On June 25, 2024, the Chang'e-6 returner returned to Earth with lunar soil, and interestingly, the Chinese behaved very blandly, but the external network exploded. Especially in European and American countries, their self-confidence has been hit by 10,000 points. The comments of Pakistani netizens are very interesting, "NASA is nothing".
In fact, NASA is not interested in lunar soil now, but the American media is shouting all over the world, questioning China's lunar soil allocation. Why is NASA not making waves? In fact, they are already in a state of despair, and they are anxious about how to get the two astronauts on the International Space Station back.
The most violent reaction to Chang'e-6 is probably the Pentagon.
How fast will Chang'e-6 return to the moon? The second cosmic speed, almost Mach 32, is already faster than the flight speed of all missiles in the world. When reaching the edge of the Earth's atmosphere, the Chang'e-6 returner uses a semi-ballistic jump reentry method, a technology that only China has mastered. "Splash" in space, then spend a few minutes landing pinpoint to the landing site.
Many people don't understand, what is there to be afraid of with this technology? Literally, a semi-ballistic jump re-entry into the atmosphere, what would it look like if it was a full ballistic re-entry? Probably a few more water drifts in the atmosphere, and then fly over the United States, after entering the atmosphere, there is no need to open a parachute, and there is no need to install any recoil device, which is simpler than the return capsule. Rubbing a bright trail in the atmosphere, like a meteor smashing into the Pentagon, and piggybacking on a warhead by the way, isn't this a hypersonic ballistic missile? It can be said that the Chang'e-6 return capsule is a complex version of the mainland's hypersonic ballistic missile, after all, it also has to protect the lunar soil inside, and it cannot fly so fast in the atmosphere.
In fact, the technology is not the most terrifying, the most worrying thing for the West is that the average age of the Chang'e-6 team is only about 40 years old, while the average age of the entire Chang'e R&D team is even younger, only 33 years old.
Not only are the researchers of China's lunar exploration program young, but the average age of the Beidou satellite developers is only 35 years old, and the "Sky Eye" radio telescope team is even lower at 30 years old. Not long after completing the doctoral degree in college, I entered the core scientific research institution.
In fact, these major scientific research projects are not only young people, but also veterans. The average age is low, and the focus is on passing the torch from generation to generation, and there will be no fault line in talent.
In addition, young scientists are more likely to make bold decisions and be the first. Scientific research also requires courage, and it is certainly not possible to bring forth the new without fresh blood, and Zhang Beihai's killing of the old aerospace is an example.
What is the current situation in Europe and the United States? We have all seen that Boeing's starliner sent people up, and one of the people chosen was named Butch Wilmore and the other was Suni Williams, the former was 61 years old and the latter was 58 years old, both of whom were at the age of holding their grandchildren. Wilmer is even two years older than Yang Liwei, and at this age he was still pitted by Boeing, which is really sad, is there no young astronaut in the United States?
At present, relying on the strength of the American scientific research team to send people to Mars is basically a fantasy, and it would be good to be able to do lunar sampling.
Where will China's aerospace go in the future?
The mainland will definitely make great efforts to develop the moon and establish a base on the moon. Because the position of the moon is so important, there is no atmosphere here, and the gravity is only 1/6 of the earth, so it is very convenient for the spacecraft to take off and land. The Moon is a spaceport, the starting point for future stellar travel within the solar system and beyond. Although the mainland's aerospace science and technology started later than Europe and the United States, with the unremitting pursuit and efforts of mainland scientists, it has now come to the center of the world stage and has become a rule-maker rather than a follower.
It is said that the lunar soil brought back by Chang'e-6 this time is very different from that of Chang'e-5, and natural graphene was found in it for the first time! There is also one of the most important ingredients, which has to wait for the follow-up exposure, that is, helium-3, with which the moon will be able to build a large base, which is the most excellent raw material for nuclear fission.
China is building a base on the moon, and other countries will definitely want to settle in, and who cannot and who can enter must follow China's rules. At that time, many countries led by the United States banned Chinese from entering the International Space Station and also came up with the Wolf clause, of course, we must not forget.
Chinese aerospace experts should also consciously formulate rules and standards, to give a simple example, the language used in the lunar base must be Chinese, the same as China's Tiangong space station, we do not need to be afraid of criticism from Europe and the United States. If someone disagrees, then don't take them to play, and have the ability to build a moon base by yourself.