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1972 65438+In February, geologist Dr. jack schmitt wore a heavy spacesuit, walked on the moon with the commander of this mission, eugene cernan, and collected moon rocks in Taolas-Litro Valley, southeast of Chenghai.

As the lunar module pilot of Apollo 17, and the only scientist in the whole Apollo program who came to the moon to perform a mission, Harrison had a whim at the end of the mission and made such a strange request to the ground personnel-he wanted to leave a set of scientific research instruments he carried on the moon.

After some negotiations, the ground personnel finally agreed to this request.

It was not until two astronauts returned to Earth after completing their mission that people realized that commander Eugene had lost one of his Hasselblad cameras on the moon due to carelessness, and then Harrison made this request.

From this point of view, the reason why Harrison made that strange request is probably influenced by this accident.

Perhaps because of a joke-like emotional struggle, Eugene could not stay on the moon alone;

Or perhaps this question is deliberately used to test the attitude of the ground commander to the behavior that astronauts accidentally leave unplanned things on the moon when they walk on the moon.

However, in the long years that followed, despite the scientific instruments left by Harrison, Eugene was still worried about losing his camera on the moon, thinking that it might be a "huge mistake".

Therefore, he has repeatedly publicly told the media that he hopes that astronauts who will land on the moon in the future can help him get his camera back.

"I left my Hasselblad camera on the surface of the moon, and its lens points to the highest point. I hope someone will return to the moon in the future and check the deterioration of solar cosmic radiation on the lens glass. Because of this, I finally didn't take a photo of my last footprint on the moon, which is quite regrettable. "

But this wish didn't come true for him later.

Because after the Apollo 17 mission, the whole Apollo program came to an end.

Since then, 48 years have passed, and no one has been able to land on the moon, so Eugene's camera can only continue to lie on the silver land and wait silently.

Unlike the frustrated little personal wishes of these two astronauts, another official "wish" they brought will come true in the future, in an unexpected way.

In fact, in addition to the unplanned camera and Harrison's scientific instruments, Apollo 17 originally planned to leave a small souvenir on the moon-a commemorative card signed by three astronauts and Nixon, then the 37th president of the United States.

The inscription on the stone tablet reads: "Man has completed the first exploration of the moon-1972 65438+February. May the spirit of peace we bring be with all mankind. "

This passage was realized six years later. After Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, came to power, facing the heavy pressure at home and abroad, Nixon realized the unfinished business of formally establishing diplomatic relations with China, a great eastern country, and was forced to step down halfway because of the Watergate incident.

One year before the formal establishment of diplomatic relations, Jimmy Carter sent brzezinski, the national security adviser of the United States, to visit China, and asked him to bring a secret national gift-1 gram moon rock sample brought back from the moon by Apollo 17 to show his friendship with China.

Besides bringing gifts of moon rocks, brzezinski also has a top secret mission.

That is, together with my colleague Woodcock, we tried to bypass Thomas Gates Jr, the official diplomatic representative of the United States who was extremely hostile to Red China at that time, and build another communication channel in Beijing that could go directly to the White House to negotiate the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States.

According to Democratic Senator Frank Church, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the US Senate, it was not until a few hours before the publication of the Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between China and the United States that a large number of congressmen, including him, were received by the President at the White House and told about it.

The State Council's predecessor was the Secret Electricity Committee, the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Theoretically, it should undertake the main task of this matter, but it has been kept in the dark.

You can also find recordings of Jimmy Carter explaining to Frank Church and other members on the Internet.

"Washington has no secrets, especially the Department of Defense and the State Council. There are many pro-Taiwan people, so I transferred all my communication from the State Council to the White House, so that I could control every telegram and every message with the American representative in China. We bypassed the State Council and kept this secret. "

Later history proved that Jimmy Carter's actions were undoubtedly extremely wise.

With the normalization of Sino-US relations, the balance of Cold War forces began to tilt gradually and was eventually subverted.

In the thirteenth year after the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, the Soviet Union disintegrated on June 25th, 199 165438, and the giants in the Far East collapsed. The former countries were scattered all over the country, each struggling under shock therapy.

The veterans who planted the victory flag on the roof of the Parliament Building in Berlin dug out their military service medals from their boxes, only to take them to the market to buy two loaves for their granddaughters, but most of them were left unattended and could only freeze to death and starve to death with the medals in Red Square.

On the other side of the ocean, the United States is welcoming its most glorious era.

At that time, the lighthouse of mankind was not a derogatory term. In order to contend with the Soviet Union ideologically, they pulled the gap between the rich and the poor in their own society to the lowest level in history, and at the same time shaped the American dream that later fascinated countless people in the world.

An ordinary American worker, who works hard in the factory alone, can support his wife and three children, take his family to a big single-family house with a lawn yard, keep a big dog in the yard and park two scooters in the garage.

Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and The Last Man sell well all over the world, and the United States has become synonymous with universal human values. Economically, politically and even culturally, the United States has become an undisputed world leader and is invincible on the international stage.

At that time, the grand occasion of the United States, except Shelley's sentence, "I am the king of kings, and I have made great achievements, so I dare to impress God!" Poetry, there is no other word to describe it.

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At the same time, there is a heated discussion on the Internet in China-"Is the small animal that came to greet Chang 'e V a jade rabbit or a fox? "?

A few hours before all this happened, Chang 'e V, as the key project of China National Space Administration in recent years, was also the final battle of the third phase of China's lunar exploration project, and its return capsule was slowly landing in Siziwangqi, Inner Mongolia.

For the recovery process of Changwu return capsule, CCTV broadcast live on the Internet. Therefore, when a helicopter camera that is currently recycling accidentally photographed a small animal jumping near Changwu, it triggered a big discussion on the Internet about whether it was a jade rabbit or a fox.

