"What's the matter with you, why haven't you done it yet?"

Kuna questioned Jim.

Jim is also helpless, the new generation of young astronauts have their own ideas, rights and freedoms, and the ability to think independently is quite strong.

Far less obedient than previous generations of astronauts, let them do whatever they wanted, and even rush to get on dangerous situations.

And there are more and more security regulations for astronauts, and they simply have no way to force astronauts to do tasks.

"None of the new astronauts selected last year wanted to take part in the mission around the moon, and they said it lacked an important test and didn't meet safety standards, so they refused," he explained. ”

"The old astronauts wanted to participate, but they were too old to carry out a low-Earth space station mission and fly to the moon...... It's too risky. ”

Listening to the director of Merriken say this kind of thing, it is difficult for others to say anything, because this launch mission is really not in accordance with the rules, skipping the unmanned flight around the moon, and directly boarding the manned flight around the moon.

For a moment, everyone was silent.

Kuna looked at it, this is not good, now is not the time for silence, because whether you are silent or not, the launch will be carried out on May 20.

But if the SLS rocket had only the Orion spacecraft at the top of the rocket, and no astronauts, the president would be unhappy.

If the president is not happy, then they are all finished.

And he is not the only one, everyone here, one is counted as one, even the companies, organizations, trade unions, etc., behind it, all have to be affected.

A public servant like him may lose his job.

Large companies may lose orders.

Scientists may lose money.

Even if the president can't make a decision, it's certainly okay to make some influence.

However, this was not a joint meeting, and private companies specializing in aerospace were not included.

Although Poyin and Luoma are also private companies, their rocket and spacecraft research and development missions are carried out under the auspices of NASA, which is basically a national space program.

Now Kuna is also a bit in a trance.

He felt that if it weren't for the fact that the two groups were too huge, lying down to make money without hiding anything, and slowing down the design and manufacturing progress, they would not be facing this embarrassing situation now.

"Maybe you can get in touch with those private space companies in the future, their various projects can progress much faster than these two companies, even the famous stable Deep Blue Origin is faster than these two companies."

Kuna thought.

Of course, that's all for later, and they'll have to settle the matter for now.

He thought about it, and quickly thought of the reason why the young astronauts did not want to participate in this mission, and he was not a waste to be able to become a close spokesperson for the president.

So he asked Jim: "Do the young astronauts collectively refuse to participate in the mission, do they feel that there is one less test of an unmanned flight around the moon, and they are afraid of danger?" ”

"That's right."

Jim nodded helplessly, "After we sent the mission, the older generation of astronauts all submitted applications, and the desire to participate in the mission was very strong, but none of the new generation of astronauts submitted applications." ”

"It's a strange thing, so I let people know about it, and the result is what you just said."

"They don't think it's a few decades ago, that although they're astronauts, they also have their right to life and liberty, and they have the right to refuse missions that are too dangerous."

"They also say that they are not without adventure and dedication, that they can give their lives for science, but definitely not for this situation."

“……”

After listening to the narration of the director of NASA, there was another silence in the meeting.

Obviously, times have changed, and the ideas of the younger generation of astronauts are no longer the same as those of the older generation.

This may also have something to do with their current situation and the direction of their propaganda, the last time they had a space race, they had only one opponent, and that was the giant bear.

At that time, Merrican really united all the forces that could be united in the country, and all kinds of problems were suppressed by the fear of the giant bear.

But then the giant bear hung up, and they became the first, and after slackening, they not only had to prevent the emergence of strong competitors from outside, but also to prevent domestic problems from affecting the rule.

As a result, the previous propaganda has changed, and it can be fooled externally and divided internally.

Decades of unsparing propaganda have not only affected the outside world, but also flickered and lame with the country.

So there's the situation we have now.

Astronauts are no longer blindly selling their lives, and there will be no more rushes to get on the space race like before.

The old astronauts of the past still had this spirit, but they were no longer suitable for long-range missions.

Things are at an impasse, but for the sake of his position, Kuna uses his brains and frantically thinks of a way.

Thinking about it, he thought of his opponent, that is, the Navigator Company.

Although he doesn't know that "knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is invincible", he also understands the truth that "if you want to defeat your opponent, you must first understand your opponent".

He vaguely remembered that he had read a report that seemed to solve the current situation.

"Know your opponent's ......"

He suddenly had a flash of inspiration, "Yes, understand the opponent, intelligence, the CIA, is the intelligence of the CIA." ”

He looked for the CIA's report in the several reports in front of him, and then found the corresponding number of pages with his clearer and clearer memory, and immediately found what he needed.

"Haha, that's it, I know how to convince those astronauts to go on a mission."

The others didn't know what the presidential spokesman was suddenly mad about, but they didn't say that the meeting was over, so they had to stay, and by the way, they had to find a way to get the astronauts of the new era to do extremely dangerous missions.

Kuna didn't care about this, but asked Jim first: "You haven't cooperated with Tianxia Aerospace, but Navigator has studied two launch missions and three payload missions, right?" ”

"We've studied," Jim said, "and whenever there's a new rocket and payload launched, we're going to look at the open information." ”

"It's good to have studied it, so do you feel that there is anything missing in the process between the design and manufacturing of the Navigator company's rocket, and finally to the launch?"

Listening to Kuna's technical question, Jim couldn't answer, he turned back to talk to the two technical experts behind him, and then said: "According to the public information, it is true that a few steps are missing, but the navigator is not obliged to release all the testing processes, so the less we see does not mean that others have tested less." ”

"Two rocket launches and three payload missions were 100% successful, so based on our judgment of the past situation, the Navigator not only did hidden tests, but even their tests were definitely stricter than the general specifications."

"Hehe, Jim, your mind can't keep up with the times," Kuna held up the report in his hand, "David's report is clear, they monitor the Navigator's factory, although some test tasks are uncertain, but the test located outdoors, the Navigator has done at most 50%, that is, ......"

Before he finished speaking, David, who provided him with the report, came back to his senses and immediately took it and said: "In other words, the other party launched without doing enough testing, and these success cases have a big gambling component?" ”

Although David learned to answer, Kuna glanced at him and said, "No, I want to say, ladies and gentlemen, times have changed!" ”

"Technology has been developing rapidly, the previous regulations no longer apply to the present, and the computer computing power of the Apollo spacecraft is not as good as the current smart watch!"

"A few decades ago, could we have imagined that Merrican's astronauts would go into space on a private space company's spacecraft?"

"Why is Navigator 100% successful without a testing process? That's because of the power of technology! ”

"So the navigator can do that, and we can do that, and it's absolutely safe!"