Chapter Seventy-Seven: Bringing the Moon Closer to Us
“…… The theme of this conference is 'Bringing the Moon Closer to Us', and we thought back to the last Grand Prix, we had a similar theme, but the last time it didn't work out. ”
"It doesn't matter, only if we fail, can we succeed next time, and our human aerospace history is to sum up experience in failure, and then we have come to today."
"Science and technology have been developing, and now aerospace technology has developed very much compared to previous years, and more powerful private space companies have emerged in the world, and we think the time has come to make the moon closer to us."
"So, we restarted the Moon Grand Prix."
"In the past, the moon was there, but only national institutions could land on it, but after this competition, I believe that even without the support of the state, more private companies will have the ability to land on the moon......"
On the stage, the guests invited by the Moon Grand Prix Committee were talking.
In the audience, rows of team members wearing masks listened attentively.
From time to time, there was also warm applause.
Today's meeting is not only about the Moon Grand Prix, but also about other things, such as the future development of private spaceflight, the future of lunar commercialization, and so on, all of which revolve around private spaceflight.
Of course, today's protagonist is still the Moon Grand Prix, and when this wave is finished, the speeches of the participating teams of the Moon Grand Prix will follow.
The first to speak was a large company, that is, Deep Blue Origin Company, and it was no one else who spoke, it was its CEO, and it was also the world-renowned rich man "Bei Bald".
The big man who is over half a hundred years old took the stage with his iconic bald head, and said with a smile: "Thank you for the invitation of the competition committee to speak, in fact, I am quite embarrassed to participate in the Moon Grand Prix this time, so I decided to announce some 'blue moon' design plans at this meeting to provide some lunar lander design ideas for the participating teams here......"
"Shhhh
“wooo~”
"Buzz~"
As soon as these words came out, the people below began to talk about it.
Good guys, everyone here knows what this "blue moon" is.
Don't look at the name so straightforwardly, things are good things.
The result of several years of Deep Blue Origins, this large lander is capable of autonomous flight in space and can carry up to 6.5 tons of payload for a soft landing on the lunar surface.
This is a universal landing platform, which can carry 4 lunar rovers, can also carry various instruments and equipment, and can be equipped with a manned ascender to achieve a manned landing on the moon.
So naturally for this mission, a little bit of a cargo ascender can become the equipment for this lunar Grand Prix.
However, although the progress of the overall probe is fast, they also want to be embarrassed, and they don't want to use other companies' rockets to win the game, but want to use their own company's rockets to send their company's probes to the moon.
According to recent reports, their new Glenn Big Rocket is going to fly next year and is quite competitive in this competition.
In this case, the other party even wants to announce some design plans of the "Blue Moon", so that the manufacturing progress of other teams is faster, and the success rate of other teams is higher......
I have to say that this kind of mind is quite good.
"Blue Moon" is very close to the traditional lander, and it is also the research direction of each small team, after all, similar solutions have a successful premise, and there is no need to do pre-experiments, which is very friendly for small teams.
If there is dry goods in this public, even if it is just a little, then even if all the teams are not successful, they must remember the origin of Deep Blue.
Terrible!
The discussion started and went out quickly, waiting to listen to Bei Bald's dry goods.
Not to mention, this one really gave a lot of dry goods, and Tang Chao also listened to it with relish.
After this one finished speaking, the Merriken Space Agency also sent someone to talk about something, and then the morning passed.
The conference lasted two days, and there was a lot to discuss, followed by speeches from two large space companies, both of which would talk about a lot of things, as well as sponsoring commercial rockets to help small teams land on the moon.
It is Mr. Ma Yilong of the space fork.
The competition committee does not care about food, so each team needs to forage for food by itself, which can be regarded as a screening project in the "screening one-stop".
However, after they all walked out of the venue, the waiter actually informed them that they could go to the restaurant for a buffet and someone was treated.
"Hey, didn't you say that there was no food at this meeting?"
"yes, did you make a mistake with the previous notification?"
"Impossible, I'm from the competition committee, why didn't I know that the committee invited me to dinner?"
"I inquired, and it was a rich man who paid for it, and it was also a participating team."
The three Tianxia teams naturally came together, and the leader of the teacher's team asked, "How is it, should we go and eat?" ”
"Of course, there are local tyrants who don't eat for nothing." said the leader of the team of amateur scientists.
Tang Chao was a little different.
"It's a bit dangerous to have a dinner party in this situation now, everyone in the venue used to wear masks, but when you eat, you have to take off your masks, and touch the dishes and utensils, if there is an infected person here, it is estimated that it will be served in one pot."
Hearing Tang Chao say this, the other two teams looked at each other, and the leader of the teacher's team nodded and said, "You're right, it's indeed a bit dangerous." However, if someone has such a big battle to invite guests, it should not be a simple invitation, I think we should still go and have a look. ”
There was truth on both sides, so the leader of the amateur scientist team who advocated eating said: "Then let's go and see what the local tyrant who invited the guest is going to do, if there are many people, we will leave after figuring out the situation, and if there are not many people, we will eat some." ”
"When you eat it, it's best to eat only freshly made, pasteurized food, and then find a corner where there are fewer people to eat."
After listening to what they said, Tang Chao pondered for a moment and said, "Okay, then let's go and see first." ”
In fact, he also felt that such a big battle should not be a simple invitation to eat, it is better to go and see.
When they walked to the designated restaurant, they found that this local tyrant was really down, and he actually booked the largest restaurant in the hotel.
And this person also took into account the situation they just thought, and put a lot of temporary guard posts in the restaurant, and pulled a guard strip in the middle, separating the restaurant from a lot of small spaces.
And it's said to be self-service, but it's actually an electronic menu for a table, and the kitchen sends it here when you order it, but the dishes are in the form of self-service.
There will be no crowds of people crowded in the dish area to choose dishes, and after taking it, they don't want to eat it and put it back, and the toast is also far away, reducing the chance of cross-contact.
This formation is bigger than they imagined, and the more they are in this state, the more sure they are that the local tyrants who are inviting guests are not simply inviting them to dinner.
Several people glanced at each other, and they all felt that they had come to the right place.
Now that the other party was ready, they naturally went in and found a table to sit down.
Then two groups of people came, all of them Asians, and when they saw that they were also Asians, they sat down with them.
I got to know each other, and they were from the country of cherry blossoms and the country of hibiscus.
Come on, in the past, the three countries were friendly between the two countries and relied on the third country, and in the monster room in Asia, because of historical reasons, the possibility of the three countries being friendly at the same time is very low.
I came to Merrican, because of the characteristics of skin color and culture.
Of course, it is limited to civil society groups that share the same worldview and values.
After waiting for a while, they chatted with each other about their team's plan to land on the moon, and the local tyrant who invited them pulled in.
Dressed very casually, spoke very casually, and was a casual young man who basically couldn't see the appearance of wealth and nobility.
"Hahaha, I'm very happy to be able to invite all the elites of the aerospace industry to dinner, but there is a small thing for everyone to help, my team is currently short of manpower, so I hope you can help me."
As soon as these words came out, everyone present was stunned.
, such a big battle, it turned out to be a job fair.
Tang Chao also complained silently: "This B is level." ”