【Chapter 303: Expansion】
"Haha! Then I should feel extremely honored!...8 cans of liquid nitrogen, 4 cans of liquid oxygen, 10 cans of liquid water, two bags of genetically modified seed plants, wow! The growth rate is ten times that of conventional plants?...Ann~! Mark planted potatoes on Mars, and we want to plant bean sprouts on the moon? Hey~! How many oxygen molecules can this thing provide? I think it would be lucky if I don't compete with me for oxygen."
"Maybe one can save your life, man. It is also a blessing to have plants accompanying you. Ten days later, these seeds can meet the oxygen needs of 1.7 people and provide a lot of food."
"Yeah?"
Twenty minutes later, all the supplies in the airborne cabin were counted and sent to the trailer. The two entered the lunar rover, filled with air, and took off their helmets and breathed greedily.
After a while, the lunar rover was carrying an unpowered trailer full of supplies and was driving on the moon's surface.
"When will the next time you supply supplies?" asked Arnold on the co-pilot.
"If nothing unexpected happens, it will be 20 days later. These daily necessities are only enough to last for 20 days, but for the third time, five new members will be transported here."
"Hmm? To the dead Armstrong!"
It took about three hours to go to the airdrop cabin location, but with the lunar rover, the return time was much faster. The road surface was not difficult to walk, and the speed was fast enough. It took only about 50 minutes to arrive at the outpost.
When he returned, Brell was already waiting outside the outpost in a space suit.
"Welcome back," Brell smiled, then looked at Barry who was walking out of the car. "You drive to pick them up, and the coordinates are already given to you. Arnold, you and I are responsible for building the inflatable space capsule and connecting the outpost base. There must be new space before they arrive."
Barry drove the rover away from the outpost again. Arnold and Brell also worked intensively under the light source provided by spotlights.
“Where is the inflatable space capsule placed?”
"Uh, let me think about it, it seems to be at the bottom of the trailer."
"The bottom? Don't you know we'll use it right away?" Brell turned and looked at Arnold, his eyes that he wanted to beat someone up were unconcealed.
In desperation, he cleaned up all the supplies on the trailer before finding the inflatable space capsule. Brell pondered: "You transport these two pieces to the interface on the other end of the outpost and connect them."
"What a joke? I can't lift it alone."
"Isn't there a trailer? Stupid donkey! It's no help!"
"That way I look like a donkey."
Brell shut up immediately, and he found that talking too much would make him unable to control his emotions.
There are seven space residence capsules produced by Bigelow Aerospace. Two people placed the uninjected space capsule at the opposite interface on both sides of the middle of the outpost. At this time, they began to inject nitrogen into the capsule. The inflatable space capsule expanded rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and eventually became a capsule-shaped inflatable object. The interface was ring-shaped, and the chassis had wheels and brackets. The capsule was close to the outpost's interface and completely docked. The bracket was close to the moon's surface, and oxygen was injected into it. The air in the cabin was mirrored with the earth.
After the first quarter was connected, the second quarter began to be connected. After repeated repetition, the two of them finally expanded the living space of the outpost for 35 minutes.
The outpost was initially only 21 cubic meters, and each inflatable capsule could be added to an additional 19 cubic meters. With the seven inflatable capsules provided by Bigelow Aerospace, the space of the entire outpost base has been expanded several times, and the total space capacity has also reached 154 cubic meters.
Looking down from the air, the lunar base is like a cross lying flat on the moon surface. Shortly after Brell and the two of them had just laid out the space facilities, the lunar rover had returned to the base, but the two of them were still erecting solar electromagnetic panels.
"Wow, this is my footprint." Cock, who had just jumped out of the car, said in surprise as he looked at the footsteps shining with lights. Then he moved his steps, and everyone walked like a rabbit, jumping on the moon's surface, walking on the surface of the moon under one-sixth of the gravity of the earth. Cock felt very strange.
Alihand looked at the outpost base in front of him and murmured to himself: "We will live here for a long time."
"How long is it?" Cock asked back when he heard the sound.
Alihand looked at him and said, "Until we uncover the secret of the 'glass window'. The specific time? The plan for xp is over." He opened the outer hatch and entered the outpost, and said, "Everything we use here is made of dollars, including all facilities such as breathing oxygen. The lowest price of a kilogram of materials from the earth is also $150,000. The budget of xp daily Ze's plan is $54 billion, but the funding is still very compact. Our boss is not the money monster of xlous. Although alphabet is also very rich, it cannot allow a plan that costs more than $50 billion to get nothing."
"So..." Cock, who was following behind his butt, said.
Alihand hung up the spacesuit and found a glass of juice to take a sip. "...so, we have to come up with the results as soon as possible to let Page and the board of directors on earth have high hopes for us. The funds can be raised..." He raised his right hand slowly, "Alphabet is not as rich as the monster xlous, but Alphabet is not a person who lacks money. So, we have to set out tomorrow to see that piece of 'glass'."
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After 11 hours.
"Cork, get up! We have to set off." Alihand was already in his space suit.
"It's not dawn yet," Cock said.
"Dawn? Then you have to wait 128 hours and get up!"
"Ok! OK! OK! Wait for me for five minutes."
There are four people in the lunar rover, Barry is responsible for driving, Arnold takes on the role of bodyguards in dealing with emergencies, and the other two are Alihand and Cock.
"The 'glass window' is just 50 kilometers away, bypassing this crater and in this low-lying area..." Alihand pointed to the map and said, a plate of Cock was still eating burgers, staring at the map with concentration, and the four people surrounded them.
"The journey may be a bit bumpy, but our lunar rover is enough to adapt to the road conditions on the moon, and it takes about three and a half hours to reach the destination," Barry said.
"The moon is dark and the wind is high, and it is a good time to sneak into the dog. Oh no, there is no wind on the moon, but it doesn't matter." Arnold said with a smile.
"Shut up your stinky mouth, you'll consume the most oxygen here." Barry growled.
Alihand shrugged and put away the map. The engine of the lunar rover started, and immediately drove out of the outpost base and headed straight for the destination 50 kilometers away.
(To be continued.) (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!