NASA receives a lot of funding and budget every year, but they undertake more research tasks, and more than $16 billion is not enough to meet the current research plan, let alone add the lunar base plan! If you want us to build a lunar base before Lu Qiujian's team, then increase the budget!

Director Griffin and Mendel meant the same thing, and Abdradi nodded as he listened, seemingly agreeing with them.

"Do you think Congress will approve your application?" said President Xiao Cong, shaking his head, since the beginning of the Iraq war, the financial situation of the United States has been tight, and even if Congress approves NASA to speed up the progress of the Mendel program, it will not give as much money as China.

At the same time, he made up his mind that after he returned, he must use the power of the media to exaggerate the threat of Huaguo's lunar base construction plan and win a better public opinion environment for himself, so that when he fights for funds next year, he may have unexpected gains!

"Well, what do you think about allocating the budget of other projects to the lunar base program or cooperating with Huaguo, and the two sides jointly carry out the plan?" asked Xiao Cong again.

"Any project that NASA is working on now has its unquestionable raison d'être, and every item is not allowed to be cut! As for cooperating with Huaguo, have you forgotten what happened after the Hughes satellite exploded?" Director Griffin was once again worried about President Millican's IQ.

President Xiao Cong looked at everyone blankly, when the Hughes satellite explosion happened, it was the president of the zipper door who was sitting in the White House, and he did not know the details of the incident.

So the relevant staff began to explain to him what happened, the second day of Valentine's Day in 1996, Huaguo Changxi Satellite Launch Center. The Long March-3B carrier rocket carried a Hughes communications satellite and ignited into space, and two seconds after launch, the rocket's attitude was unstable, and 22 seconds later, the star rocket hit a hillside and exploded.

The accident caused significant casualties. It also caused a series of problems; when analyzing the cause of the accident, both Huaguo and Hughes made a big mistake, Hughes asked for Huaguo's telemetry data, and with profound skills, calculated that the fault point was in the driving amplifier of the navigation gyroscope; the second launch was successful afterwards.

First, the Long March-3 carrier rocket is directly related to the ICBM, and Hughes inadvertently obtained what the spies of the United States spent countless financial and material resources did not get; second, Hughes helped Huaguo to correct the technology and remove the bugs in this type of rocket and even similar ICBMs. So that Huaguo's missile technology has been improved.

This incident was exploited by a senator named Cox to vigorously promote the theory of the Chinese threat and set off a new wave of anti-China in the United States; and the Chinese country also collapsed, and its own housekeeper was peeked at by others, and he was even beaten upside down.

In the end, as a result of this incident, China and the United States space community formed an indissoluble enmity, and the United States further upgraded the arms export control regulations, declaring that any satellite containing components of the United States could not be launched by China's rockets. International sanctions will be imposed on all violators, and China has introduced a new promotional method of packaging and selling rockets and satellites, and the other party will pay for the satellites when they are in orbit. This also eliminates the possibility of further leaks.

After the staff introduced this matter, President Xiaoshucong also understood NASA's concerns, they could not afford to leak secrets to China, and the consistent policy of the United States is to suppress the development of China's space technology, from commercial satellite launches to the International Space Station program, it has been obstructing China, and it seems unrealistic to want them to open a hole in this plan.

"Then we can't do anything?" said the bush spreading his hands in frustration. Looking at the elites of the political and scientific circles of the United States in the conference room.

"Mr. President, you don't have to worry too much!" Dr. Abdrade, who had been acting as a spectator just now, came out to relieve the siege, "Our country's aerospace technology is still far ahead of China, we sent people to the moon in the sixties, and now nearly fifty years have passed. Hua Guocai has just carried out the second manned space flight, and it will take a long time for them to land on the moon, let alone establish a lunar base!"

"NASA has an annual budget of more than $10 billion, more than 20,000 employees, and has ten long-established and powerful research institutions under its jurisdiction, including the Ames Research Center, the Golan Research Center, the Langley Research Center, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Dryden Flight Research Center, and has long-term cooperation with nearly 100 top universities in the world, such as the California Institute of Technology, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Purdue University, the University of Michigan, Indiana University, and Pennsylvania State University. Material resources or experience accumulation, we are all far ahead of the rest of the world!" Abdelrates did not notice the cannibalistic eyes of Director Griffin on the side, and analyzed President Xiaobush from the perspective of a technical worker.

"Even if we have accumulated experience in lunar base research, it will take a long time for China to catch up, not to mention that we will not stay where we are during this time, and when they catch up, we will go far again!" Abderates said that NASA was full of confidence, "so I don't think we need to worry too much about China's plans." ”

"So, what should we do?" said President Grove, turning his gaze to his Madam Secretary of State.

Through analysis, Condoleezza Rice believes that Abdradias's opinion is closer to the truth, and after thinking for a moment, she put forward her own way of dealing with it, "First of all, we want to condemn Huaguo for disrupting the existing space situation. Acts that have triggered international turmoil; then we will increase the export restrictions on high-tech products and technology to China by the United States and our allies, making it more difficult for China to realize its plan; in addition, we will strengthen the management of the Chinese people and even the personnel of Chinese descent working in the science and technology departments in the United States, so as to prevent them from coming into contact with core secrets as much as possible; and the intelligence departments will also step up their infiltration into the Xihe plan."

These decisions seemed like a good solution to President Grove's view, and he consulted with others, and no one objected to it, except for Director Griffin and Mendel, who insisted on increasing the budget, and the decision was passed. (To be continued.) )

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