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

Domestic opposition is not unexpected, even if Ye Changsi offers the temptation of more than three times the overall performance, it will not help.

After all, even those crazy nuclear-powered cruise missile programs during the Cold War were ultimately not tested on a large scale due to various factors. Under this premise, releasing a nuclear-powered aircraft would inevitably face unanimous condemnation from the world.

Therefore, even the XN90’s flight approval is still pending, and it will depend on the final NPAE test results.

"Then let's make a plan first. As long as NPAE does a test run, everything will be fine... By the way, what code name do you plan to give it?"

Whether it is NPAE or XN90, they are just initial model names within the project. The real name will not be decided until the early stage of finalization, and it is obviously almost done now.

Ye Changsi: "Engines are always named after famous mountains, such as...Mount Everest, NPAE 'Mount Everest', XN90 can actually be named Qian Xuesen according to the precedent of Jiu Zhang, but the meaning is too big to say, and it can also be used without the name." , there are many other meaningful names, but you still have to choose carefully.”

Lin Ju: "I think the number Guo Rongcheng sounds very good."

"No, no, no, I'm still..."

Ye Changsi shook his head quickly, and when he was about to refuse, he was interrupted by a voice full of surprise:

"Watch TV, John is delivering his inaugural anniversary speech!"

The person who came was Xiao Gangtian. He stood at the door panting, with an unstoppable smile on his face.

John's inaugural anniversary speech?

Lin Ju and Ye Changsi both saw strange looks on each other's faces. The latter looked at Xiao Gangtian and asked:

"What did he say? Or was it something good?"

“You’ll know just by looking at it!”

Xiao Gangtian directly handed over a tablet, and others came over curiously. What was playing on it was a recording of the speech broadcast by CGTN, with Chinese subtitles below.

Xiao Gangtian reached the climax and pressed the play button, and a dancing little old man immediately appeared on the screen:

“…Citizens, the 20th century was the century of the moon, but the 21st century is definitely not the century of Mars!

As I said, the future of mankind is neither on the moon nor on Mars. We have made a decision: to land on the satellites of Jupiter and Saturn in the next 10 years, and in the next plan to move towards Neptune, the outermost edge of the solar system.

Our first target is Europa, which is five times the distance from the Earth to the Sun, 15 times the distance from the Earth to Mars, and 2,000 times the farthest distance humans have ever traveled in the universe.

Some people say these are impossible, but more than 100 years ago they did not believe that humans could fly into the sky, they did not believe that we could reach space, and they did not believe that we could land on the moon.

If you ask us why we do this, I will tell you: humans will always conquer the highest mountains.

We say that we will land on Europa within the next 10 years, and use this as a base to continue to move further afield, and fly out of the solar system before the 21st century 50s! "

"..."

"..."

Although he already knew that Ami was led to the evil path of aliens by a signal, Lin Ju was still shocked by their decision.

Landing on the satellites of Jupiter and Saturn within 10 years is not completely impossible based on the current situation of NACA, but the investment involved is definitely much more terrifying than the Apollo project. Can John show such courage... Is it so scary to scare himself?

He looked at the others and saw confused looks on their faces one by one.

"this……"

Ye Changsi tried to organize his words before saying with some uncertainty:

"Is this what he said himself or is NACA established..."

"It's official, it's true."

Xiao Okada immediately added:

"I saw the tweet posted by NACA. They have named it the 'Constellation' project. The landing missions of the two satellites are named after the planets. We really want to go there!"

Wu Yunfeng on the side said "Wow", and then immediately reacted:

"Then the space agency also wants to..."

Xiao Gangtian: "Definitely! Then we don't need to worry about funding. Thank God, it's really a blessing in disguise!"

Wu Yunfeng: "I still feel it's not real."

"You all underestimated the conspiracy theory environment in Aramco, and even high-level officials are not immune to its influence."

Lin Ju is the one who accepts reality the fastest. Anyway, this is not the first big change in the world line, at least it is not climbing to the sun.

The three-war warning caused by "Snowbird" five months ago proved how strong the atmosphere of conspiracy theories in Aramco was, and it also caused a circuit breaker in the US stock market.

You must know that John once tweeted in 2015 that "if the Dow Jones Index fell by more than 1,000 points in a single day, the then president should be put into a cannon and launched into the sun at extremely fast speeds." Therefore, he also became a "landing star." The first person in Japan".

So on the premise that they have determined "non-human phenomena", it is not strange to make such a move.

"For now, let's pretend not to know and ask the space agency for their opinion... Also, you can make a plan to see how fast NACA can land on Europa. Well, ideally."

All the scientists suddenly understood that they needed funding!

Xiao Okada: "Then I have an idea. NACA seems to have built the first mass-produced nuclear engine."

…

Beijing.

The time when John gave his speech was in the early morning of January 21, Beijing time, and Lin Ju flew here immediately on January 22 to attend the emergency meeting of the Aviation Development Committee.

When he pushed open the door of the conference room, everyone else was already seated. Judging from the notebooks that were not blank, some discussions had already taken place.

Academician She stared at him with a strange expression on his face from the moment he came in, as if he was thinking about something.

Zhong Chengze kept his brows furrowed. When he saw Lin Ju, he relaxed a little but then returned to his original state and said, "Sit down quickly."

With everyone gathered, Zhong Cheng got to the point without a moment of nonsense:

“Ami is going to land on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, what should we think?”

"This is strategic deception, we can't be fooled!"

As soon as he finished speaking, someone answered decisively:

"I know everyone is very confident in our current strength, and technically it can be done, but have you ever thought about how much investment it will take? How much more difficult will it be to provide logistics?

One manned landing represents at least 10 preparation missions. Although we have nuclear power, we can't all use nuclear engines, right? A mission lasts for several years, and 10 years is simply not enough. Even if it is enough, it only exists in theory.

This is a complete replica of the Star Wars plan. If it is feasible to land on Mars, this so-called "Constellation" plan is nonsense. "

The voice was very firm, but to Lin Ju's surprise, there was not a group of people agreeing with him as he imagined. Instead, most people were watching with their hands crossed.

After listening to the first person, Zhong Cheng just nodded, and then continued to ask:

"Any other comments? Let's continue the discussion?"