This star is going to the moon

Chapter 235 "What movie? The new Predator?" "No, it's the live-action Mermaid."

Lu Yun felt... there shouldn't be a big problem.

After all, he remembered that the president of a certain Caribbean island nation had been assassinated by the CIA hundreds of times without any consequences, so he should be fine too.

Moreover, things are very different in China; it's not a place where the CIA can act with impunity.

In this world, having a powerful motherland backing you up is extremely important.

It's similar to that saying.

"To get ahead in the game, you need both ability and connections."

I can't be a nobody.

Besides, he hasn't reached the point of being assassinated yet.

He wouldn't want to stay in one place and never come out.

Of course, one must be careful. Lu Yun felt that he might be able to learn from the current US president.

This person had an incredibly impressive feat in his previous life, so much so that a saying circulated after the Americans acquired their own sun.

"The unreliable grandpa dodged the bullet by shaking his head."

Okay, Lu Yun admits he's been overthinking things.

After all, in his previous life he was just a struggling minor celebrity, and he never filmed anything like getting involved in a global power struggle and being assassinated by the CIA.

After all, those big-budget movies don't cast him.

In this life, he possesses a cheat code, and in order to fulfill his dream of reaching for the stars, he catches up with a new space race...

Or rather, it was Lou Yun, with his golden touch, who facilitated this new space race.

Suddenly becoming the center of the global power struggle made Lu Yun somewhat uneasy.

Fortunately, Lao Zhong does have some influence in the underworld, and it is becoming increasingly influential.

If Rowun were in some small country...

Well, there are no ifs. Small countries simply don't have the stage for him to showcase these things, let alone become the core of the world.

The next day, Lu Yun attended the meeting as usual. Today's topic was commercial spaceflight.

Despite being called commercial spaceflight, various commercial space companies actually collaborate with various space research institutes; they couldn't handle it on their own.

Currently, the leading commercial aerospace company in China is undoubtedly Bluestar Aerospace, followed closely by DeepBlue Arrow, whose Red Sparrow II liquid oxygen methane reusable rocket is under intensive development.

As a "new energy source" for rockets, and with a recovery mode and a payload capacity of 4 tons, even Lu Yun is very optimistic about it.

Therefore, when Deep Blue Arrow sought cooperation from Blue Star Aerospace, he readily agreed.

The main reason was that he didn't expect the Deep Blue Arrow in this life to be so determined to take this step and directly turn the Red Sparrow II into a reusable rocket, which was indeed commendable.

The remaining commercial space companies, despite having the support of Lu Yun's "technology integration theory," did not dare to develop reusable rockets right away. Instead, they still wanted to develop a small solid rocket to bolster their confidence.

Of course, there were also those who were bold in the field of solid rockets, such as the Eastern Aerospace Company, which was established a year earlier than in the previous life.

The company's first rocket was also a solid rocket, but instead of other companies' small solid rockets with a takeoff mass of tens of tons, it directly researched a large solid rocket with a takeoff mass of 400 tons—the Gravity!

(Image from the internet: The famous "short and cute" rocket, but it weighs 400 tons)
If it can be built, it will not only be the largest solid rocket in China, but also the largest solid rocket in the world!

Lu Yun knew that they had indeed created it in their previous life, and they estimated that it would be good in this life as well, and they still received investment from Mi Mouyou in this life.

I wonder if the first rocket flight in this life will still be named "Men's Wardrobe".

Today's meeting was equally excellent, mainly because the PPTs produced by commercial companies were indeed better than those of the official PPTs, and the speakers were also very eloquent.

Of course, the most attention-grabbing was Lu Yun's "Wooden Kite" space shuttle.

Its progress is also very fast, and it has reached the stage of inviting the manned spaceflight evaluation team to conduct an evaluation.

They will begin the evaluation from the testing phase until the Muyuan spacecraft meets the requirements for manned spaceflight and obtains a manned spaceflight qualification certificate.

During this period, they might have the Kite undergo some design modifications, just like NASA had Elon Musk change the Crew Dragon's rocket-assisted landing to a parachute-assisted deceleration landing. However, the Kite, which lands horizontally on the runway, doesn't have this feature, so their focus will likely be on safety redundancy and maintenance procedures during operation.

After all, like traditional space shuttles, the Muyuan did not have an escape system.

Safety is of paramount importance.

The third day of the meeting was about spare parts, nothing particularly noteworthy.

As for Lu Yun's 10.6-meter diameter super rocket "Starship", it is still in the design stage and construction has not yet started.

The manufacturing plant and launch site are under construction, located directly in the coastal space city, which eliminates the problem of long-distance transportation from the manufacturing plant to the launch pad.

After all, it's really difficult to transport such a huge "starship" over long distances.

After the three-day aerospace conference ended, the people from the Eighth Academy met with him again, and the two sides agreed on a time to visit the "Space Dock" space station module.

After that, Lu Yun threw himself back into filming the TV series "The Three-Body Problem".

While Rowoon was calmly filming, the outside world was buzzing with excitement.

On January 9th, the UK finally passed the Brexit bill in a vote.

The vote was 330 in favor and 231 against.

In other words, the bill passed even though two-fifths of the population opposed it.

Yes, this also foreshadowed Britain's later desire to rejoin the EU.

At the same time, Hollywood officially announced that the live-action version of "The Little Mermaid" had begun filming!
The lead actress remains the same, still the black woman with dreadlocks; she is indeed going to play the first "dreadlocked mermaid" in history.

Even though he had seen it in his previous life, Lu Yun still had the "elderly person's cell phone on the subway" expression when he saw the news in this life.

Yu Hewei, who was also eating nearby, came over to take a look and said, "What movie? The new 'Predator'?"

"puff!"

Lu Yun almost spat out his food.

The "mermaid's" dreadlocks do resemble those of a Predator, but in his previous life, Lu Yun had seen screenshots from netizens, and the moment this "mermaid" emerged from the water, she looked like an Alien.

It can truly be said that...

Well, Lu Yun didn't know what to say.

Unable to speak, Lu Yun simply swiped his phone to show Yu Hewei the news headline.

"What? A mermaid?"

Yu Hewei leaned closer to look in disbelief: "Wow, no wonder it's Hollywood, it's... uh, advanced!"

At this moment, the director also came over. He had seen the relevant information before, and the casting of a black actress to play the mermaid had caused quite a stir.

"This thing... a black mermaid with dreadlocks, how did those Hollywood screenwriters come up with this?"

Hearing the director say that, Lu Yun suddenly thought of the hellish joke he had seen in his previous life.

However, it was indeed quite hellish, so Lu Yun thought about it and didn't say anything. Instead, he said, "I don't know what they're thinking. I only know that if they continue like this, it's a good thing for our domestic film and television dramas."

Upon hearing this, Yu Hewei and the director exchanged glances and then nodded.

In the process of Chinese films and television dramas catching up with Hollywood, self-improvement and breakthroughs are certainly important, but the fall of the enemy is even more gratifying.

Is this really a sign of Hollywood's decline?

What if it's just a rather peculiar project?
After all, there are all sorts of birds in a big forest, and Hollywood has seen similar things before.

Lu Yun smiled and shook his head, saying, "Anyway, there's definitely more to come, so just watch and see."

This time, Yu Hewei and the director exchanged glances again, both understanding the message in each other's eyes.

Lu Yun seems to have made another assertion!

(End of this chapter)