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

"Are you ready?"

"Ready at all the time."

On the last step of the lander's ramp, Deng Lei and Rayana stood sideways together, then solemnly stepped out their left (right) feet at the same time, leaving the first footprints on the lunar surface together.

The two people supported each other and stood up with each other's help. Deng Lei was a little confused now. He felt the solid ground hard before saying:

"All resources on the moon are owned by all mankind and will be used to benefit people around the world."

After saying that, he pushed Reiana back.

The latter was stunned for a moment, and then a trembling voice appeared on the radio:

"(Arabic) We have taken off your veil, and now your eyes discern everything."

This is an ordinary Quranic quotation that believers around the world have recited countless times, but now it is as if they are hearing it said by Muhammad himself for the first time, and it is of extraordinary significance.

In the ground command center, Lin Ju and Academician She looked at the visiting delegation of Aber who was going crazy and applauded in unison.

Academician She picked up the microphone in the commotion and said in a medium voice to the last astronaut in the lander:

"It's your turn."

"Dongliang understands."

Li Wei just walked down from the hatch at this time. Everyone originally agreed with him to take the first step, but he firmly rejected the proposal, saying that his current identity is "an employee of the United Mining Tianmu 2 Exploration Team" , Deng Lei went down first, which is more suitable for the commercial nature of the task.

He is now 52 years old, old enough to face everything calmly.

Under the watchful eyes of the two astronauts who had already landed on the lunar surface, he walked smoothly step by step to the ground.

"I feel good and I'm proud of my country."

[Event: Space Race

A base-made manned vehicle partnered with a third-party lander to conduct a lunar landing mission, sending a base astronaut to the moon, a third world astronaut to the moon, and an important person to the moon. to the moon.

This mission is not included in the base's independent landing operations, but it is still of great significance and has a relatively significant impact on the world's aerospace pattern.

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At the ground command center, after hearing the system prompts, Lin Ju recalled the progress of the XH40. It has now been confirmed that it will be offline in October and the first flight will be in November. There is still plenty of time.

Although this is not considered a self-reliant moon landing in the base's view, Academician She does not think so and sincerely congratulates him:

"Now Xinyuan is the only private enterprise in China and the world that has the capability to independently land on the moon and can still land on the moon on a large scale. You guys have done a great job. Congratulations."

Lin Ju: "I suddenly thought, should United Mining be listed? Otherwise, it should be possible to reach the daily limit now."

Academician She: "..."

United Mining does have a listing plan, but the original plan was to wait for the initial start of the "Yushu" base to be listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and get off to a good start.

But now that Lin Ju said this, he suddenly felt a little pity, and always felt that he had lost a lot.

Not to mention that this money is small money, the space agency currently uses money in too many places: Tiangong Space Station, Qianjin Space Station, Shuguang Project, Chang'e Project, and Tianwen Project are all very large and money-consuming projects, and the funds on the account have been consumed. Almost half of it.

Although the manned landing on Mars has been confirmed, the funding will not be approved until the conference in February next year. Even with the important help of the Forward, at least several hundred billion yuan will have to be invested to complete the Mars plan.

This is not an exaggeration. The environment and distance of Mars determine the exponential rise in costs. Each launch mission requires a giant rocket of 100 tons, and the ferry boat is not very effective due to the distance and window period.

The completion of the Advance assembly does not mean that everything will be fine. On the contrary, the cost of familiarization and maintenance of such a large space station is astronomical.

The current Tiangong Space Station weighs three times that of the original world line. Coupled with extremely frequent launch missions (it carried out 11 manned missions including commercial flights in 2017), the annual maintenance cost is as high as 7 billion yuan. Moving forward It is easy to use up more than 20 to 30 billion accounts.

How much funding did the space agency receive in 2017? The public disclosure is 13.8 billion U.S. dollars (the budget of the Dawn Project is included in the 2015 expenditure), which is about 95 billion yuan.

If United Mining can make money through various methods, not to mention achieving profitability, it will be a big number to be able to subsidize one-third or even one-quarter of its expenses.

This is also thanks to the fact that most of the current rockets are recyclable and reusable, and they can also undertake commercial launches to make some money, otherwise tens of billions would have to be added.

In the more than 20 years from 1992 to 2014, the space agency only spent 20 billion yuan, and the budget for the next three years was ten times that. It drove China's aerospace industry crazy and built space miracles at an alarming speed. , even if you throw away Xinyuan, it can be regarded as the first in the world.

Although this process of vigorously producing miracles and sprinting forward relying on industrial advantages and abundant funds is very comfortable, Academician She still has not forgotten the traditional virtue of diligence and thrift.

Serev took over the Tengyun project at the beginning. I wonder how it is progressing?

…

"Reyana, you are the hero of Abel, you are the first of God's people to land on the moon."

At the Mukara Space Launch Site, King Hamand, the "Commander in Chief" and "Captain of the Aber Astronaut Group", is connecting with Rayana, with a face under a white turban and a face covered by a golden mask. of astronauts simultaneously appeared in a global live broadcast.

Due to the Arab royal family’s financial offensive against all broadcast media around the world, there are no advertisements during this time period. Except for the watermark, Chinese/Arabic bilingual subtitles are played below, and the green theme color is used. It seems that they themselves boarded the to the moon.

Robert, the newly appointed director of NACA, looked at these wealthy people who only had money with a blank face, feeling resentful in his heart.

In fact, it is not that they did not want to bring Abel closer to the Artemis project, and they also promised to give Abel astronauts priority to land on the moon. However, because the NACA in the new century was too "pigeon", Abel finally chose Xinyuan is even willing to sell the space shuttle.

That's more than 10 billion US dollars, and even SLS can play three rounds. Why are these wealthy people unwilling to trust the traditional elites?

Although the current NACA has not fallen off the altar based on its past accumulation, it is still in danger. Most people's view of NACA has changed from "the light of civilization" to "a light that has become a little unreliable."

Robert now has to deal with the Artemis 2 accident investigation team while vigorously rectifying the entire aerospace system, actively preparing for the Mars plan, and hoping to get back on track.

Watching the opponent's moon landing mission is also part of the plan.