This star is going to the moon

Chapter 284: "Wooden Kite" transported to space airport; Lu Yun's Weibo followers surpass 1 million! (Seeking monthly votes)

"Come on, let's take a picture together. I have a feeling that our meeting today will have a big impact on the future!"

Lu Yun was very interested in arranging for a group photo.

The three people born in the 1980s, namely 40-year-old Guo Fan and Jiaozi, and 38-year-old Feng Ji, had no idea what this 26-year-old was doing.

If we're talking about someone who will have a significant impact on the future, it has to be Lu Yun himself. After all, no matter how big their achievements are, can they be more impressive than a manned moon landing?

But if Lu Yun says they want to take a photo, then let's take a photo. Anyway, they won't lose out.

Furthermore, they had known Lu Yun for quite some time, and this "young tycoon" did indeed do some things that seemed... rather strange to them.

Perhaps this is what a true genius is all about.

As for "having a significant impact on the future", it won't be...

"Mr. Lu, is our country really going to send people to the moon soon?"

"Ahem, it's a secret."

Upon hearing this, Guo Fan looked at Jiaozi and Feng Ji with a "how about it?" expression.

He had spent the most time with Lu Yun and knew a lot of things. Not only was the timing of the manned lunar landing kept secret, but Lu Yun also kept the well-known fact that "the Long March 10 rocket is the lunar landing rocket" a secret.

After all, the government hasn't made an official announcement yet.

They spent the day at Youke Company. In the afternoon, they spent a few hours together discussing the general structure of the promotional video. Then, Guo Fan, Jiaozi, and Feng Ji exchanged contact information, and Lu Yun took the two away.

The three of them would keep in touch to discuss the promotional video until Feng Ji finally finished making it.

Lu Yun didn't care about that; he figured it was perfectly fine to leave the film production to the three of them.

With the completion of the space airport construction, the "Wooden Kite" space shuttle, which has almost finished testing, will be disassembled into parts and sent to the space airport.

Of course, it wasn't disassembled into individual parts, but rather into several major structural blocks, which were then transported to the coastal aerospace city by the "Yuanwang" transport ship carrying the Long March 5 rocket.

(Yuanwang 21)
The loading and transport of the "Wooden Kite" caused quite a stir. Even before Blue Star Aerospace and Lu Yun officially announced it, aerospace enthusiasts and some media outlets already knew about it.

Space enthusiasts, in particular, pay attention to various space information through different means. The more advanced something is, the more they pay attention to it. Just like Elon Musk's 9-meter diameter "Super Falcon," since it is still in the open-air manufacturing stage, any slight change will be discussed by space enthusiasts for a long time.

Unlike the "Super Falcon," which hasn't even passed prototype testing yet and only looks enormous, the "Wooden Kite" has already been built and has undergone almost all kinds of tests. It is now being transported to a space airport that has also been built, indicating that it will soon have its maiden flight.

When someone posted photos of the loading process online, it quickly sparked a lot of discussion.

The space airport has just been built and is undergoing acceptance testing. The "Wooden Kite" is about to be loaded onto the ship. Will it be ready for its maiden flight once it arrives at the space airport and has already completed its acceptance testing?

[Did Lu Yun provide specific figures regarding the first flight in the middle of the year? Was it in June or July?]

I vaguely remember someone saying it was around the end of June.

[No, I remember Lu Yun said at the latest by the middle of this year, or before the middle of the year. According to his timeline, he would definitely try to move forward as much as possible. After all, everyone in the aerospace industry knows that Lu Yun's timeline is forward-looking, while Ma Yilong's timeline is backward-looking.]

[Haha, indeed, Lu Yun is known for being incredibly fast. If he says a certain time, the exact time needs to be adjusted forward by at least a month. If Ma Yilong says a certain time, the exact time needs to be adjusted backward by double.]

So, the "Wooden Kite" might have its maiden flight in early June, or even at the end of May?

Hurry up and bring it out, I can't wait!

[I hope Lu Yun can give me a more precise time. I must go to the space airport on that day to witness the maiden flight of "Mu Yuan"!] [In about half a month, it will be the fifth "Space Day." The exhibition hall in Rongcheng is already being set up. Maybe Lu Yun will announce the date there...]

As space enthusiasts discussed the topic, the information began to spread, and ordinary netizens gradually joined in.

After all, manned spaceflight is much more popular than other spaceflight activities, and the "Wooden Kite" manned spacecraft, which has been promoted for two years and is finally about to make its maiden flight, is attracting even more attention.

Not to mention, Lu Yun is also running a promotion; he's going to hold a raffle to select one fan to receive a space trip!
As the "Wooden Kite" gets closer to its maiden flight, and after a few more flights it will be able to carry passengers, netizens have started to pay close attention to Lu Yun, wanting to see if they will be the lucky ones.

This made Lu Yun's initial fans lose their composure. Although the odds of winning were not much different between one in a few tens of millions and one in a few tens of millions, the thought that the lucky winner might be someone who had only followed Lu Yun for a day made them want to vomit blood.

However, they soon stopped worrying about the tens of millions, because Lu Yun's Weibo followers officially surpassed 1 million!
Although Lu Yun has only been in the industry for five years, his fan base has grown rapidly. When he announced the "Wooden Kite" project in November 2018, he only had more than 30 million followers on Weibo, while An Fangfei had more than 60 million followers at that time.

As his film and television works became increasingly popular and his status in the aerospace industry rose, his fan base grew faster and faster.

In 2019, Lu Yun's fan base had caught up with An Fangfei's, with both having over 70 million fans.

By the beginning of 2020, An Fangfei had just reached 80 million fans, while Lu Yun had already exceeded 90 million fans.

While many people were speculating whether he would become the fourth person on Weibo to have over 100 million followers next year, this wave of "wanting to fly to the sky" actually propelled Lu Yun to that position.

As for the first three, they are Xie Na, whom Lu Yun knows; He Jiong, a friend of Lu Yun; and Yang Mi, whom Lu Yun knows.

However, compared to their fans, most of Lu Yun's fans are true fans.

Even those who are just "participating in the event" are much better than pure zombie fans.

Even to celebrate Lu Yun's Weibo followers surpassing 100 million, Third Brother immediately sent his blessings.

It turns out that the Indian aircraft carrier "Vikramaditya" caught fire when it entered Kawa Bay. The fire caused an officer involved in the rescue to lose consciousness after inhaling smoke and eventually die.

Many netizens tagged... "Director Zhang" after seeing this message.

Cough cough, yes, this retired old man once jinxed it.

During the sea trials of the aircraft carrier "Vikramaditya" in 2012, the admiral stated that he did not have high hopes for the carrier and just hoped that it "would be fine as long as it didn't catch fire."

This is because the aircraft carrier's predecessor, the "Admiral Gorshkov," experienced a boiler explosion in 1994, posing a certain fire hazard.

Later, the Russians sold it to the Indians for one dollar.

They just collected billions of dollars in modification fees.

Then, as expected, the aircraft carrier "Vikramaditya" did not disappoint the admiral. During the sea trials in 2012, seven out of eight boilers malfunctioned, leading to a fire and explosion on the carrier.

So the third brother shifted the blame to the old Chinese man.

It wasn't that they sued the bureau chief, but rather that the boiler malfunction was caused by the purchase of inferior refractory bricks from the Chinese.

Then another fire occurred in 2019, and then another fire occurred just one year later.

All I can say is that Third Brother truly lives up to his name.

Lu Yun accepted the auspicious gift and wished his third brother continued success in the coming year.

(End of this chapter)