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Chapter 311 [Mid-Autumn Moon Night Sleepless Night]

The space agency can't wait to let the Tianren spacecraft bring up 100 tons of supplies. This time, by taking a ride, the Tianzhou space station can be expanded by one-third of the scale. You must know that the current overall mass of the Tianzhou space station is only more than 100 tons. , Less than 55 tons, the [-] tons of materials include two experimental cabins, supplies, etc.

At around 23:49 in the evening, close to the early morning time, all the materials were finally loaded into the Tianren spacecraft, with a total of 1108 tons, which can send the equivalent of two ISS International Space Stations to outer space in one day.

It is no exaggeration to say that the birth of the Skyblade spacecraft directly led to the withdrawal of rocket technology from the stage of history. Compared with the price-performance ratio of the Skyblade spacecraft, the sky-high cost of launching hundreds of millions of dollars a time, it is an unstoppable inevitable trend for rockets to withdraw from the stage of history.

According to the traditional rocket transportation cost, the cost of sending 1 kg of materials to the earth's low-earth orbit is about RMB 15, which means that if the 1108 tons of materials are sent to the low-earth orbit by traditional rockets, it will cost RMB 1662 billion, which is not hidden Sexual time cost, and this is only freight, the material itself has to be calculated separately.

If it is sent to lunar orbit, it is said that the cost of consumption will be multiplied ten times on the basis of 1662 billion.

However, the Skyblade spacecraft needs to be sent to the sky in one flight. It only needs about RMB 1 million in freight to reach the low-earth orbit, and only about RMB 5 million in freight to reach the lunar orbit.

It can be seen that the birth of the Skyblade spacecraft has reduced the cost of space activities by thousands of times, at least that is the case for China's space activities, and the significance and value it brings is immeasurable.

After midnight, a double check was made to confirm that all the cargo had been placed in the cargo hold of the spacecraft, the tail cabin of the Skyblade spacecraft was also closed, and everyone disembarked from the spacecraft.

In the next few days, Li Peng and others rested at the Chongming Island Air Force Base. Everything was ready and they were just waiting for the Mid-Autumn Festival to set sail for the moon.

The exact time is the official launch at 20:25 on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

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North America, NASA Space Agency.

"Apollo's lunar landing project, the result is of course good. We successfully landed on the moon and rewrote the textbooks. But it stopped soon after the moon landing, and there was no follow-up after 'Apollo 17'. But the biggest problem The reason is that landing on the moon is meaningless, and the United States cannot continue to invest huge sums of money to maintain the moon base, nor can it form a substantial deterrent to the Soviet Union..."

"Now the polar bear has fallen and become a thing of the past, but now we are facing a seemingly harmless small rabbit, which has brought unprecedented challenges to the United States."

"The moon will definitely become one of the core areas of space competition in the foreseeable future. We don't have much time to hesitate, and the moon belongs to the Chinese people. Once we lose control of the moon, everything will be lost." It's over, at that time, America will be completely locked on the earth in the future interstellar era, this is called space blockade, it is simply a disaster..."

At this moment, the current director of NASA, Jim Bridenstine, is alone in the conference hall, and he is impassioned to explain the key points to the members of Congress in the video conference. He doesn't know if he can influence the Uncle Sam in Congress, anyway. He felt himself moved.

The director of NASA, who had said a lot, doubled the water, drank it up, moistened his throat, and stood gentlemanly on the five big screens facing the front, and there was a bad old man sitting on each screen. They all looked at him blankly.

Jim Bridenstine stroked his collar, preparing for another impassioned speech, but a congressman on the edge of the big screen stepped forward and said: "Damn, you should work in the Wu Corner Building, right Bridenstine. Densting, not NASA."

The NASA director's tone and threatening description are exactly the same as the group of people in the Wujiao Building.

Another congressman also spoke, saying: "Come on, I didn't hear much passion for returning to the moon, I only heard that a lot of dollar bills were going to disappear, how much will it cost this time?" ?”

