The Star Exploration Program is a project that Tang Feng and Sam began to plan as early as the second half of last year, and that period of time was the three months when Tang Feng waited for the arrival of two private jets. During that time, Tang Feng was a little sore in his eyes, so he began to plan this project.

In fact, as early as more than ten years ago, many people of insight in the United States set their sights on space, such as Elon , the founder of PayPal PayPal International. Musk, four months before he sold PayPal International to ebay in 2002, the guy had already founded SpaceX. There are also Bezos, the founder of Amazon, who invested in the establishment of BlueOrigin as early as 2000, but it is only in recent years that BlueOrigin has begun to announce the progress of manned space technology to the outside world. And Bill. Gates Investments' Kymeta, Paul. Allen invests in Stratolaunch Systems.

In addition, several companies have already started space exploration-related projects at an early stage. In the United States, there are now a total of ten well-known privately invested space exploration companies, and although Tang started relatively late, Tang Feng is confident that he will catch up with these ten companies and surpass them in a short period of time!

The reason why Tang Feng is so confident is that without him, funds!

There's no doubt that the space exploration program is definitely an extremely expensive project. Take Elon. Musk's Falcon 9 rocket, from the establishment of the project to the beginning of commercial operation, it took about eight years, and a total of about $1.5 billion in research and development funds were invested during this period. Although the Falcon 9 launch vehicle finally successfully entered the stage of commercial operation, in the years of development, Elon . Musk, a billionaire, was almost dragged down by the project.

But Elon. Musk's investment was not in vain. The Falcon 9 launch vehicle they developed cost only $54 million for a single launch, compared with the cost of a single launch of the ULA (formerly NASA's only partner in the launch vehicle launch project) jointly established by Boeing and Lockheed, which cost as much as $450 million, and as for the European Ariane, the cost of a single launch is as high as $220 million. The offer for one launch is also $68 million!

It can be seen that Elon. Musk's continued investment has paid off, resulting in such a low launch cost, which is the main reason why SpaceX, in conjunction with Boeing, was able to beat ULA and secure NASA's $6.8 billion "Space Taxi" contract.

It can be said that Elon. Musk's continued investment is right and has now paid off, making Elon . Musk's SpaceX became the world's premier private space exploration company.

But even so, Tang Feng is very confident in surpassing Space Exploration Technology Company in a short period of time. Because from Elon. Elon Musk's development of the SpaceX company came to open. Elon. Musk actually wasted a lot of time, and even in 08 because of the impact of the subprime mortgage crisis, Elon . Musk almost went bankrupt.

As for Tang Feng, he now has far more funds in his hands than Elon back then. Musk, even James. Cameron and Larry. The planetary resources company founded by Page Investment is definitely not as good as the star exploration company founded by Tang Feng in terms of investment.

This thing is a money-burning thing, you can only think about it if you don't have money, and if you want to get results, you have to burn a lot of money. And the most important thing Tang Feng lacks now is cash!

Therefore, Tang Feng has the confidence to dare to surpass the other ten private space exploration companies in a short period of time. Now put Neo. After Dr. Schmitz successfully dug it up, Tang Feng was even more confident.

Of course, the main purpose of Tang Feng throwing this project is to cover for another bigger plan. Of course, Tang Feng himself is also very optimistic about this investment plan, because once this plan makes a breakthrough. Then in the future, Tang will be the first person in the mining industry in the world.

The most important thing is that Tang Feng has confidence in his star core, because Tang Feng intends to carry the star core into space in person once this project makes a breakthrough. With the carrying capacity of the star core space, as long as the spacecraft can be built. Just the energy of the fuel carried by the star-core space is probably enough for the spacecraft to fly out of the solar system!

And even if it is mined from the moon or even Mars, with the terrifying storage capacity of the star core space, it is absolutely more than enough to store those minerals and bring them back, and it is even no exaggeration to say that if Tang Feng encounters a near-Earth asteroid in space, Tang Feng can even use the star core space to directly collect the asteroid into the star core space!

Of course, it's still too early to achieve this goal. But no matter how much time it takes, it's always a goal, isn't it?

It is precisely because of this that Tang Feng made a large-scale investment desperately, and even did not hesitate to mortgage a part of the shares of the Beaumont oil field to JPMorgan Chase Bank, plus the two billion dollars invested by Sam and Benjamin successively, and now there are 7 billion dollars in cash lying on the account of the Star Exploration Company alone! And that's just the upfront investment.

With such abundant funds as the backing, coupled with the successful digging of Neo. Dr. Schmitz, Tang Feng is confident that he will make a breakthrough in a short period of time.

Of course, the light has a Neo. Dr. Schmitz is not enough, Benjamin has been poaching people all over the world for a few days, from NASA to the European Space Agency, to Russia and China, anyone who can help this project, Benjamin will come together to dig a shovel.

Whether you can dig it or not is another matter, but if you don't dig it, you definitely won't be able to dig it. Since Benjamin heard Tang Feng's words "As long as the hoe swings well, there is no corner of the wall and it can't be dug down", this guy's main job in the past few months has been to wield a hoe all over the world to dig the foot of the wall.

At the same time, Benjamin also used his family relationship to carry out a number of collaborations with NASA. Much of the credit for Musk's Falcon 9 launch vehicle's outstanding performance is due to the fact that NASA has helped Space Exploration Corporation. With NASA's technical background, even if NASA gave Elon . None of the technology provided by Musk is top-of-the-line, but it is enough to make the Falcon 9 extremely good in terms of performance. You must know that the newly developed Falcon 9 heavy-duty version is designed to reach 30 tons of LEO capacity, while the Long March 5 currently under development only has a LEO capacity of 25 tons.

Therefore, the necessary cooperation must be carried out, so that Tang's star exploration company can avoid many detours! (To be continued......)