I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

Yuri Borisov has full confidence in this plan, because this is one of the countless demonstration plans during the alliance period. There is absolutely no doubt about its feasibility and it is completely technically feasible.

Lucia had actually taken it out before, but who would have nothing to do to burden herself when they were singing and dancing?

Now the ISS member states are quite pleased with this mini centrifuge cabin. It has gravity and is mainly not expensive.

The cost of manufacturing spacecraft in Lucia itself is much lower than that of Europe and the United States, with a maximum of two billion US dollars. It is still easy for everyone to put it together.

Just when the representatives felt that Lucia was rare for a lion to open her mouth, Yuri immediately overturned their little relief and made Lucia's request:

The main part of the centrifuge capsule must be built by Lucia, but the internal equipment can accept multinational cooperation, but the launch must use the Lucia rocket.

Let’s look at the launch schedule again. Well, for six launch missions, due to the size of the parts, the Proton rocket or the Angara A5 with overcapacity must be used. The launch cost will be high. Maybe it will be compared with The cost of manufacturing centrifuge chambers remains the same.

Just when countries were preparing to accuse Maozi of being evil-hearted, Montal's expansion plan made them collectively lose their voices.

The plan of three test cabins + three living cabins proposed by NACA is even more terrifying. In addition to the need to launch the space shuttle and install the truss, it is expected to cost US$40 billion, which is ten times the cost of the Lucia centrifuge module.

$40 billion…

Obviously, Aramco will only contribute part of it, no more than 10 billion at most, and the rest will have to be shared among various countries.

And the ISS member states are the main members of ESA. They can indeed raise tens of billions of dollars in the next few years, but this money has already gone somewhere: Project Selene.

In order to avoid long nights and rapid progress, the country man suppressed the daily demonstrations in China demanding to reduce working hours and strongly promoted the aerospace industry to accelerate the manufacturing of the Hermes space shuttle. In addition to the early pre-research preparations, the final plan has been frozen. , delivery prototype trial production stage.

The main body of the HVY moon landing rocket, VV-1, is also in full swing after the engine is in place. With the support of engineers from the Aerospace Development Commission, the first prototype rocket has been manufactured and is ready to be filled into the water vibration table.

Behind this abnormal speed is naturally the huge financial support provided by the European Space Agency. The aerospace budgets of major European countries have basically been spent. Even the government cobbled together the first two billion US dollars at the call of the Queen. .

If we continue to support the expansion of the ISS, it will be another heavy burden for all countries.

Of course, there is another way, and that is to divert the funds from the Selene Project. I believe this is what Ami would like to see.

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Class B base.

Three heavily covered trucks with radiation signs drove into the base, escorted by a police car, and then headed toward the airport strictly following the predetermined route, where a Y-20 was waiting with its tailgate open.

Surrounding the transport plane were base workers who hoisted the square containers off three trucks into the cargo bay and then handed the procedure over to an officer on the transport crew.

The latter carefully checked the above items and ordered to close the door after confirming that they were correct. Then he entered the aircraft and waited for the takeoff order from the tower.

After taking off, the transport plane headed west, then turned north, until it reached some desolate depths.

Test Site 257 was once a preliminary underground nuclear test site. It was later abandoned due to the Nuclear Test Termination Treaty and is now reused as a nuclear engine test site.

On board this transport plane are three mass-produced versions of the A100 engines. They will be shipped here after final assembly at the Qingshan base. Researchers sent by the base here will conduct a long test run of the three engines for about 10 days. If there are no accidents, they will Certificates of conformity will be issued for these three engines.

These three engines will then be transported back to the base again and installed on the "Storm" that has been waiting for it.

The name of the third space shuttle and the first H2N nuclear-powered space shuttle has finally been determined.

All nuclear-powered space shuttles will be named after wind. The first one is more special and is called "Storm". The fourth H2 is almost completed, that is, the one assigned to Project 909 is the space agency's "Great Wall 1". The construction progress of five aircraft exceeds 60%, and the name is "Typhoon".

Among them, the "Storm" was the first to be completed. It has been waiting in the assembly workshop for a long time and is finally about to receive its heart.

If nothing goes wrong, the "Storm" should be able to make its first flight in time for Labor Day and start the first nuclear thermal power engine in space.

However, the current "Storm" looks relatively shabby, with its majestic body hidden under the three-color cloth.

There is no way, there is only one large hangar that can accommodate H2 for final assembly. It usually has to accommodate the manufacturing and installation processes of giant rocket components and large cabin sections, so the "Storm" cannot take up too much space.

So the latter had no choice but to remove the tail wing and push it to the outside of the door, covering it with a layer of raincloth. Daily air or rain and snow had no effect on its integrated heat insulation layer.

Every time Xiao Gangtian passes by after get off work, he can see the super spacecraft covered by the colorful tarpaulin.

He has been busy with a lot of things recently, not so much the affairs of the base, but the old friends of the island country.

Now he has many titles, such as the honorary president of the Friendship Association between the two countries, the director of the Aerospace Technology Exchange Council, the leader of the Pan-Asian movement... a bunch of messy titles, and people from mainland island countries often ask him to host various Exchange meetings or something.

However, these are various activities organized by active private groups. Xiao Gangtian is also happy to do "part-time jobs" in his spare time, but he encountered a little surprise yesterday.

Someone contacted him through an association and wanted to meet and talk. He said he was a Pan-Asianist who wanted to sponsor their activity group, but wanted to meet the director.

Xiao Gangtian got in touch with him with a skeptical attitude, and then he discovered that the other party had another purpose.

The visitor claimed to be a wealthy businessman, but he had been trying to obtain information from Xiao Gangtian. Xiao Gangtian, who was highly vigilant, was about to leave immediately. Anyway, the other party could not do anything in the cafe near the base. This move made the latter The person hurriedly revealed his true purpose.

It turned out that the other party actually represented a certain congressman, and the person he wanted to contact was not Xiao Gangtian. Instead, he wanted to get official support through Xiao Gangtian to promote aerospace technology, personnel exchanges and cooperation between the two countries.

Including but not limited to in-depth content such as cooperation in launching rockets, satellites, astronauts, etc., and hopes that Xiao Okada can become one of the intermediaries in the cooperation.

Xiao Gangtian naturally reported such a big matter to Lin Ju in a hurry, and the latter immediately forwarded it to him. Obviously they were just building a bridge, and what the mysterious man wanted to talk about was too sensitive.

But Xiao Gangtian did not feel that nothing happened and he was relieved. Instead, he always had a vague feeling that something big was going to happen.