This star is going to the moon

Chapter 119: They all stole our technology, Hundred Flowers Awards Ceremony

Early morning, Space Fork Corporation headquarters.

Ma Yilong folded his arms and remained silent, while two Chinese employees were quickly calculating data and searching for information.

Compared with the imagination of ordinary people and the debate among space enthusiasts, Ma Yilong basically believed that Lu Yun could build the prototype of "Muyuan" within two years.

Now that the prototype can be produced, whether it can make its maiden flight... depends on how brave Lu Yun is.

When it comes to courage, Ma Yilong is the real one. The development plan he formulated for the "Super Falcon" rocket is "explosive development."

The "explosive development" here is not an adjective, but he really intends to use extreme testing methods to ensure the rapid development of the "Super Falcon" rocket technology.

This mode inevitably involves rocket explosions. He wants to obtain extreme data in extreme tests, and then quickly upgrade the technology of the "Super Falcon" rocket in a targeted manner.

No other aerospace company dares to adopt this model, only he does.

Relatively speaking, Ma Yilong’s competitor within the Federation is the bald Bezos. His approach to developing the 7-meter diameter “New Glenn” rocket is completely opposite. He emphasizes “slow” and “slow is fast”!
But Ma Yilong thinks that "slow is slow", and he wants to see whose theory is correct. Next year, he will build a "Super Falcon" prototype for intensive testing!

As for Lu Yun...

He can't see through it!
He doesn't understand.

No one understands the difficulty of developing reusable rockets better than Ma Yilong.

Perhaps others felt that it was not difficult for Lu Yun to build the "Wanhu" rocket in just over a year.

After all, most of the technologies used in the Wanhu rocket are already available on the market, with only a small amount of core technologies, and the Falcon 60 is used as a reference. Even the rocket built is only % of the size of the reference object, and it took more than a year to develop, which is not a fast or slow time.

But only Ma Yilong and his "Falcon 9" research team know how powerful Lu Yun and his "Wan Hu" rocket team are.

The Wanhu rocket was so smooth and successful that people ignored its difficulty.

And now Lu Yun is going to lead the technical team to attack the epoch-making "space shuttle" named by them, which really makes Ma Yilong feel the pressure.

"Is there really someone in this world who is more talented than me?"

Ma Yilong said to himself.

At this point, a Chinese employee said, "Boss, we've almost found the technology list for the Wooden Kite. While the Wooden Kite does share a significant amount of technology with the X-33, there's no infringement of technology involved, as many of the technologies on the Wooden Kite were originally envisioned for the X-33."

"Yes, those technologies that were once envisioned have now been mastered. The Lu Yun team only needs to master a few more core technologies to meet all the technical requirements of the 'Wooden Kite'."

"I have to say, Lu Yun's sense of technological development is extremely terrifying. His 'Technology Integration Theory' is on the road to perfection. The 'Wooden Kite' space shuttle..."

The two Chinese employees didn't know why, but they felt inexplicably proud as they spoke. The Chinese pronunciation of "木苑" became more and more standard, instead of the "葬园" pronunciation that came from Ma Yilong's mouth.

Ma Yilong nodded after listening to them. Contemplating other things, he didn't notice their change. He said, "It seems we might actually see the Wooden Kite's maiden flight by the end of 2020."

"But it doesn't matter," Ma Yilong said confidently, "My 'Crew Dragon' spacecraft will be tested in the first half of next year and will be able to carry people in the second half of the year, which is a year faster than his!"

"Besides, the Crew Dragon is also reusable, and the Falcon 9 is also a reusable rocket. There are even wealthy people who have bought tickets for space travel on the Crew Dragon. I have already won too much."

"Besides, Lu Yun's 'technological integration theory' only goes so far. The 'starship' he wants to build can't be accomplished by technological integration alone. Only our most advanced aerospace technology can handle it!"

"So my 'Super Falcon' is the greatest epoch-making spacecraft, because my ultimate goal is Mars!"

"It is to make humans a multi-planetary species!"

The two Chinese employees looked at each other and praised: "Boss, you are the light of mankind!" "Boss, you are the future of mankind!"

After dawn, the lighthouse on the seashore went out and the American people welcomed a new day.

At this time, their news media also began to broadcast news from the other side of the ocean, including Lu Yun's "Wooden Kite" space shuttle.

But their news... those who understand will understand.

So the American people got angry when they saw the news and immediately started pointing fingers in the comment section.

[Damn it! That corrupt country across the ocean is stealing our technology again! They stole the X-33's technology!]

"That was our technology, they stole it and made some 'wooden kite' spacecraft."

[Damn it! Didn't they say they've already put the Chinese spies in jail? Why are they still stealing our technology?]

"Dude, last time it was SpaceX's spy, and the X-33 is from Lockheed Martin, so this time it must be one of their spies."

I think the government should immediately deport all ethnic Chinese. I suspect they are all spies!

[Haha, that's technology from over a decade ago. As long as the Commander-in-Chief gives the order, we can build it next year, not even two years!]

[I'm actually curious why the X-33 single-stage orbital shuttle wasn't used after the old space shuttles were retired. It's so cool, we should use something so cool...]

Looking at these comments, the American members of the "World Space Enthusiasts Group" were hesitant to speak, hesitant to speak again, trying to organize their thoughts, not knowing what to say...

[Forget it, I hope no one says the earth is flat this time.]

[That's right, I don't want to argue with those idiots anymore. They will definitely look up when the Wooden Kite takes off.]

What if the media tells them to 'not look up'?

[Guys, the Wood Kite's planned maiden flight is at the end of 2020, right during the election period. Our media will only be full of donkeys and elephants fighting each other.]

We're done...

………………

"I never thought that our country's space development has developed to this point!"

(Internet meme picture)
The "Muyuan" not only attracted space enthusiasts, but also military enthusiasts in the following days after the news spread.

Shi Lao and Yang Ji from the military industry group of a certain technology company were doing a live broadcast of the air show. After visiting the military area, they went to the aerospace area and had endless reverie when looking at the "Muyuan".

"This space shuttle can take off from a runway and fly directly into space. If it can carry two tons of bombs and launch an attack from space, wouldn't it become a space fighter?"

"It's hard to say. It's 100% reusable, and pre-production is much quicker and less complex than other rockets. It's possible to quickly prepare and take off, reach space in just over ten minutes, and orbit the Earth in an hour and a half. Isn't this the American vision of 'reaching the globe in an hour and a half'?"

"Hey, I didn't expect that the US military's previous vision would be realized by the people in the aerospace system today. I wonder if Mr. Lu Yunlu is still here. I really want to talk to him..."

Mr. Lu is not here because he is not only an aerospace engineer, but also an actor.

He has now taken a two-hour drive to Foshan to attend the Hundred Flowers Awards ceremony.

(End of this chapter)