applying for lunar soil samples.
What they are reporting is actually a statement issued by our space agency, and we will study the samples collected together with international partners.
As for those countries that are not partners, there is also the opportunity to study the sample, but it will take about three years, so we collect it after all, and the distribution is reasonable.
But in CNN's view, such an allocation would put other countries three years behind in their research on lunar soil, calling it unfair to other countries.
What's unfair in the end, otherwise we have to keep up with the offering, and they are waiting to sit back and enjoy the results?
Some people say that the 382 kilograms of lunar soil retrieved by the United States when they landed on the moon that year gave China 1 gram and asked China to do some research.
But China has actually given the United States lunar soil. Because of the "Wolf Act" issued by the United States, China's aerospace department said that it could not cooperate with NASA, so NASA asked other departments in the United States to apply. In the end, China granted Chang'e-5 lunar soil to other U.S. departments, and finally transferred it back to NASA.
In other words, China doesn't owe NASA anything, so we don't carry this pot.
The issue of the distribution of lunar soil samples is not an easy task. The development and utilization of lunar resources requires the joint efforts and cooperation of all countries in the world.
In this process, all countries should respect each other's sovereignty and interests, and jointly promote the development and utilization of lunar resources through consultation and cooperation on an equal footing.
A few years later, with the rapid development of China's aviation, lunar soil has become a cabbage for us, and the Chinese stand on the moon, facing the loess with their backs to the sky, hoeing the day of the noon, and digging the soil today, digging the lunar soil as much as they want, digging wherever they want.
What makes Americans even more angry is that in a few years, when the Chinese astronauts who landed on the moon returned to their mother's home on Earth, they had a bag of soil in their left hand and a bag of soil in their right hand. It's all here, so let's come back with some souvenirs, and there's nothing else on the moon anyway.
Just thinking about this scene makes Americans sad and tears when they hear it. I feel sorry for the Americans.
epilogue
The achievements made in the development of China's space technology have already amazed the world, and the moon is just a relay station, and it will only go to a higher level in the future and explore a broader universe.
As for the idea of the United States, China has no intention of giving it, and wants lunar soil and cooperation, so it is better to think about when to cancel the "Wolf Act" first.
Competition is a good thing, which can promote the sustainable development of science and technology, but this kind of competition does not include means such as encirclement, pursuit, interception, suspicion, and even slander and rumor-mongering, and meaningless competition will not achieve any benefits.
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