This star is going to the moon

Chapter 140 The era of space travel is not far away, I said! What level is Chen Kaige?
Ma Yilong's words were very clearly directed at Lu Yun, and anyone with a discerning eye could tell that he was talking to Lu Yun.

When the Wanhu rocket made its maiden flight in August last year, Ma Yilong called Lu Yun a "follower". Later, during the International Astronautical Congress, he made a bet with Lu Yun to see whose super rocket would make the maiden flight first.

Anyway, Ma Yilong thought that the two of them had a grudge against each other, and he would mention Lu Yun from time to time.

In addition to talking to the media, he also often talked to NASA and Congress, mainly using the "Lu Yun threat theory" to get them to pay money!
This time, Ma Yilong's manned Dragon spacecraft will conduct an unmanned maiden flight test, so the current meaning is obviously referring to Lu Yun's "Wooden Kite" space shuttle.

Although the Crew Dragon spacecraft and the Kite space shuttle are different in form, they both have the feature of "reuse" and will develop space tourism in the future, making them competitors that are head-to-head.

So much so that while watching the live broadcast, Academician Ye Jianfei asked Lu Yun: "I see you've been busy with the Long March 10. How's your 'Muyuan' space shuttle?"

"I remember you said last November that you wanted it built within two years, so that means it will be next year."

Academician Ye Jianfei has been the chief commander and chief design consultant for several Chang'e missions and has extensive experience in commanding lunar probe missions, so he has now become the chief commander and chief design consultant for the manned lunar module.

Although the overall manned lunar landing mission has not yet been approved, various sub-projects have begun. For example, the new generation of manned spacecraft with deep space flight capability has been tested, the heavy-duty Long March 10 lunar landing rocket has also been approved, and the research and development of the lunar module has also begun.

Academician Ye Jianfei's role in the Long March 10 mission group is to coordinate the matching of the rocket and the lunar module.

When Lu Yun heard Academician Ye ask this, he said confidently: "Don't worry, teacher, everything is going according to plan."

"The technical model of the Mu Kite is currently being perfected as planned, but its shape is more like an airplane than a conventional rocket, so the aerodynamic shape is difficult to master."

"The company has made several scaled-down aerodynamic models and wants to use the wind tunnel at the Chengdu Aircraft Research Institute to blow them through in order to find the most suitable aerodynamic shape."

"As soon as the aerodynamic shape is finalized, the subsequent procedures will be expedited, and the first flight will be almost next year!"

Ye Jianfei nodded. "That's fine. Actually, I wanted to be an astronaut at first, but unfortunately my health wasn't up to par. I couldn't be a pilot, let alone an astronaut."

"The Tiangong space station will be launched soon. The astronaut corps will select payload specialists and flight engineers who are not from the Air Force, but an old guy like me definitely won't stand a chance."

"I, an old man who has worked in aerospace for my entire life, had given up on going to space. Who would have thought that you would actually want to build a space shuttle? Back then, 77-year-old American astronauts could go to space on the space shuttle, so the space shuttle you say is even more powerful than the space shuttle should be able to carry a -year-old guy like me."

"I'm not sure how cheap you mean. If it drops to a few hundred thousand in a few years, maybe I can actually buy a ticket and fulfill my dream of going into space."

After hearing what Academician Ye said, before Lu Yun could say anything, Academician Wu next to him came over and said, "Yes, if the ticket is really worth hundreds of thousands, leave one for me."

"I definitely can't afford a ticket that costs tens of millions or even hundreds of millions, but if I can fulfill my space dream for just a few hundred thousand, then the era of space travel has truly arrived!"

Lu Yun could hear the two veteran academicians' yearning for space. In fact, this is indeed a helpless situation for many aerospace workers.

It is hard to say how much ordinary people yearn for space. After all, they have no access to it in their daily lives, and they know it has nothing to do with them, so they probably don’t think about it much.

Except when thinking about life in sage mode.

But it is different for aerospace workers. Their jobs are related to space. Many of them manufacture equipment that can go into space and help astronauts go into space, but they can only look up at the space from the ground. After a long time, they will feel a sense of gap and frustration.

Especially for veteran aerospace professionals like Academician Ye, they had it even worse when they were young. They suffered a lot and finally made it to where they are today after working their way up step by step.

As the Tiangong space station was about to be launched, the astronaut team began to select scientists and engineers, but they were old.

If history had continued as normal, they would definitely have no chance, but now that Lu Yun is here, things are different.

"Don't worry, Teacher, Mr. Wu, the era of space travel will definitely arrive within five years. By then, the price of a trip to space will definitely not be much more expensive than buying a family car. I say that!" Hearing this, the two old astronauts' eyes lit up.

They knew that Lu Yun was not a man who talked big. If he said it, he would definitely make it come true!

"Okay, then we're counting on you!"

Lu Yun nodded and said nothing more.

In fact, it is not difficult to lower the price of space tourism. As long as the number of reuses of manned spacecraft can be increased to more than 1000 times, and all parts of the manned spacecraft are not discarded, and the ground support links are simplified, and finally the fuel costs are reduced, the ticket price of space tourism can be reduced.

Coincidentally, Lu Yun can do all these things.

This is the case when the "Kite" can only carry 6 people at a time. If a large space shuttle that can carry dozens or hundreds of people at a time is built in the future, the ticket price for space tourism will become "cheap".

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Huang Jianxin finally contacted Lu Yun...'s agent Liu Chun, and then Liu Chun contacted Lu Yun.

"I'm telling you, Lu Yun, you don't know."

Liu Chun said with a beaming smile, "That Chen Kaige just taunted you in the media, and then he was immediately kicked out of the crew. He even told everyone he was sick, but who would believe that?"

"You cooperated so well with the authorities this time, you slapped him in the face. And it turns out the secret national mission you were talking about was actually building a moon rocket. Awesome!"

"Haha, what level is Chen Kaige? He also does national missions. Are they on the same level as your national missions? The country must be on your side..."

Listening to Liu Chun's excited voice, Lu Yun was speechless.

This reminded him of the famous "I want to become an immortal and be as happy as heaven" "ghostly repetitive" TV series "Journey to the West Sequel".

A famous meme in the series is that after Monkey King kills one of Wu Tian's minions, he often arrogantly says, "I haven't even put in any effort yet, and you've already fallen."

Lu Yun didn't even hit Chen Kaige, but he fell down.

Or just like Liu Chun said, they are not on the same level. Lu Yun didn't take Chen Kaige's sarcasm to heart at all.

As for cooperating with the country, there is even less of that.

What level is Chen Kaige? Does he need cooperation from the country and Lu Yun?
Think he is an American!
"So now Huang Jianxin is also the chief director. He knows you're busy, so he won't ask you to play a role."

Liu Chun continued, "But he wants you to be the aerospace science consultant and take some time to guide the script of 'Daytime Meteor'."

"Also, I'd like you to vet the male lead for 'Daytime Popularity'. After all, you know aerospace, so I'd like you to see which young male stars would fit the film's temperament. Do you have any recommendations?"

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Wow, is the effort this time so big that they can just stuff people into the crew?

(End of this chapter)