Qian Xuesen said: "Yes, we in China do not have the strength to compete with the United States at present, so let's accumulate our own space experience first." We unanimously believe that even in the next 30 years, what China's aerospace industry will do is to conduct manned space tests, in-orbit space tests, try to land on the moon, test the establishment of a space station, and conduct relevant tests on the space station, all of which do not require the transportation of a large number of astronauts and large components, and there is no need to use a vehicle the size of the US Space Shuttle.

Space is far more mysterious than what we have discovered, and our understanding of space is still too little and too little, even if we grit our teeth and spend more than 10 or 20 years and spend huge sums of money to build a space shuttle with a high safety factor, it will still not be able to meet the needs of future space exploration, it will still be backward, it needs to be improved, and it still needs to develop other aircraft. Since this is the case, there is no need for us to be as advanced as the United States, and it is better to take our time and meet the needs of the past 30 years first, and then it will not be too late to develop large-scale space vehicles when we have sufficient funds and have accumulated experience and science and technology to a certain level. ”

Others may not be able to hear this, but for Guo Zhuocheng, who was reborn, he is full of admiration, and Qian Lao's words are almost like seeing the development of the next few decades.

In fact, the development of aerospace in the previous life fully demonstrated these words of Qian Lao, the US space shuttle was too expensive, too luxurious, and the technology was too immature, and even the United States, which later became the world's first brother, had to stop the flight of the space shuttle. On the contrary, China, which started steadily, has been moving forward steadily, step by step, and has become a space power.

Guo Zhuocheng asked a little strangely: "Professor Qian, we will launch the spacecraft now, can the ground monitoring keep up?" ”

In Guo Zhuocheng's memory, the measurement methods at this time in his previous life were far from enough. The two Yuanwang survey ships are not enough to undertake the task of telemetry and remote control of the spacecraft around the world.

Qian Xuesen said happily: "Speaking of this, you Guo Zhuocheng is still a great hero, without your help, we have no relevant measurement and monitoring means, not to mention, even the monitoring points are not enough, just relying on two ocean-going survey ships is not enough, even the Pacific Ocean is difficult to meet, the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean can not take into account." ”

Guo Zhuocheng said: "Yes, I remember that we seem to only have two ocean-going survey ships. How did you solve this problem? ”

Qian Xuesen said with a smile: "Ocean-going survey ships are not enough. But we can supplement it with land. Don't you know that we have built space surveillance radars in several places abroad? Our ground-based radar stations have been set up on the island of your Pearl of Night, in Pakistan, in Iraq, Jordan, Argentina, and several smaller island nations. With these ground-based radar stations, we can cover the world's space on the ground, and the two ocean-going survey vessels play a complementary role. Achieve seamless global coverage. ”

Guo Zhuocheng suddenly let out a sigh of enlightenment, and understood in his heart: China's international environment has greatly improved in this life and the previous life, and it can be said that China now has no real hostile countries, and it has a relationship of confrontation and mutual help with the Soviet Union, not to mention other countries.

Not only have Pakistan, Iraq, and other countries that have traditionally been friendly to China continue to have good relations with China, but many countries that had bad relations with China in their previous lives have also taken refuge in China. In particular, some small countries that want to stand on their own feet hope to buy advanced weapons from China to safeguard their dignity, and they are not averse to China setting aside a small yard on their territory to build a radar.

After all, radar is not an active active weapon, and its safety is the responsibility of its own soldiers. It will not pose a substantial threat to their own country, not to mention that these radars are aimed at space, which has nothing to do with their national security, since they can befriend China because of this. Let them build it.

And again, in the process of construction and use. You can also learn a little bit of knowledge from Chinese experts, master some radar technology, and China also provides them with some money for this, so why not do multiple good things?

If it had been in a previous life, China would have been obstructed by the United States by building ground radar stations everywhere, because after all, this thing might be able to detect the movements of the US Air Force or Navy when it is aimed at the sky and the sea, and it will be impossible to prevent it.

For fear of offending the United States, these countries will certainly not and dare not let China build it. But now, where does the United States dare to block it, and where will it make trouble without reason? If China wants to build, they will build it, and they will turn a blind eye.

Therefore, it is a bit naïve for Guo to look at new problems with old eyes.

However, Qian Xuesen did not mean to ridicule him, because he knew that Guo Zhuocheng did not know about the various progress in aerospace, considering that Guo Zhuocheng was busy with work and was not an expert in aerospace, so these situations were not reported to Guo Zhuocheng too much, and Guo Zhuocheng himself did not pay too much attention to this information, so it was not clear.