It doesn't really matter what animal it is. Crucially, with the successful recovery of the Chang 'e-5 return capsule, the entire 2kg lunar soil sample stored in the capsule has been mastered by China people.

This not only marks the re-exploitation of lunar soil on the moon after 44 years, but also brings to the surface an international sensitive question-will China people share these lunar soil samples with the United States?

As early as165438+1when Chang 'e V was launched on October 24th, NASA sent a tweet saying, "We hope that China can share data with the global scientific community and strengthen our understanding of the moon, just like our Apollo program and Alsi's Miss program."

To put it bluntly, in fact, this sentence has more or less implied self-esteem.

It seems that NASA is not only trying to remind Chinese people not to forget the 1g lunar soil sent by Apollo 17, but it is better to put on a show of "water is leaking, a rising tide lifts all boats" and return it directly with interest.

However, China has never made a positive official response to this. It's just that some folk voices have made some negative speculations because Sino-US relations have become more and more tense in recent years.

"Excuse me, will China share the moon samples with NASA in the United States? Thank you. "

"First of all, according to the Outer Space Treaty, outer space resources are the common wealth of mankind, and the China government will implement them according to the Outer Space Treaty. Second, the China government is willing to share moon samples, including relevant detection data, with like-minded institutions and scientists in other countries for scientific analysis. Regrettably, however, in 20 1 1 year, the US Congress passed the "Wolf Clause", which restricted official institutions such as NASA and the State Council Science Committee from conducting space cooperation with China. Whether we can cooperate depends on the policy of the US government. We are willing to carry out sincere and friendly cooperation with American government agencies, enterprises and institutions, scientists and engineers on the basis of equality, mutual benefit, peaceful utilization and win-win cooperation. Thank you. "

In the year of 2020, I am afraid that people in the whole western society are completely tired of watching the news that Europe and America are beaten and China is the winner.

10 year 10 on 20th October, the British Daily Mail published an article entitled "How ugly the roar of the dragon's return: China's economy is booming in the epidemic it released".

It can be said that in an almost hysterical tone, the failure of the whole western world since the epidemic was compared with China's brilliant performance, and all the negative emotions accumulated in westerners' hearts were spit out.

Maybe in their eyes, holding your nose affirmed China's epidemic prevention achievements, but in the eyes of China people, this article is still a little uncomfortable ... So you think COVID-19 should become Chernobyl in China, which is the development you want, right?

The news media can distort the facts to some extent, but after all, it can't really reverse black and white.

After the winter in the whole western world came, the second wave of epidemic was threatening, which happened before everyone's eyes and could not be whitewashed by words.

Coincidentally, China's import and export business has increased substantially this year, even to the point where Hunan, Zhejiang and other places need long-term power cuts to supply the rapidly growing industrial electricity demand, which is also seen by the world.

Not to mention western readers, even China people are probably a little tired of reading this kind of news this year, such as "The kind newspaper of NASA, only because of the wolf clause", which belongs to the kind of news that netizens are too lazy to open social networking sites.

But in fact, rather than saying that the epidemic has become the Waterloo of the West, it is better to say that the epidemic just tore off the fig leaf of the world hegemon in advance.

As early as a long time ago, the once proud American middle-class workers have unconsciously become the so-called "rust belt adherents." Not only the elite young people in the United States who embrace the Internet and the financial industry look down on them, but even people in other countries in the world look down on these so-called "red necks and old whites".

Although in 20 16, this group of abandoned "old Americans" tried their best to push a blonde businessman who seemed willing to speak for them to the presidency, it seems that everything will change and the glory of the past will soon reappear.

But when four years passed in a hurry, all the glitz and bubbles fell silent again, as if nothing had happened. The 70 million movie that set a new record in history only became a bargaining chip for a buffoon to land smoothly.

The lighthouse that lit up the human world in those days, even if the epidemic didn't come, had already lost its former glory. Just like NASA, once proud of the unique lunar soil in the world, now it is extremely embarrassing to go to the recipient of that year and ask for it.

Third,

Many times, dazzling brilliance, like bubbles on wine, will cover up too many things.

It's like when you struggle to pull out the mountain and make great strides on the battlefield, you only hear the flattery of calling you "the king of kings", but you don't have time to recall the full text of that poem.

In fact, Shelley's Osiman Diez has never been a compliment that can be used to praise martial arts, but rather expresses the disillusionment that everything in the world is always ups and downs, and the full moon is full of people's losses.

After coming back from overseas, I saw an ancient desert country.

There are half-destroyed stone statues, but only huge legs.

Half buried in the sand, but the face is still terrible,

Sneer, bossy arrogance,

It shows that the sculptor has seen through the master's heart.

Carve the stone into the shape of Xiao Wei,

Carved hands and hearts like the Lord

It's gone early. The characters on the pedestal are impressive:

"I am the king of kings,

Great achievements, dare to convince the gods!

There is nothing but around the ruins,

Lonely, flat, empty, boundless,

Extending to four desolate directions.

-Osiman Diez of Shelley.

In the past 40 years, the exchange of roles and identities between the giver and the giver of lunar soil is actually just a microcosm, and what is reflected behind it is actually the rise and fall of all countries on the earth.

The new Rome that once fascinated the world has long gone, leaving a mess; And an ancient country that is rising is embarking on its own road of revival.

A once-in-a-century epidemic black swan, like the most conscientious examiner, makes two countries with opposite accelerations show their differences at the fastest speed.

Some people say that when Apollo landed on the moon, the star-spangled banner had fallen and was covered with moon dust. It seems that it is unknown whether the stars and stripes on the moon have fallen, but the stars and stripes on the ground are definitely no longer bright and clean.

For the moon in the sky, decades are just a flick of a finger. But for the world, it is completely different.

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