Hearing this undisguised sarcasm, Jim Bridenstine did not feel any discomfort. Instead, he lifted his spirits and immediately answered: "$2000 billion should be enough!"

"What?"

"Are you kidding??"

"2000 billion U.S. dollars? Should it still be?" The leader of the speaker sneered abruptly on the spot: "I suggest you go to Jerome, maybe he can let the Fed print 2000 billion U.S. dollars for you to spend, if you ask Congress for money , Please be rational and give up this unrealistic idea. I am still thinking about allocating countless funds to let your people go to the moon. Will it just take a few disco photos on the moon like the Apollo program? "

Jim Bridenstine couldn't stop twitching his mouth when he was obedient. Uncle Sam is also a deadly tongue. After a while, Jim said: "At least 1000 billion US dollars, it can't be in..."

The Speaker interrupted him resolutely, looked straight at him and said blankly: "I'll give you 500 billion dollars, don't bother me again within three years, not even a penny, and don't bargain with me, that's all , how much money is missing, you can figure it out, if you can't do it, let the damn 'Constellation Project' continue to be dusty, huh?"

In the end, the conference hall fell into silence, and the old men on the big screen were all staring at the NASA director in unison. At this moment, Jim Bridenstine opened his mouth but could not utter a word. After a while, he lowered his eyebrows. After a wry smile, he sighed, "OK...just 500 billion."

"Good."

The speaker showed a smile that was uglier than crying, and then several Uncle Sam cut off the communication, and all five large screens went out one by one.

The director of NASA sighed softly. He wanted to use traditional chemical fuel rockets to launch back to the moon. The $500 billion Congress poured in did not hear much. The purchasing power of the current dollar cannot be compared with that of the 70s and [-]s. .

Returning to the moon, it seems that we can only pin our hopes on the research breakthrough of Vera Lopez, which has greatly reduced the cost of space activities.

After the meeting, Jim Bridenstine held a meeting at NASA headquarters and decided on the spot to restart the "Constellation Project" that had been proposed in 2010.

In a sense, the director of NASA and the military giants in North America should secretly thank Gu Cheng. Without his existence, it would be impossible to obtain such a large amount of funding from Congress so easily.

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Entering late September, at around 9:21 in the evening on September 19st, East Eighth District time, the Chongming Island Air Force Base was brightly lit at the moment, and the north and south sides of the Yangtze River Delta Estuary were even more crowded, and there were people everywhere.

The moon hangs high in the night sky. At this moment, it is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Tonight’s moon is unusually big and bright. Now the shopping malls are very lively. Many families come out with their families. China's first manned moon landing, tonight is destined to be of great significance.

A lot of outsiders even came here on purpose, just to witness this historic moment, Tianqing Technology Group announced the moon landing information in advance, which also gave a lot of outsiders time to come.

There were also media reporters reporting on the scene. It was daytime in Europe and the United States, and Huaguo’s first private manned moon landing was also highly anticipated. The advertising screen in New York’s Times Square pushed the spectacular night scene of the commercial capital at the moment full of people.

The space agencies of various countries are paying attention to this live broadcast of the moon landing, including scientists and famous celebrities. Vera Lopez is also free to pay attention. The director of NASA is now turning on the broadcast of CNN in his office. Long Musk came to Shangdu some time ago to participate in this year's World Artificial Intelligence Conference, had an awkward chat with Mr. Ma for a while, and is now watching the live broadcast of the moon landing.

The CCTV news channel once again opened a special live broadcast room to report the whole process. Like last year, this time, hundreds of millions of viewers watched the news together. The difference is that it coincides with the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the family reunited at home to watch the news of the manned moon landing. live streaming.

At this moment, everyone is looking forward to the moment of 20:25, and there is only about an hour left before the countdown to the moon landing.

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(End of this chapter)