This star is going to the moon

Chapter 370 The space shuttle is as powerful as a monster, and even with all their might, they cannot defeat it. The Americans begin to reflect!
Why are they scolding us again?

[Exactly, Lu Yun has very few works to begin with and hasn't won many awards, so why can't we say anything about him?]

"Sigh, this guy's a big boss now. We've been set up by capital."

[Just be a boss, don't meddle in the entertainment industry all the time, shameless!]

[There's nothing we can do; they work in the aerospace industry, and many people consider those in aerospace to be more prestigious than actors like our Qianxi.]

[That's bullshit! My brother is going to be a performing artist. He's even preparing to audition for the National Theatre of China to improve his acting skills. He's a very ambitious and talented actor.]

[I don't know why, but this time not only Lu Yun's fans are cursing at us, but even the group admin is cursing at us, and I even heard that our manager knows about it.]

What should we do? Did we do something wrong?

[Definitely not. They're probably just jealous of our success, that's why they're targeting us. There must be bad people around my brother!]

[That's right, I think so too. My brother has been bullied like this, and the manager isn't standing up for him. He must have been bribed by Lu Yun to suppress him!]

【Oh, why is this happening?】

No, we have to rescue my brother and expose their shady dealings!

I have a simp who seems to be a hacker; I could have him hack into that evil agent's phone!

[Okay, I'll remember that. I'll also create a simp; I can have him throw feces at the evil assistant offline!]

Okay, okay, let's do it that way!

Netizens were just casually criticizing a celebrity's die-hard fans, especially those who spoke rudely to Rowoon. They had no idea that their criticism had gone wrong.

However, the outside world didn't care about this small matter. After a day of fermentation, almost every country's news headlines were about Bluestar Space launching commercial space tourism.

And the various data startled everyone.

[Lu Yun's commercial space tourism project is a huge hit!]

[Bluestar Aerospace sells over 1000 space tourism tickets in one day!]

[Luyun launches commercial space tourism, generating over 100 billion RMB in revenue in one day!]

BlueStar Aerospace aims to send 1000 space tourists into space within five years!

[Bluestar Space rakes in over $15 billion in a single day!]

Americans may not recognize other things, but they will still accept money.

In particular, its national debt has reached $27 trillion this year, and the year is not yet over, but its GDP is estimated to be only $21 trillion.

With the national debt ballooning rapidly, Americans are now placing increasing importance on money.

Of course, $15 billion is nothing to a country.

After all, the future "governor" Ma had finally managed to cut the budget by a hundred or two hundred billion dollars, and Trump was about to cut taxes on the rich by trillions of dollars.

But for ordinary people, $15 billion is an astronomical sum.

Then someone dug up the contract that NASA signed with SpaceX.

I looked at it carefully and compared it.

Isn't this right?

Why is federal manned spaceflight so expensive, yet the funds for a few space missions are enough for Earth's space program to launch hundreds of times?

[Was there insider trading involved in NASA awarding the manned spaceflight contract to SpaceX?] [These high-ranking officials are squandering taxpayers' money again!]

Damn it, I told you we shouldn't have to pay taxes!

The Federation has lost the manned space race!

The Federation had a space shuttle decades ago, so why is it lagging behind in manned spaceflight now?

Upon hearing this, the already deeply divided lower-class citizens of the Federation began attacking each other.

After all, that's how it was designed; the goal is for the lower levels to attack each other.

However, this is not the kind of thing like the Rainbow Flag series; it doesn't have infinite division, so it is still roughly divided into two sides, attacking the opposing party.

[Dude, our space shuttles were all retired during Obama's presidency; this was definitely a Democratic conspiracy!]

[Shit, I knew the Democrats would lead the Union to its demise. They cheated in this election too, just to get rid of the great blondie!]

[Please don't talk nonsense, buddy. The X-33 single-stage-to-orbit space shuttle, which wasn't much inferior to the "Wooden Kite" class space shuttle, was terminated during the Bush administration, nearly twenty years ago. If it hadn't been terminated then, we could definitely have developed a space shuttle much sooner.]

Yes, the reason space shuttles are so cheap is because they are completely reusable. Like commercial airliners, they only consume fuel, instead of discarding many important components like traditional rockets.

Yes, the "Wooden Kite" class space shuttle isn't significantly more advanced than the X-33. Its biggest advantage is its horizontal takeoff, which provides a more comfortable ride than vertically taking off spacecraft.

[Yes, it was only slightly more advanced. If the X-33 hadn't been discontinued in 2001, we could have had a single-stage-to-orbit space shuttle that only consumed fuel by 2002. Perhaps in another five years, we could have developed a space shuttle belonging to the Federation. That was more than a decade ago!]

So who should be held responsible for the Federation's outdated manned spaceflight technology?

This is the mistake of the Elephant Party!

[That's nonsense, it's the Democrats' fault!]

Seeing that they were arguing again, the more rational people started to mediate.

[The rational approach: Guys, we should reflect on the Federation's mistakes in the manned space race and learn from them, instead of engaging in this pointless finger-pointing.]

[Donkey Party fans: Shit, I hate peacemakers like you!]

[Elephant Party fans: Yes, I hate it too!]

[The rational approach: ?]

Fortunately, not everyone in the US is fanatical; there are still quite a few rational people.

At least since the X-33 project was restarted, the engineers inside the project have been working hard, hoping to get it flying as soon as possible.

However, some engineers have complained.

"Sigh, I used to work in the X-33 project team. The project was almost successful but it was terminated, and I had to go to another position. More than ten years later, I had almost forgotten everything, and they asked me to come back to develop X-33."

"Yes, when I first heard the order to terminate the project, I suspected that the manager was high on marijuana. When he recalled me a while ago, I knew that the manager was definitely an idiot."

"Unfortunately, the higher-ups prohibited us from cooperating with the Chinese space agency. If there hadn't been a ban, they might have approached us for cooperation when they were researching the space shuttle, and we wouldn't have had to wait until they succeeded before hastily restarting the project."

"NASA's management model is also problematic now. It was so much better when my teacher participated in the Apollo manned moon landing program!"

"Shh, keep your voice down. Your teacher was once suspected of being a communist, so don't bring that up. The Federation now is not the same as it was during the Apollo moon landing era..."

"Okay, but that Lu Yun is definitely a formidable guy. If we could get him to lead the project like we did during Operation Paperclip in World War II..."

(End of this chapter)