Technology invades the modern world

Chapter 80 I'm not talking about anyone

Kennedy's speech and what happened at Cape Canaveral were spread around the world through newspapers in just one week.

During this week, it made headlines in countless media outlets.

From newspapers to television to radio, every media outlet you can think of is talking about it.

However, most of the media's attention was focused on Kennedy and the White House, and no one cared about Lin Ran's prediction at all.

It was already good enough that Lin Ran's prediction received a paragraph on the newspaper's headlines.

Even though some newspapers specifically talked about this matter, the attention was not focused on Lin Ran's prophecy itself, but on the feeling that the whole thing was a conspiracy arranged by the White House.

Just like Kissinger was causing trouble all over the world, even though many things were led by him, people at the time thought that this was the White House's idea.

But within NASA, the reaction was completely different, because NASA was able to see Lin Ran's prediction and had complete data on the fall of Freedom 7.

This incident directly led to the suicide of Robert Gilruth, director of the ground control center, and it is unknown how many staff members will be implicated in the future.

Everyone wondered if McCarthy would make a comeback.

It’s just that this time McCarthy’s target is different.

"What the f**k! How is this possible!" Ernst Stust, director of the Ion Propulsion Laboratory at the Marshall Space Flight Center, compared Lin Ran's prediction with NASA's internal report on the Freedom 7 accident and found that both predictions about the time were so accurate.

Ernst Stust had heard of the name Lin Ran a long time ago. He had seen it in a letter written to him by Haynes, in which the other party described the yellow-skinned young man he met as rare in the world.

In the letter, Haynes also mentioned that if the other party could join NASA, it would be very helpful to their Mercury Project, and hoped that Stust would help arrange an interview.

Stust is the boss of Haynes' boss and a scientist recruited from Germany by America during Operation Paperclip.

Unlike von Bryan, who had been in charge of rocket research and development in the rear, Stust was a former private who had personally participated in combat, been sent to the front line, and even participated in the Battle of Stalingrad.

Therefore, Stust can be said to have a will of steel, and those who could retreat to Germany on foot in that cold winter were all ruthless people.

Stust had a good personal relationship with Haynes, so he quickly arranged an interview. However, after Haynes returned to Redstone Base, he told him that the other party had gone to teach at Columbia University.

Stust didn't care. After all, there were too many geniuses among the thousands of scientists at the Redstone Base. Lin Ran's genius only existed in Haynes's letter, and he had never seen it with his own eyes.

The next time I heard this name was in newspapers, on the science pages. This young man named Randolph Linn continued to create new miracles in the field of mathematics.

This made Stust a little regretful that he had not been more decisive and went to New York to meet the other party in person.

The last time I heard this name was because the other person did come to work at NASA, but he was not an engineer under him, but his immediate superior, the immediate superior of the entire NASA.

And the first thing he did was give everyone a warning.

With incredibly accurate predictions, he is slapping everyone in NASA in the face.

Lin Ran's handwritten prediction document has been copied everywhere, and almost every NASA scientist has a copy.

Apart from being shocked that the other party had accurately predicted the time of the accident, the angle of deviation and the final cause of the crash, everyone had only one feeling, which was that they were slapped in the face, and slapped hard in the face.

As a senior NASA official, Stust feels this even more strongly.

He was in his office with Kurt Debus, director of launch operations at Cape Canaveral, who asked:
"Kurt, were you there the whole time Lin was watching the launch at Cape Canaveral?"

Kurt nodded. "Yes, I accompanied Lin throughout the visit. He visited the rocket and Freedom 7. But the circuit was sealed, and he couldn't see the inside from the outside. He could only see the internal design of Freedom 7 from the blueprints.

When Director Weber was touring the rocket, Lin only watched from a distance. He spent most of his time in the conference room looking at the design drawings of Freedom 7.

At that time, I thought that the other party was very interested in the control system design of Freedom 7, but I didn't expect that he was here to cause trouble.

Furthermore, the entire process of Freedom 7, from its completion to installation and launch, was monitored by security personnel, and no one outside the launch base had any contact with it.”

Kurt was indignant. If you had told me earlier if you saw the problem, we wouldn't have wasted this opportunity.

"I see." Stuster sighed, "They found something on us.

But I still don’t understand, how could he dare to gamble?”

Kurt asked, "Bet? They should have prepared for both scenarios at the same time. If our launch is successful, they can just change the story."

Stuster explained: "Of course, they must have taken success or failure into consideration. What I mean by betting is, how dare Lin write about the failure process so precisely, down to the minute.

Isn’t he afraid that his prediction will fail?
What’s even more terrifying is that his prediction was correct, and the time of the prediction was exactly the same as the actual situation.

This cannot be explained by advance preparation. Just looking at the circuit diagram can predict the failure.

We spent half a year checking back and forth but couldn't find the problem, but the other party could see it with just a glance and made such an accurate and bold prediction.

This is telling us that his achievements in aerospace are no less than those in mathematics, so don't treat him as a layman.

In terms of management, there is James Webb, and in terms of technology, there is Randolph Lin.

NASA is about to face a turmoil, and we have no reason to object."

If you lose, you have to admit it.

If someone finds evidence against you, you must admit it.

In addition to the Special Assistant for Space Affairs, Lin Ran also added a new position: Director of NASA's Office of Human Spaceflight.

This is a newly established internal office responsible for centralizing NASA's manned space program, including manned lunar landings.

It can be said that this is the internal organization with the greatest power in the Apollo program.

After the Freedom 7 incident, everyone, whether James Webb or the White House, felt that Lin Ran was the only one they could trust technically.

In addition, Lin Ran also joined the NASA Accident Investigation Committee as an investigator, responsible for assisting James Webb in correcting problematic personnel within NASA.

In the conference room of the Redstone Base, engineers and managers above GS-9 level gathered together, and Lin Ran sat in the middle of the stepped conference room.

Facing the NASA staff in the audience, the person looking at him in the first row was none other than Feng Brian.

"Hello everyone, this is the first time I've met with you at NASA in such a formal setting since I took office as Special Assistant for Space Affairs.

I'm not talking about anyone, I'm talking about everyone here, you're all garbage."

(End of this chapter)