Guo Zhuocheng said happily: "It is great to have this space monitoring network, which can save a lot of money, not to mention, and can also carry out uninterrupted monitoring of the spacecraft." ”

Qian Xuesen didn't understand why Guo Zhuocheng was so happy about this matter, and said in his heart: "This is normal, since we can build it in other countries, we can build it, there is nothing surprising." ”

He didn't know that Guo Zhuocheng was comparing the current situation with the situation in his previous life, and he felt that it was really good now.

With this seamless monitoring network, China's aerospace not only started early, but also made progress faster, whether it was the construction of a space station or the landing on the moon, it was many years ahead of the previous life.

Because Guo Zhuocheng had already made up his mind, at the next meeting on the establishment of the military transport aircraft project attended by him and Qian Xuesen, Guo Zhuocheng and Qian Xuesen did not speak much, and they both agreed with those experts on using the US C5 military transport aircraft as a reference to develop and use their own previous technical reserves and introduce relevant technologies from European and American countries to design China's own military transport aircraft.

However, when the organizers were preparing to set up two research units for the competition, Qian Xuesen, on behalf of Guo Zhuocheng, came forward to deny this, and just set up a research unit, and the excess research force, if there is any redundancy, was enriched to the study of civil aircraft.

What Qian Xuesen did not say was that after Guo Zhuocheng successfully operated the project of jointly developing a large military transport plane between China and the Soviet Union, these "extraordinary" experts could be transferred to that project. The skills of these extra people are not very top-notch, which just fits the definition of Chinese aviation talents in the Soviet Union's mind, and naturally hides China's true strength.

Seeing that Qian Xuesen disagreed with the two development units, they were a little surprised and puzzled.

In fact, these organizers also believe that the competitive scientific research method pioneered by Guo Zhuocheng is very good, and the reason why the research and development teams of the J-10 fighter and the main battle tank have made remarkable achievements in the past few years is that the research and development groups are competing with each other. Now they also want to learn from it, which is why their superior organization asked Guo Zhuocheng to attend the meeting.

Because only Guo Zhuocheng is the "inventor" of the competition method, and only he knows how to make more scientific planning in the allocation of funds, benefits, and resources.

In addition, they also hope that the exciting project of the military transport plane will attract Guo Zhuocheng, and hope that he will influence the superior leaders and allocate more funds to them.

Now the military industry knows that as long as Guo Zhuocheng asks for money, there is nothing that he can't get, and his superiors will give as much as he wants, and he has never deducted it. Not only the superiors, but now the leaders of the Third Aircraft Department, the First Machine Department, the Fourth Machine Department and other departments are Guo Zhuocheng's former subordinates, and it is not impossible for them to come up with a sum of money to support this project.

Now that they saw that Qian Xuesen, who was sitting next to Guo Zhuocheng, opposed the establishment of two units, and Guo Zhuocheng had been smiling, they knew that Qian Xuesen must have agreed with Guo Zhuocheng when he said this, and they would soon decide to set up a research unit.

Guo Zhuocheng did not disappoint them, and offered to carry out the funds according to the most generous budget, and he will help them find superior leaders to ensure that the relevant funds will be allocated in a timely manner according to the completion of the node of this transport aircraft project.

This made the organizers so overjoyed that Guo Zhuocheng and Qian Xuesen did not participate in the appraisal of the results of the test flight, and they had no opinion, and sent them away very politely and warmly.

On the evening of the seventh day of the first lunar month, Guo Zhuocheng and Qian Xuesen, who had taken a short rest, took a military plane arranged by the Air Force to the Jiuquan Launch Center.

Early the next morning, Guo Zhuocheng and Qian Xuesen listened to the reports of the spacecraft project team and the rocket project team together. In fact, there was also a central leader who listened to the report this time, Guo Shucheng and Qian Xuesen were only observers, and that was the main figure. However, the people at the base did not snub them, and even the central leader was very polite to the two of them, as if the two of them were also central leaders.

If Guo Zhuocheng still knows a little about airplanes, and when he was in charge of the Jian-10 fighter project in the past, he knew a lot about the overall structure of the aircraft, the control system, and other links, then he didn't know anything about spacecraft and carrier rockets. He came here to accompany Qian Xuesen to watch the excitement and feel the festive atmosphere.

Of course, in the eyes of the central leader and other leaders, Guo Zhuocheng is not a layman, although he may not be an expert, but at least he understands better than those central leaders, at least he will not ask too layman's words.

Therefore, when reporting, most of the time the eyes of those who spoke fell on Guo Shucheng. Every time Guo Zhuocheng spoke, he was taken seriously by those people, and even had a bit of a posture of cooling the central leadership aside.

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