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

The colonel looked at Liu Si, who looked calm, and exposed his sleeves to reveal his strong muscles:

"Come on, try your strength."

"Then be careful, sir."

Liu Si didn't refuse. The two hands that didn't seem to be very different came together and started to exert force at the same time.

Only seven or eight seconds later, an uncontrollable ferocity appeared on the colonel's face. Upon seeing this, Liu Si let go of his hand in time.

The colonel opened his almost unconscious palms and asked in disbelief:

"How much force did you just use?"

Liu Si answered truthfully: "About 30% to 40%."

Several soldiers in the back took a breath. The colonel was known for his outstanding physical strength, but he was suppressed by someone with only 30% of his strength.

On the contrary, the people from the Security Bureau were a little surprised, and they knew better.

Four days ago, they came for another interrogation on a traitor case and discovered Liu Si's incredible changes, which immediately aroused the military's great attention and requested that the number of experimental subjects be expanded immediately.

But after actually seeing Liu Si's changes, they could deeply feel the terrifying power of biotechnology, which is even more terrifying than robots.

A soldier who participated in the experiment had a light in his eyes. With such great strength, I heard that it also improved his ability to resist blows. Doesn't that mean he can even fight a warrior?

The base is not stingy with voluntary experiments. In addition to the military compensation, it also provides an additional one-time compensation of 5 million yuan and promises to take responsibility for their lifelong health.

Of course, this is also because of the harmlessness of 304 injections, and the system is still worthy of trust.

With three experimenters, we can basically verify the universal effect of 304 injection. Xie Miao is still very happy.

After testing the effect of the injection, the colonel pulled Semyon aside and whispered:

"Is there any big potential for reducing the cost of this injection? 74 million is too expensive."

Xie Miao: "This is the case with biopharmaceuticals. Some of the raw materials we use are extracted in only a dozen grams in the whole world. If your three injections are used up, the next batch of four injections will have to wait until next year.

We can only afford five volunteers at most, and I'm afraid we will need financial support in the future. "

The colonel sighed. The superiors attach great importance to this project, but if the cost is nearly 100 million, it really cannot be applied. Compared with the cost-effectiveness of the robot biochemical warrior, it is still much lower.

Xie Miao kindly comforted: "Actually, the low output is due to low demand. When we prepare for large-scale mass production, the cost should still come down. We will invest hundreds of billions in the first seven or eight years, and it will not be too late to apply it in 2025."

We are going to land on the moon soon, and biopharmaceuticals are not far away. "

Nearly 100 billion? Are medicines so expensive?

But when you think about those anti-cancer drugs that cost millions per injection, it seems that 304 injections are not expensive?

A No. 2 robot driving an electric forklift suddenly appeared in the colonel's field of vision. It felt like there were two worlds inside and outside the base.

…

June 19, Kennedy Space Center, LC-39B launch pad.

The heavy Falcon rocket with core stage code B1033 was surrounded by a brightly lit launch pad at night. Silks of cold gas continued to escape from the rocket body. It had just been refueled.

In the 5.1-meter-diameter fairing above it is the fuel tank manufactured by Raytheon Company that will be docked with the "Blue Moon" lander and refueled.

Refueling in space is not a simple technology, especially if it exceeds 20 tons. Fortunately, Raytheon's technology is powerful and ensures that there will never be any accidents.

According to the announcement to the media, B1033 was a "planned launch", carrying a module of the "Gateway" space station and had nothing to do with the space race.

Regardless of whether the public believes it or not, the dead face of the spokesperson shows that he himself probably doesn’t believe it.

However, the launch date of the fuel on-orbit refueling module is only six or seven days in advance. The procedures to be followed are basically the same, so there should be no accidents.

But neither the B1034 on the LC-39A launch pad nor the SLS Block1 rocket being shipped out from Mississippi overnight.

The "Blue Moon" lander was originally scheduled to complete the final factory test from the 22nd to the 29th, but now it is too late and is working overtime. It is required to be launched before June 25th. The B1034 Heavy Falcon carrying it is still undergoing assembly and testing.

If these two can be dealt with by working overtime a few days in advance, then the second SLS rocket will be a bit troublesome.

According to the original plan, this SLS should leave the factory around July 20, and it is more reasonable to launch around August 10.

The manufacturing work of the rocket body has actually been completed for some time, but as a giant rocket with a mass of 2,500 tons, the hidden danger detection and simulation testing of the electrical system and rocket body are the main tasks, and it is only now less than 40% complete.

Two SRB boosters can reduce some energy. As an old thing that has been tested countless times in the space shuttle era and the "Ares Project", the stability of the SRB is still trustworthy, but the risk level of the core stage is no different than that of one A newly manufactured rocket must pass numerous and rigorous tests before it can pass.

But now both Boeing and Lockheed plan to move to the LC-39B launch pad to complete the remaining work, and launch it as soon as it passes.

Not to mention working overtime or not, the number of personnel at the Kennedy Space Center will more than double in the past ten days, and Claire will conduct random checks day and night to steal time measured in minutes and hours from the other side of the Pacific.

It was too late, and it was a full month shorter than they expected. This directly doubled the risk of the Artemis 2 mission.

With this urgent thought and the indiscriminate dollar incentives from NACA, the launch center completed all preparation procedures for the Falcon Heavy as quickly as possible, and issued the ignition command less than thirty minutes later.

The Falcon Heavy lived up to Claire's expectations and steadily pushed the fueling module into the Earth-Moon transfer orbit without reusing the core first stage and booster.

…

"We will not lose to anyone. NACA is always one step ahead. Just now, the first lunar landing module has flown to the moon again."

The direct announcement of the Dawn-3 mission two days...three days ago was a bright card.

The superior carefully looked at the progress comparison between the two sides and felt that there was no need to hide it, so he directly announced the moon landing schedule.

Now Artemis II, who had originally planned to sneak away, became stupid. Originally, they planned to sneak away, but the other side also planned to be one step ahead, so they could only grit their teeth and chase after them.

Two days ago, Claire was pulled into a hearing by Congress, but he persuaded the congressmen to fly to Florida on the grounds of "supervising the progress of the plan." So the depressed congressmen turned their attention to John.

What did you say before taking office? It was agreed that we would be in the lead, and Ami was agreed to be number one, but why did we wake up and someone else was about to land on the moon? !

John tried to quibble, but the MPs were not stupid either:

"We need three rockets to complete the moon landing, but their one rocket is enough. Our three! rockets can only be the same as other people's one! rockets, and the funding for the Dawn Project is less than 8 billion US dollars. NACA What did you do with the funds?"

John: “But we are already one-third of the way there, and it will be two-thirds soon, and we are making faster progress!”

"Can it be launched before July 1?"

"Yes, it must be possible!"