This star is going to the moon

Chapter 152: The American: The Chief Designer of the Long March is not doing his job properly, the advantage is mine

National Space Council meeting room.

When the budget director heard that Boeing representatives wanted to postpone the first flight of the SLS rocket and continue to apply for funding, he jumped up.

"Smith, you Boeing guys are asking for enough money!"

"The SLS project, originally launched in 2010, was supposed to be completed in 2017, but it's been delayed time and time again. Now it's being delayed again, and they're even asking for more R&D funding!"

"You said at the beginning that using the mature technology of the space shuttle could reduce costs. You even removed the engine from the space shuttle."

"As a result, R&D funding has increased from the initial $70 billion to $90 billion. Do you still want to exceed $100 billion?"

Smith blinked and thought to himself: I do.

But on the surface he shrugged: "Mr. Bob, new times have new demands."

"The space shuttle's engines can't be disassembled and used directly. Instead, they need to be upgraded and improved, which is no different from developing new engines."

"The Artemis program requires saving money, but saving money does not mean not spending money. It means spending money to research ways to save money."

"Even if the SLS rocket's development costs rise to $100 billion, it will still be cheaper than the previous Saturn V rocket."

"If you don't believe me, you can send someone to Boeing to check our accounts. We absolutely didn't waste a single cent. We used it all on rocket research and development."

After saying this, Smith proudly stated, "To return to the moon, to regain our space leadership, and to make America great again, Boeing selflessly invested $5000 million in the development of the SLS rocket!"

Budget Director: “…”

You are all thousand-year-old foxes, why are you playing Liao Zhai with me...

wrong.

We are all pirates who have been around for hundreds of years. Why are you pretending to be gentlemen in front of me?

Fortunately, the budget director just played his role briefly and then sat down.

As the meeting continued, Smith presented conclusive evidence that the SLS rocket did need to be delayed for some time and that more research and development funding was needed.

"rest assured!"

Smith assured: "As long as the funds are in place, the SLS rocket will be able to take off next June!"

Everyone in the conference room should believe it for now. We can't keep delaying it anyway. It should be almost done this time.

Then the next topic turned to the Chinese people, and they reported on the progress of the Long March 10 lunar rocket.

After all, the National Space Council's responsibilities are to formulate and implement the country's civilian space program and conduct research in aeronautical science and space science.

In addition, we will coordinate the country's civil, commercial and national space security activities to promote the realization of the national space policy and strategic goals of His Excellency the President.

But the strategic goal depends not only on one's own progress, but also on the enemy's progress.

"Their projects are all carried out in secrecy, including the Long March 10 project. There is very little public information, unlike our Artemis program."

"However, there is a lot of public information about Lu Yun, the chief designer of the Long March 10 rocket. After all, he is a movie star, just like those Hollywood stars. His every move will be reported by the entertainment news."

After hearing the staff's report, someone immediately mocked them, saying, "For such an important project as the moon landing rocket to have a movie star as the chief designer, and he even has plenty of time to film a TV program, this is ridiculous!"

"Those idiot movie stars in Hollywood only do bad things, and Rowoon is definitely one of them..."

But before he could finish, his mouth was covered. The person next to him whispered, "Hey, man, the current president was a movie star. He was very happy that he had starred in the movie "Home Alone."

"!"

The man was shocked. He didn't expect that he had forgotten such an important thing.

If you think about it, there are actually quite a few Hollywood stars who are involved in politics, and there are more than one or two who hold high positions.

There are more than just the current one who has become the Supreme Commander.

So his mind raced, explaining, "I mean, being an actor is great, but Rowoon is both an actor and the chief rocket designer, and he's also filming a show. This has obviously squeezed out his time for rocket development, and it's seriously distracting. Choosing him as the chief rocket designer was a complete mistake." "But this is good news for us, because we have a responsible company like Boeing that's willing to pay for rocket development."

"It's obvious that we're going to win!"

Hearing this, Boeing representative Smith was very satisfied and immediately nodded to him.

"Mr. Scott is right. Under the leadership of the Great Commander, we will continue to win!"

“Make America great again!”

………………

[A miracle in human spaceflight: three space stations operating simultaneously in Earth orbit, with us occupying two of them, Tiangong-2 and the Tianhe core module.]

The successful launch of the Tianhe core module into orbit marks the official start of construction of my country's Tiangong space station.

The space administration announced plans to launch the Wentian laboratory module in September and the Mengtian laboratory module in February of next year, completing the "T" structure of the first phase of the Tiangong space station.

Next summer, a Mars probe will be launched, completing three missions: orbiting, landing, and patrolling Mars.

【The survey telescope is also under construction in an orderly manner! 】

On the evening of May 1st, the second episode of the third season of "A Longing for Life" aired. During the show, Lu Yun and Phoenix Legend sang "Above the Moon," hinting that a manned lunar landing mission was a certainty!

[Boeing announced that the first flight of the SLS rocket will be postponed to next summer...]

【? 】

【What got in here? 】

[Yeah, how can you write that nonsense? How can it be confirmed that a manned moon landing took place just because Rowoon sang a song? "Above the Moon" was released in 2005. It's impossible that the manned moon landing mission was launched at that time, right?]

[No, the first flight of the American SLS rocket has been delayed again. I remember it was previously said to be in 2017, and now it's been delayed for three years. Will it be delayed for another three years after that?]

"Ah, they say they're using mature technology, so why all the delays? So how did they manage to land a man on the moon in the 1970s?"

[No wonder many people in their own country don't believe it. This... Russians can at least rely on archaeology to develop technology, but the Americans can't even do archaeology?]

[This lousy rocket, will the entire project be canceled in the end? ]

Lu Yun couldn't help laughing when he saw this comment.

Because in 1925 in his previous life, after Ma Yilong became the "King of One Word", he did have a fierce struggle with Boeing.

First, they laid off a lot of people from Boeing's SLS project, and then they threatened to cut the entire project.

"Brother Yun, what are you looking at? Stop laughing, the guest star is here." Peng Yuchang ran in and said.

"Oh, I know."

Lu Yun put his phone on the table and went downstairs with Peng Yuchang. "Registration for the Golden Rooster Awards has started. You've been nominated for the 'male lead' role in 'Flash Girl,' 'Fast Brother,' and 'Elephant,' right?"

Peng Yuchang scratched his head. "I've reported it, but the hope isn't great. What about you, Brother Yun?"

"You're the lead in both 'Time Raiders' and 'The Wandering Earth.' 'The Wandering Earth' grossed over 60 billion yuan and set so many records. Your acting is so good in it, so you're guaranteed a nomination for 'Best Actor,' right?"

Lu Yun doesn't care, because the Golden Rooster Award is a famous "professional judges award". This group of people are quite pretentious and are particularly good at "dividing the pork". It is hard to say whether he will get the award or not.

It's even better now. This year is the first year that the session has been changed from one year to another. It will become more and more difficult as time goes by.

The two walked out of the room while chatting, and then met the guest of the eighth episode.

Teacher He introduced them: "This is Richie Jen and Zhang Bozhi, you know them, right?"

This... is quite familiar.

(End of this chapter)