Hearing Dr. Schmitz give such an affirmative answer, Tang Feng also breathed a sigh of relief.

Although Tang Feng doesn't know much about aerospace, he still understands some basic knowledge. For example, Dr. Schmitz advocated for a collaboration with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop a new generation of ion thrusters.

In fact, compared with the technology of recyclable rocket reuse, ion electric propulsion technology is more important, and before human medicine has completely mastered the technology of automatic freezing and thawing, human beings will not be able to carry out too distant space travel. Of course, if human technology can enable spacecraft to achieve faster than light speed, then space tourism between star systems will be a no-brainer.

However, with the current power technology of human beings, it can reach the speed required for small probes to fly out of the solar system, that is, the third cosmic velocity, that is, the speed of 16.7 kilometers per second. If this speed is on the earth, it is absolutely unparalleled, and any high-speed missile, any electromagnetic bullet, is far from this speed.

But even if humans were to be able to reach the third cosmic speed of a spacecraft, it would take decades just to fly out of the solar system. The "Voyager 1" probe launched by the United States in the 60s finally flew out of the solar system after 36 years of flying at the third cosmic speed and a distance of 18.7 billion kilometers.

But don't forget, Voyager 1 is just an unmanned probe, and if anyone were on it, my God, thirty-six years

This is just flying out of the solar system, if you want to reach Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the solar system, how many years will you have to run at the speed of the third universe?

Quite simply, it's just a very simple multiplication and division problem, and you can do such an arithmetic problem in the sixth grade of elementary school.

Proxima Centauri is 4.22 light-years away from Earth, which is converted into kilometers. That's about 39.9 trillion kilometers. If the spacecraft had traveled from Earth to Proxima Centauri at a third cosmic velocity of 16.7 km/s, it would have taken about 75,808 years!

Therefore, before there is no breakthrough in freezing technology or power technology, if human beings want to rush out of the solar system to travel to other star systems, it is estimated that it can only be a dream now.

However, if there are generations of astronauts. With the unremitting efforts of astronauts like Dr. Schmitz, perhaps one day mankind will really break through the limits of the solar system, and even break through the limits of the Milky Way.

Tang Feng has never forgotten what the main program once told him when he was buried underground, that is, that the magical Star Covenant was more than 60 million light years away from the earth

Humans were able to travel 60 million light-years to Earth 13 million years ago, so when will humans be able to do the same?

Tang Feng admits that he is not a hypocritical person, but he is definitely a person with ideals and goals. As the owner of the star core, Tang Feng was possessed by the star core from the moment he saw the magic of the star core. In fact, he already has a goal in his heart that sounds great, or simply unrealistic, that is, to help mankind get out of the solar system as soon as possible!

If Tang Feng said this idea, it is estimated that everyone would think that he was a madman. So Tang Feng has never said it, but he has been moving towards this goal.

Tang Feng is not the kind of person who talks about it, he prefers to use practical actions to accomplish what he wants to achieve. The Star Core is a magical thing, and anyone who owns it will become a literal Monopoly overnight. This. Tang Feng has no doubts, and the experience of these two years. It also proves that Star Core has such a ability, and now Tang Feng is not an invisible rich man whose personal net worth can be counted even in the world?

For Tang Feng, money can really only be regarded as some numbers. Now Tang Feng owns the Beaumont Oilfield, Gravina Precious Metals Mine, 5% of the shares of Mutong Iron Mine, and St. Lawrence Copper Mine, the value of these four mines alone is enough for Tang Feng to eat, drink and have fun for eight lifetimes, not to mention that Tang Feng now has a jade mine, a sapphire mine and a ruby mine in Huaxia. There is also an emerald mine in Argentina's St. Lawrence Valley, which is another huge asset worth two to three billion dollars. Don't forget, Tang Feng's star core also contained a full 330 tons, or more than 1.6 billion carats of gem-quality natural diamonds, which are worth hundreds of billions of dollars. And in Chile, there is a world-class copper mine that is ready to meet or surpass the St. Lawrence copper mine is waiting for Tang Feng to "develop".

If all these mines under Tang Feng's hands are calculated, the position of the richest man in the world is absolutely stable, and this kind of richest man in the world is definitely not like Gates's classmates and Mr. Buffett, most of his net worth is illusory stocks, Tang Feng's net worth is a real thing, if the Tang Mining under his name is listed, these mines alone are enough to push the company's market value directly to the throne of the world's first market capitalization, and it will definitely be much higher than the market value of companies such as Apple.

But Tang Feng does not plan to go public to bring disaster to the money of ordinary shareholders, Tang Feng is now trying to enclose the land, and then sell it to other companies, banks and even the country, in exchange for a large amount of cash, for the star exploration program, once this plan can be successfully carried out, can send people to the moon again, then the next another plan Tang Feng will launch.

However, the starry sky exploration plan requires a large amount of money, and this is definitely a gold-swallowing behemoth, even with Tang Feng's current ability to absorb gold, it is very difficult to cope with this starry sky exploration plan.

At that time, an "Apollo program" cost 11 years and a huge investment of 25.5 billion US dollars and 300,000 people, although if the moon landing program is launched again, with the help of the experience of the "Apollo program", the cost of the current moon landing program will not be so large, but it is definitely not a small amount.

But the moon landing program is only the beginning of Tang's plan, and there are even more huge plans to follow, which will require a number that makes ordinary people feel desperate.

However, Tang Feng didn't think about this, Tang Feng was just using his best efforts to slowly complete this plan.

Some people may say that Tang Feng is beyond his strength, but Tang Feng believes in another sentence, "If you do some things with your heart, then there will be a possibility of success, but if you don't even do it, then there is definitely no possibility of success!" ”

So, instead of sitting in the comfort of your office and talking about it, it's better to transfer this time and energy to doing practical things, even if it only adds a glimmer of hope to what you want to achieve, that is, it is not wasted! (To be continued.) )