The whole world, rejoice!

When "Dart X" landed smoothly on the runway where it took off, it was not only the departments that paid attention to it, but also a large number of ordinary people.

And the people who are most concerned are undoubtedly those aerospace enthusiasts, who are the most concerned about aerospace, but may not be in contact with aerospace for a lifetime.

Of course, this cannot be said so absolutely, in the current era of the information explosion, and many aerospace departments and aerospace companies are open to the outside world, ordinary enthusiasts can also go in and visit.

In this way, they can still get in touch with the aerospace industry, and even touch the big rocket with their own hands.

Even if these big rockets are not in active service, they are content.

But space, many people really can't touch it in their lifetime.

Not to mention the average person, even those who have worked in space agencies and companies all their lives, cannot go to space once before they die.

Those famous rocket designers, manned spacecraft designers, rocket engineers, etc., watched the spacecraft they designed and built fly into space again and again, but they could not go to space for the rest of their lives.

The cost of going into space is too great to even be a simple price reason.

Because it takes a long time to prepare a manned rocket and manned spacecraft, and a large number of people and factories are required to cooperate during this period, these people have to be busy around this rocket and manned spacecraft, so every time the quota for entering space is extremely precious.

And so far, except for a few space tourists who spend a lot of money to go into space, other astronauts have to perform a large number of missions and do a lot of space experiments.

The usual rocket designers and engineers are busy, how can there be that free time to do professional astronaut training.

However, the Navigator "Dart X" spaceplane ...... Oh, it's supposed to be an orbital shuttle.

As the R&D company of the "Dart X", and also made the first flight of this aircraft successful, the Navigator company certainly has its own standard-setting rights.

Therefore, in their latest standard, this kind of space vehicle that can enter orbit alone and can only walk around in Earth orbit should be called orbital shuttle.

Tianxia's space agency immediately responded to the standards of this new spacecraft, and then Maozi also responded and unified the name, and other space agencies all stated that they were already in the process of identification, only Merrican did not respond.

In any case, the successful test flight of the "Dart X" gave these technicians, who are usually busy with work, hope to go into space.

A "Dart X" can do a lot of things, if it is just to send astronauts back and forth between the space station and the ground, it is estimated that it will not be used a few times a year.

After all, the astronauts of the space station can't change every day, just like working on the ground, using the space plane as a shuttle.

The utilization rate of several times a year can not even reach the minimum number of uses of the rail shuttle, and the parking time is long, and its loss is faster than the normal use of the loss.

According to official estimates, the "Dart X" orbital shuttle costs at least one million dollars per sortie, and it cannot be used at will, but it is excellent to modify it for short-term space experiments and even to train astronauts.

As an astronaut, weightlessness training is a must, the original is just an airplane to do a parabolic flight, weightlessness experience time is only half a minute, within this half a minute to train drinking water, eating, exercise and a series of projects, the results can be imagined.

With the orbital shuttle, the astronauts' training can be put directly into space orbit, and by the way, they can do some short-term scientific experiments, and then by the way, take an old scientist up to have a look.

A trip to space might allow those scientists to design better spacecraft.

Field trips and laboratory studies always have their own strengths, and the combination of the two yields better results.

The two-ton load capacity is very small in the Navigator company, and the commercial operation load is even smaller after the fine decoration, but in the professional, scientific research official space agency, it is quite a large load, enough to do a lot of things.

At a cost of a million dollars, it is a bit too wasteful to do more experiments if you can do more experiments, and only transport 8 tourists at a time like the Navigator.

This is the official attitude, the attitude of those local tyrants is different, what they care about is the 8 seats that go into space.

The original $20 million or $30 million a seat is really not something that ordinary people can afford, and even if they can afford it, they will not necessarily spend it.

But the price has plummeted to one million dollars, which is really hard to say, but I wanted to travel to space before, but because the price is too expensive, I am more entangled...... Oh, rich people, they don't bother with it right away.

"$1 million, that's too cheap!"

"No one really thinks it's expensive, does it?"

"When will the first official space tourism flight, I will charter it and take my family to go around space."

"I love space so much, I'm only worth tens of millions of dollars, it was too expensive before, I couldn't afford to pay at all, now $1 million is much better, and I'm going to space too."

"Damn, what kind of family are there upstairs, then I also said, I will pay 100 million US dollars to buy a seat on the first tourist airliner, just ask the navigator company to agree or not, if you agree, just when I didn't say."

"Scared me, I thought there was another local tyrant."

Yes, these can only be regarded as local tyrants, not real rich people, and rich people will not chat in the barrage or comment area.

The real rich are already consulting the Navigator company, and they can always get the phone call of the senior management of the Navigator company in a twist and turn.

None of the Navigator company's equipment is 100% self-manufactured, except for the core components, the others are either contracted for OEM or purchased by other companies internationally.

However, the second-level important components are all produced domestically, and only the outermost parts are produced abroad.

Tang Chao got a full set of technology from Kanxing, in fact, all parts can be produced by the Navigator Company, but the Navigator Company is too small and has limited productivity.

If he wants to build a certain equipment in the shortest possible time, it is best to find other companies to contract and purchase directly.

In the age of globalization, that's it.

If he wants everything to be made in his own company, he must expand the company and then upgrade the manufacturing equipment, so that he can save money and effort to build things well, and all the initiative is in his own hands.

But there's no hurry......

Well, in a hurry, Merrican is here to make trouble.

"We are about to select equipment suppliers for the final phase of the re-entry to the moon, so we invite the qualified suppliers to come to Merrican to participate in the conference."

"Please note that due to the importance of the lunar program, this is the only opportunity, and if the scheduled time is not reached, it will be considered a waiver, and we will select a new supplier from the other equipment suppliers who are on site."

Moriken Aerospace's Director Jim said this to the camera.

"At the same time, this meeting will announce major events and major adjustments will be made to the entire Merrican's space strategy......"

Before the press conference ended, Tang Chao received a call from Zhao Li: "Tang Chao, don't go to the meeting, this is a trap for you." ”