"Build a base? How long does the US envision it to be able to do so? What kind of base is it? ”

China has a question.

President Nader nodded to the man behind him, who immediately stood up and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, I'm NASA Administrator Jim Bridensteen, and next to me is Thomas Zubchen, Deputy Director of NASA's Science Mission Council. ”

"Originally, NASA planned to complete the 'Restart the Moon Program' within 10 years, but for the sake of well-known reasons, our plan had to be advanced and significantly changed, and the original plan was that the temporary base of the 'Restart Moon Program' would have 3 to 4 astronauts, and now, if we increase the scale of the budget and get the cooperation of various countries, we plan to build a base that can accommodate 20 to 50 astronauts for a long time......"

This is indeed a grand plan, for each astronaut to rise, the resources used will not only increase a little, but multiply several times, so that the moon base can have about 20 astronauts for a long time, and the budget alone will be greatly increased compared to before.

The space launch system is expected to cost $48 billion to develop and $227 billion to build a three-stage heavy-lift launch vehicle, with a total cost of more than $430 billion to build a base that can accommodate dozens of astronauts if it were to speed up and establish a deep space gateway in lunar orbit to connect with surface bases.

To be honest, the reason why the previous black president vetoed returning to the moon was that the black president thought that the cost of launching billions of dollars was too high, and this time, to establish a long-term base on the moon, it can accommodate dozens of people, with a total cost of 430 billion US dollars, close to more than 2.91 trillion yuan, which is almost an unimaginable digital scale.

However, compared with the US military spending of more than $700 billion, it is not much, and the US military spending is equivalent to the total military expenditure of other countries in the world every year, all of which is used to purchase equipment, which can arm more than 7,000 F35 fighters and buy more than 50 Ford-class aircraft carriers.

It can be said that as long as it is willing, it is not too difficult for the US side to grit its teeth and come up with $430 billion during this special period, which Congress cannot stop.

The dilemma is that even if it comes up with so much money, it will not be able to build a base on the moon in the short term.

It's been too long since it's looked into space......

It is really quite difficult to rebuild a large-scale heavy rocket launch system and complete the launch of ultra-high quota and frequency without making mistakes, and it is inevitable to obtain the support of the Russian side, and China's development in the space industry has also been quite rapid in recent years, and NASA also wants to invite China to participate after considering it.

"As for what kind of base it is, and for what purpose."

NASA Administrator Jim said in a deep voice: "The lunar base will bear the worst possibility, if the 'human civilization continuation plan' fails, it is the fire of human civilization, we hope to take the main species genes of the earth's biosphere, as well as from 200 countries and regions around the world, select the best human genes, send them to the lunar base, once human civilization suffers a heavy blow and devastating blow, that is the last hope of our human beings." ”

Everyone was solemn.

No matter how many countries have their own ghosts on weekdays, they can't help but feel a sense of sympathy for each other at this moment, and there are indeed only interests between countries, but in the final analysis, everyone is still human, they are all the same species, and they must talk about superficial rules. Who knew that one day there would be an advanced civilization that did not pay attention to the rules and did not even give communication, and as soon as it landed on the earth, it immediately overwhelmed all countries around the world and hung a sharp sword on the neck of mankind.

This is no longer an act of flipping the table, this is a direct action to blow up the house!

Every household cannot gloat, if you want to die, everyone will definitely die together, as the Chinese leader said, at this moment is a community with a shared future for mankind, and everyone cannot escape.

"Wait, can't we expand the base even further?"

Canadian head Trudeau suddenly spoke: "How about investing more money?" If the whole world contributes together, $230 billion? No, $500 billion is fine, we can invest $500 billion a year...... How about expanding the lunar base to accommodate thousands of people? 10,000 to 100,000 people will work? ”

Jim shook his head, "I understand your feelings, you may be thinking about your family, but first of all, we can't be sure what the countdown to ten years is, if it's a disaster, what kind of disaster?" Then we have to think saturated. ”

He paused and continued: "But that is the second section of the next 'Human Civilization Continuation Plan', what kind of specific policy is still to be discussed by various countries, I will first explain our side's 'return to the moon' plan, after NSAS internal and Russian consultations, we believe that in the foreseeable ten years, the upper limit of the plan is about 430 billion US dollars, that is, more than this number, it is useless waste." Maybe it's hard for you to understand, sir, so I use cancer as an example, invest a lot of money, maybe it will speed up the time to overcome cancer, but this does not mean that you can invest even 1 trillion dollars to overcome it in a year, there is an upper limit, and your investment beyond this upper limit is all waste. ”

"Besides, we have other plans to accomplish, and we can't really put all our focus on the moon base...... Nor can humanity achieve large-scale migration of extraterrestrial planets in ten years...... Even if the moon is close at hand. ”

Jim said heavily: "So in the beginning, we never considered escaping the earth as a way to escape, the moon base is just a possibility for the continuation of human civilization, and its probability is also very low. ”

What Jim didn't say was that even if the moon base was actually built, it wouldn't be able to keep it running for long, and after their calculations, the resources that humans put into the moon might only last for a few dozen astronauts for about fifteen years. Beyond this number, you can only ask for more blessings.

However, the gene seed bank sent to the lunar base can operate for a long time for a hundred years...... But if all the people are dead and can't return to Earth, what is the use of these gene seed banks?

After learning more about it, President Enard gave up the idea of building a city on the moon, and regarded the return to the moon program as just a spark for human civilization...... A spark that really starts to operate, the probability is extremely low.

After Jim finished explaining, Trudeau's expression immediately became decadent, he thought it was a hope for survival, but it turned out that there was no hope at all.

Since it is impossible to expand the lunar base, there are only dozens of places, and Trudeau does not think that he and his family will be able to enter it. Don't look at him as the head of the Canadian side, but in the entire Canadian side, there are many people whose status is above him, and it is not so difficult to pull him off the position of leader.

Not to mention what status and qualifications does he have in the whole world?