In fact, as early as a few years ago, when the international real estate industry was in a collective downturn, many owners of private islands were working hard to sell their islands, resulting in the number of private islands currently on sale has tripled compared with a few years ago, and even now, this number has not decreased.

In fact, the main reason for this phenomenon is that the current rich people have become more and more rational about investment, and the expensive rich toys such as private islands are actually not a very ideal investment object. After all, private islands are not as affordable as real estate, and a private island can easily cost tens of millions of dollars, and it is particularly expensive to maintain, which has led to many owners who invested in private islands at the beginning, and now they are beginning to sell their private islands. This has also caused the prices of private islands to start to fall sharply, and the vast majority of private islands have halved except for some of the most famous private islands.

Like Mateschitz's Rausala Island, which is recognized as one of the top three private islands in the world, Mateschitz bought it from the Forbes family for less than $10 million.

But when Mateschitz made the island famous by spending huge sums of money to renovate it, the island's price soared to $70 million in just a few years.

However, the outbreak of the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States and the debt crisis in Europe has hit the real estate industry all over the world hard, and private islands also belong to the category of real estate investment, so the prices of private islands have plummeted. And the maintenance cost of Lausara Island alone is millions of dollars a year, and if it were an ordinary investor, this maintenance cost alone could drag down an ordinary rich man.

Mateschitz focuses his work and life in Europe and North America. In addition, he is old and does not have the energy to go to Lausara Island every year for vacation, so this is why the island will be sold.

For Lausala, $50 million is really not expensive, and for Tang, this price is about the same as investing in a holiday villa in Switzerland. And how big is that villa in Switzerland? More than 7,000 square meters. And How big is Rausara Island? 14 million square meters! That's almost a thousand times the difference!

The most important thing is that the private island can be built into a completely sealed private territory, as long as you can get something "special" to block the island, then you can calm down and be the emperor on that island

The most important thing is that Tang Feng has already planned to buy an island in the Pacific Ocean, and now Mateschitz has sent it to the door himself, which can save a lot of trouble.

Seeing that Tang Feng was interested, it made Mateschitz very happy.

After the end of the tour of Hangar No. 7. Tang Feng took Sophia and Mateschitz back to Mateschitz's luxurious mid-mountain villa, and the next day, Tang Feng and his party said goodbye to Mateschitz and returned to the United States on the huge Sophia Sweetheart.

If you don't go back, you can't do it, Dr. Schmitz almost made four or five phone calls a day, asking Tang Feng to hurry back to get training, because now in addition to the necessary fuel, the moon landing spacecraft has been built. And Dr. Schmitz decided to launch a lunar landing program in a launch window in mid-May.

It's late March. It's about to enter April, so some basic training about Tang Feng must begin.

Landing on the moon and going into space is no joke, it takes absolutely professional astronauts who have been trained for years to do.

The selection of astronauts is definitely the most rigorous on the planet. To become a qualified astronaut. It's definitely harder than being an F1 driver. And if you want to become an astronaut who can go into space, it will be countless times more difficult.

Due to the harsh environment of space, astronauts traveling between space and the earth must have a strong body, good psychological quality and reaction ability, a high level of education, and have received systematic special training to master aerospace skills.

At present, astronauts can be roughly divided into three categories: First, the "background" of air force pilots or test pilots. Professionals who can fly and maintain spacecraft and undertake scientific research and production tasks. The second is scientists, engineers and doctors who specialize in scientific research in space. The third is journalists, teachers and space tourists who work with the help of the space environment. Among them, the selection criteria and training requirements for the first category of astronauts are the most stringent.

Because the first type of astronauts is the main force in space operations, the remaining second and third types of astronauts, especially the third type of astronauts, are basically soy sauce, and if this kind of astronaut wants to take off, as long as he can pass the most basic physical examination, it is not a big problem.

The first category of astronauts has at least three to four years of training.

And in order to become a first-class astronaut, it is first necessary to undergo an extremely brutal selection, and only candidates who are qualified after selection can be trained. These trainings include basic theoretical training, such as astronomy, geography, atmospheric physics, flight mechanics, radio navigation, rocket and spacecraft construction, etc.; There are special environmental training, such as weightlessness training with the use of neutralization buoyancy simulation pool, aerospace living environment training with the help of isolation cabins, life-saving training with ejection seats and lifesaving towers, and survivability in forests, seawater, and deserts; There is also flight simulation training, such as familiarizing yourself with the operation content in the low-vacuum spacecraft simulation cabin, conducting all flight subjects training from take-off to landing, and integrating flight procedures with other types of operations, such as communicating with the ground during flight, and responding to emergencies and failures.

The entire astronaut training period is usually 3 to 4 years. The ratio of the number of people who end up as first-class astronauts to the number of candidates is about 1:100.

This percentage of passes is enough to prove how cruel the selection of a qualified astronaut is.

But fortunately, Tang Feng does not belong to the first category of astronauts, he can only be regarded as a second-class astronaut or a third-class astronaut at best. Who made Tang Feng the biggest funder of the moon landing operation, if he didn't want to, no one would be able to follow the moon spacecraft to the moon.

And Tang Feng's physical fitness is absolutely fine, if Tang Feng's physical fitness is not up to par, I'm afraid those first-class genuine astronauts will not be able to pass the test.

So Tang Feng only needs to spend more than a month to receive some simple training and basic training, whether it is in time or other aspects, Tang Feng feels that it is no problem.

But no matter how good it is, the necessary training must still be done, even if Tang Feng is the big boss of this moon landing operation. He also had to attend training. (To be continued.) )